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part 1 of 3 Best Batting Cage Batter’s Box 6091 S. Pierce St., Littleton Dig in there, slugger. For one buck you get to see sixteen pitches (would you like the 35-mph floater or the 85-mph smoke?), and if your hands aren’t bleeding after that, shell out $20 for something…

part 5 of 5 Best Tamales Rincon Tropical 8615 E. Colfax Ave. If you think of a tamale as something hot and porky wrapped in a corn husk, you’re in for a surprise: The Salvadoran version is a whole new ballgame, both inside and out. Rincon Tropical, a fledgling restaurant…

part 2 of 5 Best Hot-and-Sour Soup Thai Hiep Restaurant 333 S. Federal Blvd. 2690 E. County Line Rd., Highlands Ranch Thai Hiep combines the best of Chinese and Vietnamese cuisines on its impressive menu. Regardless of your choice of entree, though, the best way to start a meal here…

part 1 of 5 Best Place to Eat Political Pork J. Beatty’s 321 E. Colfax Ave. When the legislature is in session, lawmakers chew over more than the latest lobbyist’s proposal at a J. Beatty’s lunch. Some go for the quirky lamb quesadillas served with apple salsa, some for the…

part 2 of 3 Best Place for a Victorian Lady to Shop Circa 1900 Larimer Square Many an unintentional wedding dress has been plucked from Circa 1900’s racks, as have otherworldly periwinkle gowns with turquoise rickrack and whimsical things like cotton shorty dresses with hunting-dog motifs or those linen lumberjack…

part 3 of 3 Best Experience for Those Who Take Walking for Granted “Spokespeople” Children’s Museum of Denver 2121 Children’s Museum Dr. Strap yourself into a wheelchair and play ball at the Children’s Museum’s “Spokespeople” exhibit. Just try to. There’s nothing better than firsthand experience in maneuvering around corners and…

part 2 of 3 Best Psychic Healing With Musical Instruments The Buzz Band Michael Stanwood, who’s been making music around town for as long as we can remember, got the idea for the Buzz Band after he went on a world tour to share American music with other cultures. Stanwood…

part 3 of 3 Best CU Basketball Player Shelley Sheetz CU’s first-ever first-team All-American, the 5-6 senior guard from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, led her team to a phenomenal 30-3 record last year before that heartbreaking loss to Georgia in the NCAA tournament. Coach Ceal Barry will be hard-pressed to replace…

part 2 of 3 Best Day Hike Cathedral Lake White River National Forest, near Aspen This five-mile hike begins in a grove of aspen, passes through high-mountain valleys and rock slides, and ends at timberline and the lake, which is bordered by the immense rock formations that gave it its…

part 3 of 5 Best Pie Made by a CIA Graduate Granny Scott’s Pie Shop 3333 S. Wadsworth Blvd. You won’t find any granny here. Instead, behind the counter is Scott Meyerson, Culinary Institute of America graduate and pie-maker extraordinaire. Realizing that the art of pie-making was getting lost in…

On game day at Coors Field, the canned accordion music blaring overhead barely registers with the fans streaming in through the main gates. But Doug Gilbert is fascinated. He stops in his tracks to inspect the speakers. “Certainly, just as I thought,” he says to himself. “Any of the speakers…

part 1 of 2 Although he met him only once, nearly two decades ago, T.W. Norman reserves a special place in his memory for James Christensen. In 1976 the then-assistant district attorney for Jefferson County prosecuted Christensen on charges of sexually molesting his own children. When the file passed across…

part 2 of 2 Surrounded by an expanse of rich corn and soybean farmland in northeast Iowa, Eagle Grove is 370 miles from Chicago and an hour-and-a-half drive from Des Moines. Its proximity to the cities makes it an ideal location for truck-transfer stations; at one time, fully one fourth…

The year of living dangerously: Longtime public servant Bob Crider took a real gamble when he ran for mayor–not only did he give up his slot as city auditor, but he may have abandoned any chance of collecting the full pension he’d be eligible for…if he worked for the city…

The government laboratory that does environmental testing for the Environmental Protection Agency’s regional headquarters will be relocating to a Jefferson County research park that is being evaluated as a possible Superfund site. John Yeagley of EPA’s Region Eight Central Laboratory says the agency is aware that tons of radioactive mine…

In retrospect, Terry Casper’s midnight bike ride through Cheesman Park wasn’t the quickest route for him to get to work. It proved instead to be a shortcut to jail, where the 28-year-old Denver man was booked, fingerprinted, photographed and forced to cough up a $100 bond for violating a park…

Coors Brewing Company recently became one of the country’s most progressive corporations. It happened quietly on May 11, when the board of one of Colorado’s top ten employers voted unanimously to expand the company’s generous benefit package (everything from health insurance to adoption assistance) to include “domestic partners”: unmarried adults…

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At the time it was announced, it seemed the perfect example of picayune government rules stifling entrepreneurship. A year and a half ago, the federal Food and Drug Administration fined Boulder’s Lexicor Medical Technology Inc. for violating agency rules. The amount of the FDA’s proposed fine, $1.6 million, was approximately…

Preach Out and Touch Somebody I’m a retired Presbyterian minister working as a volunteer chaplain, and I read Steve Jackson’s article about Doug Overall (“The Quiet Man,” June 14). I wrote Overall a letter commending him for his work–what a great man and a wonderful outreach. It was great reading…

part 2 of 2 Doug entered the Washington Hospital Center program for pastoral care in September 1987. For his field training he was sent across the street to the National Rehabilitation Hospital. He got off to a rocky start, though, when he was told to put together a Sunday service…