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It’s still hot right now, but the smell of roasting chiles and the sight of plump Palisade peaches at roadside stands means that our summer days are dwindling.That fleeting moment is something that chefs across the state try to capture in their seasonal menus by incorporating both of these Colorado specialties. But they’re not often seen in restaurants that focus on Chinese, Vietnamese or Thai cuisine.The chile basil eggplant dish on the seasonal menu at Taste of Thailand on South Broadway is made with green chiles from Pueblo. (Kathleen St. John/Special to The Denver Post)At Taste of Thailand, 2120 S.…

Russell Westbrook was Christian Braun’s kind of player.“Downhill,” he says now. “Athletic. Tough. Mean. In-your-face.”Westbrook was a young star in Oklahoma City, leading the Thunder to the NBA Finals. Braun was an aspiring hooper in the Kansas City suburbs, less than five hours away. How aspiring, exactly?“Uh, I would’ve been young,” he said in July, as if calculating his exact age would cause him to blush.Eleven. Braun was 11 years old.But he was already becoming the basketball junkie is he today. And Russ was becoming a basketball A-lister whom all the kids in Braun’s generation adored. His intensity was infectious,…

The customer at the counter of West Side Books in North Denver was trading thoughts with Terry, the ponytailed, bespectacled, thoughtful employee at the register.Which Jack Kerouac book should he start with?“On the Road,” Terry answered, then added, “It’s probably easiest.” Somehow that sounded like the kind of understatedly perfect advice one so often receives at an independent bookstore.Cheryl Strayed — author of “Wild” —  headlines Illumination’s Sept. 19 celebration. (Provided by Lighthouse Writers Workshop)Published in 1957, the roman à clef carved Kerouac (as Sal Paradise) and his pal Neil Cassady (Dean Moriarty) into the cornerstone of American letters but also…

One firefighter was taken to the hospital after a residential fire burned two single-family homes in a Highlands Ranch neighborhood, according to South Metro Fire Rescue officials.The two-alarm house fire in the 10200 block of Woodrose Lane in Douglas County started burning Thursday afternoon, South Metro officials said in a post on X. It was under control as of 3:15 p.m.Two people and two firefighters were evaluated for “heat-related issues” by medics and one firefighter was taken to the hospital as a precaution, according to the agency.Investigators believe the fire started outside between the two homes before spreading. Residents in…

Interstate 76 reopened near Wiggins on Thursday after a fire closed the highway for just over an hour, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.The fire — burning on the border of Weld and Morgan counties — quickly consumed about 1,000 acres of vegetation along I-76, according to the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control. It was under control as of 4:15 p.m., Wiggins police said in a post on Facebook.The flames and smoke shut down I-76 between Roggen, 9 miles east of Keenesburg, and Colorado 52 near Wiggins until 4:17 p.m., according to CDOT officials.Video footage from a…

A pharmacist who survived a 2021 mass shooting at a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder said Thursday during the gunman’s trial that she heard him say “This is fun” at least three times during the shooting. The chilling detail had not been revealed before.Sarah Chen described how she hid with her coworkers in the store in the college town after Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa opened fire. She said she was listening carefully for signs of the plexiglass barrier on top of the pharmacy counter, installed because of the pandemic, being moved. She said the shooter would have to move that…

Helena Oliviero | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS)The Food and Drug Administration announced it has started a research project examining the possible effects of toxic metals in tampons, sparking concerns about products used by millions of women in the U.S.A recent study found a variety of metals — including mercury, arsenic and lead — in more than a dozen brands of tampons.The FDA said the study will help better understand the potential impact and whether the metals are causing harm to women. The need to understand this is of critical importance: Up to 80% of girls and women who menstruate use tampons…

FORT COLLINS — Mock newsprint riddled with inside jokes papered the walls. College students mainlining caffeine quibbled over headlines above the dulcet beats of a Lady Gaga song. And young journalists with a slice of Krazy Karl’s Pizza in one hand and a red pen in the other edited copy for grammar mistakes well into the evening.The basement headquarters of Colorado State University’s Rocky Mountain Collegian newspaper came alive Tuesday night with the incomparable energy of a student newsroom during the production of a new edition.In this case, the students were giving articles last-minute tweaks for their issue commemorating Saturday’s Rocky…

Biologist Diane K. Boyd has had a front-row seat to 40 years of wolf recovery in the West, but her new memoir reveals that entanglements with humans in Montana were often tougher than dealing with the four-legged predators.There’s a proud literary canon of women telling their stories of studying wildlife in remote places — Mardy Murie in Alaska, Jane Goodall in Tanzania, Dian Fossey in Rwanda. Now, Boyd’s memoir, A Woman Among Wolves — My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery, runs in that pack on the strength of her personality and the drama she documents in both the…

Dear Eric: My partner and I are closing in on our third anniversary, and as we begin to talk seriously about the prospect of marriage, I’ve found myself a bit troubled with a certain aspect of our relationship. I have not met his family once. This is my first “serious adult” relationship (I am 25; he is 34), so I don’t always know how to gauge what is normal, but my gut tells me that this is a bit strange.He was raised by a single mother and was extremely close to her and his sister, but I learned that he…