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Handmade Homegrown Market supports small businesses, bartering

July 26 — The air inside Green Spaces at 1368 26th St. was sweetened with the fragrance of fresh vegetables and blooming herbs July 23 at the third Denver Handmade Homegrown Market, an underground venue where local merchants sell all-natural, domestic products.

Art & Culture, Features, Food and Dining

Urban winery lets customers lend hand

July 21 — Water into wine is a well-known Miracle, but now, it’s a “miracle” you can create yourself. More than four years ago an urban winery was introduced to Colorado by the name of Water 2 Wine. It’s not your typical winery, though, because customers choose, make, bottle, cork and label their own wines.

Art & Culture, Features, Food and Dining

Denver brewery re-do’s Tivoli Lucky U beer

April 28 — Lucky U, a beer once brewed in the Tivoli by the Tivoli Union Brewing Company, is making a comeback thanks to Breckenridge Brewery which believes “we all make our own luck.”

Features, Food and Dining

Dice, dish, devour

April 21 — Martini glasses filled with ginger sorbet, jasmine tea ice cream and star-shaped doughnuts, garnished with slivers of orange peel twinkled in candlelight.

Features, Food and Dining

Power of portions

February 17 — These days, we as consumers have a wide variety of restaurants to choose from, but many of those eateries are known for providing extremely large portions. This only contributes to America’s growing waistband.