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It’s a lonely, stressful feeling to be the last one at baggage claim waiting for your oversized item. Will it be damaged? Did it get left behind? How will it get from the airport to the hotel or resort? To skip the hassles of carrying bulky snowboards, skis, boots, poles and other large items into and out of an airport, consider some options that can lighten your load.

New rules on real estate commissions, including limiting the disclosure of how much sellers were willing to pay buyer agents, were expected to send shockwaves throughout the homebuying process when they rolled out on Aug. 17. Although some national surveys show residential real estate commissions may be dropping, agents in metro Denver describe few changes, with sellers still covering the full tab for the other side most of the time. “It feels like business as usual.

While union ski patrollers walk a picket line at Utah’s Park City Mountain Resort, on strike for better pay and working conditions, officials at Arapahoe Basin are awaiting the results of an upcoming election that could result in the formation of a patrollers union there. More than 70% of A-Basin’s patrollers signed a petition supporting organizing efforts last month; it has since been filed with the National Labor Relations Board.

Editor’s note: This is part of The Know’s series, Staff Favorites. Each week, we offer our opinions on the best that Colorado has to offer for dining, shopping, entertainment, outdoor activities and more. (We’ll also let you in on some hidden gems. The seventh and final move of my childhood was to the Texas Panhandle.

For Damon Carson, the inspiration to start his six industrial thrift stores came from a conversation in 2010. An airbrush artist suggested that old vinyl from billboard advertising “like you see on the sides of the interstates, Budweiser, Chevrolet, Coca-Cola,” would make good drop cloths for painting “in a second life.” “And it was that phrase, that comment, that launched the company,” Carson said. The next day, he made a few phone calls to outdoor advertising companies in Denver until he found someone who sold 20 retired billboard vinyls to him. “I threw them up on Craigslist, and they started to sell.

Some of Denver’s most important cultural milestones of 2024 came as a surprise. Others were the long-awaited results of good ideas hatched years ago — and the hard work and sacrifices of people who dedicate their lives to making the arts thrive here. But these moments to remember have one thing in common: they developed out of bold and brave beliefs in the city’s potential to be a vibrant, engaging, energetic, accessible — and very human — place for culture. A million “free kids” at DAM In 2015, the Denver Art Museum opened its doors free to visitors 18 and under, meaning they don’t have to pay a penny to see a Picasso, not a dollar to spend the afternoon with a Degas.