5280 associate photo editor Sarah Banks summiting Mt. Sanitas in Boulder. Photo by Sarah Banks
Our 9 Favorite Warm-Weather Activities to Do After Work
May 7 marks Denver’s first sunset at 8 p.m. or later this year. Here’s how the
5280 staff is celebrating the extra sunlight.Staff •
May 6, 2021
As far as we’re concerned, May 7 the day when we get our first sunset at 8 p.m. or later should be an official city holiday because it marks the start of Denver’s most glorious time of year: Afterwork Activities Season. If you’re lucky enough to clock out at 5 p.m., from now until August 12, you’ll have at least three solid hours of sunlight after work to tackle all those diversions relegated to warm weather weekends the rest of the year. Need some inspiration? Here’s how the
The Irishman. For all the stories that have been set in and around the city, there’s a pronounced lack of authenticity when it comes to speaking the way the locals do not a matter of failed attempts, but a failure to attempt it at all.
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Writing in the New York Times in 2014, Daniel Nester called the Philadelphia accent “arguably the most distinctive, and least imitable, accent in North America,” but on screen, that distinctiveness seems to work against it. You’re more likely to hear fictional characters talking like they come from Pittsburgh or Baltimore than from the pockets of the city mostly old-school Irish and Italian neighborhoods where people drink “wooder” by the glass. That makes