5208: Denver's Magazine

What's 5280?
If you're new to Denver, it may take a second or two to figure out that 5280 takes its name from the city's mile-high elevation...five-thousand, two-hundred and eighty feet above sea level.

5280 Magazine Wins Four National Media Awards

DENVER (June 2007) – 5280 Magazine has won top honors in two recent major media award competitions this spring: the City and Regional Magazine Association annual awards and the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Awards.

Each year the City and Regional Magazine Association awards are open to almost 100 members of CRMA and other non-member city and regional magazines throughout North America. This year more than 950 entries were received in 22 editorial and design categories, and 5280 took home awards in three categories.

5280 executive editor Maximillian Potter won gold in the Civic Journalism category with his story, “Nobody’s Hero,” focusing on the fight U.S. military reservists face in reclaiming their civilian jobs in Colorado. The magazine won another gold for Leisure/Lifestyle Interests with “Welcome to Dog City” from the August 2006 issue and took home a bronze for articles editor Mike Kessler’s piece, “A Leg to Stand On.”

According to the judges, “Nobody’s Hero” represents the best of civic journalism. It is “authoritatively written, doggedly reported, and fair to all involved.” The leisure/lifestyle package included an “impressive breadth and depth of reporting and perspectives,” and “A Leg to Stand On” was described as a “moving and compelling story because of the content” and engaging through Kessler’s “narrative structure and power-packed language.” ...

Read 5280 Magazine, October 2008 Online

Features
Top Doctors 2008
Edited By Lindsey B. Koehler
Our annual list of the city's best physicians, as chosen by their peers. Plus, we examine three medical issues that you and your family should know about.

Over the past 10 to 15 years, medicine in the United States has become more specialized, which means more medical residents are choosing areas of medicine such as radiology, anesthesiology, and cardiology instead of traditional fields like internal medicine, family practice, and pediatrics.

It's a trend that many experts believe may have dire results for our medical system and patient care (see "The Primary-Care Conundrum," page 95). But medical students, who leave med school with an average of $140,000 of debt, say the incentives to specialize are too great to ignore. Dr. Kelly Fitzgerald, a fourth-year resident at the University of Colorado, always assumed she would specialize, even after a three-year pediatric residency. ...

Matters of the Heart
By Cheryl Meyers
If you were at risk for a heart attack, would you want to know?

Breathless
By Julie Dugdale
Once thought to have faded into obscurity, tuberculosis is making a comeback, now infecting almost one-third of the world's population. Why TB still lingers—and how the Front Range is a key player in the battle against the disease.

The Crusader
By Shari Caudron
In the United States, 18 people die each day waiting for an organ transplant—most of them waiting for kidneys. One Coloradan is trying to improve those odds by taking on nothing less than the entire transplant establishment.

The Colorado Reserve List
By Lindsey B. Koehler and Cheryl Meyers
Colorado wine production has gone from novelty act to serious business—and viticultural stars are emerging. These seven Western Slope wineries offer a taste of a region that's finally coming into its own.

Home Grown
By Amanda M. Faison
Fifty Colorado products perfect for the pantry, the gift list, or tonight's dinner table.

Western Union
By Eli Gottlieb
Marrying into the American West that occupied my dreams as a child.

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