It was about as star-studded as Broomfield gets. But maybe the North Metro city should get used to the glitz and fanfare.
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March 2010

BETC’s SantaLand Diaries will shove holiday spirit up your yule log

By Andra Coberly

The holidays are about tradition. And they are about doing things for the good of tradition—because your mom wants to see the Nutcracker for the 64th time, because your dad adores fruit cake, because your wife wants to take the kids to see the “good” Santa at Cherry Creek. Blah, blah, blah.
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December 2009

By Andra Coberly

Every time I’ve fallen in love, it’s been a slow, subtle thing that eventually grabs me tight and doesn’t let me go.

It happened again this weekend: the music started and slowly, band by band, and I fell. By Sunday, it wouldn’t let me go. Now I can’t stop listening to Blind Pilot and I’ve been thinking about M. Ward more than I’d like to admit.
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August 2009

AT&T evades punishment for its wiretapping shenanigans

by French Davis / illustration by Zachary Williams

Thanks for nothing, Judge Walker.

Last month, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled in favor of AT&T in its landmark wiretapping case, upholding the law former President George W. Bush signed in 2008 effectively immunizing from prosecution all telecommunications.
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July 2009

Stashing that imperial IPA isn’t being snobbish. It’s smart.

by James Burrus / photo by Todd Stoffer

Big beer. It’s a creeper trend that has, in the past year or so, gone ballistic as evidenced by the proliferation of high-alcohol, massively hopped special brews often sporting familiar names with “imperial” bolted on the front. Avery’s Maharaja Imperial India Pale Ale is a good example.
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July 2009