Open space has changed how cities and residents perceive, enjoy land use

by James Burrus

Leadership is not about rallying support and taking action for a cause or issue because it’s popular or easy. Leadership is about identifying a goal that is right and good and, despite it being unpopular or seemingly impossible to achieve, pursuing it.

August 2010 Issue

There is an old saying, “He who pays the piper calls the tune.” By not taking any corporate or special interest money, Andrew Romanoff is demonstrating his focus will be the citizens he represents.

4:26 pm July 28, 2010

The Democratic Party has two candidates running to represent Colorado in US Senate on the Aug. 10 primary ballot, Andrew Romanoff and Michael Bennett. Does it make a difference which one is chosen? You bet it does!

7:30 am July 15, 2010

I was little, first grade or kindergarten, and all the schools in my modest Eastern Plains town field-tripped to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science to see the Ramses II exhibit.

The memories are a bit faded, but I distinctly remember panic flooding my body. My palms were damp with sweat and my tiny heart quietly went thump, thump, thump. I thoughts about being haunted by a 3,000-year-old curse for simply entering the exhibit, or maybe I thought there would be snakes. I can’t quite remember.

10:24 am June 29, 2010

Dear Colorado, secure our right to float

by Andra Coberly

I don’t claim to be a “rafter,” but I have flown down rapids through town and country, ravines and canyon walls. It’s a frantic, frightful rush that leaves you wanting more, going face to face with Mother Nature, and with hope, living to tell your adrenaline-fueled tale.

11:44 am June 10, 2010

By Ajay Dandavati

Aspen’s Food & Wine Classic is kind of like a much more delicious version of a mafia meeting that you see in movies: all of the big names in food and wine will be there, talking about the big issues and consuming a lot of both.

And you can still join.

12:04 pm June 4, 2010

For athletes, sports medicine and training are all encompassing

by Andra Coberly

I grew up taking naps under a massage table. During the spring and summer, my father, a sports massage therapist and coach, would spend weekends working at races, tournaments and bouts of all kinds. And I would get dragged along—thanks, Dad!

May 2010 Issue

One Longmont museum is home to a true classic—an ode to the bicycle

by Jim Burrus / illustration by Stephanie Mott

One of the best lessons I ever learned as a reporter was how to strike up a conversation with anyone. No matter what their age, color, sex, religion, nationality, rich or poor, if I ever wanted to get someone talking—excited, even—I’d ask them about their bicycles.

May 2010 Issue

By Mathew Klickstein

* Drive-By Truckers played the Boulder Theater on May 13

The trouble with the Drive-By Truckers is that they try too hard to be what they’re not: which is far better than they really are.

3:49 pm May 17, 2010

G.I. Joe, flames and the spark of inspiration

By James Burrus / Illustration by Zachary Williams

The guys in my neighborhood never thought of G.I. Joes as dolls. Maybe because we didn’t care as much about the uniforms, boots and helmets we decked them out in as we did the melting point of the plastic and whether or not gasoline would ruin the kung-fu grip action.

April 2010 Issue