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Here’s Your Sign — You see them on practically every street corner, the royalty of human billboards, those iconic Liberty Tax rump-shakers and sign-wavers. But with Tax Day looming on April 17, they will soon vanish, leaving commuters with no one to stare at while stopped at red lights, except for those Statue-of-Liberty wannabes spinning arrows for mattress stores, open houses and other businesses. It’s just not the same. So before they’re gone, we indulged our curiosity and cornered one....

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Music Education My Way — In 1972, I earned my first paycheck, took my first guitar lessons, bought my first rock albums and fell in love (and got dumped) for the first time, all at the end of my third-grade year. The girl I fell for was drop-dead gorgeous. Tall and bodacious with long, flowing wheat-colored hair; she was stern when I needed it and played hard to get. She liked how I read to her and, recognizing my prowess with the printed word, pushed me into an advanced reading group....

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Challenging Elements: Comida Cantina — When the sun comes out and the temperature rises, I start craving grapes and margaritas and pretty much anything that can wake my palate up from hibernation with sweetness and bright flavors. And of course mangos, with their earthiness and luscious sweetness, become a favorite. It’s not at all local or indicative of Colorado cuisine. But it’s delicious and it’s on my brain. So, when an alarm on my cellphone reminded me I needed to give Comida Cantina owner Rayme Rossello her ingredient, I told her mango. “Wow, thank you,” she said....

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Top 25 Places to Stay in Colorado — The Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa at Beaver Creek Mountain Avon Reputation: Home to Cima Restaurant and smack-dab in the middle of the outdoor action From the live bluegrass musicians in the lobby to the doormen who spend a few extra minutes scratching the ears of your dog at this pet friendly resort, it’s obvious upon arrival that the Westin at Beaver Creek places as much emphasis on the comforts of home as on the luxuries one expects from a high-end hotel....

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Month in Review — A Lafayette man was ticketed for animal abuse when he tethered his cat to a rock after the animal refused to jog with him; police received calls that the cat was being attacked by “a flock of birds” while the owner finished his run. Peyton Manning hadn’t even signed his contract to be the Broncos’ starting quarterback before some Tim Tebow fans coined a nickname for him: Satan Manning. Former Illinois Gov....

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Goin’ Fishing — If you’ve been reading this column, you know skiing has been my world since the day A-Basin opened and I devoted every free second of my life to making turns. Consequently, I spent an inordinate amount of time crashing on buddies’ couches in Summit and Eagle counties. One blissful 80-degree morning in March, when it should’ve been dumping spring powder, one buddy proclaimed: “You’re stupid for going skiing today, it’s like 80 and sunny. I’m going floating.” Wait. Floating? I thought I was going floating. On slush, albeit, but floating....

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Damn the Man — “I don’t have anything to hide.” I’ve heard that said more times than I care to count in the last decade or so. The politics of fear that have permeated American culture since 9/11 gave rise to the argument that only the guilty need their privacy; the rest of us should have no fear living open, public lives. Wiretapping, TSA sexual assaults pat-downs, and a constant steady stream of live video of every street corner of our cities has quietly walked us into a giant sheep paddock where we’re happily willing to give our wool, just so long as Farmer Sam keeps those brown coyotes away....

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