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Top 25 Dishes

It's Complicated: Single in Boulder County

Let’s face it, chances are these singles have more fun than their married peers. That’s just one perk of being unattached—letting your wants and needs serve as a personal compass as well as full control of the remote and freedom to wear socks to bed. In this issue, Yellow Scene celebrates the single life with 11 smart, successful and smoking hot local singles

Features

Sen. Brandon Shaffer

Despite the fact that he’s been the president of the Colorado Senate since mid 2009, Brandon Shaffer considers, in many ways, this session to be his first as the official commander in chief

The Fateful Freedom of Tim Masters

In 1999, Tim Masters was wrongfully convicted of a disturbing murder in Northern Colorado

It’s Complicated: Single in Boulder County

Let’s face it, chances are these singles have more fun than their married peers

Commentary

Googling Mr. Right

I’m not good at dating. I’m about as coy as a buffalo, and frankly, romance is always low on my to do list

Scene

Editor’s Picks: February 2011

Movie Mountains Catching a “Rocky Mountain High” may have taken on a more suspect meaning with the exploding medical marijuana market, but there’s no arguing that the continent’s most spectacular mountain range still draws more people here than your local spliff seller

Love is on Tap in February

As local beer events go, you can’t do much better than Mountain Sun’s 18th Annual Stout Month

Yes, I Can Hear You Now

Nothing lasts forever. This old adage should be embossed in steel and mounted on the offices of every major corporation in the world, and none sooner than the walls of AT&T

Outdoors

A Winter’s Trail

If lift tickets aren’t in the budget, try Alpine’s skinny Nordic cousins—classic and skate

Cuisine

Dishes We Love

Many of our favorite dishes this year found their grandeur in the essence of simplicity, taking advantage of astonishingly good seasonal ingredients

Keep the Change

So I am second in line at the local coffee place and two large jars are staring at me

Eatery Update: February 2011

OPEN, CLOSED & COMING SOON Wine & Cheese Winebar and Restaurant opened at 14697 Delaware St. in Westminster

Also in This Edition

John Medeski

This year marks two full decades since John Medeski, Billy Martin and Chris Wood first formed their acid jazz trio somewhere in the pre-gentrified streets of Brooklyn, New York