What do you hear when you play the Prince song, “Let’s Go Crazy?” Perhaps it’s a standard Twin-Cities-soul-inspired, Purple Rain-era groove with plenty of synthesized wizardry and gospel chord changes. Me, I hear the sound of liberty dying.
There was literal outrage in March from Lafayette residents when they rolled up to Bunkers Bagels only to find that the staple morning stop had shuttered overnight. Last we heard it was a lease disagreement.
When I last visited (and reviewed) Colorado Coal Company in Erie a few years back, I remember being impressed by its elegance and near-fine-dining atmosphere. I remember being shown to a table by a host and seated with a hardbound…
I don’t want to oversell this, but you might want to hold onto something. Ready? It’s possible to get innovative, delicious cuisine in an elegant environment without the check getting into what my parents would call “special occasion” territory. In…
I branched out of my safety zone on a recent Friday, entering a skateboard contest put on by a Christian church. I paid my entry fee, skated for about 10 minutes and won my money back (and then some) in…
"Kudos for printing your personal environmental scorecard. I absolutely agree with the notion that most of us would love to reduce our impact on the environment if it just wasn’t so darned inconvenient—or expensive—or (my personal favorite) overwhelming."