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Getting to Know You
There is no time like the present to find a hobby you can enjoy with your kids. Family time is not saved for the dinner table. From running to fishing, here are a few options:
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Turning dreams into reality
Daydreaming knows no bounds, especially when it comes to your kid. But who says kids get to have all the daydreaming fun? While science will one day allow you turn your child into a beautiful, blond aeronautical engineer with perfect…
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What’s the Word?
The English language is becoming altered with slang terms and watered down with text-message lingo. Merriam and Webster may have turned over in their graves. If you know your kid is speaking English—but still can’t understand them—then start decoding. Here,…
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A Crash Course in Camps
There are (almost) countless ways for your kids to spend their dog days of summer. Arts camps, science camps, outdoors camps, volleyball camps, Renaissance-adventure camp. The list goes on and on…and on. But how does one choose? Betsy Strohmaier, director…
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If These Slopes Could Talk
Outfitted in all-white pants, parka, skis and poles, the men of the 10th Mountain Division looked ghostly as they skied the slopes of Cooper Hill. Their leather boots, only ankle high, fit into a binding with a simple toe strap…
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Peeps: The Beeck Sisters
The sisters Beeck are calm and happy in their office, despite the fact that in just weeks they’ll open their sixth-annual Boulder International Film Festival, where Alec Baldwin will make a cameo, Blythe Danner will be on hand for a…
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25 Dishes We Love
Over the last 12 months, the restaurants of the North Metro area have taken us on a culinary thrill ride of epic proportions. We’ve produced a Top Chef and a Gayot Top 40 restaurant. We’ve seen national acclaim—with the Wall…
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Single Minded
The single life: It’s lamented in song, engorged with depravity on TV, and made depressing, sad and pathetic in movies. But in the real world (the actual real world, not the television show), it’s a lot less debauchery-filled, less dramatic…
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It Ain’t Easy Being Green
I well remember the citywide excitement the first time “cannabis clubs” suddenly opened up throughout Hollywood where I was eking out a living as a lowly screenwriter and journalist. Then, just as suddenly, the marijuana dispensaries vanished.
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