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June 1, 2018 Like 0 Jennifer Pappas

Alright, everybody, it’s here. The news you’ve been anxiously awaiting, and probably salivating over. We’ll cut to the chase. First up: If you’ve been waiting as impatiently as we have for a stroll through the farmers market, we have amazing…

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Stop To Smell The Rosemary: Slow Food In Boulder County

June 1, 2018 Like 0 Jennifer Pappas

By this point, we’re all acquainted with the dangers of fast food. But how many of us are truly eating “slow” food, the way it was meant to be eaten? The Slow Food movement is about more than foregoing the…

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Sampler Plate: Tracing Coffee from Bean to Barista

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We live in Boulder County, so we have to admit to being spoiled in a lot of ways, including by the coffee culture. But when you’re surrounded by places where you can pick up fresh, premium coffee, it’s easy to…

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Blunt Talk: Big Green Myth

June 1, 2018 1 0 Natasha Winkler

It’s been more than eight decades since the film Reefer Madness debuted. Originally financed by a church group under the title Tell Your Children, the film was intended to be shown to parents as a morality tale to teach them…

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Duly Noted: Pre-Crime

June 1, 2018 Like 0 French Davis

Philip K. Dick wrote The Minority Report back in 1956. Forty-six years later, Steven Spielberg turned it into a gorgeous film chronicling a dystopian futurescape where cops arrest would-be criminals before they can commit a crime, based on the psychic…

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Spotlight on Damon Wood

June 1, 2018 Like 0 French Davis

For six years, Colorado-based guitarist Damon Wood had arguably one of the best — and toughest — gigs on the planet, playing guitar for the Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown. Now, decades later, Wood puts pen to page, chronicling…

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Scene Stealers April 2018: Ozomatli, Man Of La Mancha, and more

June 1, 2018 Like 0 French Davis

Ozomatli at Fox Theatre While Carlos Santana’s accolades are too numerous to count, one that does stand out is his choice of supporting act for his Supernatural mega-tour in 1999. That act was a little-known L.A.-bred latin-hip-hop sextet called Ozomatli,…

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Report Card 2018: Grading BOCO’s Greenery

June 1, 2018 Like 0 editor

Welcome to Boulder County (BOCO, if you’re local). We’re so green we might as well be raising Keebler elves in our gardens. This is the kind of community that recycles, upcycles, bi-cycles, and occasionally mono-cycles. Admit it, we’ve all…

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Garden of Good: Boulder Is A Natural Choice For Natural Products

June 1, 2018 Like 0 De La Vaca

Boulder County is a magical, mountainous Mecca for all things green. It’s not the Garden of Eden. It’s the Garden of Good. On an average trip to the grocery store, one is bound to find an abundance of processed food…

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Glass Highways: The Future of CO Transportation Is Transparency. We Hope.

June 1, 2018 Like 0 Jennifer Pappas

As Denver’s population grows rapidly with few signs of stopping, transportation rushes to keep up, developing high-speed tube networks and carless transportation—or at least, driverless. As we expand our technology, we need to do more than just envision the most…