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October 16, 2017 Like 0 Chris Bjork

1. WILD STANDARD 1043 Pearl St, Boulder If you want to meet a chef who is a genius, an artist, and a gentleman, spend an evening at Wild Standard. I was actually introduced to the fresh-picked-by-the-chef’s- children-that-afternoon porcini mushroom that…

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GMOs: Neighbor Feud

October 10, 2017 Like 0 Matt Hess

We in Boulder County have front row seats to a drama being played out with plenty of audience participation. The story mimics great literature. There are impassioned and colorful characters, tensions between rural and urban ways of life, financial gain,…

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Month in Review

October 10, 2017 Like 0 Chris Bjork

Irma downgraded from a category four hurricane to a tropical superstorm on Monday September 11, after barreling toward the Florida coastline and moving further inland toward Georgia. Irma’s winds were still recorded to be reaching dangerous levels after Monday. Resulting…

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Trouble In The Streets of Boulder

October 10, 2017 Like 0 editor

Trouble in the Streets is coming to hang out in Boulder, with an official show stop in Denver. Are you ready? “Electro Tribe Fusion” is the style, positivity the message. Hailing from Austin, Texas, with members from all over, Trouble…

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White Versus Rights

October 10, 2017 Like 0 Darren O'Connor

The extreme violence that recently flared, again, leading to the tragic murder of Heather Heyer at the Charlottesville Unite the Right white supremacy rally, has the ACLU and many others pondering just how far First Amendment protections should extend. After…

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This Month in Coal Field History: The Labor Day Rail Disaster

October 10, 2017 Like 0 Nicholas Bernhard

This Labor Day marked the anniversary of one of the worst disasters in coal field history, when two commuter trains collided north of Denver. The year was 1920, and it heralded the end of the Denver Interurban Railroad, which connected…

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Longmont Going Green?

October 10, 2017 Like 0 Natasha Winkler

The city of Longmont is looking like it might go green with a “special marijuana tax.” Since 2011, retail medical and recreational marijuana sales have been banned within city limits, but recent actions by Longmont City Council suggest that may…

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Sampler Plate: The Cheesery to Fork

October 5, 2017 Like 0 Matt Hess

Turn the page if you are not in the mood to have another perfectly good food ruined. One day, an egg from a chicken raised out- doors on grass and bugs, and a yellow pear tomato from the garden that…

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Duly Noted: A putrid state of affairs

October 5, 2017 Like 0 French Davis

All of it is reprehensible. All of it is disgusting. None of it is surprising. I’m typing this a day after an organized group of White Nationalists, white supremacists, neo nazis and Confederacy sympathizers marched on Virginia to protest the removal…

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Spotlight: Levitt Pavilion with Chris Zacher

October 5, 2017 Like 0 French Davis

Colorado has a new outdoor live music venue — the only one in the Denver city limits, and it’s an incredible gem. No one is more responsible for bringing Levitt Pavilion to life than Chris Zacher, former president of the…