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Reading Aloud
“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold …” And so it began, with Hunter S. Thompson’s widow, Anita, launching into the opening chapter of Fear and Loathing in Las…
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Magazine
Forming Mini-Foodies
Kids in BoCo have it pretty good, as evidenced by the outstanding plethora of classes, camps, and other fun extra-curricular activities touched on in this issue. Lucky for the mini-foodies among us, BoCo adults take their offspring’s food education pretty…
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Eatery News
Openings/Closings Big Choice Brewing Company brings a craft brewery to Broomfield and Echo Brewing opened in Firestone. La Revolucion Taqueria y Cantina opened on Main St. in Louisville next to Lulu’s, and Miller’s Grille opened on S. Public Rd. in…
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Rib Ticklin’ Good
In Texas, barbecue means beef, so any place that purports to be a Texas-style barbecue joint had better bring the goods when it comes to brisket. And Lulu’s delivers. Here’s the thing: I’ve never been much of a barbeque connoisseur,…
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Challenging Element: Peaches
When Roma Melrose was a girl in India, peaches were shipped up from Kashmir to Delhi where she grew up. They were small and sweet. They’d come wrapped in colorful tissue-like paper. Decades have passed since her days of eating…
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The Dark Night
Batman is The. Greatest. Superhero. Of. All. Time. This is one of those arguments that comic geeks love, because, on the surface, it’s about costumes and gadgets and super powers. But the heart of this argument is the timeless theme:…
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9 Questions for Meiko
Singer/songwriters are as ubiquitous as Subaru drivers in the Centennial State, but we don’t have the market cornered. Georgia peach Meiko has ear-wormed her way into our lexicon by underscoring a steady stream of pivotal moments on TV soundtracks. Her…
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Peachy Keen
Sure those folks in Georgia “say” they have great peaches, but have you tried a Palisade peach? Way better. Like, comparing-The-Beatles-to-Wings better. So where can you find more than 30,000 pounds of certified organic Palisade peaches? Why, the Lafayette Peach…
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A Case for Cycling
When I say “road biker,” chances are the image that immediately pops to mind (after Lance Armstrong, that is) is a tall, skinny guy with the muscle tone of an antelope attired in brightly colored Spandex, sporting a helmet that…
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This is Not a Test
First, it was chalkboards—replaced with shiny whiteboards and, later, newfangled Smart Boards. Textbooks and spiral notebooks went the way of the Trapper Keeper, superceded by iPads and laptops. Schools began banning sugary sodas and dodgeball. Adults who wander into modern…
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