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A Social Experiment
It’s interesting to me that in our culture, dining at a community table is not a common practice. I often find myself dining “alone” at a community table at events that I attend as part of my work, and I…
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Magazine
82 Ways to Spend a Summer Day
Summer is near, and that means your kids are prepared to spend the subsequent months lounging, playing video games and sleeping in. Not so fast. Here, we have 82 ways for them to stay busy and entertained. Tiny Genius Takes Over…
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Recycling and Surviving in a Down Economy
One of the benefits of recycling is that you can begin to see the interconnectedness of everything, how your decisions as a consumer and a waste-producer can reverberate through communities and regions of the world, for better and for worse.…
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Keepin’ it Real Estate
Ah, Boulder County—home of inspiring views, laid back lifestyles…and an apparently recession-proof (or at least more recession-resistant than other areas of the country) housing market. It’s a buyer’s delight almost anywhere else, with housing prices nationally still 32 percent lower…
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The Renegade, Charles Haertling
The first thing you should know about architect Charles A. Haertling is that he designed houses—not homes. Families eventually brought homes into the funky, beautiful mid-century houses that dot the Boulder area with subtle confidence, quirky juxtaposition to neighboring buildings…
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Cheat Sheet: Where your news comes from
Boulder County is the sixth most populous county in Colorado and encompasses more than 751 square miles of land. Yet no matter where you live, it’s likely that you get your news from just one source: MediaNews Group, the Denver-based…
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A Media Tutorial
Because I’m a glutton for punishment, I recently read Yellow Scene’s Yelp page. There’s only three, but one reviewer obviously is not a fan. Specifically, the review noted an error in our recent dining guide and claimed that we favor…
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Field of Dreams
“No estampan mi passport, por favor.” A customs official, who couldn’t have been more than 25, slipped a piece of paper into my passport, pounded a blue ink dolphin stamp onto it, and my friend Johnny Rev and I were…
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The GMO Game
It’s one of the hottest topics in food: Genetically modified organisms are center stage with farmers suing ag corporations over the right to grow non-GMOs, watchdogs suing food corporations over the word “natural” on products with GMO ingredients, and protestors…
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Two for One
With the redevelopment of the sad, decrepit Westminster Mall, I hold high hopes that someday soon, Westminster will have a more diverse food scene—because right now, great dining, with a few notable exceptions, is a little thin on the ground.…
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