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Training Day

May 19, 2010 Like 0 Andra Coberly

I grew up taking naps under a massage table. During the spring and summer, my father, a sports massage therapist and coach, would spend weekends working at races, tournaments and bouts of all kinds. And I would get dragged along—thanks,…

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A Ride of a Lifetime

May 18, 2010 Like 0 James Burrus

One of the best lessons I ever learned as a reporter was how to strike up a conversation with anyone. No matter what their age, color, sex, religion, nationality, rich or poor, if I ever wanted to get someone talking—excited,…

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Drive-By Truckers Stall

May 17, 2010 Like 0 Andra Coberly

* Drive-By Truckers played the Boulder Theater on May 13 The trouble with the Drive-By Truckers is that they try too hard to be what they’re not: which is far better than they really are.

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Colorado By the Slice

May 3, 2010 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

Slice, a division of the foodie blog Serious Eats, took on Colorado this weekend trying to determine the best pies in the state. Their picks include Two Fisted Marios, Marcos Coal Fired Pizza, Beau Jo’s and City ‘O City. What…

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All You Need is Love… and Free Hugs

April 23, 2010 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

It wasn’t long before protesters dominated both sides of Arapahoe Avenue in front of Boulder High School. Transsexuals, gays, bisexuals, straights, even a man dressed in a squirrel costume holding a sign “Free Hugs” gathered for an anti-Westboro protest.

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Lighting a Fire Under Budding Filmmakers

April 14, 2010 Like 0 James Burrus

The guys in my neighborhood never thought of G.I. Joes as dolls. Maybe because we didn’t care as much about the uniforms, boots and helmets we decked them out in as we did the melting point of the plastic and…

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Who’s a True Foodie?

April 14, 2010 Like 1 John Lehndorff

I dutifully filled out my Census form, but critical questions were missing: “Are you a practicing foodie? Do you plan vacations around restaurants, smuggle food from other nations and give your knives nicknames?”

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Bring Google

April 14, 2010 Like 0 French Davis

There are a lot of powerful companies in the world. Oil companies, bank companies, weapons companies, media companies. Companies that decide the fates of man and nations alike. But there’s one company out there that trumps them all. It’s the…

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Hate On Me

April 14, 2010 Like 0 Andra Coberly

Last month, an “unapologetically Christian” school decided it would not advertise within these pages because YS had featured a gay man in the February single’s issue. The school, according to an email from its marketing director to one of our…

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