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Duly Noted: Reach Out and Violate Someone’s Right

July 22, 2009 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

Thanks for nothing, Judge Walker. Last month, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled in favor of AT&T in its landmark wiretapping case, upholding the law former President George W. Bush signed in 2008 effectively immunizing from prosecution all telecommunications.

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Burrus at the Bar: High-Octane Beer Gets the Wine Treatment

July 22, 2009 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

Big beer. It’s a creeper trend that has, in the past year or so, gone ballistic as evidenced by the proliferation of high-alcohol, massively hopped special brews often sporting familiar names with “imperial” bolted on the front. Avery’s Maharaja Imperial…

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Confessions of a Disgraced Driver

July 18, 2009 Like 2 Lacy Boggs

In the post-Inconvenient Truth world, there is a certain amount of guilt that comes with driving a car and taking a bath and turning on lights. Guilt is the new ignorance. Playing dumb or indifferent is no longer the thing…

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Mile High Music Fest: Traversing the Line Up and the Landscape

July 14, 2009 Like 0 Andra Coberly

Check out photos from Andra’s visit to the fest. The Mile High Music Festival will once again turn Commerce City into a destination for musicians and music lovers…not to mention hoards of teens sweating bullets in anticipation of seeing Boulder’s…

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Goodbye 14ers

June 22, 2009 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

Read in the Broomfield Enterprise this weekend that D-League basketball team The 14ers—who played fairly successfully at the Broomfield Events Center, winning the D-League championships this year—has been bought by an exec from the Dallas Mavericks and will move to…

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You Want Justice? Be Justice.

June 16, 2009 Like 1 Lacy Boggs

One of those “ha-ha” emails landed in my inbox a couple of weeks ago. It was a notarized affidavit, hand-written by a guy named Erik from Montana, explaining why he should be excused from jury service.

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Can You Hear Me Now?

June 16, 2009 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

Music is changing. Do you have an iPhone? If you do, and you have an inkling to create music, there are a couple apps you should check out.

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Summer Lovin’

June 14, 2009 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

A few years ago, I was given an assignment to cover a romance novel writing convention in Thornton. The whole scenario had a “stranger in a strange land” quality to it: me in the waning half of my feminist rage…

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Prizes!

June 12, 2009 Like 2 Lacy Boggs

We just sent out 11 prizes in our May giveaway ranging from $25 restaurant gift certificates to $200 skin care certificates to Bluegrass tickets and nights at Monarch Lodge and Cottonwood Hot Springs!! Have you entered for June yet? You…

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Who’s Your Momma?

May 11, 2009 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

In general, I carry a heaping bushel of disdain for holidays and their seemingly contrived celebrations. I’m not talking about Christmas or the candy carnivals of Halloween and Easter. I’m talking about The Days: those observances that fuel the greeting…