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Small Distillery, Big Flavors, and Big Accolades
Sprit Hound Distillers maintains international recognition We’ve all been there. An email arrives in our inbox and our spamdar immediately engages. Who is this person? Why are they reaching out to me? Do I dare click? That’s what happened to…
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Thou Shalt Not
Just one more reason to be glad I don’t live in Louisiana. Governor Jeff Landry just signed a law requiring that the Ten Commandments be posted in every public school classroom. He accompanied the law’s signing with the snickering comment,…
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Happy (?) Juneteenth!
Happy Juneteenth! Or, perhaps not so happy. I needn’t offer up a comprehensive history of the event that inspired the holiday, but it is considered the culmination of the long-fought battle for the freedom of slaves. June 19th, 1865. Several…
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Cowboy Nostalgia
Known for the iconic red desert backdrop a few iconic Westerns broke out of the Monument Valley mold and were filmed here in Colorado.
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In Land We Trust: Redtail Ranch Development Raises Concerns About Living on Old Oil and Gas Land
A planned subdivision near the Colorado National Golf Club in Erie has some residents raising concerns about building new homes on land formerly used by oil and gas companies. The neighborhood is known as Redtail Ranch, a 290-acre development that…
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From Film to Phone: Shooting the West at the Longmont Museum
The technology photographers used to capture the West Early photographers carried heavy camera equipment over mountains in order to capture the American West on film. Now, photographers and everyday people have the ability to snap pictures of the landscape on…
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The Black Cowboys of Colorado
Black cowboys and cowgirls were common in the old west. Their stories deserve a closer look. I gloried in the danger, and the wild and free life of the plains -Nat Love, Black cowboy of the old American West. The…
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The Sun is Always Shining with brother jeff
Yellow Scene sat down with Jeff Fard (brother jeff) on a January day when the frigid temperatures of the previous week finally broke, and the sun came out. brother jeff’s Cultural Center, a bright spot along Denver’s light rail, sits…
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What’s the Score?
Well, that didn’t take long. Following the short burst of SAT-optional college admission policies spawned by the pandemic, the testing race is back at full throttle, at least at some Ivies. Among the rationales this time around is the preposterous…
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