The Renegade, Charles Haertling

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 and a connection to the surrounding landscape. A house is not a home until someone moved in. That’s one of...

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 than at the height of the housing bubble in 2006. In February, the National Association of Home...

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. And now, the recycling industry in Boulder County finds itself connected to things it might not have imagined a few decades ago, when it was in its...

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 the World. School’s out. Let the learning begin. 1. This is the 35th year of the summer enrichment program at the Center for the Education and Study of the...

Five questions with saxophonist Karl Denson

Saxophonist Karl Denson may have gotten his break with Lenny Kravitz, but as far as Colorado’s concerned, he’s his own man. Fronting his own Tiny Universe as well as the Greyboy Allstars, Denson’s funk-flavored jam is a much-beloved dance flavor in Boulder. Denson’s popularity here is second only to his likeability, and the affable acid jazzbo shares his opinions on the local jam-band...

Editor’s picks — SuperKids and more

Haute on your heels When Yves Saint Laurent died in 2008, the world lost one of the most important designers in fashion. Yves Saint Laurent’s grace and artistry not only set the bar for fashion worldwide, he erased any lines between the art world and fashion with aplomb. Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective is a pioneering art exhibit that only has one stop in the U.S.—and it’s at the...

A Spirited Contest

It was 9:30 a.m. on a sunny and unseasonably warm Saturday in February when I settled down in front of four unmarked plastic cups of vodka in a windowless room in the bowels of the Omni Interlocken Hotel in Broomfield. Hair of the dog? No. Day four of a mid-week bender? No. I had company: a dirty dozen of sommeliers, bar managers, distributors and liquor geeks. We were putting our pallets to...

Rock and Rolling On

A lot of stuff happened in 1992. Apartheid came to an end in South Africa. The Bosnian war erupted. The L.A. riots broke out upon the acquittal of the police officers charged in the Rodney King beating. The Space Shuttle Endeavor had its maiden flight. Bill Clinton was elected. And on March 6, the Fox Theatre made its presence known on 13th Street as the premiere live music venue in Boulder...

Off-Campus Cafe takes on the challenging ingredient: Bacon

Bacon … hmmm. Bacon.” That was Nathan Bathurst’s calm, reflective response when I told him that he and his partner, Nick Carter, would be required to serve up some pork perfection to me and two hungry photographers at their Off Campus Café in south Lafayette. I soon learned this challenge was not about using bacon; the two cook a lot of the cured cut at their breakfast and lunch spot...

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. In steps Hideaway Steakhouse, a bastion of fine dining tucked away along a stretch of 112th Avenue out in the burbs. If my most recent experiences...

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 targeting Whole Foods’ GMO labeling. Boulder drew national attention when officials with Boulder County’s Parks and Open...

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 off for a week-long adventure in Cuba. The whole week was stupid cheap, from the Spring Break round trip airfare from Denver to Cancun to the $30 a night (including breakfast...

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 our advertisers. First of all, I use Yelp, and I respect the form of criticism. While I would disagree with the reviewer’s points, I respect his desire to...

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 newspaper corporation that owns 54 daily newspapers and more than 90 non-daily newspapers in 11 states. When MediaNews bought the newspapers of Lehman...