Election Guide

4 Professionals Who Failed Their Way to Success

MONEY. FAME. FORTUNE. The typical hallmarks and trappings of success are tired and outdated. The concept of a career is more nebulous than ever, technology is constantly changing the business world, and world markets vacillate as though they’re controlled by a baby with a TV remote. Even without these distinctly modern challenges, success is hard: to achieve and to maintain. The following...

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Spotlight: Dean Samed The Horror Specialist

In the last several years, UK-based horror-lit cover artist Dean Samed has graduated from genre darling to mainstream icon, thanks to collaborations with the likes of Clive Barker and Stephen King. His photo-composite composition work is nearly peerless as he finds a way to reveal the beauty hidden inside the grotesque. We caught up with Dean and chatted about his influences, getting to work with...

Look for the Helpers

I’m at a loss. I honestly don’t know how we can get it wrong so often, when we know what it looks like to get it right. We’ve seen it played out in front of us for the cameras so many times. I’ve been watching it for weeks—as the country rallied around Houston and forgot about about Puerto Rico. As the mayor of San Juan waded through waist-deep water with a bull horn looking for...

Samhain: Spooky Spirits

Let's face it: aside from heart-attack-inducing freak-show houses of horror, Halloween has become cutesy-spooky and pumpkin-y. On All Hallow's Eve, adult ghosts, goblins and witches sex it up—babydoll style—and obscure their essence as frightening creatures of the night, while the zombified go for kitschy horror. In short, America does Day of the Dead light.   In contrast, during...

Scene Stealers: October 2017 – Yellow Scene Magazine

It would be easy to dismiss “Aeronaut” as just another maudlin pop ballad—complete with requisite piano-and-string accompaniment—if it weren’t for the way Billy Corgan’s trademark, pinched warble creates just enough edge to set the hook firmly in your ear. The Smashing Pumpkins frontman’s second solo outing, Ogilala (Martha’s Music/BMG, 2017) drops in October, just in time for you to discover how powerful Aeronaut ends up being, thanks in no small part to Corgan’s (billed as William Patrick Corgan on this project) collaboration with famed producer Rick Rubin. Catch him Oct. 29 at the Boulder Theater at 7 p.m.

Frightmare: Legacy Continues

Photos by De La Vaca At the ripe old age of 18, Josh Holden took the reigns of Frightmare from his father, who began this singularly terrifying experience in 1983. It’s Colorado’s oldest haunted house and, arguably, one of the scariest around. YS went behind the scenes (see yellowscene.com for more pictures) and we can vouch for the creepy fun intentionality of Frightmare. From the...

BoCo Barley to Boco Beer

If you start a conversation at your local brew pub about what goes into a great beer, you will likely hear a lot about hops. The bitter IPA’s that have been a long trend in American beer culture have given this flower more than its fair share of attention. Even in these hop forward beers, barley malt is what really makes a beer. We all know and love BoCo’s local craft beers. While these beers...

Roasted Veggies. Yum!

Roasting is one of the simplest and oldest ways of cooking. Fall is prime roasted vegetable season. Warming up the house with a hot oven starts to sound like a good idea as temps drop and our bodies crave something heartier than a salad. The formula for roasting any vegetable is simple: fresh vegetables + a little fat + salt + dry heat = yum. There are endless variations on this...

Cocktails Go Paleolithic

Summer’s not over yet. Ok, fine, it is. But that doesn’t mean the summer sips have to stop. Right on time and right in keeping with the foodie trend du jour, Just BE Kitchen (JBK) released their paleo-friendly cocktail menu. It’s a bit of a drive from BoCo, right in the heart of Denver, but it’s a perfect post-paleo dinner spot for the intrepid. "With a mission to serve mindful...

WhiskyX

As I prepared to taste Octomore - a heavily-peated whisky from the Islay distillery Bruichladdich - I felt a warmth in my belly. And my toes. Pretty much everywhere, for that matter. After two hours of sipping on the best whiskies around - American, Scottish, Bourbon, Single Malt, Rye, peated and unpeated alike - I was prety satisfied. But when I brought the glass up and took a whiff, the nose on the Octomore nearly bowled me over. The smokiness was dizzying. The warmth in my belly turned into a roaring fire: the only cure was a sip. And then another. And repeat, over and again, all across the spaciousness of Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, host of this years WhiskeyX.

A Publick Q&A: William Oliver’s

Yellow Scene talked to one of the coolest bars in the area to get the scoop on what's truly great about a truly great bar like William Oliver's Public House.

Halloweed

Halloween isn’t just about candy and kids. Many adults celebrate this holiday with spooktacular creativity. There are zombie pub crawls, costume contests galore and plenty of parties after dark. You can also make marijuana a major motif in your magic and mayhem, if you so choose. Check out these ways you can add some green to your orange and black this Hallo-weed.

Month in Review

Hurricanes continued, as Maria battered Puerto Rico, reminding us that climate change is coming for us all. It’s nearly supernatural, which makes sense: this is the anniversary of the last executions in the Salem Witch Trials, 325 years ago this month. On October 1, Las Vegas played host to the largest massacre in American history as a single, white, male shooter, Stephen Paddock, of Mesquite...

The Big Wonderful

Josh Sampson is a Brooklyn transplant who has been calling Denver home since 2014. His big idea is The Big Wonderful (TBW): a new classic bazaar, beer fest, and con- cert-festival over two days on an awesome site in RiNo, which he founded the same year he moved to the city. After a stint in Los Angeles, Denver “sprang up as a place to kind of try out some new ideas.” Wanting to inject some of...

Fastest in the Front Range

Each morning, Matthias Messner, 36, wakes up at his home in Eldorado Springs and squeezes in a pre-work run before heading off to his job as a software engineer. He’s a laid-back dude. Walking into Southern Sun, his hair was ruffled. During our chat, he nursed his IPA slowly. He seemed your average, happy-go-lucky, active-minded Boulderite.

School Open Houses – Yellow Scene Magazine

BOULDER Bixby School Private, preschool-grade 5 4760 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder Kindergarten: Oct. 12 at 5-6 p.m., Oct. 26 at 9:30-10:30 a.m. All School (preschool and elementary programs): Nov. 2 at 9-10:30 a.m., Dec. 5 at 9-10:30 a.m. Boulder Country Day School 4820 Nautilus Ct. N. Boulder Open House: Nov. 8 9-11:30 a.m. Tara Performing Arts High School 4180 19th St...