January 2008

15 Resolutions

Your New Year’s Resolutions are getting stale. The same goals seem to pop up year after year and many of them revolve around health and body. We’re here to help spice that up list, offering 15 suggestions for a better, more beautiful, more relaxed you in 2008. We think our ideas are pretty darn good, so we'll...

Features

15 Resolutions

Your New Year’s Resolutions are getting stale. The same goals seem to pop up year after year and many of them revolve around health and body...

Scene

Editor’s Picks

Your ultimate guide to arts & entertainment

French’s Five

When you tire of surfing the web for gift ideas, check out this other awesome stuff on the ’net...

14 Questions for a Rock Goddess

Karen Cuda plays bass for Nashville Pussy. You know, the band that was also nominated for a Grammy (Best Metal Performance 1999) and has toured with everyone from Motorhead to the Reverend Horton Heat...

Theater

If all 104th North’s a stage, we’ll tell you where to sit

French Connection

Serving your live music needs for Boulder, Denver & beyond

Standing Back Up

By all accounts, America in the late ’60s was embroiled in the greatest period of change the country had seen since the Civil War. Knee-deep in a politically-gray conflict half the world over and roiling at home with racial tension, the United States was sorely testing the resolve of the first half of its name...

Cuisine

Check Out Prospect

If we had our way, every suburban developer would have to tour Longmont’s Prospect before designing new neighborhoods. Its hip use of color and design and live/work/play philosophy have led to a eclectic mix of shops and businesses...

Restaurant Rumblings

Tasty tidbits from the dining world

The Modern, Upscale Twist On a Diner

Longmont’s posh Prospect neighborhood needed a traditional greasy spoon diner like it needs more expensive housing. So it’s probably a good thing that when Paul Roberts opened Two Dog Diner in June, he put a modern spin on the old concept...

Just As Strong by Night

When I first visited Treppeda’s nearly three years ago, it had only recently begun navigating the dangerous waters of dinner service. A popular gourmet lunch counter for years, food quality wasn’t the question...

One Damn Fine Burger

The gaping holes which have eventuated along Louisville’s Main Street as a result of the closing of the Druid’s Arms and Pasquini’s are well on their way to being filled. The Waterloo Icehouse, which replaced the former this fall, is stepping in nicely as a comfortable (and, for better or worse, less dive-y) space...

Also in This Edition

This is the Year You’ll Meet Your Resolutions

Raise your hand and shout out in pride if you held true to your New Year’s resolutions over the last 350-someodd days. You said you were going to slim two inches from your waistline, volunteer time to charity and tell your significant other you love him or her more often...

Loving and Loathing: Looking Back on 2007

Looking back on any given year, there’s always a lot to love and a whole lot to loathe. We’ve highlighted some of our favorites although we’re sure we missed many other great and not-so-great happenings in the North Metro area. We loathe that we had only one page to fit all of this in print...

January Letters to the Editor

"You have hit the high points, pointed out the flaws and helped readers understand what is at stake with this huge LifeBridge project..."

This is the Year You’ll Meet Your Resolutions

Fighting Words

In this corner, weighing in at a robust 11,023 pounds: the Big Red Republican Elephant. In the opposing corner, tipping the scales at a slim 565 pounds: the Majority Blue Democrat Donkey. Ding, ding, ding...

The Green Glow of Uranium

The idea of a uranium mine within 11 miles of Fort Collins seems like a ridiculous non sequitur. On the one hand, you have the green glow of a university town known for its environmental friendliness. On the other, you have the green glow of a potentially dangerous radioactive mineral used to power nuclear plants...