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Best of the West

SHAKE A TAIL FEATHER: BOCO Date Nights and Dinners with Movement

1. St. Julien Hotel & Spa - Walnut St. Boulder Hotel and Spa? Sure, it sounds like the perfect staycation location (and it is, check back in June for our summer staycation article), but the St. Julien is also geared to your daily dancing, drinking and dining needs. With year-round music and the perfect elegant ambience for your date night out, this is the place you bring your beau when you want to leave a lasting impression

Features

Best of the West: Reader’s Poll [Entertainment & Retail]

Best of the West is back! The people have spoken and these are the best entertainment and shopping in BOCO. Fair / Festival: Peach Fest Take a cue from the Allman Brothers and eat a peach. At the annual Lafayette Peach Festival, you can expect 30,000 pounds of the state’s sweetest fruit. Try them in pizza, ice cream, smoothies, infused into honey, or the way nature intended them

Best of the West: Readers’ Poll [Health & Wellness]

You all voted; we listened. Health and wellness is important to us Boulderites, and this is the best there is, according to you lovely readers. Rec Center: YMCA Working out at the YMCA of Boulder Valley is about more than getting in shape (and dancing along to the famous song). With top of the line equipment and classes for young and old, they are creating a healthy

Best of the West: Readers’ Poll [Food & Drink]

There's nothing we love more than diving into some great grub, and so it seems, you do too. In Boulder County there is plenty to choose from, and you chose the best there is. FOOD Best Overall Restaurant 24 Carrot Bistro (EC) 24 Carrot is dining at its best, giving you all the joyous indulgence they can conjure without any form of regret. Healthy food made right to taste right. Vegans

SHAKE A TAIL FEATHER: BOCO Date Nights and Dinners with Movement

Scene

Spotlight on Clay Rose of the Gasoline Lollipops

Arguably the most popular alt. country-cow-punk act to come out of the Mile High since Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, the Gasoline Lollipops have racked up several Best of Westword awards en route to their seat at the head of the table in “local music” — in quotes because they may not have the mainstream spotlight a band like Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats enjoys, but that’s simply an error on the part of national media.

Scene Stealers

Chelsea Flagg at Boulder Bookstore From magical tales from the halls of Hogwarts to more dramatic stories like The Fault in Our Stars or classics like The Giver, there are so many great options in literature for young readers. However, the vast majority of those options are for young adults ages 12 to 18. You’ll also find myriad different books for those learning to read and developing their

French’s Five: Impeachments

Most people may know about Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson, but here are 5 other impeachments you may not know about: 1873: U.S. District Court Judge Mark Delahay / Charge: Intoxication on the bench / Result: Resigned prior to trial 1986: U.S. District Court Judge Harry E. Claiborne / Charge: Income Tax Evasion / Result: Guilty, removed from

Try Leading with Empathy

“I just realized why I was so happy you died in Blade Trinity!” “And you shoot basketball (like) the sawed off little man you are.” Those were the two tweets a man named Michael Beatty shot out on Jan. 24, aimed at comedian Patton Oswalt, in response to his tweet slamming President Trump. As Oswalt readied his own volley, he read the man’s Twitter feed and noticed that he

Cuisine

New Year, New Food: Corrida & Steakhouse 316

New Brunch Corrida is 10 months old but its brunch menu is brand new, and it’s impressive. Bryan Dayton and Amos Watts opened the Basque region inspired steakhouse on the rooftop atop the Pearl West Building with floor to ceiling views of Chautauqua and Flagstaff and optional outdoor seating. Welcome to brunch. Drinks are a definite part of the equation. Start your meal with a clarified

Off Menu with Alex Schuler/Tangerine and Chris Royster/Flagstaff

Boulder County is known for its culinary achievements, with award-winning restaurants, wineries and a culture that not only appreciates food but relishes in the diversity of dining options. We want to know what's cooking and who's cooking it. Follow along as we talk to chefs to find out what fuels them – mind, body and soul.

Community Corner

Community Corner | American in Mexico: My view from the other side of the “wall”

As President Trump prepares to declare a national emergency to build a border wall, I’m sitting here on the other side, holding my breath, horrified by what is happening in my home country and its effect on the American psyche and Mexican-American relations. This situation is one of many since Trump took office that he's used to stoke fear among Americans about Mexico and Mexicans

Also in This Edition

Bliss Out With Oskar Blues

Oskar Blues’ new series Can-O-Bliss is aptly named. The first of the series to launch, a tropical IPA, fizzles lightly on your tongue, flavors of peach and citrus kiss your tastebuds signaling the hard work of the day is over. It’s the kind of the beer that I like to start my nightcap with even if it ends with something a little stronger. Not that the Can-o-Bliss is light, it

Notables

Fresh Cut: A DiverCity Conversation with Ja’mal Gilmore | Brooklyn Barber Academy

A byproduct of a severely limited public [read: white] imagination, coupled with a racist preoccupation with skin color, crossed with a profoundly American lack of cultural understanding, can mean a misguided perception and projection of how we process the world around us, the communities in which we live, work and play. In response to our Cover Concerns and some online hate, we're