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Back to School

Head Start

Danielle Cisrese just walked in the door, returning from a relaxing day at Water World with some friends. Her vibrant description of the outing epitomizes the carefree summer days of a teenager. Swimming with friends is just one of the ways she is enjoying her summer. Texting, talking, boys, MySpace all take time, too. In...

Features

Curb the Frivolous Litigation

School districts have been known to have deep pockets when it comes to potentially harmful litigation, which is why it’s so distressing to hear of the most recent attempt to fleece St. Vrain Valley schools...

Warding Off a Black Cloud

You know the disappointment you get watching the Super Bowl: all that hype and an awful game...

Head Start

Danielle Cisrese just walked in the door, returning from a relaxing day at Water World with some friends. Her vibrant description of the outing epitomizes the carefree summer days of a teenager. Swimming with friends is just one of the ways she is enjoying her summer...

Wide-Eyed Teachers

Back when she entered the first grade, Kristen Kron can still vividly remember the knots in her stomach. “Oh my gosh, the first day, I definitely cried,” she recalls...

The Most Extensive School Listings Ever!

We listed that charter school around the corner from you in this comprehensive guide to North Metro area schools...

Private Schools

Check out our most recent list of private schools in the area!...

Parochial Schools

Thinking parochial? Check out our most recent list of parochial schools in your area!...

Montessori Schools

Check out our most recent list of the best montessori schools in the area!...

Waldorf Schools

Find the best Waldorf schools in your area here!...

Child Care, Pre-K and Kindergarten

Get a great start on your child's education with our online directory of options for your little ones...

College/Adult Education

If it's time to head back to school, check out our online directory for options in your area...

Athletics

Check out all of the sports and rec in your area!...

Martial Arts

Check out our most recent martial arts directory!...

Performing Arts

If your kids are a little artsy fartsy and you can't find the right fit, check out our online directory for the latest and greatest in performing arts!...

Science

Check out our most recent science directory!...

Misc Extracurricular

Check out our most recent list of awesome extracurriculars!...

Scene

Try Getting a First Life

I’m a busy guy. In addition to my role with The Yellow Scene, I have a full-time corporate gig for a good-sized telecommunications company. I also write steadily for a few other publications. I bill an average of around 20 hours of freelance work per week, in addition to the 40 to 55 hours my day gig eats up...

French Connection

Serving your live music needs for Boulder, Denver & beyond

Free Will Astrology

An entertaining look at the month ahead

Science

Check out our most recent science directory!...

Misc Extracurricular

Check out our most recent list of awesome extracurriculars!...

Harp on the Fringe

Naropa is on the Fringe. So is Boulder in popular opinion. The city at the base of the Flatirons always seems to add a twist to mainstream. Which is why it makes a perfect backdrop for the International Fringe Festival...

Dropping Eggs Makes Good Theater

“One lady used to come in with a basket of eggs. She’d put one on her head and let it roll down and splatter on the floor. She’d do it again and again for five minutes, egg after egg.” GerRee Hinshaw laughs as she shares the recollection about a former “Freak Train” regular...

August’s Editor’s Picks

Your ultimate guide to arts & entertainment

French’s 5

This month: Snapshots of 20th Century American pop culture, courtesy of Youtube.com...

Cuisine

Still the Best of Broomfield

A recent letter remarked with incredulity that our Best of the West poll had awarded Bloom the honor of Best Restaurant. Our accolade, it seems, had steered them smack dab into a Bad Restaurant Experience. Intrigued, my watchful editor put me on the case...

Beating the 516 Curse

Here’s an exercise: Google “516 Main Longmont.” Go ahead. I’ll wait. Perhaps you dedicated readers (I won’t say “fans;” it’s so narcissistic, really) found what I suspected when I entered Flavor of India: I’ve been there before. In fact, this location is a veritable graveyard of Cuisine Scene visits, home as it was to not one but two restaurants formerly reviewed (favorably, as...

Minutes to Buy a Restaurant, a Lifetime to Enjoy the Food

Standing between two auto shops on 25th and Pearl, the 110-year-old red wooden building with a blue-painted address is somebody’s baby. The blink-and-you’ll-miss it restaurant called John’s is owned by siblings Corey Buck and Ashley Maxwell. It’s an establishment built on their passion for food. That’s exactly why Buck, the head chef, is in the process of tweaking the menu from the...

Restaurant Rumblings

Tasty tidbits from the dining world

Also in This Edition

Crowd Pleaser

Here’s a little trivia that’ll leave you stumped: What do Sonny Bono, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison have in common with the Broomfield Event Center? And no, it’s not that they are all performers who would never play the young arena...

August’s Letters to the Editor

"Police policy: Deliver only the five-second burst of high voltage electricity only as last resort (what are the other methods to be used first?)."

Check Out Old Town Niwot

Platted in 1875, Niwot has blossomed into a funky gathering place of Boulder County yuppies, shops and cafés with mountain views...

Child’s Play

The sound is felt before it’s heard; a low rumbling that shakes the earth and tremors through the bones. Then the noise stirs the air and assaults the ears, a vibrating growl that morphs into a roaring cacophony. The Colorado National Speedway is open for business...

Public School District

Check out our most recent public school district listings!...

Sleep is Good, Rights are Better

Like many starving artists, I find inspiration in the odd hours of the day, or most often, the odder hours of the night. When the house has grown quiet, the last episode of “Cops” has ended and the outside becomes rather peaceful, my mind begins to crank up like an old engine. Nothing, though, stops the gears like the obnoxious sound of an unmuffled motorcycle roaring by my window...

Locally Incorrect

Curb the Frivolous Litigation

School districts have been known to have deep pockets when it comes to potentially harmful litigation, which is why it’s so distressing to hear of the most recent attempt to fleece St. Vrain Valley schools...

It’s Probably Because you get the Yellow Scene There

If you count Louisville as your home, consider yourself lucky, and not just because many of you get a free copy of this fine publication delivered to your mailbox. Money Magazine anointed Louisville the third-best place to live in the United States last month...