4 Secret Chef Recipes for the Holidays

Locavore Holiday Gift Guide; Eco-Friendly Ways to Host a Party and Green Gifts to Bring

Every year, Yellow Scene Magazine rounds up the best of our local community with our Annual Locavore Holiday Guide. This year, we give an extra focus on eco-giving, including how to host an eco-friendly party.   Hosting an eco-friendly party Parties are notoriously wasteful, often resulting in piles of trash and excessive food waste. They’re a marker of overconsumption and consumerism...

Don’t Spend Your Weekend on I-70

No one likes to sit in traffic, especially on the weekends, and the elitism that is seen in the sport of skiing is amplified when the anxiety around traffic is added. When looking for tips on online forums, I was met with comments such as, “Please, no one give away the shortcuts,” and “Yeah, no. Why would we want to create more traffic.” While many were protective of their workarounds and...

4 Secret Chef Recipes for the Holidays

Bella La Crema’s Shauna Lee Strecker’s French Bath By Deborah Cameron Butter is hard to escape during the holidays. It’s in mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, stuffing, and pie crusts. It’s on carrots and under your turkey skin. But there’s a byproduct of butter creation — buttermilk — which makes an unexpected holiday preparation. Shauna Lee Strecker, the self-trained churn...

Why a Wealthy Community Sees So Many People in Need

When we live in affluent areas, people seem to think that there are no people in need, struggling in poverty. We do our best to keep people like this out of our peripheral vision. We want to believe that our wealth has been spread around equally, to all residents. Indeed, Boulder County and the surrounding areas are wealthy. Boulder County ranks as the 6th most wealthy in the state and the 60th...

Boulder-Based Private Society Band | Spotlight

Synth rock is a genre that generally blends electronic music with rock, resulting in sounds akin to Snaggletooth’s dub-step-style tracks or 1980s Depeche Mode’s vintage electronic sound. Boulder-based Private Society Band has its own take on synth rock, which takes both classic elements from the genre as well as somewhat unconventional ones like the use of violin. We sat down with Marshall...

Scene Stealers | Nov-Dec 2024

The best holiday shows and events in Boulder County to celebrate the season

Editors Picks | November 2024

Best Festivals, December 2024 Great minds think alike, as both Erie and Louisville are hosting separate events, both called the “Parade of Lights,” on the same day, December 6. The Erie event from 4:00-9:00 features choir performances by local schoolchildren at Orchard Community Church, visits with Santa and Mrs. Claus at Coal Creek Park, and a parade that kicks off from Perry Street &...

Elections and Holidays: At Least We Have Christmas to Look Forward To

11/20/2024 Updated to reflect new reported vote numbers: Trump: 76,781,645, Harris: 74,256,209 Sitting down to write this month’s Publisher’s Note has been tough. This past week has pretty much been wasted. I have a long to-do list, and as an independent media still committed to true journalism, I can’t afford to take midweek days off. But I was spent. I couldn’t focus on anything in...

A Nation in Flux: Local Elections, National Debates, and a Polarized Future

Erie Elections 2024 As the Unofficial Election results for Erie trickle in, the town's ballot measures have shown candidates who appear to be leading and winning the election.  However, per the Erie government website, Andrew Moore is set to win against Justin Brooks with 10,384 votes, while Justin Brooks has received 9,807 votes. This has placed Moore in the lead with 577 more votes...

The Artists: Oh, the View from Up Here; How Nancy Smith turned a childhood love of dangling from trees into dance

Nancy Smith,  founder of Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance Company, confessed that the movements of animals or bugs don’t really influence her aerial dance choreography. However, one can’t help but see a caterpillar’s fate in her story. As someone trained in traditional dance, grounded with balance on the balls of their feet and control in the core of the body, her focus has changed. All it...

Month In Review | November 2024

[ Local ] Colorado Department of State website accidentally lists passwords to voting machines, forcing election workers to scramble to ensure the safety of votes. Winter storm leads to a record number of people being turned away at Boulder’s largest homeless shelter, All Roads, amid county funding cuts. Ballot Question 2C, which will tie Boulder City Council’s pay to the median...

Nelson’s Corner | November 2024

Keep Your Laws Off Their Bodies — or Else Between my typing and your reading, an election took place. Colorado Amendment 79 either passed, allowing abortion rights to be enshrined in the Colorado constitution, or it didn’t. While I am hopeful, even its passage would be a very small gesture of enlightenment. Until and unless a Democratic president, in concert with a Democratic majority in...