What I Did Last Summer

Summer Camp Rock Stars

We sent a dozen kids to camp last summer through our first ever scholarship program. Read about their experiences. -ed The lights are hot and blinding as Pandamen steps onto the stage. The crowd’s noisy, and if you listen closely you can almost hear echoes of past performers permanently etched into the walls of the 89-year-old Ogden Theatre...

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What I Did Last Summer

There are so many kids in the area who want to go to camp each summer. Sometimes it's a little too expensive, however. So we partnered with a dozen camps in the region to offer our a scholarship program—the catch being the kids and families had to write about their experiences...

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Theater

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French Connection

Serving Your Live Music Needs for Boulder, Denver and Beyond

My Latest Hero

Okay, I’ll admit it. I was wrong. It started a couple years ago, when one of my buddies started explaining to me how awesome the new PlayStation game he bought was. It was called Guitar Hero. I mocked my friend mercilessly for his addiction to this game...

What I Did Last Summer

There are so many kids in the area who want to go to camp each summer. Sometimes it's a little too expensive, however. So we partnered with a dozen camps in the region to offer our a scholarship program—the catch being the kids and families had to write about their experiences...

Challenging Elements: Pinto Beans

“Pinto Beans?” Corey Buck mutters. I’ve just told him this month’s secret ingredient. Silence follows. It turns out this truly is a challenge...

Destination Challenge

There is perhaps no more consistently hopping dining room between Denver and Boulder than the Village Tavern’s, a fact which I overlooked recently when I made the observation that two other FlatIron Crossing spots—Bloom and Flatz—were the mall’s only culinary destinations...

Not Ready For Prime Time Just Yet

Editor’s Note: It’s 11:33 p.m. on deadline night, and we just found out Hunter’s shuttered its doors just months after trying to revamp the 10-year-old eatery into a high-end steakhouse. Perhaps this is why...

March Letters to the Editor

"I felt vindicated when your menu item at Lucille's was the Farmers Eggs."

Refreshing Politics

I am a Democrat. Registered and all. This is not something usually admitted in print, as most editors fear they’ll undoubtedly be labeled “liberal media.” But the rest of the story is tough to tell without at least owning up to my party affiliation...

Neighborhoods

If you’ve every driven down Main Street on the second Friday of the month, you probably noticed tons of folks out and about. Check out the March 14 second Friday art walk, and use this as a guide...

That’s So Money

The nominations for each party are set—almost. It appears Sen. John McCain will be running against Sen. Barack Obama in one of the most significant presidential races in recent memory...

Satire That’s Not So Easy to Write

It’s starting to look an awful lot like journalism students on campuses in Colorado have been skipping some basic J-School 101...

Shocked to Hear It

Most of us have never felt the pain, but it’s an experience that we really don’t need to live through to understand it’s no fun...

How a Frozen Dead Guy Revived Nederland

Trying to diagnose a person’s mental stability over the phone is difficult for even the most seasoned therapists. It’s near impossible for a journalist with nothing more than Psych 101 under his belt...

The Perfect Neighborhood for You

There isn’t just one perfect North Metro neighborhood for everybody. What’s great for one, doesn’t work for another...

Minimum Reasoning

Full disclosure first: I got laid off my job as a columnist at The Denver Post in June for reasons I still struggle to grasp. So when Rock Bottom Restaurants did the same to 36 employees at its Louisville headquarters in November, I paid close attention to the explanation...