People In Your Hood: Nigel Melville

On the Road

People in the alternative transportation sector talk about motivation in terms of cost-benefit ratios and environmental and economic influences...

No Place Like the Stove

The holidays will be here faster than you can say, “I’d like to get an order for take out, please.” That means it’s time to dust off your fine china, warm up your oven and start your timer. It’s time to get cooking. Yellow Scene solicited dishes from three of our favorite local chefs and they happily handed over recipes they serve for their families during the most thankful of...

People In Your Hood: Nigel Melville

The old English adage goes, “Football is a gentleman’s game played by thugs and rugby is a thug’s game played by gentlemen.” Which means that Nigel Melville is a gentleman who is working to spread a canon of brutishness across the United States. Sort of...

How Colorado Are You?

Our Annual Winter Guide takes on a new form. Test your snow cred with a Colorado-inspired quiz. Check off each of the activities you’ve done and tally your score. Are you legit? Or should you start working on your Rocky Mountain reputation?

The Origin and Species of Stuffing

When I stand in my new kitchen on the Wednesday evening before Thanksgiving Day this year, I shall not stand alone. My son and my sister will be there, and so will my mom and her mother in spirit...

Seven Questions with Tribute Artists Super Diamond

You might not know Randy Cordero by his given name. Most people don’t. Most people know Cordero by his stage persona: Surreal Neil. Cordero fronts what might be the greatest Neil Diamond tribute band in history, Super Diamond. Indeed, their show arguably transcends the aging original’s these days—bringing a more youthful vitality to the music that makes the world sing way more than Barry...

The Pettyjohn Spirit Lives On

When done right, a local mom-and-pop shop thrives, not only because of a loyal customer base but because it grows up with the neighbors it serves. And for a textbook example, look no further than Pettyjohn’s Liquor and Wine in Boulder’s Table Mesa Shopping Center...

A Flash of Genius

The Universal Serial Bus might be one of the biggest leaps forward in computing since the advent of microprocessors. Prior to USB connections, peripherals (printers, mice, joysticks, etc.) connected to computers via a multitude of proprietary connections; serial ports, parallel ports, 8-pin, 9-pin, safety pin, bowling pins. …It was a free-for-all of connectors and wires that never matched and...

Challenging Elements: Pomegranate

The pomegranate is an odd beast, unusual looking and challenging to eat. Cultivated by the ancients and woven into their religions and stories, the fruit is enjoying a renaissance due to a truly modern preoccupation with antioxidants. Traditional cuisines have long embraced it, and American chefs are just beginning to experiment with its complex sweet-tart flavors...

Fusion You Can Rely On

“Can we get some of those peanut butter marshmallow things?” was the first thing out of my husband’s mouth upon learning we were headed to Bimbamboo, a casual Asian fusion restaurant on Pearl Street...

Nibbles: Feed Thy Neighbor

I believe in the power of dinner to cure many modern ills. I know there are few expressions of love deeper than gathering family and friends for hand-made fare, for connection and conversation...

This Bloom Hasn’t Faded

When Bloom first came to Broomfield almost 10 years ago, it stood out as one of the first fine dining establishments in the area to take on the burgeoning “new American” style of cuisine. Now, new American is being replaced with monikers like “gastro pub” but the concept remains solid, and Bloom’s interpretations of it are just as palate- and eye-pleasing as ever...

The Origin and Species of Stuffing

When I stand in my new kitchen on the Wednesday evening before Thanksgiving Day this year, I shall not stand alone. My son and my sister will be there, and so will my mom and her mother in spirit...

Mind the Gap

When the federal government buoyed GM and Chrysler, in newsrooms across the country, reporters and editors thought to themselves, “What about us?”...

Thumbin’ It

Hitchhiking has always been good to me, but I can’t say the same for a certain drunk who once rolled in an early ‘70s Opel GT. His car was on the verge of a coronary; it was merely fate that put me behind the wheel when it had The Big One...