Turning dreams into reality

Into The Wild: 2nd Annual Superkids Issue

Kids these days… Smart, curious and in touch, the children of today are a new breed. They’ve earned the nickname “digital natives” and, way before they can diagram sentences, they are showing their parents how to send a text message or update their Facebook status. But these kiddos’ hyper-connected nature does not mean they need to sit around playing video games all day. Yellow...

A Crash Course in Camps

There are (almost) countless ways for your kids to spend their dog days of summer. Arts camps, science camps, outdoors camps, volleyball camps, Renaissance-adventure camp. The list goes on and on…and on. But how does one choose? Betsy Strohmaier, director of Altogether Outdoors & Mountain Day Camp, and David Secunda, Avid4 Adventure program director, help you find out. First, give the camp...

What’s the Word?

The English language is becoming altered with slang terms and watered down with text-message lingo. Merriam and Webster may have turned over in their graves. If you know your kid is speaking English—but still can’t understand them—then start decoding. Here, a glossary of technical teen terms...

Turning dreams into reality

Daydreaming knows no bounds, especially when it comes to your kid. But who says kids get to have all the daydreaming fun? While science will one day allow you turn your child into a beautiful, blond aeronautical engineer with perfect pitch, for now you must opt for personal growth through education. Want your toddler to become an artist, a soccer player or golfer? Or, perhaps, all of the above?...

Getting to Know You

There is no time like the present to find a hobby you can enjoy with your kids. Family time is not saved for the dinner table. From running to fishing, here are a few options...

Swim Time

Swimming might be the best part of summer…especially during those dry, hot days. And for kids, summer is defined by hours spent doggie paddling in the deep end and playing poolside with friends. Here is a guide to a few of our favorite local swimming facilities—both outdoor and indoor. From rope swings and crazy slides to lap lanes and kiddie pools, these swimming spots will keep your...

Seven Ways to Spend a Summer Day

Never hear that dreaded “I’m bored…” again. Here’s a full week’s worth of boredom busters that are sure to keep you and the kids happy and happily entertained...

Growing Green Kids

Saving the world is hard work. But your kids can learn a greener way of life before they even learn to say “carbon emissions.” If you play your cards right and teach them the right lessons in the right way, sustainability will become second nature to them...

This One Time, at Band Camp

I'm what is known in technical terms as a “late bloomer.” I didn’t work up the nerve to pierce my earlobes until I was 18. I got fall-down drunk for the first time in a Hollywood tapas bar at 23. I decided to dye my hair blue at the age of 26, having never before even committed to highlights...

Contemporary Colorado

The phrase “home on the range” once conjured thoughts of rickety, wind-blown ranches that sizzled in the summer sun and shivered in winter storms...

Peeps: Chuck Morris

A year ago, the venue formerly known as Broomfield Event Center was a topic of much kvetching. But there has been a transformation: aesthetically and spiritually. Today, the venue—recently renamed 1stBANK Center—is finally ready for its close up...

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

The must sublime scene in the Academy Award-winning documentary The Cove is not the dramatic and heart-wrenching footage that the film leads up to with every frame. It’s a scene in which the filmmakers and their team of elite activists infiltrate the hills around Taiji, Japan, at night to place an entire movie studio’s worth of specialized hidden cameras to secretly record the slaughter of...

Farm Fresh

The field behind the rural Boulder County house is cold—barren and firm in the dreary tedium of mid-winter. Nearby trees that look like giant grey guards line the property’s riparian edge, silently watching the naked acreage. Peter Volz sees the latent beauty. When he looks at the empty field on this winter day, he sees the potential of spring and summer and fall. He sees the crayon box...

A Market for Modern

As Boulder becomes more sophisticated, so will its appetite for high-end architecture...

2010 Summer Camp Listings

There are so many options for kids and teens come summer. It really does not matter what they love to do, what they want to learn or how they hope to spend their vacation: There is a camp that will fit...

Challenging Elements: Magnolia Restaurant

Sometimes the results of our challenge are just so outstanding, I’m positively blown away. So it was with Magnolia Restaurant and Sushi Bar this month. The locale just earned a “Best Restaurant in Denver” nod from Metromix.com—which is doubly impressive, as the restaurant is in Lafayette...

Full of Potential

L’Atlier chef/owner Radek Cerney is known for experimenting. His menus often feature unusual preparations. His latest experiment, Radex Bistro—formerly known as Full Belly—is a comfortably priced foray into his signature hybrid fare. Dishes are unpretentious yet pleasantly complex, but the overall package still has a few rough edges...

Nibbles: Talkin’ ‘Bout My (Aging) Generation

Whenever there’s a societal problem in the U.S. it’s popular to blame the baby boomers. We’re one big, easy target. Google “blame the baby boomers” and you’ll see more than 406,000 results. Now we’re being labeled as the major culprits in the decade-long dinner decline at American restaurants, according to a new study by the reputable market research firm NPD...

Farmsteads and Farmville

I was never attracted to the idea of being a farmer, even though amber waves of grain flow through my blood. But the farm-fresh revolution—which has hit local menus, shops, bookstores and markets—is now rocking my world. I’ve begun craving fresh fruit and daydreaming about the agricultural carnival of farmer’s markets. All of a sudden I find myself wanting to get dirty, to work with...

Outdoors: Do You Know Where It’s Fun to Stay?

When you stay at the YMCA at Snow Mountain Ranch, you can be whatever you want to be—a Nordic skier, a snowshoer, a sledder, a swimmer, a climber, a cowboy, an ice-skater, roller-skater, an archer or artist. You can worship God or glorify nature. Or just read by the fire. You can be a dreamer, wondering who lived here before you. You can be all these things when you stay at the YMCA...