Lessons Learned

Wonder Girl

I ask Ksenia Lepikhina when she has time to sleep. She giggles and shrugs. Her parents laugh...

Professor X

Carly Gilbert radiates with passion when she talks about the kids she teaches...

The Reclaimator

Adam Mathiews was first inspired by the piles of perfectly good furniture CU students left behind in spring...

Captain Justice

Ana Temu is a fighter...

10 Extraordinary Adventures

Actually, it IS Rocket Science… No need to rocket to Houston or Cape Canaveral to get a far-out space camp experience: We’ve got a great one right here in Colorado...

Country Comfort

Once upon a time, there was a mouse in a little Longmont farmhouse...

Mod Mix

As families grow, yesterday’s playroom becomes the oldest child’s bedroom and that child’s favorite jeans lose their knees to the youngest. Old and new mesh together. The redesigned Mapleton Hill kitchen reflects its ever-growing and changing family in much the same way—with modern counters, cabinets and appliances, reclaimed hardwood flooring and old-fashioned molding. “We used a...

Function and Flow

In their stop and go life of globetrotting, raising children and business successes, a natural flow shaped the space around two north Boulder homeowners...

Common Ground

If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a neighborhood to nurture an adult...

Going Green in the Kitchen…Broccoli Not Included

Heat, Power and Appliances: If solar isn’t in the budget, orient windows to allow winter rays to heat the house. Discuss type of glass, frame and glazing...

If You Can’t Take the Heat, Build an Outdoor Kitchen

The charm of the outdoor kitchen isn’t in the partially burned food, cold night air or smell of citronella...

Assessed

The real estate market can be dizzyingly confusing...

Lessons Learned

1 : Know Your (Financial) Limits The weird thing about mortgages is that they don’t take much of anything else into account...

Editor’s Picks: March 2011

Just Dance In the ’90s, the rave scene was the story-du-jour for media looking for the latest “corrupted youth” angle...

9 Questions with Comedian Kevin Pollak

Kevin Pollak is one of those rare impressionist/comedians who also happens to be an actor with a penchant for picking good roles...

The Beating is Sure to Resume

Craft brewers and liquor stores are girding for yet another battle at the state legislature with the big-dollar lobbyists paid for from the deep pockets of the national grocery chains...

The Societal Network

Just how powerful is Facebook?...

Challenging Elements: Grapefruit

As a chef, there’s nothing you can eliminate from your repertoire,” said Edmund Vogel, chef at Zucca in Louisville...

King of the Hill

Call me old, but the Hill in Boulder is not the first place I would look for cutting-edge foodie fare. Don’t get me wrong: The Sink’s got great burgers, but I wouldn’t call it haute cuisine...

Dinner in the Round

Almost everything good I know I learned around the dinner table. ...

Move Over, Cupcake

“If I had one trend—one trend—of the year that I could predict, that’s why it’s in the No. 1 position, this would be the trend for pie,” Andrew Freeman of Andrew Freeman & Co. said...

Confessions of an Average Kid

At some point during my interviews for this month’s SuperKids profiles, I recognized my own ordinariness...

Elizabeth Train

Elizabeth Train started with a turquoise tricycle. Then it was a yellow Schwinn with a banana seat and stars...

Danger Up High

Andy Glossner had just started his turns on Ruby Jewel Bowl when the steep slope began moving...

Power Center

The phrase “new energy economy” started appearing in Colorado media in late 2006, when Bill Ritter began his run for governor...

Feeling Out of Sorts?

We owe a great debt to the printing arts, and I don’t mean what gets sprayed onto precisely sized sheets of bleached dead trees as it lurches its way out of that plastic box on your desk when you click “OK.”...