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Executive Chef Joe Arena, Bitter Bar, Boulder

September 17, 2012 Like 1 Lacy Boggs

Arena has been cooking since he was 12, but wasn’t legally allowed to do it for a paycheck until he was 17 and working at a supermarket in the prepared foods section. From there, he headed to the Culinary Institute…

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Cheat Sheet: The Beer Runs Through It

September 17, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

“I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.” Homer Simpson said that, of course, and it makes you wonder whether Springfield is located in Colorado. While not resorting to Homer’s extremes, the simple truth is…

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Month in Review: August 2012

September 17, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

Neil Armstrong died, and an intoxicated woman in Longmont was arrested for shoving a puppy down her pants. The USA Pro Cycling Challenge roared through Boulder in what one event organizer said was the “biggest day” in the event’s history.…

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Here’s to Beer

September 17, 2012 Like 0 Andra Coberly

I attended college on the central coast of California—a beautiful little town nestled among the morros and cuddled up around a simple Spanish mission. It was a college town and a retirement town, and that left little room for anyone…

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Price gouging at Denver’s presidential debate

September 17, 2012 Like 0 Jonathan Strungis

Denver will take the spotlight early this election season, kicking off this year’s presidential debates with a classic Lincoln v Douglass-style debate on Oct. 3 at University of Denver’s Ritchie Center. Before you get your hopes up, unless you’re lucky…

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Boulder drinkers mourn: Trader Joe is on the wagon

September 14, 2012 Like 0 Andra Coberly

Boulder has thoroughly earned its reputation for having a unique and particular market. We are quite firmly the hippy organic-and-healthy-food eating and beer-drinking crowd. After a night of downing cans of Dale’s Pale Ale, you better believe we’ll take that…

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Firefighters Get Their Proper Dues

September 13, 2012 Like 0 Jonathan Strungis

Imagine for a brief moment that you’re not you. Instead you are someone with an extremely difficult and dangerous job (and no, being caught in the elevator with the office close talker doesn’t count). Imagine that you’re the only line…

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September Food News

September 12, 2012 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

Openings/Closings Two new restaurants in Westminster: Early Bird Restaurant opened in Westminster for breakfast and lunch in the Bradburn neighborhood and Kachina Southwestern Grill opened at the Westin Westminster. Gravity Brewing opened as Louisville’s first brewery and Dizzy’s Doughnuts opened…

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The Bolder Life: Moving Mountains

September 11, 2012 Like 0 Tyra Sutak

One year ago today, I was laid up, and severely drugged up, nestled in a fort of pillows and sipping on Cherry 7-Up at my parent’s house after having my third ACL/meniscus repair and my fifth knee surgery overall. It…

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Churchill turns to U.S. Supreme Court to get his CU job back.

September 10, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

Ward Churchill is nothing if not tenacious. The former CU professor, who was fired by the Board of Regents over accusations of plagiarism, fabricating evidence and violating academic standards lost his latest appeal to be reinstated to his job when…