Yellow Scene Magazine

Keepin’ it Real Estate

March 20, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

Ah, Boulder County—home of inspiring views, laid back lifestyles…and an apparently recession-proof (or at least more recession-resistant than other areas of the country) housing market. It’s a buyer’s delight almost anywhere else, with housing prices nationally still 32 percent lower…

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The Renegade, Charles Haertling

March 20, 2012 Like 0 Andra Coberly

The first thing you should know about architect Charles A. Haertling is that he designed houses—not homes. Families eventually brought homes into the funky, beautiful mid-century houses that dot the Boulder area with subtle confidence, quirky juxtaposition to neighboring buildings…

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Cheat Sheet: Where your news comes from

March 20, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

Boulder County is the sixth most populous county in Colorado and encompasses more than 751 square miles of land. Yet no matter where you live, it’s likely that you get your news from just one source: MediaNews Group, the Denver-based…

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A Media Tutorial

March 20, 2012 Like 0 Andra Coberly

Because I’m a glutton for punishment, I recently read Yellow Scene’s Yelp page. There’s only three, but one reviewer obviously is not a fan. Specifically, the review noted an error in our recent dining guide and claimed that we favor…

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Field of Dreams

March 20, 2012 Like 0 James Burrus

“No estampan mi passport, por favor.” A customs official, who couldn’t have been more than 25, slipped a piece of paper into my passport, pounded a blue ink dolphin stamp onto it, and my friend Johnny Rev and I were…

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The GMO Game

March 20, 2012 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

It’s one of the hottest topics in food: Genetically modified organisms are center stage with farmers suing ag corporations over the right to grow non-GMOs, watchdogs suing food corporations over the word “natural” on products with GMO ingredients, and protestors…

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Two for One

March 20, 2012 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

With the redevelopment of the sad, decrepit Westminster Mall, I hold high hopes that someday soon, Westminster will have a more diverse food scene—because right now, great dining, with a few notable exceptions, is a little thin on the ground.…

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Off-Campus Cafe takes on the challenging ingredient: Bacon

March 20, 2012 Like 0 Andra Coberly

Bacon … hmmm. Bacon.” That was Nathan Bathurst’s calm, reflective response when I told him that he and his partner, Nick Carter, would be required to serve up some pork perfection to me and two hungry photographers at their Off…

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Rock and Rolling On

March 20, 2012 Like 0 French Davis

A lot of stuff happened in 1992. Apartheid came to an end in South Africa. The Bosnian war erupted. The L.A. riots broke out upon the acquittal of the police officers charged in the Rodney King beating. The Space Shuttle…

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A Spirited Contest

March 20, 2012 Like 0 James Burrus

It was 9:30 a.m. on a sunny and unseasonably warm Saturday in February when I settled down in front of four unmarked plastic cups of vodka in a windowless room in the bowels of the Omni Interlocken Hotel in Broomfield.…