Yellow Scene Magazine

Charlie Garcia

October 18, 2010 Like 2 Andra Coberly

Sitting in a classroom full of tiny chairs and tiny desks, Charlie Garcia is getting emotional. It’s not sadness, really. They are happy tears filled with happy memories. The long-time, much-loved teacher at Erie Elementary is considered a sage to…

Notes

Rage Against the Machine

October 18, 2010 Like 1 Andra Coberly

It’s the beginning of a long and cantankerous month of candidate interviews for the mid-term elections of 2010. So far, things are going swimmingly. Still, as this candidate and I talk about the deficit, unemployment rate, taxes and healthcare policy,…

Features

Party Crashers

October 18, 2010 Like 0 editor

By almost any measure, the basement meeting room of the Longmont VFW is one of the dingiest meeting spaces in Boulder County. The ceiling is claustrophobically low, and because each row of fluorescent lights running the length of the vast…

Features

Halloween Scene

October 18, 2010 Like 2 Lacy Boggs

You want your Halloween to be frightfully good, don’t you? Killer costume, a bloody good party and even a signature cocktail that will wake the dead. Yellow Scene is on the case. We’ve put together a bone-chilling plan for creating…

Features

Rumble in the Rockies

October 18, 2010 Like 2 Andra Coberly

It’s the main event, and boy, is this gonna be a doozy. The challengers have trained—some more than others—and the reigning champs are in the best shape of their political careers. The sparring is over, it’s time to see who…

Foodie

Can-Do Spirit

September 20, 2010 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

Any recipe that starts with “Peal and chop two bushels of tomatoes” is not going to be high on my to-try list. Neither is anything that has warnings about botulism and other nasties at the end. I don’t have a…

Foodie

Chile Power

September 20, 2010 Like 0 John Lehndorff

I’m old enough now that I can admit that I was a virgin when I moved to Colorado. I’d never even seen a green chile (or jalapeno pepper) when I moved to Colorado. Growing up in Massachusetts in the 1960s,…

Challenging Elements

Challenging Elements: Figs

September 20, 2010 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

While most people would know that a fig is a fruit, they might not be able to pick a fresh one out of a lineup. “My only exposure to them was through Fig Newtons,” said chef Linda Wiletto, owner of…

Features

American Limbo

September 20, 2010 Like 3 Dave Flomberg

“I miss my mommy.” Maria is 12 years old. She’s a sweet, skinny brunette trapped in those awful years between childhood and high school, facing all those hormonal changes that make middle school the worst time in any child’s life.…

Features

Snack Attack

September 20, 2010 Like 1 Lacy Boggs

Morning, noon and night, you never know when hunger will show her alluring visage and tempt you…Cookies? No? Something savory? Pupusas? Empanadas? How about a piece of pie? Ohhhh, Buffalo wings! Here, 16 ways to snack in Boulder County.