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A Social Experiment
It’s interesting to me that in our culture, dining at a community table is not a common practice. I often find myself dining “alone” at a community table at events that I attend as part of my work, and I…
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Best of the West: Critics Picks Entertainment
Best trend in art: Paint and drink spots We always knew we were more creative after a cocktail, and now places like Whimsy in Erie and Posh in Boulder are allowing us to prove it. These businesses offer painting classes and…
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Best of the West: Critics’ Picks Retail
Best shop for any women: Barbara & Co. Rare is a shop that can please all ages and styles of women. But Barbara & Co. in downtown Boulder is such a place. The boutique could leave a 20-something saying “OMG!” while…
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Best of the West: Critics’ Pick Health and Beauty
Best gym to work up a sweat and then feel swanky: Lakeshore We once compared Lakeshore to Globogym in Dodgeball. But that’s before we had a facial at this one-stop-health spot. Broomfield’s Lakeshore manages to be both a gym for…
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Best of the West: Critics’ Food and Wine Picks
Best “we are not in Colorado anymore” experience: Frasca Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson and Bobby Stuckey take us some place else. Unparalleled service transports diners to New York or Napa. The food—the rustic, simple dishes of Friuli—takes you to Northern Italy. Then dessert,…
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A Parent’s Final Frontier
The other day, I came downstairs to find the timer on the oven blaring, announcing for who-knows-how-long that dinner was beyond ready. My teenage son sat 10 feet away, watching a Nuggets game on TV, oblivious. His only reaction was…
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The Bolder Life: Perfect Pairings 2.0
Turns out, there are a lot of people in Boulder County that not only dig eating food, but also enjoying pairing their favorite menu items with tasty beverages. With a healthy population of breweries, distilleries and wineries in the area,…
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The Bolder Life: Variety is the Spice of Life
If there’s one thing that I’ve learned from living in as unique a place as Boulder—it’s that everybody is different. From the crazy clothes we wear, to the culinary delights that make our taste buds shimmy and shake, to the…
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The Bolder Life: The Frugal Foodie
I love food of all different kinds of shapes, sizes, colors and tastes—which is why I feel so lucky to be living in such a unique and tasty foodie Mecca. But as much I like sampling new menus items and…
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The Bolder Life: Tickets on Sale Now!
Events are always sneaking up on me—like tiny ninjas, dressed in all black, creeping around in shadows and stuff. This is a shame, because some of the best, can’t-be-missed events sell out pretty far in advance. So in an effort…
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