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Can You Hear Me Now?
Music is changing. Do you have an iPhone? If you do, and you have an inkling to create music, there are a couple apps you should check out.
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Roundhouse Punch
Alex Nelson’s “hobby” of making micro-distilled gin and Corretto coffee liqueur in a 2,200-square-foot Longmont warehouse has taken off to the point where he’s had to hire a full-time sales manager.
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Colorado Summer Festivals
There’s a lot to love about summer. Not least on the list is the summer festival circuit, which brings bands through the state by the truck load and more meat on a stick than you can shake…well, a stick at.…
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Love at First Site
Yosemite. 1979. Car camping with my family was a cross between the Brady Bunch and The Blair Witch Project. After sitting around the fire eating s’mores and listening to ghost stories, we climbed into the tent, exhausted from hiking. All…
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Stacie White: Creative Director, Fusion Specialties in Broomfield
Stacie White has theories about mannequins. Mannequins, she says, should be subtle: a vehicle to display cut and fit and a representation of a store’s ideals. A good mannequin has a come-hither quality, silently luring the right shopper into the…
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Summer Lovin’
A few years ago, I was given an assignment to cover a romance novel writing convention in Thornton. The whole scenario had a “stranger in a strange land” quality to it: me in the waning half of my feminist rage…
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Challenging Elements: Zamparelli’s
If you’ve ever had the opportunity to watch Nancy and Jimmy Zamparelli together in the narrow galley kitchen of their restaurant, you’ve seen why they’re successful. They work so well together that sometimes they don’t even need words; Nancy will…
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99 Reasons to Love Summer in Colorado
How do we love thee, Colorado? Let us count the ways…Sunsets over mountain peaks, pints on patios, camping under brilliant skies. This feisty minx of a state has wooed many, and we couldn’t help but gush over life a…
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Street Smart
It wasn’t until I topped 80 mph that I considered the safety aspects of driving a pea-sized Smart in SUV-dense rush-hour traffic on Highway 36 between Denver and Boulder. I think it hit my 12-year-old son at about the same…
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