Best Service
Auto Repair • CRITICS: Stang Auto Tech, Broomfield We pretty much trust that most auto shops can fix your car or truck or SUV. It’s doing so quickly and without, ahem, finding other “problems” that makes a shop great. Stang…
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Best People
Artist • CRITICS: Dwayne Wolff, Longmont Working out of a studio just above the Old Firehouse Art Gallery in the heart of Longmont’s burgeoning arts district, Wolff has created a dynamic series of oil paintings that range from fruit stills…
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Best of the Rest
Story/Issue We Never Covered • CRITICS: The rights of prairie dogs It seems that everybody wants to build beautiful and environmental-friendly developments. Throughout the process, we seem to forget that no matter how green a new home is, it’s displacing…
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Prospect in the Raw
In this space I have previously disparaged New Urbanism as a conceit. For the uninitiated, this is the name given to housing developments that are designed with their own town square, “distinctive” houses and apartments, and ample retail space.
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At Long Last, Louisville Has its Empire
Settled into the space occupied for so long by its predecessor Pasquini’s, Empire is an eclectic and elegant reimagining of a space that has screamed “potential.” Gone is the shabby familiarity that was the pizzeria’s true hallmark and in its…
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