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Nibbles: Want Fries With That?
I’m starting to feel like I’ve moved to Swallow Falls, the mythical town in the film Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs where cheeseburgers rain down from the sky.
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Inspiring Italian
It used to be that “mall food” was about the lowest insult you could sling at a restaurant. Mall food was synonymous with a food court, a wasteland consisting mostly of soft-serve ice cream, pizza slices as big as your…
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Pie in the Sky
Walking down the Pearl Street Mall, I’d never paid much attention to 14th Street Bar and Grill. Its patio tables always seemed packed beneath its cheerful yellow awnings, but I never looked past the façade. How wrong I was to…
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Challenging Elements: Cantina Laredo
A few months ago, Robbie Wright, the general manager of Cantina Laredo at the 29th Street Mall in Boulder asked us why we don’t have a challenge for bartenders. We didn’t have a good answer for him, so we decided…
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Duly Noted: For the Record
I went into a music store yesterday. An honest-to-God, brick-and-mortar music store. It’s a lot like going into a museum, except the whole thing’s the gift shop. In fact, this particular music store even sold records.
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Burrus at the Bar: Dry Dock Christened Brewery of the Year
As much as anything, medaling at the Great American Beer Festival is about bragging rights. Putting together a beer that fits a particular style—especially when that style is being attempted by another four or five dozen brewers around the country—and…
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Seven Questions with Comedy Duo Michael & Michael
The new Comedy Central show Michael and Michael Have Issues reunites Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter at their bickering best; a latter-day Odd Couple more like the I’m-a-PC-I’m-a-Mac guys than Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. The duo first exposed…
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Tid-Bites: Park Burger, Denver
My friend Hannah and her husband are my go-to excuse for trying new restaurants in Denver. If I don’t really have an excuse to be down there, but want to try a new place, I’ll call them up and ask…
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Outdoors: Train of Thought
Your first day of the ski season. The snow is perfect. Your skis are tuned. You splurged for personalized goggles. In seconds, you’re over the edge, just you and the mountain. Gravity takes over. The sound of sharp edges carving…
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Peeps: Chris Ray
Chris Ray looks outdoorsy and rugged even as she sits in a bustling Boulder coffee shop, peering into the depths of a laptop. She’s busy. Very busy. More busy than she thought she’d be when she set out, years ago,…
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