Boulder County

The Bolder Life: Best of BoCo Winery Tour

September 7, 2011 Like 1 Tyra Sutak

With so much attention going to the local beer scene in Colorado, I felt that it was time to check out the emerging and growing winery scene that is slowly spreading through Boulder County. I spent seven, pretty fantastic hours…

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Aw Baby!

August 26, 2011 Like 0 Brandy Simmons

Festival on Main in Longmont: Friday, August 26 at 6 pm. Soul Sacrifice and the Last Men on Earth provide the ambiance for a ridiculous number of fun activities for both kids and parents.

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The Bolder Life: An Introduction, Happy Chicken Style

July 20, 2011 Like 0 Tyra Sutak

Editor’s Note: This is the first of a soon-to-be-ongoing blog called The Bolder Life, in which writer Tyra Sutak will chronicle her adventures in Boulder County. You can read Ms. Sutak’s work twice a week at yellowscene.com. Throughout life, we…

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Garbage Grove

June 14, 2011 Like 0 Brandy Simmons

I prefer high-heels to galoshes, but after May’s graduation ceremonies I grabbed garbage shoes and braved Boulder’s refuse juice—organic, I’m sure—to examine our environmentally conscious community’s “trash.” Diving Dictionary Freecycle: To recycle items found for free-generally in trash facilities, on…

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Best of the West 2011

June 3, 2011 Like 0 Andra Coberly

This year, we’re giving our Best of the West winners the red carpet treatment: The readers have spoken, the critics have made their picks and several local celebrities have added their two cents. Here are our best Boulder County has…

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Eatery News: May 2011

May 20, 2011 Like 0 editor

Openings/Closings Tres Pupusas, a favorite at the Boulder County Farmer’s Market, opened a brick-and-mortar cafe at 2825 Wilderness Place, Suite 500 in Boulder. /The salad slinger, Mad Greens, recently opened a new location at 2341 Clover Basin Dr. in Longmont.

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Down The Road: Ten Transportation Issues Impacting You in the Next 10 Years

April 15, 2011 Like 1 James Burrus

Getting around Metro Denver and the Front Range is getting easier every day. But making faster progress may mean digging in to our collective couches for the pocket change to make it happen. In the next 10 years, transportation issues…

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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…

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Partners in Crime

September 20, 2010 Like 0 Andra Coberly

Sgt. William Manes now leaves his dog at home. Which—seeing as he grew up with two blind parents who depended on seeing-eye dogs; seeing that Manes was one of the first K9 handlers in the Fort Wayne Police Department in…

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Boulder County’s Promised Land

August 18, 2010 Like 0 James Burrus

Leadership is not about rallying support and taking action for a cause or issue because it’s popular or easy. Leadership is about identifying a goal that is right and good and, despite it being unpopular or seemingly impossible to achieve,…