yellow scene magazine cover for August 2013

The Smart Issue

Midnight's Children

The clang of pipes and construction workers’ sweat permeates the school’s roughhewn hallways. Until May, this place thrived as Frederick Elementary—part of the St. Vrain Valley School District (SVVSD). Now it’s the end of July. Men dolly cinderblocks across half-lit classrooms, and shimmy sideways hauling slabs of...

Features

If Walls Could Talk

Boulder's oldest bar turns 90

Clothes Minded

The psychology of clothing.

Midnight’s Children

Colorado’s first STEM-focused preschool opens this August. And it's only part of a much larger movement.

Flavor, Full

Relearning the definition of food.

Smart Shopping

Smart shopping doesn’t mean clipping a forest worth of coupons or spending hours researching for the perfect item anymore.

Scene

Daryl Hannah

Seven questions with the actress turned spokeswoman.

The Tipping Point

Disintegrating liberties amidst cultural and technological advancements.

Cuisine

Deviant Dishes

Surprisingly sophisticated fare at Oskar Blues’ restaurants.

Cheap Eats

Don’t break the bank to eat well in BoCo.

Cheat Sheet

Erie Biscuit Day

The 11th Annual Erie Biscuit Day is set to go. Here's a taxonomical breakdown of the porous plate cleaner.

Notables

Waleed Abdalati

Waleed Abdalati is the new director of CU Boulder’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental. The occupation derived from "a collection of experiences."

Also in This Edition

Parkour: French for “Wildly Dangerous”

Parkour was developed in France as a way to move quickly and efficiently through a military obstacle course, which is called a parcours du combattant. Here, we take it to the streets in Boulder.