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Health and Body

We all need a little help when it comes to self improvement. It’s just not that easy to lose weight, change a diet, find a new style and reduce the stresses of day-to-day life. We are here to help—or more accurately, four Boulder County professionals have chimed in on how to make 2009 your best year yet. Flip the pages...

Features

The $17,000 Question

Jim Mitchell strolls through the huge estate that is the campus of Alexander Dawson School. It looks and feels more like a small, private college than a K-12 prepatory school and can take the better part of an afternoon to tour. There’s a state-of-the-art athletic building, arts center, admissions cottage, and three separate language buildings (Spanish, French and Chinese).

Health and Body

Scene

Editor’s Picks

December/January's Best A&E

French’s Five

It’s the new year, and like every red-blooded American, I’ve got a list of resolutions to keep. But I won’t bore you with those. Instead, here’s a list of five resolutions I’ve made for some other people...

8 Questions with Artist Molly Hargarten

In today’s limping economy, collecting art may not be the highest priority on your list. Nonetheless, artists are feeling the crunch as well—while making a living in that arena is notoriously tough to begin with.

Tavern Sweet Home

One of my most prized possessions is a framed Norman Douglas quote done by my mom in simple needlepoint. It hangs in the kitchen and reads: “Many a man who thinks to have found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.”

Five Reasons to Love 2009

So, 2008 is ending and the ’09 Consumer Electronic Show is the first thing on everyone’s mind. Right? Okay, maybe it’s a stretch to assume it’s something awesome to people besides me.

Daily Diversions

A Pick a Day

Cuisine

Restaurant Rumblings

Tasty tidbits from the dining world

Redefining Magnolia

Downtown Denver, while no culinary mecca, has its share of high-end success stories: Rioja, Kevin Taylor, Vesta, etc. And, for the most part, they share fairly close real estate. Anyone in a couple-mile radius of downtown, or Boulder for that matter, has an abundance of fine-dining options—many within walking distance.

Lui’s Back

Three or four regulars hugged the back corner bar, hovering over luminescent cocktails. Every odd one featured protruding umbrellas, while each sip warranted a comment on the day’s news. Coming from the parking lot, we’d stumbled in the back entrance, walking into Lui’s Wok & Grill quaint lounge section.

Challenging Elements: Bacon

In the last year, The Empire Restaurant has become one of Old Town Louisville’s best eateries. Chef Jim Cohen has brought accolades and upscale dining to the quaint community. We wanted to see what he could do with a simple ingredient that many of us love: Bacon.

Also in This Edition

Dec./Jan. Letters to the Editor

Anyone who thinks viewers should get their news from comedy shows or that elitism is a good thing needs to seek another career.

Dropping the Ball

The ball atop our Erie office is set to drop, towering hundreds of feet about Old Town. There are likely a few zoning officials not too happy with our contraption. We’ve dragged out thousands of party hats emblazoned with our logo and “2009” from the closet...

So, Who Won?

A jury says Boulder County Commissioners imposed a substantial burden on religious exercises by denying a proposal to double the size of 128,000-square-foot Rocky Mountain Christian Church in Niwot. The jury also says the commissioners did not discriminate against the church on the basis of religion. Confused? Us too.

Check Out: Nickel Street

Cruising along Highway 287 near U.S. 36 in Broomfield, it’s easy to drive right past this hidden hodgepodge of local business gems. Well, next time you’re in the area, take a side trip for lunch, shopping or some tropical flowers...

Boulder’s Vodka Barons

Matthew Baris is to the hard stuff what Charlie Papazian is to beer. When President Jimmy Carter made brewing beer at home legal in 1978, it opened the creative and entrepreneurial floodgates for the astounding variety and quality of craft brewed beer that many take for granted.

Emotional Cleanup

Pam Mains was hunting with her husband, some other family and friends in southern Colorado when her cell phone rang on the morning of Nov. 17, 2003. What she heard dropped Mains to her knees in the middle of a dirt road; a gaping hole had been ripped in her heart. Her oldest daughter, Mia, the second of five children, had been found dead by her brother of a heroin overdose. She was 26.

A Faith-Based Reason

When Hannah Turner’s soccer pals began wondering why she didn’t attend the nearby public school like they did, she began to question whether going to a private school was right for her...

You Are What You Eat

There’s an old adage that is possibly the most important to think of when you are trying to reinvent yourself. You’ve heard it before: You are what you eat. In considering overall health, a fitness program is nothing without a good diet behind it.

Finding Your Style Within

Dressing well and appropriately for your job or lifestyle is a tremendous subliminal tool for success. A new look can transform your life. By selecting clothing and accessories that suit you, there’s the almost-guaranteed by-product of confidence, authenticity and authority.

A Fitness Plan that Sticks

It’s hardly going out on a limb to say most folks who set New Year’s resolutions year after year put getting in shape high on the list. The emphasis being on year after year. Getting fit is a whole lot easier said than done.

Develop a Mind of Steel

Let’s be honest, as fun as they are, the holidays are never easy on the nerves. Travel, in-laws, shopping and year-end work deadlines—the list of stresses that come up this time of year stretches for miles.

A Pedi-Ephiny

One of the many lessons life has taught me is that the rewards of a good foot rub are legion. Getting one is an unmitigated pleasure anytime. Getting one at the end of a day spent hiking in the backcountry with a 60-pound pack on your back imparts the hope, fortitude and will to get up the next day and keep walking farther away from the civilized trappings of hot water, vehicles and grocery stores.

Boiling Point

Ease Up on Contributions

Longmont wants to put the kibosh on hefty campaign contributions by local organizations and special interests. The city council is exploring new limits that would cap individual campaign donations to $200 and those by organizations to $500. This would not effect campaign contributions for citywide ballot questions even though it appears one in particular served as motivation...