Overstretched By Julie Kailus Every parent with a kid in sports today has run into hypercompetitiveness in some form. It might be those squawking parents pushing their child inappropriately from the sideline. In other cases, it’s a league that too quickly raised the bar—and expectations—for kids who were just playing sports for fun and fundamentals.
Play Ball! with Boulder County’s Hayseeds, Hand-Me-Downs and O Be Joyfuls By Charmaine Ortega Getz Baseball, then spelled “base ball,” was still a young sport when it arrived in a sparsely settled district of the Territory of Colorado known as Boulder County. The first county town to field a team may well have been Valmont.
Fashion-forward clothes that kids can be kids in By Lisa Truesdale Like most new moms-to-be, the first thing Kira O’Brien did after finding out she was having a baby was to tell her husband (of course), her family and her closest friends. And the second thing? “I went straight to Nest,” she says, laughing. “I
Locals opt to slow down with handmaking and handcrafting By Eli Wallace For Linda Spillmann, it all happened in a flash. “It was literally a light-bulb moment. One morning I woke up and said, ‘I’m going to open a fabric store in Boulder that sells lovely fabric and helps people learn to sew,’” says Spillmann,
Brock Media had fun coming up with its bucket list of things we plan to do, most of them right here in Boulder County. Go to the Rocky Mountain Tea Festival. Swim in the Eldorado Springs pool. Once a friend and I left one car there (with a picnic lunch) and then hiked the Mesa
Local storytelling ‘slams’ connect community By Kate Jonuska The competition was fierce. Eleven winners from previous rounds battled live on stage, projecting their voices and baring their souls to an audience of hundreds in hot pursuit of the coveted Truth Be Told All-Star Grand Slam prize. “I won a no-expenses-paid vacation!” crowed Nancy Norton, the
Juniper Books founder makes his own niche in a changing industry By Mary Reed When Thatcher Wine was a Dartmouth College student in the early ’90s, he often found himself in the special-collections library, looking at books from the 18th century along with handwritten correspondence from the college’s founder. He majored in history and art
The Arapaho Glacier remains an important water source for Boulder By Terri Cook On July 14, 1900, Boulder pharmacist Eben G. Fine was in the mountains west of town, visiting the owner of a mine in the vicinity of Silver Lake, the lowest and largest in a string of glistening alpine lakes tucked into the
Where do you fall on the Boulder athletic spectrum? Take this quiz to find out.
Let the Healing Begin By Kay Turnbaugh The story of America’s Indian boarding schools remains a little-known chapter in our history. Beginning in the 1800s and continuing into the 1950s, the federal government forced Native American children from their homes and sent them to often faraway military-style residential schools, a policy that had profound effects
A Pipe at Every Table By Kate Jonuska White wine is for fish. Red wine is for beef. By remembering those basics, a food lover can squeak by in most of the wine-drinking world. Of course, youʼre not in most of the wine-drinking world, but in an envelope-pushing state where diners may soon understand new
Boulder restaurateur Pemba Sherpa and friends help heal his earthquake-stricken homeland By Steven Wilke A search for adventure brought 18-year-old Pemba Sherpa from the rooftop of the world to the Flatirons, but it was the Boulder community that made him stay. He didn’t forget where he was raised; since 1991, when he left Sengma, his
Down-Under Recipe Is Over the Top By Lisa Truesdale Koel Thomae was born in Australia and so was her now-famous Noosa Yoghurt, but they’ve both found a home in Colorado. After college, Thomae didn’t know what to do with her life, so she set out on a journey of discovery—a walkabout, of sorts. She knew
Find out if you’re more of a snow bunny or a powder hound with our fun quiz. Big vertical, big powder and even bigger personalities—that’s part of what makes ski season the best time of the year. There’s always something new to try during a day on the mountain, even if it’s just a different
It was the last Tuesday in February when the “McGuckin way” became more than a business philosophy. The dedication of Boulder’s latest thoroughfare drew an afternoon crowd to the northeast corner of McGuckin Hardware, where fans and partners of the 60-year-old institution gathered, amidst a brass soundtrack from the Golden Buffalo Marching Band, to cheer
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During their nearly 40 years in business, the Baldwins have witnessed many changes in both the vacuum cleaner and sewing machine industries, but some things have stayed the same.
Visions in Wood By Sophie Goodman How can your home reflect and inspire your life? For one couple, a month-long trip to Ireland left them with a penchant for pub architecture. Hoping to re-create that atmosphere in their Front Range home, the couple approached The Artisan Shop to help make their vision a reality. The
The 83 artifacts on exhibit at the museum were found in the spring of 2008 by landscapers moving dirt to make room for a koi pond in the backyard of Boulder resident Patrick Mahaffy.
Colorado’s quintessential hut-to-hut trips were birthed from the Alps tradition of ski touring, but we’ve added snowshoes, snowmobiles, automobiles and mountain bikes
