Take the Pledge To End Sexual Violence
Vice President Joe Biden rallied CU students to the Obama administration’s “It’s On Us” campaign to end the culture of sexual violence.
Summer 2016
Augustina’s Winery: A First for Nederland
Boulder’s first winery moves to Nederland Gussie Walter has garnered two firsts for Augustina’s Winery. When she opened it in Boulder 19 years ago, it was Boulder’s first winery. Now located in Nederland, Augustina’s is the first winery in that town too. “I was eyeballing Nederland for a while because I live nearby and Boulder
Millennial moms star in Wild Child documentary
Three Boulder moms’ kids-in-tow adventures span backpacking, kayaking, rock climbing, backcountry skiing and more. The documentary is part of The Born Wild Project.
Elite competition, specialization and injuries are hurting youth sports
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.
Summer Music Roundup 2016
Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon. Going to the candidates’ debate. Laugh about it, shout about it When you’ve got to choose Every way you look at it you lose. —“Mrs. Robinson,” lyrics by Paul Simon By Dave Kirby Election-year summers are commonly associated with a pitiless parade of political TV ads, brain-bending
Top 10 Music Events of the Summer
In summertime, there’s no better place to be than Boulder County when it comes to live music. Story and Photos by Philip Emma Many people live here because of the area’s unmatched music scene. With some of the world’s best music venues and a plethora of wise hard-core music fans, bands of every genre always
Longmont People to Know: Edwina M. Salazar, MSW
Four Questions for Edwina M. Salazar, MSW By Lisa Truesdale YEARS IN LONGMONT: 23 FAMILY: Daughter Natalie Salazar Waldrip, an aspiring actor in L.A. OCCUPATION: Executive Director of the Outreach United Resource Center (OUR Center) for 16 years Q: Why did you move to Longmont, and what do you like most about it? A: I
The Home That Beer Built
To Habitat for Humanity of St. Vrain Valley, it’s “The House That Beer Built.” By Lisa Truesdale To Vicki Reyes and her young daughter, it will simply be “home.” For their latest project, Habitat teamed up with nine local breweries to help build a new home in Longmont for the Reyes family. The participating breweries—Grossen
Longmont: 464 Main St.- What Was There Before?
From boarding houses to music businesses, next-door buildings share history By Lisa Truesdale The building at 464 Main St. has a lot in common with the building next door at 460. From the early 1910s to the ’40s, they both were home to upstairs boarding houses—Virginia Rooms at 460 and Colorado Rooms at 464. Sometime
Baseball came to Boulder in the 1860s
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: Colorado Style Just for Kids!
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
Lafayette’s Mural Is ‘The Real Thing’
Coca-Cola mural discovered An astounding number of the world’s most incredible historical artifacts were discovered completely by accident while digging in the dirt or knocking down walls—including Turkey’s Derinkuyu Underground City, the Venus de Milo and the Rosetta Stone. Now Lafayette has an incredible find of its own, one that might not make the history
Movers, Shakers and Boulder’s Makers
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,
Summer Bucket List: Fun Things To Do in Boulder and beyond
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
Audience names best storyteller in Truth Be Told events
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
Books Do Furnish a Room
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
Mountain Mindfulness: Jazz Guitarist Laurie Dameron
Jazz guitarist Laurie Dameron channels her passion for music and the Boulder community into a way to remind us what’s really important — preserving ‘Spaceship Earth.’ By Sophie Goodman For Coloradans, the Rockies are an integral part of our everyday—they work their way into our very blood. Laurie Dameron, musician and 30-year Boulder resident, marries
Louisville Downtown Street Faire, Resurrected
What’s New in Louisville By Lisa Truesdale As last summer came to a close, it looked as though Louisville’s most popular summer event—the Downtown Street Faire—would also be coming to a close … permanently. It seems the almost-weekly event had gotten a little too popular, says Mark Zaremba, president of the Louisville Downtown Business Association,
Boulder’s Disappearing Glaciers
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
Are You ‘Boulder Athletic’?
Where do you fall on the Boulder athletic spectrum? Take this quiz to find out.
Boulder-based coalition heals Indian boarding-school trauma
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
