Every year, June 14 is Flag Day. It’s supposed to be a celebration of the US Flag and all that it means. This year’s day of celebration is marred by the terrorist attack in Orlando, FL, on Sunday the 12th, at Pulse, a LGBT nightclub. This is the deadliest mass shooting in recent US history,
We Have A New Look I’m excited. First, spring is here—yay! Second, I like the magazine’s new look. Our art director, Karen Sperry, has diligently redesigned these pages just in time to give the magazine a fresh face for spring. We’ve also added new departments and done away with others to better serve your interests. […]
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.
File this under “you learn something new every day.” Upon a recent inspection while preparing to sell our home, we learned that regular outlets near any sort of water source don’t cut it. That means bathrooms and kitchens should be outfitted with GFCI (ground-fault circuit interrupter) outlets. Not only that, but they’re also supposed to […]
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
FOOTLOOSE, THE MUSICAL. Adapted for the stage by Dean Pitchford and Walter Robbie; book and lyrics by Dean Pitchford; music by Tom Snow; directed and choreographed by Matthew Peters. Produced by BDT Stage (5500 Arapahoe Road, Boulder) through Sept. 3. Tickets available at 303-449-4000 or www.BDTstage.com What’s the first thing you think of when you
LEGALLY BLONDE. Book by Heather Hach; music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin; directed and choreographed by Nick Sugar. Produced by Town Hall Arts Center (2450 West Main St., Littleton) through June 19. Tickets available through 303-794-2787 ext. 5 or www.townhallartscenter.org. Two or three years ago, a bright young singer played Guinevere in
