Creative Front
Artposium.
Don’t go anywhere. This isn’t some overly intellectual, artsy-fartsy
event for the conspicuously pompous.
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Blogs
Coachella.
Think of all the emotions
you’ve ever had and imagine experiencing them all within the short
time span of 3 little days.
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Get Rhythm
Even
the name invokes images of pre-punk London: Lipgloss. It rolls off the
tongue, in all its glamorous grunge, pulsating with an electric attitude
that sums up the scene perfectly. What is Lipgloss? It’s not a bar,
or a club – it’s a night.
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Lofty Concepts
For you ex-Boulderites who’ve left Shangri-La for careers, strippers
and Rockies games down here in Cowtownthere’s now a glowing orb of a
place that spews great beer and food like a solar flare.
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A Credible Interest in Spooks
“Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death” by Deborah Blum
Penguin Press, 384 pages, $26
The time following the American Civil War and the beginning of World
War I was a period with a power to tease the imagination like no other.
This is primarily so because of a pervasive and seemingly credible
interest in spooks.
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How to Be Green in Boulder Without Being Annoying
I love the sweet green earth—love it more than Boulderites love bike
shorts—but why is it that when people start talking about saving the
earth, most of us can’t be bothered? Why is it that electric buses and
free-trade soy lattes go hand in hand, and why does the mention of both
cause most of the US population to roll its eyes? What, exactly, is
wrong with giving a shit about the planet?
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Quaffing Barley in the Land of Grapes
Last summer, I visited Napa
County in California. Rather than waste my time re-enacting the movie
“Sideways” with my brother, I chose to sample the region’s various
breweries. My brother would later remark, “you’re the only guy I
know who can visit vine country and drink nothing but beer.”
I found myself in a similar
counter-intuitive spirit when I recently visited Colorado’s wine country
on the Western Slope. The Wester ... Read more... |
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| Dirty Habits |
Try-A-Triathlon
With 300 days of sunshine a year, plenty of pristine hiking and running trails, miles of biking terrain
and a reservoir with a strip of sand that’s the closest thing to a
beach this side of the Rockies, it’s easy to see why Boulder is
considered one of the country’s fittest cities.
And, fittingly, Boulder has become an epicenter for one of the
most demanding sports since, say, mammoth hunting or
crocodile wrestling—triathlon. It seems, sometimes, as you&... Read more... |
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Hungary? Check out Hungarian Freedom Park.
Down by Cherry Creek, there’s a statue in a small
park on the south side of the street just before the intersection of
Speer and Downing. That statue is a memorial for the Hungarian uprising
of 1956, and it stands in the Hungarian Freedom Park.
This monument, which was the first of its kind in
North America, commemorates the revolt of the Hungarian people against
Soviet oppression. The park itself was once called Arlington Park, and
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Stomping on Champagne Powder
Step by step, foot in front of foot, I begin an uphill trek on an unbeaten
path. My new snowshoes were rearing to go, but my body held me back
from leading much of the way. The fresh snow is over a foot deep, give
or take a few inches, and we have a long hike ahead of us. The grand
reward of soaking in the Strawberry Park Hot Springs awaits me and my
group in a few hours.
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| CD Review |
Time: The Fantastic Reality
Time: “The Fantastic Reality”
Dirty Laboratory, 2008
Time, the frontman of .Calm, veritably has words flowing out of his head at light speed. Fortunately, the light of his inspiration doesn’t serve to spotlight hip-hop egomania. Rather, it is dynamic poetry that gives shape to and highlights what it means to be a creative, intelligent person in a world that doesn’t often reward true artistry.
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Wondering About Ward?
“If you read about it, then it’s wrong because some God damned reporter is writing it and they’re just going to write what sells papers.”
Damn. Note to self: when researching an article about reclusive mountain community, avoid divulging intentions to members of said reclusive mountain community. But let me back up.
Ward is a town in Boulder County with an elevation of a little less than 10,000 feet and a population of a little more 169 residents, according to the ... Read more... |
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