Elevated Voices
1:45 pm, Feb 27, 2013
Get Involved: Challenge Aspen
There are plenty of good reasons to pop open a bottle of champagne—to ring in a new year, toast at a wedding, or celebrate making it through a tough work week. Here's another reason to add to the list: helping out in your community. The St. Regis Aspen Resort’s Remède Spa is breaking out the bubbly during select weekends this winter to offer spa... MORE
12:00 pm, Feb 27, 2013
Preview: March's "The Dealmaker"
How will Colorado's 2013 legislative session play out? Denver-based freelance writer Bryan Schatz offers some clues in "The Dealmaker," his profile of new Speaker of the House Mark Ferrandino. The story appears in the March issue of 5280, which hits newsstands later this week.Ferrandino, as you probably know by now, is Colorado's first openly gay... MORE
10:30 am, Feb 27, 2013
Snow Removal: Is There a Better Way?
I’ve spent several hours recently clearing snow off my driveway, which left me some time to think about shoveling. Particularly, I’ve been wondering if I’m doing the job in the most efficient way. Should I push snow from the garage and out to the street (like one of my neighbors, who, it seems, doesn’t care about the two-foot-high pile he leaves... MORE
4:16 pm, Feb 22, 2013
Get Involved: Leftover Salmon and Art That Feeds
Boulder-based band Leftover Salmon is bringing their bluegrass-n-rock grooves back on the road for another jam-stomping tour—but they’re not just playing music. Conscious Alliance, a Colorado-based nonprofit, has teamed with the musicians to raise money to provide hunger relief to communities. The group collects and distributes... MORE
3:30 pm, Feb 22, 2013
Rant & Rave: Mislabeled Seafood and Pot Tourism
Rant: Mislabeled seafood underlines the need for better regulation.If you can't see the ocean, don't order the fish. Thanks to modern technology, this old adage is no longer relevant. But this week, we landlocked Coloradans found out that some of the seafood we're getting may not be what it seems. Oceana, an international ocean conservation... MORE
12:30 pm, Feb 22, 2013
Beer Biz: Renegade Redacted
Renegade Brewing Company has become a symbol of the success breweries are having amid Colorado's recent craft beer boom. Since opening more than a year and a half ago, Renegade has developed a passionate crowd of regulars at its taproom in the Art District on Santa Fe, put three of its beers—including its flagship brew, Ryeteous Rye—on liquor... MORE
1:30 pm, Feb 21, 2013
Sports: Rapids Open Soccer Season Next Month With Homage to Fans
File under: “Ideas bound to get copied.” When the Colorado Rapids play their home opener next month in Commerce City, they’ll be doing it with perhaps the most unique jersey in North American sports. As a tribute—and a brilliant marking plan—to its “One Club” initiative, the soccer team’s roughly 3,500 season-ticket holders will have their names... MORE
10:42 am, Feb 21, 2013
Photo of the Week: White Out
Snow surrounds the dock at West Meadows Reservoir in Littleton, Colorado. MORE
11:30 am, Feb 20, 2013
Beer Biz: BRU Handbuilt Ales and Eats
Last we checked, Centro Latin Kitchen and Refreshment Palace executive chef Ian Clark was brewing some seriously good beer out of his 400-square-foot residential garage in north Boulder. How quickly things change: Less than a year after opening BRU Handbuilt Ales, Clark's commercially licensed, garage-size nanobrewery... MORE
10:30 am, Feb 20, 2013
Sports: Going for Gold
Olympic swimmer Missy Franklin might soon have some competition when it comes to being Colorado’s coolest teenager. Meet Arielle Gold. The aptly named 16-year-old high school sophomore from Steamboat Springs is among the world’s best young snowboarders and has proven it so far this year with four medals—including gold in the halfpipe this month at... MORE
5:20 pm, Feb 16, 2013
Get Involved: Heart Healthy Colorado
Valentine’s Day shines a spotlight on all things heart-shaped and red, but do we forget to also pay attention to the health of our blood-pumping cardiovascular machines? Maybe so, and that's unfortunate, because a staggering 600,000 people in the United States die from heart disease each year. Heart disease is the number one killer of both... MORE
12:49 pm, Feb 15, 2013
Opinion: City Council Wasting Time Debating Amendment 64 Opt-Out
This week, the Denver City Council announced that it would at least "consider" opting out of Amendment 64 and not allow retail marijuana businesses within city limits. Although an undetermined number of Colorado communities have announced similar plans, such a move in Denver would likely cripple legalization efforts statewide, and, thus,... MORE
12:20 pm, Feb 15, 2013
Rant & Rave: Shuttle Drivers and Jury Duty
Rant: We’re tired of the FREE MallRide shuttle drivers who leave us hanging. I take the light rail from Mineral to Union Station every weekday with other workers who are commuting to LoDo. When the train pulls up to the station, we all hightail it to the free mall ride, which will take us to (or at least closer to) our offices. That is,... MORE
11:51 am, Feb 15, 2013
Outdoors: Massive Drought Continues
Pathetic snow totals across the state have left snowpack in Colorado’s mountains far below normal levels, the Natural Resources Conservation Service reported this month. Overall, the state’s snowpack is barely 70 percent of normal—and 90 percent of last year—which could significantly affect stream runoff and prolong drought conditions across... MORE
1:20 pm, Feb 14, 2013
Could Boulder's Historic Bandshell Get a New Home?
Boulder’s iconic Glen Huntington Bandshell could be getting a new home as part of the city's civic-area master plan to revitalize a massive swath of land along Boulder Creek. The bandshell, which has been a target for removal in the past, has been a mainstay between 13th and 14th streets on Canyon Boulevard, near the heart of the city, for nearly... MORE