Beware the killer cantaloupes! It sounds like a horror-flick spoof, but for Jensen Farms in Holly, it’s all too real. In September, the Colorado farm recalled all of its potential globes of death, approximately 300,000 cases. Nonetheless, the case of the listeria-carrying melons already ranks as the second-most-deadly food-borne outbreak…
Have you seen those YouTubes of twin babies talking to each other, and it doesn’t make any sense but they’re communicating?” Corey Knapper asks. He and his brother, Jesse, are like that. At 24, they still have a secret language of gasps and glances, as well as a secret gang…
Everyone is doing a pop-up these days: restaurants, retailers, and now art galleries. Something about the slightly secretive blink-and-you’ll-miss-it nature of pop-up gets people into a tizzy — or the organizers at least. The Dikeou Collection is the latest venue to give it a go, with a large-scale Styrofoam installation…
Hiking twenty miles. Driving 300 miles. Taking 1,000 photos. Those were just some of the challenges the Pikes Peak Guy had to take on in order to capture the perfect picture of the mountain. Starting on June 1, 2010, and ending 365 days later, photography enthusiast and Woodland Park resident…
As if vegetarians don’t get enough kudos for being greener and more animal-friendly than their meat-eating counterparts, now they get rewarded with hugs. And who doesn’t love a hug? Today is Hug a Vegetarian Day, according to PETA2. And since we’ve been slaving away in our cubicles all day, we’ll…
More than 2,000 people showed up for the final Civic Center Eats of the season. “It was a great summer and went out with a bang,” says Kevin Morrison of Pinche Tacos. “It was a record day for us.” With the shutterings of Deluxe’s Little Orange Rocket and Crazy Good,…
Classical music doesn’t have to be boring, especially when it is paired with amazing images. The Colorado Symphony will experiment with that idea in The Planets — an HD Odyssey. NASA-generated images of the planets will be projected in high definition on three screens in the circular Boettcher Concert Hall…
With the Great American Beer Festival in town and everyone talking about beer, describing a brew as “good” or just saying “I like it” no longer feels like enough. That’s why an oversold crowd of sixty or so swillers packed the Rackhouse Pub for yesterday’s Beer Judge School. For those…
Food in the mess hall at the U.S. Army base in Wurzburg, Germany, was bad. So bad that Thomas Bohne, who had never even cracked open a blue box of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, took it upon himself to make something edible. He dropped 99 cents on a Thai cookbook,…
You could almost hear Whitney Houston singing “I believe that children are our future” playing in the background of TEDx in Boulder Saturday night, because according to the speakers, food issues start with kids. The night of lectures — offered with the tagline “ideas worth spreading” — was heavy on…
What would make life better? A group that recycles those nasty beer-and-whatever-else-soaked couches from frat houses? A bike-rental service for the homeless? A smartphone app providing real-time updates of hiking trail conditions? Those are three of more than thirty ideas submitted to GOOD Maker Boulder, all vying for a $1,500…
Steve Cogil opened the first Tattered Cover on the corner of East Second Avenue and Detroit Street in Cherry Creek in 1971. It was small — less than a thousand square feet. Three years later, Joyce Meskis took the reins of the space. In the decades since, the Cherry Creek…
Ridgway-based journalist and MacArthur “genius” grant-winner Peter Hessler has written stories that focus on everything from China to small towns in southwestern Colorado to Nepal. (Latest Word has more on the $500,000 award from the MacArthur Foundation, as well as a Q&A with Hessler.) The 42-year-old has amassed a sizable…
Colorado-based writer Peter Hessler, best known for his articles and books on China, won a MacArthur Fellowship. Colloquially called the “genius” grant, the $500,000 award, paid out over five years, is a blank check for the recipient to pursue his or her creative ambitions. For Hessler, that means learning Arabic…
Last week, Travel + Leisure placed Denver thirteenth on its list of best American cities for foodies. Now a new survey backed by LivingSocial, a daily deals site that queried 4,000 people from twenty U.S. cities about their eating habits, ranks Denver as the eleventh-best overall city for dining in…
For thirteen years, Martine Chavez has been turning out baked goods in a windowless space behind Turin Bicycles, Lenny’s Sub Shop and an MMJ dispensary. But at least she now has a door: Martines Bake Shop has opened down an alley at 700 Lincoln Street. The hours are limited –…
If most of the artists in Denver could make a living off their artwork, the staff of Denver’s restaurants and bars would be getting a big makeover. But sustaining the homeless through art is the idea behind RedLine’s Reach Studio. Tonight, pieces from the project will be on display at…
More money, more problems, right? And life is apparently very problematic for Front Rangers who not only prefer, but demand, organic, all-natural, raw and you-name-the-buzzword products in their lives. Fortunately, yesterday’s Naturally Boulder’s Pitch Slam had 25 companies with new natural products all vying for a $26,000 prize package –…
We told you about the yarn bombs across Boulder B-Cycle stations. Now, R-U-Engaged, who was planning on turning the large-scale yarn art into blankets for charity, can’t find the brightly colored cozies. It is like they just disappeared into the night. “Having stuff disappear is the nature of yarn-bombing so…
Saturday Night Live head writer Seth Meyers seems like the perfect comedian for Boulder. He’s liberal, into politics — Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin impersonations during the 2008 election were supposedly his idea — and the “Weekend Update” host also gave the comedic monologue at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner…
What does it take to become the next big tech thing? Eleven start-ups will enter TechStars’ first New York City start-up incubator to find out if they have the smarts, the will and the ability to get cash in order to become the next high-tech sensation. TechStars, the Boulder-based technology…
Tiffany Iung’s goal is to have a storefront in Five Points and “a pack of girls on pink bikes” delivering her organic, homemade sandwiches, cakes and salads. After a two-year stint in Paris, she moved her operation to Denver, where Tifamade has been going since June. And she thinks it…
