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  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    Reader: Which came first? The taco or the truck? Comida or Pinche or T|ACO?

    The talk continues about T|ACO, the updated taqueria with the awkward name that opened yesterday in Boulder. It's not the first hip taqueria in the area, of course. Pinche Taqueria gave the Pinche Tacos concept a permanent home last year. And in February Comida Cantina opened a brick-and-mortar ver ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Left Hand named a top fifty U.S. brewer; Oskar Blues is second in Colorado

    Longmont won big today when the Brewers Association, based just down the road in Boulder, released its annual list of the top fifty biggest craft brewers in the United States. Left Hand Brewing, which was founded in Longmont in 1993, cracked the list for the first time, logging in at number 49. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    EcoCreations takes over the Muse Gallery today

    The third annual EcoCreations opens tonight at Muse Gallery in Longmont. Seventeen artists were selected to display their work in this show, and it's all created entirely from recycled materials and found objects.

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    It's okay to eat, drink and be merry on Fat Tuesday

    Fat Tuesday is the traditional day when folks are allowed to indulge -- before Ash Wednesday shuts all the enjoyment down and Lent begins. Fortunately, you don't have to be Catholic to get into the spirit of Mardi Gras's last hurrah, and while Colorado is far from the French Quarter, there's more th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    Reader: Goodwill hunting for Cherry Creek shoppers a stupid idea

    Goodwill Industries of Denver is opening two new stores this spring -- one a major store in Longmont, which will hold a job fair to fill thirty positions starting tomorrow. Good idea. But that boutique store in Cherry Creek? Says Rockdove: Stupid idea.I can't even believe that they don't get wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Goodwill to open two stores this spring, including the thrift boutique Deja Blue

    Goodwill has plans to open two stores this spring, one in Longmont and a boutique in Cherry Creek, which will be do-good organization's 25th and 26th stores in the metro area.

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Can Can Girls Beer Club Dinner at Oskar Blues

    Oskar Blues Liquids and Solids, 1550 South Hover Road in Longmont, is bringing women on board with the Can Can Girls Beer Club Beer Dinner. Tonight's event pairs five courses with brews to help raise both awareness and funds to fight breast cancer. Admission is $50; for more details, call 303-585-94 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2012

    Writing on the Wall

    Oskar Blues Liquids and Solids, 1550 South Hover Road in Longmont, is bringing women on board with the Can Can Girls Beer Club Beer Dinner. Tonight's event pairs five courses with brews to help raise both awareness and funds to fight breast cancer. Admission is $50; for more details, call 303-585-94 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    CANniversary Celebration at the Tasty Weasel

    A Flickr photo.​Talk about celebrating a milestone in style: The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike in Longmont, will celebrate Oskar Blues's ninth birthday with a CANniversary Celebration complete with beer tappings, the unveiling of the Bone Wagon food truck, hand-canning, live music, tournaments and m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Oskar Blues rolls out the Bone Wagon food truck, serving burritos, wings and burgers

    Oskar Blues​Taprooms and food trucks are a perfect match: the taprooms need good grub to feed their customers, and the food trucks need to find good spots with a lot of hungry people. Over the past few years, it's a combination that's worked well for more than a dozen breweries in Denver, Bou ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 2, 2011

    For the Birds

    Oskar Blues​Taprooms and food trucks are a perfect match: the taprooms need good grub to feed their customers, and the food trucks need to find good spots with a lot of hungry people. Over the past few years, it's a combination that's worked well for more than a dozen breweries in Denver, Bou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    Medical marijuana: Longmont City Council moves toward dispensary ban

    Longmont moves to ban dispensaries.​Last night, the Longmont City Council held a first reading of an ordinance that would ban medical marijuana centers in the city and restrict medical marijuana patients and primary caregivers. Judging from the 7-0 vote in favor of the ban, dispensary days are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    Tonight: Hard Apple Cider Dinner at Terroir

    ​Terroir, 246 Main Street in Longmont, will be full of the flavor of fall tonight when it hosts a Hard Apple Cider Dinner, with five courses (regular or vegetarian) and four hard apple cider pairings created by Dick Dunn of Talisman Farms. Here's the menu:

  • Calendar

    August 26, 2010

    Tour de Olympus

    ​Terroir, 246 Main Street in Longmont, will be full of the flavor of fall tonight when it hosts a Hard Apple Cider Dinner, with five courses (regular or vegetarian) and four hard apple cider pairings created by Dick Dunn of Talisman Farms. Here's the menu:

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2010

    PETA to pay for paving roads in exchange for stenciled logos?: No more roadkill!

    A Flickr photoMove, kitty!​We found these three Denver blog posts -- and we're sharing. Colorado Pols tells about an offer from PETA to Longmont: We'll pave subdivision roads in exchange for our name on the pavement. Watch the fur fly. Denver Infill checks in with its thirtieth update on Uni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    Tonight: Wine tasting at Strings, wine dinner at Terroir

    A Flickr photo.​Are you partial to pinot noirs? Strings, 1700 Humboldt Street, has paired up with Marczyk Fine Foods and Republic National for the Passion of Pinot Noirs Wine Tasting, which will feature appetizers and a range of pinot noirs from around the world -- as well as some non-pinot w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    SmartCo is sprouting up all over the place

    ​SmartCo is swiftly making its mark on Colorado. Barely two months ago, SmartCo didn't even have a website. Since then, the supersize, discount supermarket has been taking root -- and attracting the interest of dozens of incompetent jobseekers (see comments) -- on the Front Range.

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2010

    Red, white and brew: beers that will show your colors on July 4

    ​It's the Fourth of July weekend (yes, it is here already) and you need some beer to drink to property get into the spirit of things. Well, there's nothing more American than Red, White and Blue, so try these beers for a truly festive fourth. Red: It's hard to go wrong with Odell Brewing's R ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2010

    Yes, We Can

    ​It's the Fourth of July weekend (yes, it is here already) and you need some beer to drink to property get into the spirit of things. Well, there's nothing more American than Red, White and Blue, so try these beers for a truly festive fourth. Red: It's hard to go wrong with Odell Brewing's R ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Google Fiber: Please, please come to Longmont!

    See full-size image below.​Plenty of cities romance corporations looking for a new home. But few go to the extremes of Longmont, which so wants Google Fiber to set up housekeeping there that it's created a photo from space expressing its desire, plus a video contest and more. Check out exampl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    Drug ring in Boulder County: 17 indicted for meth, cocaine, to Stan Garnett's delight

    Stan Garnett.​Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett, who's challenging John Suthers for the job of Colorado Attorney General, was able to burnish his law-and-order credentials today via the actions of a grand jury, which just handed down a 127-count, seventeen-person indictment aimed at a Lon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    Culinary calendar for the week ahead: Craft beer, anniversary parties and benefits

    A Flickr photo.​Between the craft beer, anniversary parties and benefit events, there's plenty to fill your plate with foodie events this week. Here's a taste of what's coming up: Monday, May 17: Celebrate American Craft Beer Week, which highlights the industry and culture of craft beer, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Feel the burn with the Oskar Blues ghost wing challenge

    This might hurt a little.​Do you think you're tough? No, seriously, do you think you're tough? Because if you have even a lingering doubt about the fortitude of your stomach lining or the iron sides of your throat, you won't want to try the ghost wing challenge at Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    Placenta poking encouraged at elementary school

    A Flickr photo"I think it takes after your side of the family."​Those of you still struggling with the trauma of having to dissect frogs during high school should thank the heavens above that you didn't attend Alpine Elementary School in Longmont. Why? Because, according to Channel 4, fifth g ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 18, 2010

    Honky-Tonk Angels

    A Flickr photo"I think it takes after your side of the family."​Those of you still struggling with the trauma of having to dissect frogs during high school should thank the heavens above that you didn't attend Alpine Elementary School in Longmont. Why? Because, according to Channel 4, fifth g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Ninjas rob restaurant, leave tacos behind

    ​On Sunday, a pair of ninjas robbed Deli Cioso, a Mexican restaurant in Longmont. Owner Rudy Masia says he turned over a day's receipts to the mysterious miscreants, who were tiny and dressed in black. Longmont Police Sergeant Garrett Boden told the Longmont Times-Call that the culprits didn' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Latest beheading victim: a horse (made of fiberglass)

    "Why couldn't I have bought a fiberglass horse instead of a real one!"​What is it with beheadings all of a sudden? Last week, we told you about a Boulder break-in during which a woman's betta fish was decapitated. And now, a Longmont couple reveals that the head of their beloved fiberglass hor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    Tiger Woods "Unfaithful" art project goes global

    It wasn't quite pop art, but close -- and readers and viewers everywhere are chugging it down. This weekend, Channel 9 reported about bottles of Gatorade on local store shelves featuring a photo of Tiger Woods and his wife and the word "Unfaithful" -- an art project pulled off by Longmont's Jason ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 29, 2009

    High Fiber Diet

    It wasn't quite pop art, but close -- and readers and viewers everywhere are chugging it down. This weekend, Channel 9 reported about bottles of Gatorade on local store shelves featuring a photo of Tiger Woods and his wife and the word "Unfaithful" -- an art project pulled off by Longmont's Jason ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2009

    Colorado Crimes: Brian Christopher Naranjo shouldn't have drawn that gun

    Brian Christopher Naranjo.​The press releases issued in the wake of yesterday's officers-involved shooting suggest that Longmont resident Brian Christopher Naranjo, 35, had numerous opportunities to avoid getting shot and killed. Naranjo, who's been arrested in the past for everything from for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Denver Blogs: Salazar with a commanding early fundraising lead

    ​ We're giving away three links every day. All you have to do is send them to us. The challenger for John Salazar's House seat isn't exactly rolling in dough at this point. (Colorado Independent) Corruption for a good cause in Longmont? (Face the State) Brekenridge might not even need to vo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2009

    Denver-based DigitalGlobe can see your house -- and it's making a mint doing it

    DigitalGlobe When you want to stalk someone but Facebook and parking outside their house for hours with binoculars just aren't doing it for you, how about buying high-resolution images of their neighborhood as taken by satellites? Sure, you could just get an image off of Google Maps, but if you wan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2009

    Today: To market, to market

    Marcyzk's Fine Foods, at 770 East 17th Avenue, today is offering 10 percent off on all store sales, as well as sales in the adjacent wine shop. For more info, call 303-894-9499 or go to www.marczykfinefoods.com. And the Cherry Creek Fresh Market kicks off its eleventh season at 8 a.m. today; it's ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 13, 2008

    A Cut Above

    Intricate stenciled forms make up a new exhibit in Longmont.

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2008

    Mile High Makeout: Rolling on the River

    Intricate stenciled forms make up a new exhibit in Longmont.

  • Calendar

    July 17, 2008

    Garden of Eatin'

    Fresh, local food lines the Longmont Museum’s walls.

  • Music

    April 17, 2008

    Tusk Safari Lounge

    Take a run through the jungle.

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2007

    More Messages: Hard Sell

    Take a run through the jungle.

  • News

    November 3, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of November 3, 2005

  • Calendar

    September 18, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    From the week of November 3, 2005

  • Calendar

    March 27, 2003
  • Calendar

    July 18, 2002

    Honk for Geese

    Geese Galore showcases Longmont’s fowl fare.

  • Calendar

    April 4, 2002
  • Food & Drink

    April 4, 2002

    Best Tea

    Tea Train

  • Goods & Services

    March 29, 2001
  • Calendar

    October 5, 2000

    Alley Cat

    A new gallery show features local backyards.

  • Best of Denver

    June 29, 2000

    Best stone

    Colorado Stone Company

  • News

    June 22, 2000

    Going With the Flow

    As spring melts into summer, water users along the St. Vrain could find themselves up the creek.

  • News

    May 9, 1996

    Ring Around the Sprawler

    An ultimatum from the feds may lead to a line in the sand for Denver developers.

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