UCHealth Feeds Their Front Lines With Love You Can Taste
It’s said that feeding a loved one can earn you their heart. In that work relationships rise to the top of life’s most …
Is Matt Larson of The G.O.A.T. Sports Bar in Greeley stubborn as a goat, or the Greatest?
If someone told you they were planning to open a brand new sports bar and restaurant in the middle of a pandemic, you …
The Epic Egg Reinvents Itself — Again — With Divine Dinnerz
When the Greeley Epic Egg restaurants shut down in March at the pandemic’s onset, Christy and Mike Moriarty had many panicky déjà vu …
How are you? Loving pauses to change your day
“How are you?”
It’s just a simple question.
Often more of a greeting, though I have noticed the question has become a bit of a trigger with everything going on these days. How can we learn gentle pauses to help relieve this?
A Win: Grab-n-Go Snowfox Sushi Meets Hunger and Art Head On
Grab and Go Sushi at grocery store sushi kiosks, fill both an educational and culinary void in Americans’ sushi consumption. Snowfox offers franchises for sushi entrepreneurs, along with a two week training course at its Houston headquarters. After passing a food licensing examination, franchise investors are granted a certificate. This opportunity offers freedom for many refugees to own their business and develop a lifelong skill, empowering them to be self sufficient.
Start Where You Stand, Support The Cultural Enrichment Center
Jamal Skinner, founder and Executive Director of FoCo Cultural Enrichment Center asks, “Initially, I challenge the community. 170,000 people are living in this community. Probably point zero-zero-2% of that are Black teenagers. So my idea is, can we find 1% of 170,000 people who are willing to contribute $5 a month?”
New Colorado Music
New Colorado Music. This week Northern Colorado is busting with new releases. Check out the creativity of the Northern Colorado musicians.
The Mishawaka not immune, just resilient
The Mishawaka Amphitheatre (The Mish) was the first venue in Colorado to host a ticketed performance mid-June. The Mish obstacles were more significant than just the public health catastrophe and all the industry changes. The Mish also faced a natural disaster, Colorado’s largest wildfire on record, The Cameron Peak Fire.
When Speakeasies See Sunlight
Since the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE) moved Larimer County to Safer at Home Level 4 Red on November 24, Social now offers single serving and bottles of mixed cocktails to-go.
Fort Collins to Loveland (and back) via bike
When I first moved to Fort Collins nearly four and a half years ago now, the first thing I noticed (and fell in …
VIVIAN: New Sounds For an Evolving Age
VIVIAN’s first album, The Warped Glimmer was released in May of 2020 and lends itself to dream-pop, trip-hop, and electronic music.
I guess I like Christmas music now
I’ve come up with a list of my top 10 favorite Xmas songs that are off the beaten path.
Shroom-ology from the Hazel Dell Mushroom Expert
If you ask Jared Scherger about mushrooms, expect to learn a lot more than how his company, Hazel Dell Mushrooms, has become a mainstay mushroom supplier for Colorado restaurants and grocers across the Front Range.
Do your part, gift the arts
For those who can give, the season has arrived. When thinking of the perfect gift, make it a two way giving. There are plenty of ways to give back to the community and purchase something fun and make it meaningful.
Vindeket Foods: Finding Beauty in the Blemished
Vindeket Foods partners with local grocery stores, and volunteers source food destined for the landfill. The non-profit rescued 1 million pounds of food since opening in June 2017.
Brennan’s guide to Colorado Christmas tunes
Hi my name is Brennan and I love Christmas… I love it so much that every year my band, King Cardinal, writes and …
Q. & A. with Sonia Riggs, CEO of the Colorado Restaurant Association: Taking a measure of today’s restaurant industry
We know we’ve lost hundreds of restaurants across the state. More pressingly, [after the CRA’s October Restaurant Impact Survey] 50% are telling us they will consider closing permanently within 6 months, no doubt because they are worried about ongoing restrictions on capacity and because they have not seen a second round of significant cash relief at the federal level. The Colorado restaurant industry was a $14.5 billion industry in 2019, but it is down billions of dollars in 2020 — we estimate it lost nearly $1 billion in April alone.
Little Zurich: An Open-Air Holiday Market in Fort Collins
The Little Zurich is an ethereal open air holiday market with warm fires roaring, and hundreds of twinkling lights adorning the four Swiss wooden vendor huts built by the owner, Todd Simmons and local legend Phil Benstein, with support from volunteers/regulars of the Wolverine Farm Letterpress & Publick House. Little Zurich is every Thursday-Saturday 4 pm-8 pm and Sundays from 12 pm-4 pm from now through the end of the year.
Feeling Shreddy in Erie, Colorado
Erie is about an hour from Fort Collins (with that I-25 traffic of course) so definitely an easy one-day adventure that puts you back in your PJ’s with Netflix streaming by 7 p.m. Did someone say perfect Saturday?
Stand like an Oak with Compassion and Strength
“Music can be a great equalizer…. bringing folks together across the boundaries of country, language, ideals, religions, rage, gender, politics, and everything else that can separate us. I believe, and have felt in the music that I love, a deepening of my own spirit when in musical spaces. A certain levity as well. Some could call it spiritual. Others may call it celebratory. Either way, art calls us into a very sacred space… outside of our heads and our to do lists. From that space, so many things can be built and reimagined. We need artists at the table of policy and design and education. Artists bring the charisma and magnetism that the world is drawn to. Without that, where is the intrigue?”