“There’s a lot more to coffee than beans” – Pixán founders, Louisa Lombera and Gates Gooding   I’ll take a short break from featuring businesses explicitly endurance-athlete related to focus on a product that embodies other important ideals for Boulder businesses: organically grown, sustainable, environmental management, social responsibility, improving markets for Latin American farmers and something many […]

Meet Emma! Originally from New York, she has packed her bags and headed west to Boulder! She’s been in the Boulder area for a little over a year and has been enjoying all of the outdoor activities Colorado has to offer such as biking and running.  She loves ham mocking too and sells them for […]

In 2008, Tom Farley Jr. and Tanner Colby’s excellent book The Chris Farley Show was released. Among other things, the biography of comedian Chris Farley explored Farley’s belief that, as a big guy, audiences only ever wanted to see “fatty fall down.” He felt that audiences would never accept him as anything but a lumbering, clumsy oaf. […]

Meet Will! Will Baumgartner is a saxophone player with the band The Pamlico Sound. When he’s not playing live funk music at venues in the Boulder/Denver area, he can be seen playing jazz standards on Pearl St., sometimes into the late hours of the night. “I like playing on Pearl when the bars start to let out, that’s when […]

Meet Zach! Zach is originally from Denver, but works around Boulder promoting Greenpeace. This organization is famous for coining the phrase “Save the Whales,” but Zach explains that they do so much more than that! Working for the company for a little under two years, he finds comfort in knowing he is spreading the word […]

Well it’s finally summer in Boulder! Time to put away the skis (well you have until A Basin closes), hit the farmer’s market, lounge by the Rez, and dine alfresco. Honestly there is no shortage of things to do in Boulder in the summer. (I’m personally very excited to be using my Boulder Passport for […]

  Meet Christopher and Magda! These two are captains of the Sailing Team at the University of Colorado, and have built the team from the ground up! “When we started up the team at the beginning of the year, all we could get our hands on was four broken down boats. Two of them had […]

Creative and active environments often foster the greatest impacts on people and the work they put out. Think about it, in college, how much more likely were you to study harder or actively engage in your studies at the library or a coffee shop rather than at home? While that may not be true for […]

I feel comfortable enough to say that I believe summer has arrived! I am very excited to see what the coming weeks will bring to Boulder County and you should be too! Engaging the mind is the theme of this weekend, and there is plenty to awaken your creative side! Saturday, June 13 Now that […]

  Meet Silka! She goes to college in North Carolina but for the summer has traded her beach hammock for one in the mountains. Silka came down to visit Boulder and, despite some rain, spent the day exploring the Flatirons. The scenery here is a bit different from the beaches of the East Coast, and […]