Grace Notes: An old dog
He spent the first year of his life tied up in a feed lot; his young owners had no time for him and he wasn’t allowed in the house. When Kathy, from Border Collie Rescue, […]
Year: 2012
Champions crowned at Western Ridge Chili Cookoff
The Western Ridge Restaurant and Resort was all fired up on Jan. 28 with 17 kinds of chili competing for the top prize in the annual chili cookoff. Even the Glacier View Volunteer Fire Department […]
Little Poudre Family Clinic celebrates first anniversary
Little Poudre Family Clinic, owned by Family Nurse Practitioner Karen McGraw, celebrates its first anniversary this month with a big “Thank you!” to its growing list of patients. Located at 3817 W. County Road 54G […]
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Pinball Jones: The Reawakening of Pinball Culture in Fort Collins
By Erik Myers During no other time in Western culture has the past ever been more en vogue. As the popularity of Old Town’s new pinball gallery PinBall Jones shows, it goes well beyond remakes […]
Local Culture, Arts & Community
Ian Cochrane: A Welcome Abstraction
By Dusty Ray Ian Cochrane is a self-proclaimed stay-at-home dad: A family man whose passion is painting the abstract. His paintings are both vibrant and ambiguous, contrasting striking black lines with bright patches of color, […]
Music News
SHEL: Talented Sister Act Continues to Amaze
By Emily Clingman I first met with the Holbrook sisters (otherwise known as SHEL) three years ago. Just barely emerging from their teens, these talented young women were getting their feet wet in the music […]
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Wasteland Hop – Mother Acre
By Conor Hooley wastelandhop.com Dystopia’s at the doorstep all over again. Packed full of bleak moods and visceral lyricism, Mother Acre is a thoroughly apoplectic debut for this fledgling, five-piece, live hip-hop group. The fate […]
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Tyler T. – A World to Wander
By Charlie Englar myspace.com/tylertmusic The free-spiritedness and lofty, cloud-like energy radiating from Tyler T.’s album, A World To Wonder, is something both magnetic and captivating. The solo artist is a self-described “one-man band,” and he […]
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Turn 4 – What Do You Do About It
By Dusty Ray myspace.com/turn4country For all its catchiness and hook-laden composition, Turn 4’s latest cut, What You Do About It, never really strays from the typical alt-country clichés. Songs about trains, trucks, guitars and the […]
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Tucker Mountain Band – Tucker Mountain Band
By Charlie Englar reverbnation.com/tuckermountain-band Old-school, Appalachia-style, structured and straightforward: Just the way the forefathers of bluegrass would have it. On Tucker Mountain Band, TMB uses a majority of bouncy, banjo-driven tunes, highlighted with group harmonies […]