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Saturday
Nov212009

Downtown Boulder Holiday Kickoff 2009

DateSaturday, November 21, 2009 at 9:39PM

The holiday season in Boulder Colorado is officially kicked off!  It may seem a little early, but Santa and the popular singing group FACE helped bring in the holiday season on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder tonight.  The concert and Santa appearance were the precursor to the lighting of the Christmas lights on the mall, courthouse and the Flagstaff Star which will all now shine until after New Years Day.

As the countdown finally made it's way to 0 the energy efficient LED Christmas lights reluctantly flickered on and the courthouse didn't light for another 30 seconds.  It was quite anti-climatic but quite funny.  Overall it was a nice event that brought people together in a festive way.  Way to go Downtown Boulder!

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Saturday
Nov142009

The Boulder Bookstore -Good and Local

DateSaturday, November 14, 2009 at 2:09PM

I was watching TV the other night and came across a rerun of the movie "You've Got Mail". In the movie, the characters played by Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, work their way through many cute and funny situations. One of the main themes in the movie shows how charming local bookstores are getting replaced by national chains.

Boulder is lucky to have The Boulder Bookstore, a local bookstore that has been doing business on the Pearl Street Mall for a very long time. One of the advantages of having a good bookstore in town are the events they hold.

Every week, The Boulder Bookstore holds book reading events. Just this past Thursday The Grammer Girl (Mingon Fogerty) appeared in person to read from her new book and I was there. She puts together one of my favorite podcasts
but that's not the point. The point is, that every week, three to four authors come to Boulder to read from their books This just another small piece of the puzzle which makes the quality of life in Boulder so.

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