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This spring, like many Boulder residents with even a tiny scrap of lawn, I looked out my window and was appalled to see that hundreds of bright yellow dandelions had taken over. I quickly went to work trying to pull them out, but almost all of them were back the next...

Despite recent storms in the mountains, snowpack around Colorado is still below average, raising the possibility that watering restrictions will force local homeowners and gardeners to pay more attention to irrigating intelligently...

A roundup of some of our popular local venues Now that you’re settled in, why not find something to do? Sure, you could burn thousands of calories exercising or burn thousands of brain cells waiting for 4/20, but sometimes we need to rely on others for happiness...

The Social Network, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is portrayed as a brilliant yet socially awkward student intent on finding a billion-dollar idea. Much of the focus of the film is on the interaction and subsequent legal proceedings between the geeky computer ...

As an incoming freshman, it’s important not to equate a university’s student government with the lax, prom-planning responsibilities that high school student governments often handle...

Armed with new titles, student government eyes Rec Center expansion Your student government controls the largest student-run budget of all public universities in the country, and arguably has the most power. With your student fees, it funds and oversees several ...

If a full-fledged garden sounds like too much work, consider scaling back and springing for an herb garden. Find a sunny windowsill, or plant them alongside a bigger plant and enjoy fresh herbs instead of store-bought ones...

With restaurants on every corner, hunger has a slim chance against Boulder students. And yet, it’s all too easy to get stuck in the cycle of student-oriented eateries like Jimmy John’s and Qdoba. In foodcentric Boulder, there is no reason to follow such monotony...

Ethly glycol. Aluminum zirconium. Artificial fragrances. The list of...

A note to incoming freshmen: Life outside the parental womb is complicated. You might be used to home-cooked meals, rent-free housing, structure and supervision, but all that is about to change as you take your first baby steps into the real world. Luckily, your ...

If you grow tired of reading the same few articles written by the same few reporters in the Colorado Daily and its corporate sister papers the Daily Camera, Denver Post and Longmont Times-Call — and you have become weary of the drivel in Rooster — there is an ...

Tea can be more than just a beverage or a business. For some people...