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New Locher's

Posted on August 1, 2007 Under Fashion

Locher's just added six new accessories to their already lovely collection, and these latest brooches and necklaces bear the Locher name with as much coyly-disguised hedonism as we've come to expect from the up-and-coming French label. The delicate-looking pieces, much…

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Birds @ The 400

Posted on July 31, 2007 Under Art

Spear Collective member and local hero Jason Thielke has a solo show coming up this Friday in Denver, so if you find yourself with some downtime in between work and your Friday night romp, head over to Birds @ The…

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Carmel Goes to Hollywood

Posted on July 30, 2007 Under Travel

Heads up to our California readers: early tomorrow morning I'll be on two Red Bulls and an airplane, heading to L.A. for a little hunting. I've spent tons of time in the Northern part of the state, but almost no…

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Camp Bisco 6

Posted on July 30, 2007 Under Music

Oh lovely; I adore writing about music festivals that I won't be attending. At least Camp Bisco 6 looks like it will feature primarily electronica -- a fact that will make both my future absence less painful (not really my…

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DWR: The Airstream Edition

Posted on July 30, 2007 Under Design

Last Saturday, architect-designer Chris Deam made a stop in Boulder to give a presentation at our local Design Within Reach. Deam's work for Airstream, an unlikely alliance that has been met with surprising enthusiasm and success, recently led to the…

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Kameraflage

Posted on July 27, 2007 Under Gadgetry

In a classically A+B = Cha-ching! moment, the latest way to exploit thirteen year olds and their flailing parents has been discovered: A) Digital cameras see a broader spectrum of light than the human eye; B) The "camera-phone generation" is…

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Talk Shop Fridays: Convergence vs. Divergence

Posted on July 27, 2007 Under Life

This morning, on the way to the coffee shop where I write, I passed a young lady with headphones in her ears. A normal enough occurrence for a rainy Friday morning, but the feeling that something was terribly out of…

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The Handlebar Club

Posted on July 26, 2007 Under Life

It's the 60th Anniversary of The Handlebar Club, a London-based (but world-proliferated) tribute to "hirstute appendages of the upper lip, with graspable extremities," and the JS team has unanimously voted in favor of a stateside celebration. Rest assured we will…

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Design Showcase Highlights: Week #5

Posted on July 25, 2007 Under Design

WARNING: Under no circumstances does Attus Apparel recommend, encourage, or condone using firearms to shoot any article of clothing as it can be a dangerous activity that CAN RESULT IN SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURY OR DEATH. (Sweet, sweet, reader contributions.) Thins…

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The Mutato-Project

Posted on July 25, 2007 Under Food

Apparently I'm not the only one getting a kick out of deformed vegetables; Berlin Photographer Uli Westphal has documenting deviant produce for over a year now, and the resulting collection, deemed The Mutato-Project, is as intriguing as it is amusing.…

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