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Merrily we roll along continuing the delicious donut legacy

This Longmont donut shop delivers sweet treats and a sense of community

The ten geekiest metal bands

Geeks love metal more than the computers on which they listen to it.

Local photographer cherished and seen at posthumous exhibition

Umile was a Brooklyn-born photographer who experimented with pinhole and in-camera double exposure techniques.

Longmont's Tim Ostdiek Band to celebrate new album release with special show

For this album, he wrote around 25 songs, ultimately selecting 10 that best showcased his vision and message. The result is a more focused and cohesive collection of tracks that reflect his experiences with elevated honesty and vulnerability.

The ten metaliest metal bands

There is the best of this, the best of that, and then you have the metaliest metal bands forged by lyrical blacksmiths deep down in the mines of heavy metal. The metaliest, you know, metal. Not as in the genre-est of metal, but the bands that sing of metal the word or the scientific elements while slaying the genre of heavy metal. These metal bands have metal on the mind, metal plates in their heads, and a tendency towards a high iron diet.

300 Suns needs votes to reach scorching hot chicken championship

300 Suns Brewing is blistering the competition in The Denver Posts Best Hot Chicken Sandwich March Madness food bracket.

Local self-published author harnesses power of brick and mortar

When coffee slinger Jenny Balagna took another whack at writing "Noryn's Legend," the story had amassed its elemental powers since the turn of the century.

The Walnut Gallery Cracks Three-Dimensional Art Open in Longmont

Owner Geoff Whitmore is new to Longmont, bringing his art flare from Louisville with the same gallery name. If you ask him where he got the name, The Walnut Gallery, he'll tell you it's wordplay on the other type of nutty gallery commonly used in the English language.

Summit Tacos Make Climb from Food Truck to Storefront

With Perea primarily at the back of house as chef and Rodriguez at front of house with operations, the two equal owners hope to transition from food truck to storefront without a hitch on May 28th offering a bigger menu of authentic Mexican street food.

Jake Adam York's Abide Up for Posthumous Award as Copper Nickel Rises Again

When poet Jake Adam York died suddenly of a stroke in December 2012 at the age of forty, he left behind an unpublished book of poetry, Abide, and a literary journal, Copper Nickel, which he'd founded a decade earlier at the University of Colorado Denver.

Hermitage Bookshop Keep Turning Pages

But when you cross the threshold, the first thing you notice is not the books themselves, but that classic smell. "Ah, what a smell," Topp acknowledges. It's an odor that all bookish people around the world wish were bottled and sold, along with the books that produce it.