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Pearl Market Moves to a New Boulder Location Pearl Market brings together Colorado-made products, local artists and makers, everyday essentials, and an expanding selection of international treats. This fall, the neighborhood market will introduce beer and wine and continue hosting community events, including the Last Friday Artist Market. The fall lineup will feature even more local products, makers, and unique finds from around the world, offering neighbors and visitors a mix of familiar favorites and new discoveries.

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ARTICLE BY EMILY O'BRIEN Women’s health can feel like a moving target. Peptides, protein, bone density, hormones, hair loss… the list of things we’re suddenly supposed to know about can feel endless. So where do you actually start? Colleen Grady, NP, Menopause Society Certified Practitioner at Rocky Mountain Regenerative Medicine, suggests starting with the basics, then adjusting as you age. “The biggest shift in women's health is that we are becoming much more proactive,” Colleen says. Instead of waiting for something to go wrong, she encourages women to think ahead by building muscle and bone early, paying attention to changing health markers, and addressing problems before they become bigger ones. In your 20s, that means laying the groundwork. Strength training, cardiovascular fitness, good nutrition, and sleep all matter. So does bone health. Most of the bone mass you’ll ever have is built in adolescence and the 20s, so these are important years for building that reserve. The 30s are often less about adding new habits than hanging onto the good ones. Work, family life, and exhaustion can make exercise and self-care easy to ditch. Colleen’s advice is to keep lifting weights, eating enough protein, and moving regularly, even when life is full. By the 40s, it’s time to pay closer attention. Perimenopause can affect sleep, mood, body composition, cholesterol, insulin sensitivity, and bone health. Colleen recommends being more intentional about tracking health markers during this decade and, in her practice, suggests a baseline DEXA bone-density scan around age 45.

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Hair deserves some detective work, too. Hair thinning can have many causes, from genetics and hormonal changes to iron deficiency, thyroid issues, stress, or inadequate nutrition. “The goal is to understand as much of the biology as we can, and correct the things that are correctable,” Colleen says. Depending on the cause, treatment might include nutritional changes, medication, platelet-rich plasma, or microneedling. Then there are peptides, a wellness topic that seems to be everywhere. Peptides are short chains of amino acids that can influence biological pathways involved in things like inflammation, tissue repair, metabolism, skin, and hair. But they’re not all created equal. Some have extensive data behind them; others are still being studied. “Some of it is, and some of it is ahead of the evidence,” Colleen says. One thing she puts ahead of the latest trend is protein. For many healthy, active women, roughly 1 to 1.5 grams per kilogram of body weight per day is a reasonable target, depending on the individual. Pair that with resistance training, and you’re supporting the muscle that helps protect strength, metabolism, and bone health as you age. By your 50s and beyond, the question becomes less about fixing something and more about protecting what you’ve built. And eventually, Colleen says, the goal is practical. “What do you want your body to be able to do 10 or 20 years from now?” She asks. Maybe it’s skiing, traveling, hiking, or simply getting up from the floor without thinking twice.

“THE GOAL IS TO UNDERSTAND AS MUCH OF THE BIOLOGY AS WE CAN, AND CORRECT THE THINGS THAT ARE CORRECTABLE.” — COLLEEN GRADY, NP, MENOPAUSE SOCIETY CERTIFIED PRACTITIONER AT ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGENERATIVE MEDICINE

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Sandy Baisley and Natasia Smith, co-founders of the full-service interior design firm Re-Find, wanted their new South Boulder showroom to feel more like a home than a traditional shop. The space houses a curated assortment of furnishings and decor, all intentionally and carefully collected to reflect an eclectic yet sophisticated design aesthetic. “It’s a place where clients can experience our point of view in a very tangible way,” Natasia says. Renovations took a year to complete with Tight Lines Construction (the custom builder founded by Sandy’s husband, Landon Baisley), whose offices are in the building’s lower level. Tight Lines took the midcentury structure down to the studs, transforming what were once dimly lit rooms crowded with cubicles into open areas filled with natural light. “We wanted an airy environment anchored by unique architectural elements that add depth and character,” Sandy says. New front windows capture beautiful views of the Flatirons, and privacy glass on upper-level doors allows light to spill below. A salvaged arched window gives a peek into the showroom from one of the two Re-Find offices, while a hand-painted storefront sign by local artist Nick Miller reflects classic lettering styles of the early-to-mid 1900s. As the Re-Find client roster continues to grow, Sandy and Natasia share how they created a showroom infused with warmth, texture, and layers.

HOW DID YOU APPROACH CURATING THE SHOWROOM?

It’s ever-changing because we are continually sourcing, and many of the pieces find their way into our client projects. Unlike a traditional antique store or retail shop, we only purchase pieces that resonate with us as designers. The collection reflects a distinct point of view and is curated for a more specific clientele who connect with our aesthetic.

WHAT MAKES SOMETHING WORTHY OF BECOMING PART OF YOUR COLLECTION?

We’re drawn to antiques and vintage pieces from all eras and parts of the world— objects with color, dimension, and authenticity. This extends to our material library. Our selections of fabrics, wallpapers, paint colors, and finishes are broad in scope but thoughtfully edited, giving us variety without feeling overwhelming or trend-driven.

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It’s about thoughtfulness and intention. We collect year-round, building longterm relationships with dealers across the globe, scouring regional and local markets, and partnering with talented artisans and makers. When we connect with a new client, we have these resources available to make a truly unique space without relying on stock items. CONTINUED >

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"We’re drawn to antiques and vintage pieces from all eras and parts of the world—objects with color, dimension and authenticity." - Sandy Baisley and Natasia Smith

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ON THE INDUSTRY’S BUILT-IN COMMUNITY “It’s constantly evolving because so many things in this industry are production-related. A film, for example, or a festival, has a beginning and an end. It’s not a career that continues permanently in the same cycle. You might be on a film or a project or a festival with a certain group of people, and then the next year, it looks different. It’s also a pretty small community, very supportive. There may be people that you work with now, whose paths you’ll cross again on the next journey…. We all really help each other. So that’s that sense of community that the industry has that makes it really special, and it’s just in our DNA to help each other.” CONTINUED > OCTOB ER 2 0 2 6 | C I TYL I FE STYL E . C O M / BO UL D E R

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ON REBUILDING THE FESTIVAL IN BOULDER “We’re not just moving the Festival; we’re very much so building it anew in Boulder. And that’s really, sometimes I say brick by brick, but sometimes it very much feels like grain of sand by grain of sand. So every venue, every system, our relationship to the community in the region, how we engage and operate, is brand new. And it’s kind of a massive, daunting, and spectacular endeavor.”

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ANA SOUZA ON TAKING YOUR TIME “I think when you come in as a new person in this industry, it’s so easy to get caught up wanting to make everything perfect or know everything right away…. I would have liked to have heard… Actually, it’s fine. You don’t need to have everything figured out right away. You can just take your time, get to know the people around you, get to know the Festival, get to know what everything looks like in your own time, and trust that if you put in good work, and you’re kind to people, everything that’s meant to happen is going to happen anyway.” CONTINUED > OCTOB ER 2 0 2 6 | C I TYL I FE STYL E . C O M / BO UL D E R

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As with many of the best things in life, Kelsey Pfendler’s notoriety as a rower and career as a raft guide began as a Groupon deal her mother got for her birthday. Pfendler immediately loved being on the water and cornered a guide after the experience, asking how to get into the profession. Before that day, she thought she had two options: go to college or into the military. That experience opened up a whole new world. She showed up for free for the rest of the summer, got licensed, and has been a rafting guide ever since, first in upstate New York, then on the Arkansas River, and now primarily in the Grand Canyon from her home base in Buena Vista, Colorado. Fast forward to this summer, and Pfendler picked up three records for her solo row from Monterey, California, to the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu. She covered over 2,400 miles in 43 days, 17 hours, 55 minutes, and 59 seconds, making her the fastest ever, first American woman, and youngest woman. To accomplish this feat, she had to put in lots of prep and planning, carefully charting her course and finding a weather window to reduce the risk of a hurricane. “I have a healthy respect for each crossing,” says Pfendler. “If you don't respect the ocean, it will teach you to respect it.” The physical challenge is the easiest part to plan for. She power lifts and does lots of erging. Sleep deprivation and isolation are much harder. Instead, she focuses on her mental toughness and ability to tolerate being uncomfortable. “The way I look at these things, being tired is no different than being uncomfortable or stressed,” says Pfendler. “That’s how I approach stress in general. I intentionally work on how I react to negative feelings in my life and my internal self-talk.”

Over time, small negative self-talk throughout the day can build up. In her experience, if you get overwhelmed by the small things, you’re more likely to go straight to catastrophizing. This is not an option when you’re out on the open water, thousands of miles from shore. To practice her reactions, Pfendler does lots of endurance training through long runs. She also does what she refers to as “solo weird backpacking” and tries to be stoked about things that objectively stink. “The point is to be happy through the hard thing,” says Pfendler. “I’m pretty consistently looking for ways to do that in my life. Be happy in a hard situation, and you’re kinda winning at life.” All of this paid off for her immensely when she was rowing solo for 18 hours a day. Her own resilience surprised her, and there was never a moment where she thought about not wanting to be there. That’s why she was able to break so many records. “It’s amazing how our bodies are and how much they can take,” says Pfendler. “Your body adjusts to anything you put it through…almost.” Physically, she hasn’t had much of a recovery since the row. She trained hard and intentionally, and that very much paid off. What she hadn’t prepared for was the spotlight or the expectation to be on and answering emails. She’s very torn about her current position. On one hand, she knows her popularity on social media is good for the sport and for the women and girls who have seen her accomplish this very hard thing. She was also able to raise $200,000 for the Whale Foundation, which supported her following a significant PTSD event and provided her with healthcare. On the other hand, she didn’t set out to become an influencer. She just loves ocean CONTINUED >

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Despite making national and international headlines, she has no expectation she'll be able to make this her only career. She is pursuing nursing school and is continuing to work as a guide in the Grand Canyon. That said, she does have a big project coming up and is looking for funding as she sets her sights on crossing the Indian Ocean solo. To learn more about Pfendler and to follow along on her next journey, head to YouRowKelsey.com or follow her on Instagram or TikTok @yourowkelsey.

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Rainbow Shultz and Jamestown Mercantile Rainbow still remembers the first time she walked through the doors of the Jamestown Mercantile; it felt as if the old wooden building already knew her name. Her path to The Merc wound through social work and motherhood, through a lifelong belief that a shared meal is one of the truest forms of community care. When she became a mother, she saw a way to braid all of it together: food, art, story, fun, and the quiet work of listening into one small mountain gathering place. “In many ways,” she says, “I remain a social worker at heart.” The Merc has poured coffee and welcomed neighbors in Jamestown since 1892, but its future now hangs in the balance. When Rainbow learned the property was going up for sale, she and fellow community members formed a nonprofit to buy it outright. It is a $1.5 million goal, with $150,000 raised so far through direct donations and a wave of joyfully inventive fundraisers. For Rainbow, the stakes go beyond one building. As Colorado’s old, funky gathering spots give way to development, she believes something essential slips away with them. “I think we lose a little bit of our community’s soul,” she says. She’s hoping the mountains help her prove otherwise. To donate or get involved, visit SavetheMerc.org CONTINUED >

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Ma Ma’s Table

Anna Zoe didn’t know how to cook when she married at nineteen. Her first meal, by her own account, was terrible, but her husband called it delicious anyway, so she made it again, and again, all week, until she learned to make something else. That quiet insistence on trying became the foundation of one of Boulder’s most beloved restaurants. Raised in Tainan, Taiwan, Zoe eventually settled with her family in Missouri, where they ran a Chinese restaurant of their own. After her husband passed away, her son Edwin, determined to bring her closer and to share the home cooking he’d grown up on, so different from what restaurants served, invited her to Boulder. In 2010, the two opened Zoe Ma Ma together, built on her noodles, dumplings, and rice bowls rooted in Taiwan and the flavors of Shandong Province, her husband’s home. Now 81, Zoe has slowed from the days of hand-rolling hundreds of dumplings a day, but she still finds purpose in watching diners enjoy what she’s made. Her advice for the work, relayed through Edwin, is simple: always put love into it. That, more than any recipe, is what’s on the menu. ZoeMaMa.com

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Megan Falley on Grief, Poetry, and What Doesn’t Suck After her 2018 collection, Drive Here and Devastate Me, Megan Falley was working mostly in prose and memoir, certain that was where she would stay. Then Andrea Gibson, her partner of nearly a decade and the beloved poet behind the blog Things That Don’t Suck, died after a long cancer journey. The first thing Falley wrote afterward was a poem. She calls these bursts “poetry emergencies,” moments when a feeling or image strikes so hard she has to grab a pen before it disappears. It is a fitting description for grief itself, at once fleeting and permanent, small in form but bottomless in what it holds. Falley has continued Andrea’s blog since their death, describing the work as a kind of continuation rather than a memorial. She writes through Andrea’s lens now, processing her own life through the question of what doesn’t suck. It feels, she says, like keeping someone alive. She could not keep the breath in Andrea’s lungs, but she can keep their words moving through the world. Much of that world was built here, in Boulder and the foothills around it. Coot Lake, the Boulder Reservoir, Chautauqua Park, and the Sanitas Valley Trail all carry pieces of the life she shared with Andrea and their three dogs: Squash, Idgie, and Winnebago. Their relationship is now the subject of a documentary streaming on Apple TV+, and Falley hopes viewers take away something beyond illness. The joy in their story was not separate from the cancer, she says. It was sharpened by it. Andrea’s final years held laughter, devotion, and an almost athletic commitment to being alive. “I also hope people, especially women, understand what a waste it is to spend our lives hating our bodies for how they look,” Falley says. “A living body is not an aesthetic problem to solve. It is the place where every joy we will ever experience gets to happen. And, if we’re lucky, every grief, too.” For Falley, that same refusal to treat pain as something separate from life extends to grief itself. “Grief is a very welcome feeling for me,” she says. “It feels so close to love, and so close to connection. It keeps me in relationship with Andrea rather than outside of it, so I never wish it away. I fear the end of grief. I hope to be in my eighties, crying over Andrea, while an onlooker mistakes it for fresh hurt, and I open my mouth to tell them an old story. “That doesn’t mean I won’t be dancing, unraveling in laughter, or running into the ocean a minute after crying. My grief and my utter elation at being alive exist side by side, quite comfortably, really. Taking turns. Even holding hands.” AndreaGibson.Substack.com/p/The-Only-Thing-WeHave-Control-Over CONTINUED >

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Mariele Ivy: A Pilgrim on the Beauty Road Mariele Ivy does not work in one material so much as she works in one instinct. Best known for her jewelry under Young in the Mountains, she moves just as fluently through ceramics and furniture and design, and the throughline across all of it is process. Her ceramics take on freestyle shapes that resist a single finished silhouette: stacks of bones, bodies, ebullient vases with knobby handles, each piece holding the aura of the hands that made it. The spaces she designs carry the same spirit, built to be lived in as much as looked at, nodding equally to function and to freedom. Her work starts with listening, then talking, then a kind of designing that comes from somewhere authentic and internal, a well of inspiration peppered with literature, pop culture, psychology, mythology, fashion and fine art. In addition to running YITM, her process is currently aimed at a show submission based on hammers. Mariele is inlaying stone daisies into the handles, a quiet nod to the pink tax, to women’s work, to femininity showing up in tools that were not necessarily built with her in mind. When she needed to think it through, she didn’t turn to chat; she called her dad, a boatmaker and her first teacher of inlay, someone who taught her this by hand long before it became her language. Mariele’s mind is rarely at rest, always alight with some new potential, caught in the tension between contentment and possibility. She is a pilgrim on the beauty road, foraging, gathering, assembling, and making it glitter like gold. For a private appointment: YoungInthe Mountains.com

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Running with Purpose: Nell Rojas Some athletes chase personal bests. Nell Rojas chases something bigger: proof that the sport belongs to everyone. Her breakout finishes at the Boston and New York marathons, where she claimed top American honors, were a long time coming. “I’ve always trained hard, and I love competing,” she says. “It was like a cherry on top to do it at a high level against the best in the world.” The momentum opened doors and gave her the confidence to take risks she might not have otherwise. That same drive to help others led Rojas to build RISE after two decades of coaching alongside her own elite career. She started coaching right out of high school, drawn to a simple truth: how you show up for yourself in training shapes the rest of your life. As a Latina in a sport that hasn’t always reflected its runners, she works to change what young athletes believe is possible. Through a partnership with Renegade Running and ON Running, she helped build a team of twelve BIPOC subelite athletes chasing the Olympic Trials standard, backed by coaching, sponsorship, and community. Her vision for women’s empowerment is straightforward: the same confidence, opportunity, and investment given to men. “It will take more women demanding to be there,” she says, “because they truly know they deserve to be.” Her advice to runners chasing their own breakthroughs? Patience. Growth comes gradually, and the lows matter as much as the highs. RojasRunning.com CONTINUED >

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Two Women, Zero Packaging: The Story Behind Nude Foods Market For Verity Noble, the wake-up call came from an unlikely place: watching WALL-E with her kids, staring at an animated wasteland of discarded plastic. For Rachel Irons, it came on the Pacific Crest Trail, somewhere between blisters and long stretches of thinking about how broken our food system really is. For both founders, a conviction that sustainable, healthy groceries shouldn’t be so hard to find. When the two Boulder women met years later, they discovered their frustrations fit together like a lock and key. In 2020, they launched Nude Foods Market, a grocery store built around a simple but radical premise: that plastic-free shopping should be convenient and fun. Their flagship Boulder store is located at 3233 Walnut Street, Boulder, CO 80301 (303-944-8992), open daily from 10 am to 7 pm. In 2026, they expanded within the city, opening a satellite location inside Moxie Bread Co. in North Boulder at 4593 Broadway. In 2024, they also opened a Denver northside location at 3538 W 44th Ave, open daily from 10 am to 7 pm. Running the business together, they say, has been more intense and far less glamorous than either expected. Irons anchors operations and numbers; Noble drives storytelling and community. The differences create friction, and also make the partnership work. What surprised them most wasn’t the mission-driven stuff, but the sheer operational complexity behind every jar on the shelf: sourcing, food safety, labeling, logistics. Their biggest lesson is that a mission people love isn’t enough. The product, price, and experience have to bring customers back every week. That lesson got a national spotlight on Shark Tank, where Kevin O’Leary and Robert Herjavec made the founders an offer for equity in the company. The two ultimately walked away from the deal, choosing instead to raise funding from their own community of believers. Since the episode aired, requests have poured in from New York to small towns in Montana, proof that the appetite for packaging free groceries reaches well beyond Boulder. Their advice for women sitting on an idea? Don’t wait to feel ready. Confidence doesn’t come before action; it comes because you acted. NudeFoodsMarket.com

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A Taste of Home: Lindsay Shaw Brings Deli Tradition and Downtown Spirit to Boulder For Lindsey Shaw, owner of Lindsay’s Deli and Häagen-Dazs in Boulder, food has never just been a business. It’s a birthright. Born in Atlanta to a Jewish family with roots in New York, Lindsey grew up surrounded by the flavors and rituals of a food-loving household. Her parents owned a Häagen-Dazs shop, and some of her earliest and fondest memories are of scooping ice cream alongside her brother, learning early on what it meant to serve a community with warmth and consistency. Lindsay came to Boulder for college at CU, and like so many students, she found herself falling for the mountains, the light, and the particular rhythm of life here. After graduating, she moved back to Atlanta, but Colorado never quite let her go. A year spent as a ski bum in Vail confirmed what she already suspected: her future was back in Boulder. Today, Lindsay runs her namesake deli alongside a Häagen-Dazs shop, blending her family’s ice cream legacy with her own deli tradition. But her investment in Boulder goes beyond her storefront. As an active member of the Boulder Restaurant Alliance, she’s working alongside fellow business owners to breathe new life into Pearl Street and downtown Boulder, pushing for a district that feels vibrant, welcoming, and genuinely inclusive, where anyone can find a seat at the table. For Lindsay, it’s simple: good food and a good downtown should be for everyone. LindsaysBoulderDeli.com CONTINUED >

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A Historic Beat: Cheryl Liguori on Music, Movies, and Keeping Boulder’s Stages Alive For Cheryl Liguori, the theater world started with music, and a fake ID. As a teenager sneaking into concerts, she found her way to a job at Wetlands Preserve, the legendary live music venue in New York City, and never looked back. Film came later, taking root during her college years, but it was those early nights in the crowd that shaped her path in live entertainment. Today, she oversees two of Boulder’s most storied venues, the Boulder Theater and The Fox Theatre, and this January brings a milestone: hosting Sundance Film Festival screenings. The partnership has been over a year in the making, with Sundance’s team and Cheryl’s collaborating closely so that once the festival arrives, the venue essentially becomes theirs to run, while her team supports behind the scenes. At The Fox, the focus is on weaving live music into the Sundance experience itself. Looking back at the artists who’ve graced these stages, Cheryl still marvels at the list: Radiohead at The Fox, Post Malone at the Boulder Theater, along with icons like BB King, Moby, Johnny Cash, and Patti Smith. Running historic venues, she says, is a full-time labor of love. The beauty and history can’t be replicated in a modern room, but competing means constant investment: new sound and lighting systems, an ADA restroom underway this fall, last year’s facade restoration, ongoing HVAC upgrades. It’s a challenge her team embraces, one Cheryl credits to owner Doug Greene’s vision in reviving the Boulder Theater back in 1995.

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Elevated Ease: Dawn Chau’s Two Decades of Building Homes That Work When Dawn Chau brought her design studio to Boulder in 2017, she arrived with a perspective shaped by nearly two decades of work, including years in Denver and almost a decade in New York City. That broader lens made one thing clear right away: Boulder’s approach to living is truly its own. “Two decades ago, design was much more aesthetic-driven,” she says. “Today, especially in Boulder, it’s about performance and connection.” Her clients live outdoors, so their homes need to flow into the landscape while standing up to mud, dogs, gear, and the pace of daily life. Environmental responsibility has become part of that equation too, with clients asking real questions about efficiency and material safety. The result is a style she describes as elevated ease: casual and low maintenance, but never short on refinement. Chau’s path to design wasn’t conventional. She grew up surrounded by parents who were always building something, and in high school she built a wood futon so heavy it followed her, reluctantly, through every apartment move that came after. Years later in New York, a woodworking class in Brooklyn led to sharing shop space with incredible craftsmen, including the founders of Hellman Chang. She quickly realized that honing furniture making to the level of mastery she desired would take a decade or more of dedicated practice, but the hands-on experience permanently changed how she designs, giving her a practical eye for how custom elements actually get built and lived in. That practicality extends to sustainability, which she boils down to three principles: natural materials, American-made goods, and furnishings built to last decades rather than seasons. Colorado’s community of local artisans makes that easy, she says, giving each piece a story her clients actually connect with. Above all, her work is built on trust. She still designs for her very first client from 2004, a relationship that has spanned four homes and two decades. It’s proof, she says, that when clients let go and trust the process, that’s when the real transformation happens. CONTINUED >

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Lanie and Emily of Walters & Hogsett Jewelers A diamond is hard and beautiful at once. Lanie and Emily, co-owners of Walters & Hogsett Jewelers, carry that same duality between them. By their own admission, they are a study in opposites—running one of Boulder’s most enduring jewelry shops not despite their differences, but because of them.

THE HIVE & THE JOURNEY

Lanie stumbled into the industry, growing into an introverted leader who oversees timepieces and operations while balancing teamwork with independent execution: “I’m collaborative, but pretty independent when it comes to getting things done.” Emily, an extrovert with 28 years at the shop, lives fully in the hive, helping clients tell their stories through custom pieces. Everyone plays such a dynamic role... I feel very fortunate to be a part of it.”

GETTING FREE

Lanie unwinds through tactile creation. “I’m a big DIY person—remodeling, tiling, fixing things, figuring out how to make something work, like watch movements!” Emily treasures connection: “I value every minute I spend with my family and friends, especially when it’s near water. I always want more!”

THE INDULGENCES

Lanie favors a spirited education: “There’s something really fun about learning the differences between bourbons, where they come from, how they’re made.” Emily’s delights are simpler: “Diet Coke & Sancerre. Not together!” One builds, one bonds. In the space between meticulous mechanics and effortless warmth, the business finds its structure & sparkle.

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From the Delivery Room to the Treatment Room: Dr. Ida Rastegar’s Unconventional Path When Dr. Ida Rastegar moved to Boulder 15 years ago with her husband and three young children, she wasn’t planning to leave clinical medicine behind. A faculty OB/GYN at UCLA, she’d built a career treating high-risk pregnancies and underserved populations in Los Angeles. But Boulder offered something her old life couldn’t: a slower pace, a tight-knit community, and room to raise a family close to nature. The part-time position she’d loved at UCLA didn’t exist locally, and the demanding call schedules of local private practices clashed with three young children at home. So when her husband launched Rinnova Skin & Body, an aesthetics practice, Rastegar stepped in to run it, learning the business from the ground up, from hiring staff to preparing tissue samples. That transition became something richer than office management. Rastegar began seeing patients herself, bringing her medical background to a field she felt was too often reduced to “beauty.” She introduced diVa, a vaginal laser treatment that draws on her OB/GYN expertise to address sexual health concerns and incontinence, reframing rejuvenation as whole-body wellness rather than cosmetic enhancement. The shift also changed the nature of her conversations with patients. Where her hospital years left little room beyond emergencies and surgeries, Rastegar now has time to discuss hormones, diet, and mental health, the fuller picture of a woman’s well-being. Running a business, she admits, is a skill medical school never taught her. The hardest part has been building the right team, though Rinnova’s staff longevity (some aestheticians have stayed over a decade) speaks to what she’s built. Looking back, Rastegar couldn’t have predicted this path from her days at Yale or Emory. But in Boulder, she’s found a version of medicine that fits: one with room for both patients and the greenhouse seedlings waiting at home. CONTINUED >

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Meg Gardner: Rooted and Rising at Shining Mountain Meg Gardner spent 18 years as a teacher, helping students become independent thinkers with the courage to lead purposeful lives. Today, as School Director of Shining Mountain Waldorf School, she brings that same commitment to the well-being and growth of the entire school community. Her leadership is guided by a vision of creating a place where people can do their best work and where everyone can say, “I am known here. I belong here. I can grow here.” Leading a classroom also taught Gardner to take the long view. In Waldorf education, teachers “loop” with their students, continuing as their main classroom teacher for many years. Spending so much time with one child showed her that you should never define someone by one difficult moment or challenging season; they are always becoming who they are, and trusting that to unfold over time was key. Gardner brings that same perspective to leading Shining Mountain, knowing that meaningful change requires vision and direction, but also patience, trust, and time. Under her leadership, Shining Mountain has bucked a citywide trend. As Boulder enrollment softens across many schools, hers has grown 13% in the past year, a shift Gardner attributes to families searching for something increasingly rare: a childhood protected from screens and saturated instead with curiosity, creativity, and real human connection. Rather than compete with artificial intelligence, the school is doubling down on what only humans can offer. That question—How do we stay human in a technological age?—now anchors the school’s annual Human Advantage Summit, this year themed “Creating, Not Consuming.” The roots of Waldorf education are over a century old, yet Gardner has found innovative ways to adapt the curriculum to today’s changing world. She introduced digital citizenship into the curriculum years before most schools considered it, and today her high schoolers study bioinformatics, debate climate data, and have built their own supercomputer, dispelling the myth that Waldorf students don’t embrace or interact with new technology. Off campus, Gardner recharges the way many Boulder residents do, on 14ers, in the backcountry, on cross-country skis. She credits the mountains with teaching her patience and presence, but her deep sense of resolve goes back even further, to growing up on the Oklahoma plains where daily viola practice taught her that true mastery requires showing up consistently. Whether scaling a 14er, mastering an instrument, or leading Shining Mountain, she carries that same perseverance into every decision she makes.

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A NEW WAY TO GROW At Yellow Barn Farm, Regeneration Means Planting Seeds, Growing People, and Imagining New Possibilities Together ARTICLE BY GRACE YOON PHOTOGRAPHY BY POPPY & CO.

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There is a certain feeling that comes over you at Yellow Barn Farm. Maybe it's the cows mooing and pigs oinking in the background, the rhythm of people gathering around a long table, or the way a simple meal stretches into an evening you don't want to end. Maybe it's the sense that food, land, and community are all part of the same living story. For Azuraye Wycoff, Head Ecopreneur at Yellow Barn, that feeling is intentional. What began as a piece of land has evolved into a community hub, business incubator, and living experiment in regenerative living, a place where farmers and entrepreneurs, artists and wellness practitioners, families and educators share the same soil and discover what becomes possible when those worlds are no longer kept separate. "Yellow Barn is a living social ecology," Wycoff says. "It is a demonstration hub for all things regenerative and a petri dish for testing all kinds of theories and experiments on how to integrate these divergent and often contradictory lines of work, living, and play."

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In a world increasingly divided into categories and silos, Yellow Barn is blurring the lines, and perhaps that is its greatest experiment.

PLANTING SEEDS & GROWING PEOPLE

The phrase "Planting Seeds & Growing People" has become central to Yellow Barn's identity, and it is less a slogan than a philosophy. "We might be doing agriculture," Wycoff says, "but what we're really up to is helping humanity step into a new iteration of self." The land becomes a teacher. Farming requires patience, collaboration, adaptability, and the ability to notice when something isn't working and change course. It requires learning to work within limitations rather than constantly trying to overcome them. Those lessons apply to people too. At Yellow Barn, growth happens both above and below the soil. Seeds become plants. Ideas become businesses. Strangers become neighbors. Conversations become collaborations. And like any healthy ecosystem, none of it exists entirely on its own.

REGENERATION STARTS IN THE SOIL

At the heart of Yellow Barn is regenerative agriculture, a practice rooted in the idea that farming should leave land healthier rather than depleted. Instead of treating soil as an endless resource, this approach considers the longterm relationship between soil, water, plants, animals, and people through composting, cover cropping, integrating animals, reducing tillage, and increasing biodiversity. Wycoff describes it as a positive feedback loop: what's put into the land today should compound over time, ultimately giving back more than it takes. That philosophy carries particular weight in Colorado, where water is scarce, climate conditions are increasingly unpredictable, and agricultural land faces pressure from development and rising costs. For Wycoff, regenerative agriculture offers a path toward resilience. Healthy soil retains moisture. Diverse ecosystems are less vulnerable than monocultures. Local food systems shorten the distance between growers and eaters. Most importantly, regenerative agriculture changes the question. Instead of asking how much can be taken from the land, it asks how it can be left more alive than it was found.

THE BEAUTY OF THE SANDBOX

One of Yellow Barn's most distinctive qualities is its diversity. The property brings together agricultural operations, small businesses, wellness experiences, educational programming, music, art, farm-to-table gatherings, and community events, and Wycoff believes that's exactly what a healthy community should look like. "We've been trained to think in silos," she says. "The farm is over here, the wellness studio is over there, the art world is somewhere else entirely. But those divisions are artificial."

At Yellow Barn, a farmer might cross paths with a yoga teacher, an entrepreneur might sit beside a musician, a family might discover a local food producer over dinner. The magic is in the collision of ideas. But community isn't always easy, Wycoff is quick to point out. She compares Yellow Barn to a playground: people building sandcastles, people throwing sand, people who feel left out, and people figuring out how to play together. Learning to share space requires patience, communication, boundaries, and sometimes uncomfortable conversations. That friction isn't necessarily a sign something is broken; it can be part of the growing process.

A LIVING LOCAL ECONOMY

Yellow Barn's regenerative philosophy extends beyond the soil. Over the past several years, an ecosystem of businesses has emerged around the farm, including Picky Pig, a food scrap collection program that feeds pigs and builds compost; Stalk Market, an online platform connecting customers with local producers; Small Hall Movers; Edaphic Solutions; Kaizen Lawn and Home; Lusciously Local; Puffin Sauna; Peak Pop Up Glamping; Subtle Nectar Wellness; and Rocky Mountain Spirulina. Through Stalk Market, Yellow Barn also works with local producers offering vegetables, meat, lamb, eggs, microgreens, homesteading classes, and firewood shares. Ginkgo & Co.'s kimchi is joining the marketplace. It's an ecosystem built on the idea that local businesses can support one another rather than operate independently. Wycoff calls Yellow Barn an "incubator" and a "nest," a place where people with a vision can bring an idea into fertile ground and find community, resources, and support. The goal isn't simply to create more businesses; it's to create relationships between them.

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THE TABLE AS A MEETING PLACE

Perhaps nowhere is Yellow Barn's philosophy more visible than around its tables. Wycoff remembers community dinners where people from entirely different walks of life found themselves deep in conversation, nearly 200 people gathering to plant baby trees in the farm's earliest days, and musical performances that transformed the barn into a place of energy and celebration. There have been sovereignty summits, workshops, wellness gatherings, farm dinners, dances, and late nights spent clearing tables after everyone else has gone home. For Wycoff, these aren't separate activities but part of the same ecosystem. "You can't separate these things," she says of agriculture, food, wellness, and personal connection. "All of that is so deeply intersected that to separate it is to separate the parts of our soul." It's a distinctly Boulder idea, and Yellow Barn takes it further: wellness isn't just something that happens in a studio, food isn't simply purchased at a store, sustainability isn't merely an abstract ideal. They are lived experiences.

A PLACE TO IMAGINE DIFFERENTLY

After six years of building systems, businesses, partnerships, and infrastructure from the ground up, Wycoff says Yellow Barn is finally beginning to feel rooted. The work has been intense, particularly since conventional systems are usually

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designed around simpler categories. But something is beginning to shift. The community is generating its own momentum. People are bringing other people. Ideas are emerging organically. The farm is becoming not just something being built, but something people can finally enjoy. Wycoff hopes Yellow Barn can become a model other communities can adapt to their own landscapes, cultures, and needs, not to replicate Yellow Barn exactly, but to replicate the pattern: a network of local "nodes" where food, land, business, wellness, education, and community support one another.

FIND YOUR NODE

For Boulder County, that vision comes with an invitation to support your farmers. Buy local food. Attend the farm dinner. Bring your children to the farm. Purchase from a local producer. Give food scraps to a composting program instead of the landfill. Show up for places working to keep agricultural land agricultural. Wycoff believes those small choices matter. "Your dollars are your vote," she says. "It's what you say you care about." Her larger concern is that farmers are struggling to survive, and that the loss of farms affects food security, soil health, open space, local resilience, and the possibility of passing agricultural land to the next generation. For Yellow Barn, the answer isn't to retreat from the complexity but to embrace it: to diversify, collaborate, experiment,

and build a system where one piece helps sustain another. Regeneration isn't something that happens only in a field; it can happen in an economy, a neighborhood, a relationship, a community. It can begin with a food scrap, a shared meal, a conversation with a farmer, or simply showing up.

A LITTLE MORE MAGIC

Ask Wycoff what she wants people who have never visited Yellow Barn to know, and her answer is simple: "This place is full of magic." When you step onto the land, you can feel it, if you're open to it. There is a small corner near the creek that has always felt sacred to her, tucked away from the highway, quiet and protected, a place where she goes to reconnect with the land and herself. Animals moving. Birds beginning their day. Light falling across the land. Everything doing what it's supposed to do.

For Wycoff, it's a reminder that this work is bigger than running businesses. It's about imagining a different way forward, and having the courage to build it, one small experiment at a time. Yellow Barn Farm may be rooted in the earth, but its vision reaches well beyond its acreage, asking each of us: what would happen if, wherever we went, we tried to leave things a little more alive than we found them? Perhaps that is the seed Yellow Barn is planting, and Boulder is exactly the kind of place where it can grow.

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Valentina Trentini paints the way craftspeople of the old world have for a century: unhurried, exact, and utterly unwilling to fake the parts that matter. This is a craft you earn, letter by letter, and in a Boulder scene enamored with the handmade, her sign shop, Brushetta Signs, has become a salute to old-world patience and style. She is one of only a handful of artists in the world still practicing this trade at a professional level, and among an even smaller handful of women who do.

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Valentina left Bologna for the States in 2012, trading the city's arcaded streets for a string of American ones, New York first, then Los Angeles, then eventually the foothills of Boulder. She's been painting her whole life, but sign work found her in the States. In LA she enrolled at Trade Tech, the only school in the world still formally teaching sign painting, a lineage dating back to 1924. Her real education, though, happened at the elbow of masters. In Minnesota, Mike Meyer drilled her on brush technique: the consistency of a stroke, the architecture of a letterform, the difference between a line that's correct and one that's alive. Later, a gold leaf mentor handed her an entirely different vocabulary: gilding, the ancient art of laying gold onto glass and wood so it seems to generate its own light. Then came Rod Emory, the man Valentina calls the god of Porsches. They met, hit it off immediately, and she found herself restoring the original graphics on vintage racing cars (numbers, stripes, sponsor logos), all painted by hand exactly as they were decades ago, down to the wobble of a period brushstroke. It's meticulous, borderline archaeological work. Her restorations have since been shown at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and Monterey Car Week, where a fraction of an inch of historical inaccuracy can cost a car its class. But that's precisely the point: a decal can be printed in seconds, and it will never carry what a hand-pulled line carries. Valentina's work insists on the human element. The almost imperceptible imperfection that tells you someone was there, breathing, deciding, correcting. Even the shop's name has its own small story. Brushetta started as a gift, someone's well-meaning misspelling of bruschetta, but it had “brush” hiding right there inside it, and it stuck. That reverence for restoration, for coaxing something old back into its own light, feels central to who she is. Bringing things back to life isn't sentimentality; it's a mission: to honor the past, elevate the present, and make work built to stand the test of time. It's why a decades-old Porsche graphic and a goldleafed Boulder storefront sign belong to the same practice in her hands. BrushettaSigns.com | @brushettasigns

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THE WEIR AT THE DAIRY ARTS CENTER

Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company presents The Weir, a modern Irish drama by Conor McPherson. Set in a remote country pub, an evening of ghost stories takes an unexpected turn as the characters discover connection through the stories that bring them together. For tickets, go to TheDairy.org/BETCTheWeir.

10th - 11th UNDERSTANDING EXECUTIVE FUNCTION TO HELP KIDS THRIVE AT BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

Join Brandon Slade of Untapped Learning for a practical, parent-focused conversation about executive function. With more than 15 years of experience, Slade will share strategies to help students build confidence, independence, and essential skills. For details and registration, visit BoulderCountryDay.org/ Parent-Education.

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PREVIEW DAY AT BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

Experience Boulder Country Day School while classes are in session during Preview Day. Meet faculty, administrators, and current families while learning more about the school’s academics and community. Register at BoulderCountryDay. org/Preview-Day.

15th PUNCH BROTHERS AT BOULDER THEATER FIREFLY HANDMADE FALL MARKET

Firefly Handmade’s Fall Market returns to the heart of Downtown Boulder, bringing a curated lineup of artists, makers, and designers to the Pearl Street Mall. Shop handcrafted goods while enjoying the shops, restaurants, and fall atmosphere of downtown Boulder. For more information, visit FireflyHandmade.com

Grammy-winning Punch Brothers bring their genre-defying acoustic sound to Boulder Theater. Led by mandolinist Chris Thile, the acclaimed quintet blends bluegrass, folk, and contemporary influences while pushing the boundaries of modern string music. For tickets, go to Z2Ent.com/Events/Detail/PunchBrothers-2026-BT.

singing abilities are invited to join in popular songs from the Beatles to Bruno Mars. Lyric booklets are provided, and no rehearsals or preparation are needed. For more information, visit WorldSingingDay.org.

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HEAVY DIAMOND RING WITH STELTH ULVANG

Heavy Diamond Ring brings its openhearted folk-rock sound to Chautauqua Community House, joined by Stelth Ulvang. Led by Sarah Anderson and Paul DeHaven, the Colorado band blends rich vocal harmonies, rugged guitar, and a roots-driven sound built for the open road. For tickets, go to Chautauqua.com/Event/ Heavy-Diamond-Ring-Stelth-Ulvang.

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pianist Yuja Wang. The film offers an intimate look at her life on and off stage, exploring the artistry, success, and pressures behind one of classical music’s most compelling performers. For tickets, go to Chautauqua.com/ Event/Yuja.

BOULDER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

The 14th Annual Boulder Jewish Film Festival returns to the Dairy Arts Center, featuring world cinema that explores Jewish life, history, and culture. This year’s festival highlights contributions that have shaped popular culture, with conversations following every screening. For more information and tickets, go to BoulderJCC.org/ BoulderJewishFilmFestival.

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Photo courtesy of Downtown Boulder Partnership

MUNCHKIN MASQUERADE

Downtown Boulder’s Munchkin Masquerade returns to Pearl Street with tiny ghosts, goblins, superheroes, fairies, and more trick-or-treating throughout downtown. The annual Halloween tradition is recommended for children ages 12 and under.

Photo courtesy of Downtown Boulder Partnership

WORLD SINGING DAY BOULDER

World Singing Day Boulder returns to Pearl Street Mall for its 11th annual community sing-along. People of all ages and

YUJA: A DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING

Chautauqua presents YUJA, a new documentary following celebrated

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