Life + Culture

Hiking with The Hat Guy

Spreading Kindness With Every Step Article by Meredith Rowe | Photography by Poppy & Co. by Kelsey Huffer Before Curtis Jones could even begin his Tuesday morning hike of Mount Sanitas, a woman approached him excitedly at the trailhead.  “I’ve hiked this dozens of times,” says Susan Brooks. “I really wanted to manifest Curtis this morning!” This interaction was not a one-off. In fact, over the course of 3.33 miles, we stopped dozens of times so that Jones could reach into his...

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Restaurants Aren't Supposed to Last Forever

Article by Leon Corn | Photography by Illustration by John Carlson There's a question people ask at parties:  If you were an animal, what would you be?  Or maybe,  if you were a car ... Here's a better one. If you were a restaurant, which one would you be? Some are loud and scrappy, a little rough around the edges. Others are buttoned-up, quiet, and perfectly elegant. Like people, restaurants have personalities. Unlike people, they rarely enjoy long lives. Some restaurants die young...

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Collected by Instinct

Inside Sherry Kass's World of Outsider Art Article by Willow King | Photography by Poppy & Co. by Kelsey Huffer When asked where it all started, Sherry tells of a friend who returned from France bearing three small gifts: drawings, torn and framed. Fragments and yet whole in themselves, and something in Sherry's chest cracked open. Not a slow appreciation. A bolt of lightning. This was roughly 30 years ago.  Sherry and her husband Scott Tracy have spent decades assembling one of the most...

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Only in Boulder

A Collection of Rituals and Joyful Oddities That Show How the City's Traditions Become Shared Experiences Article by Emily O'Brien | Photography by Illustrations by Gina Dodge Boulder is a place where the everyday tends to bend. A commute becomes a float down a creek, a football kickoff starts with a bison sprint, and a fallen cottonwood turns into a library. History here doesn’t just sit in the past—it gets spoken, acted out, and revisited in places like Columbia Cemetery after dark. Across...