Room with the View

Hotel Longmont is Designed to Belong Downtown—from the View to the Bricks to the Art on Its Walls Photography by Heather Burns Spend enough nights in new hotels and they can begin to blur together: the same vaguely tasteful lobby, the same anonymous guest rooms, the...

Art for Art’s Sake

Charlie Hickman, a Longmont Artist and Teacher, on the Practice of Making Art That Exists Only for Itself You may spot it on a wooden table at Cavegirl Coffeehouse in Prospect: a simple black-and-white booklet, or zine, titled Origami Honey. Featuring a feline...

Bank Swallows

Tiny Riverbank Burrowers Get a New Home Along the St. Vrain Greenway at Roger’s Grove Nature Area lives a colony of Bank Swallows. The smallest of North America’s eight swallow species, these charming aerialists are part of our community’s summer rhythm, skimming low...

The Art of Play

Dandelion Arts Collective Uses Performing Arts  to Foster Empathy, Healing, and Health Equity Photography by John Robson On a Sunday afternoon in October, a meeting room at the Longmont Public Library holds a small group of young students, their parents, and...

History Redesigned

For Gail Sundberg-Douse and Mark Douse, Retirement Was the Motivation to Update the Heart of Their Century-Old Home Gail Sundberg-Douse sits in her breakfast nook, thinking about what she’ll do for the day. On the kitchen island rests a spool of yarn, needles, and the...

Remote Work Away From Home

Four Longmont Coworking Spaces Offer a Change of Scenery with a Side of Community Longmont’s coworking spaces cater to a variety of professionals, from aestheticians and accountants to engineers and IT professionals. Many are entrepreneurial small business owners,...