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  • What’s Up Weekly – Editor’s Picks

    What’s Up Weekly – Editor’s Picks

    Now that classes are in full swing, you might need some time to blow off some steam. Here is your guide to going out this week! MONDAY, JAN. 28 Poetry Night at the Laughing Goat Café, Pearl Street The Laughing Goat Café in the Norlin Library... read more »

     
  • Diwali 2012 celebrates with high spirits and grand performances

    Diwali 2012 celebrates with high spirits and grand performances

    In the bustle of girls in beautifully colored, traditional, Indian clothing, shawls waving behind them as they walked and embellishments jingling as they moved, and men in their finest Sherwani running to and from the stage, it was difficult... read more »

     
  • Day trips to get you out of the Boulder bubble

    Day trips to get you out of the Boulder bubble

    Boulder is an easy town to love, and as college students we seem to love it a little too much. Sometimes we get get caught up in the school bubble and forget there is a world outside of the Flatirons. The next time you catch yourself bro-ing... read more »

     
  • Don’t be “that” person: party fouls to avoid

    Don’t be “that” person: party fouls to avoid

    You’re at a party and everyone is having the time of their lives, including yourself. Suddenly, someone enters the party and ruins your good time, or worse yet, you are that person. That’s why CUI has a few tips to make sure you’re... read more »

     
  • What’s Up Weekly

    What’s Up Weekly

    Check out what’s going on on and around campus this week in between your group projects, final papers and all-nighters. MONDAY Got Student Loans? @ VAC 1B23 Check out what's going on this week in Boulder from the CUI. (CU Independent Illustration/Josh... read more »

     
  • Five ways to stay sane at the end of the semester

    Five ways to stay sane at the end of the semester

    With just a few weeks left in the spring semester, everyone is talking about how brutal classes are, or are about to get. With days at Boulder Reservoir and nights on Pearl Street calling from a not-so-distant summer, it gets harder to focus... read more »

     
  • Beer Buff: Boulder Beer

    Beer Buff: Boulder Beer

    This week’s beer buff adventure takes me to the heart of the craft brewing revolution, The Boulder Beer Company. Boulder Beer was founded in 1979 and is Colorado’s first microbrewery. Well before Fat Tire and Sam Adams were household... read more »

     
  • What’s Up Weekly?

    What’s Up Weekly?

    That Spring Break hangover may be riding you hard. If you can lift your head, try and spend some time enjoying Boulder this week. MONDAY Monday Night Bowling @ the UMC Every Monday night, the Connection in the UMC offers two hours of unlimited... read more »

     
  • Two college food staples reinvented

    Two college food staples reinvented

    Nothing to eat? Take a double look at that pantry and guess again. Found in college housing throughout the U.S., oatmeal and Ramen noodles can produce a plethora of delicious meals in just minutes. Here are five interesting recipes highlighting... read more »

     
  • How to spend spring break in Boulder

    Ahh, spring break. With the same enthusiasm reserved for summer vacation as little kids, college students around the country welcome the holy week of do-nothing sunbathing in the tropics. But with strict budgets, work schedules and huge papers... read more »