A Happy New Year’s Eve at (you guessed it) Happy!

When Eric and I heard Happy (which is the new, shortened name of Happy Noodle House) was having a prix fixe dinner and cocktail “social” on New Year’s Eve, it was a foregone conclusion that we’d be celebrating there. And having recently read something about how noodles are an integral part of traditional Japanese New [...]

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Imogen Heap at the Fox

The lovely Imogen Heap played the Fox Theatre on Saturday night, and despite the snow storm, we navigated the icy roads and the dismal parking situation on The Hill to make it just in time for her first song. The experience of an Imogen show is somewhere between watching a DJ labor over his turntable [...]

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Happy with a Side of Happy

I know that I talk about Happy Noodle House way too much, but it has so captured my undying affection that I just couldn’t resist sharing some pics and thoughts from our most recent evening there. It’s tough to determine whether my obsession with the place revolves around the food, the cocktails or the service. [...]

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Things to Do in Boulder on Halloween

I’d just like to start off with this awesome photo, which seems to sum up the discussion about the infamous Mall Crawl making a possible return to Pearl Street this year: Will hundreds of costumed miscreants once again show up to clog Pearl Street as back in the good ol’ days? If it results in [...]

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Cuisine Stands Up to Cocktails at Happy Noodle

After Eric and I spent an evening being wooed by the cocktails and friendly folks at Bitter Bar, located inside Happy Noodle House, our interests were piqued to try Happy Noodle’s food. We finally had a chance a couple of Fridays ago. We walked in without a reservation, but there was a relatively small and [...]

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Sip in Secret: Bitter Bar

My grandma’s old house had an attic with floor boards that would pop up to make the perfect place for stashing silver dollars, letters, baseball cards and other loot. It was one of my favorite parts of visiting there every summer. I’ve always loved secret compartments, hidden passageways, trap doors and the like. So it’s [...]

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