Books
‘We are stardust’
Ellen Mahoney, Boulder-based journalist and co-author of the young adult nonfiction book Earthrise: My adventures as an Apollo 14 Astronaut, can’t remember a time...
New children’s book deals with domestic violence
In her day job as a detective in the Longmont Police’s...
No chasm to cross
If we’re to trust Thurston Moore, “Rock stars can’t be poets, which sucks.”
The line is from a poem by Moore titled “By The Lightswitch.”...
Hello, Bali!
Flying to Bali this past September for a semester of for-credit study abroad, 24-year-old Naropa University student Jacqueline Tardie had no idea what to expect. A senior with dual majors in art and religion, Tardie didn’t know the Bahasa Indonesia language or what ...
Words | Week of July 16, 2015
Thursday, July 16 The Astral Imperative Volume 4: Cosmos — Robert Dresner. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Monday July 20 “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628...
A tale of two predators
In 1989, a jury found Brent Brents, then 18, guilty of raping two children. He spent the next 15 years in jail, and when he got out in July 2004, he went on a terrifying rampage, raping and assaulting dozens of men, women and children until his capture in February ...
Range life
Peter Heller is nothing if not consistent. In interviews going back more than a decade to the publication of his first best-selling novel, The...
Textures of youth
Tina Collen’s story of her relationship with her father is multidimensional. Literally. In her memoir, Storm of the i ($29.95, Art Review Press), Collen tells the trials and tribulations and successes of her life via paintings, photographs, memorabilia. Instead of ...
The Tea Party does cartoons
Joe the Plumber may be a cliché of a human being, but since Obama made him the hero of Main Street during his 2008 presidential campaign, when he jots his endorsement down for anything, people pay attention...
