Books
Scientifically funny
For their book, The Humor Code, journalist Joel Warner and University of Colorado Boulder Professor Peter McGraw spent a year travelling the world in search of funny. They searched Africa for its infamous laughing disease, strolled through the South American jungle ...
Sex Workers Unite, Melinda Chateauvert
Friday, February 7: Sex Workers Unite, Melinda Chateauvert, Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 7:30 p.m...
Writing the unwritten
All of us are haunted — by vestiges of the past, and, as Hannah Nordhaus poignantly observes in American Ghost, by the ghosts of who we thought we were or thought we would become. Her story is a different kind of personal haunting, though, as she writes of the ghost ...
The potency of possibility
Author Carter Wilson’s writing career started with one macabre question: “If three people are murdered in the exact same way, at the exact same...
A story takes flight
On a late spring night, three little girls were readying themselves for bed when they noticed Mother Eagle perched on a tree in their backyard...
Looking past the uniform
A uniform solidifies a sense of sameness, but as Helen Thorpe set out to write her latest book, Soldier Girls, she realized that behind the uniform, experiences are anything but alike...
listen up!
Mark Anthony: the Psychic Lawyer 7 p.m. Friday, July 17, The Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3066...
The evolution of Dan Savage
It’s a funny story, how the wiseass gay theater kid at the video store became America’s most trusted and outspoken sex advocate...
