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ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Edmund Kean (1789- 1833) was one of the most famous British actors of his time. But a contemporary, the poet Samuel Coleridge, was frustrated by Kean’s inconsistency, regarding him as a great artist who on occasion lapsed into histrionics. “...

ARIES March 21-April 19: Tips to get the most out of the coming weeks: 1. Exercise your willpower at random moments just to keep it...

If A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition sometimes reads as if it were being written as history was unfolding, that’s because it was. Journalists Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian began working on A New Leaf as the cannabis reform movement was gaining momentum...

Imagine spending years coming up with an exciting idea for a space telescope, proposing it to NASA, and getting approval to develop the concept...

Dear Dan: Why are threesomes much more accepted in the popular imagination than foursomes? I was just googling "finding foursomes" and the first result is...

Can’t argue with that What often passes for fun around BW’s office is the reading aloud of press releases. We have even talked of saving...

Things change so fast in the cannabis industry that a year can easily feel like a decade—and 2021 surely did. Laws have been evolving,...

Dear Dan: A big congrats to Caitlyn Jenner on her big reveal and lovely Vanity Fair cover! But I am having a crisis of conscience. On one hand, I support a person’s right to be whoever the heck they want to be. You want to wear women’s clothing and use makeup and ...

When it was announced that Boulder County Commissioner Elise Jones was going to debate Gov. John Hickenlooper on the issue of fracking, we weren’t sure what to expect. To be honest, we were afraid that the debate might turn out to be more of a conversation among ...

ARIES March 21-April 19: A whitewash happens when you use deceit to cover up the messy facts about a situation. A blackwash is just the opposite: It’s when you invoke candor as you reveal complications that have previously been veiled. According to my analysis of the...

Where was the outrage? A lot of progressives have been in high dudgeon for the last couple of weeks over the “zero tolerance” policy of...

Dear Dan: I’m awoman who married young (21) and I’ve been with my husband for seven years. Within the last year, I’ve realized that...