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The curation of discovery: Part 3
This week’s serialized installment of “The curation of discovery” deals with not only the discovery and curation of the Mahaffy Cache, a collection of...
Embarrassed to be an American
Sparrow is a self-taught visual artist, pianist and chef — but has a masters degree in “creative writing.” He recently joined a Bhagavad-Gita study...
2016 Vote Guide
Welcome to our 2016 Vote Guide
It is not easy putting together Boulder Weekly’s vote guide. What makes it so difficult is that we take...
Heath care: A right or a privilege?
As Colorado voters weigh in on Amendment 69 this fall, they are the first in the nation to consider a single-payer health care system...
The curation of discovery: Part 2
This week’s serialized installment of The curation of discovery begins with a continuation of the conversation between myself and Ava Hamilton, an Arapaho and...
The curation of discovery: Part 1
Cache/Artifact/Element: Romero’s Shovel
The Mahaffy Cache is a collection of 86 supposedly 13,000-year-old stone artifacts that were discovered by a landscaper, Romero, who worked on...
It takes a village
There’s no manual for raising children, the old adage goes, but they also say it takes a village. But who do parents turn to...
Denver-based mining company accused of attacking Peruvian farmer
On the morning of Sept. 18, an altercation was reported between private security forces and Goldman Environmental Prize recipient Máxima Acuña on contested land...
The other Dreamers
After graduating high school, Maggie Loredo was faced with a seemingly impossible choice. As an undocumented immigrant, she could stay in the United States...
Lessons from Venezuela’s free fall
As a young man living in Venezuela, Jose Garcia remembers being woken up in the middle of the night by his mother to watch...
Boulder shows solidarity with Dakota Access pipeline protesters
On Tuesday Sept. 13 and 14, more than 200 separate protests were held across the country against the Dakota Access pipeline.
The protests, three of...
Stripping away illusions
If you go to David Barsamian’s State of the World Address looking for quick solutions to the world’s problems, you’ll be disappointed.
“It’s more like...
