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BW’s first editor reflects on past two decades
It was a little more than 20 years ago that I accepted the position as first editor of Boulder Weekly. Sometimes that feels like a long time ago. Other times, like yesterday...
Boulder: The shape of things to come
Well, as Yogi Berra famously remarked, it’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future...
Killing Amendment 2
In 1993, the year of Boulder Weekly’s birth, an uproar began over Colorado voters’ passage of Amendment 2, which banned any laws protecting gays from discrimination. The cities of Boulder, Denver and Aspen had passed such laws...
BW Publisher travels back in time to talk to himself
It sounds trite to say, but it’s astonishing how fast 20 years can fly by. And while we’re issuing platitudes, never has it been truer for me that time flies while you’re having fun. The last 20 years have been a gas, gas, gas, with no two days even remotely ...
BW Editor reexamines 20 years of coverage
As far as I know, it’s been two decades since anyone pulled the newsprint archive of Boulder Weekly’s first year and looked back through every page of all 52 issues. I recently completed that task, or journey, as I prefer to call it, and I’m a little surprised by ...
Twenty years of environmental reporting
As early as 1994, it became clear that environmental reporting would be a priority for Boulder Weekly, and it was environmental stories that set the tone for the paper as one that would strive to protect our local environment. Editorial staff members of the Weekly ...
Back when the Internet had Flock of Seagulls hair
You know that feeling you get when you look at your haircut from the ’80s? Then the even worse feeling as your eyes drift downwards towards your outfit? It’s not that far off from the sinking feeling we here at BW got when we took a trip down the Internet’s ...
An entertaining 20 years: Looking back at Boulder’s music history
Twenty years ago, Boulder was a very different place. Commercially, that is. Geographically, the basics remained the same. The nightlife, for the most part, centered around Pearl Street and the Hill (though recently, the Puritans on city council have done their ...
Writer reflects on 20 years on the music beat
The Chautauqua Summer Series program director used to host a little gathering of Boulder music media types in the wintertime, an informal punch-and-doughnuts thing where we’d vote on acts we’d like to see at Chautauqua that summer. It was fun — it gave local ...
Twentieth Anniversary Edition: Boulder Weekly’s complete coverage
Complete coverage of Boulder Weekly's 20th anniversary follows...
