Tag: apr 14 2016 issue

Boulder-Nablus Sister City project heads back to City Council

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The last time the Boulder-Nablus Sister City project brought their plea to create an official Sister City partnership before Boulder City Council, the hearing...

Keeping the heart alive

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"When you grow up, your heart dies,” Allison “Basketcase” Reynolds sadly theorizes in The Breakfast Club. It serves as a forewarning, one that teenagers...

This silence is golden

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Any theater purists out there who weep into their chamomile about the stage being corrupted by more and more adaptations of (gasp!) films, need...

Our last moment to act

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In late 2012, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced he was considering opening New York to fracking, allowing the oil and gas industry to develop the...

Letters: 4/14/16

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Please sign this petition Operators of the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge want the Rocky Mountain Greenway — a trail for hiking, biking and horseback...

‘The Tender Land’ hits close to home

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Fiery gypsy smugglers, humpbacked court jesters, cruel tyrants, Japanese geishas and French nuns facing the guillotine — it’s a good bet that most operatic...

Community rights versus environmental destruction: Time to turn the page

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In the fall of 2013, a group of community members fighting to ban fracking in Lafayette met with our local State Representative, Mike Foote....

The Dairy kicks off monthly comedy show

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Art is meant to endure. That’s why centuries-old paintings hang from museum walls, film reels are preserved and restored and books are reprinted long...

How to make billboards uglier

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Okay people, we need to discuss billboards. Yes, we really must. At best, these giant corporate placards are problematic — they garishly loom over us,...

Can I buy your underwear?; More non-PC fantasies

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Dear Dan: I’m a 49-year-old gay man. I’ve become friends with a 21-year-old straight guy. He’s really hot. He’s had to drop out of...

From smokeout to teach-in: harnessing the rebel spirit of 4/20

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April 20 is a legendary day in University of Colorado history, when in the past, upwards of 10,000 people would descend on Norlin Quad...

Skating to success

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Josh Agenbroad has found his own way to meet people wherever he goes, from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he grew up, to Beijing, China,...