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To bake the perfect croissant
You’ve had a croissant. When you had it, though, did you really consider it? Did you consider how it is that it’s lighter than...
No truth
The paintings of William Stoehr are clearly faces. Some have two eyes, a nose and a mouth. Yet upon further inspection, one eye might...
Oil and gas emissions help push Front Range ozone levels over...
On any given day, emissions from oil and gas activity in Colorado can make a big enough contribution to ground-level ozone levels that it...
Understandable
Uppermost in almost anybody’s mind these days
(Not to impute Platonic shape to space)
Desire (as if it were a thing) will blaze
Entre nous anew, prognosticating...
Why BVSD can’t move forward until it deals with its past
Over the past few months, we’ve learned a lot about the inner workings of the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD). While it is full...
It’s a woman’s world
MaryLynn Gillaspie and her sister Gaile had just settled into a hotel room in Tokyo when their tourmate Dizzie Gillespie called. Gaile answered the...
The only chip in the cookie
Vance Gilbert is black. Vance Gilbert plays the acoustic guitar. Vance Gilbert does not play the blues. Most of us assume a black man...
Fracking: Too late for ‘small and easy progress’
Across the globe, the movement to ban fracking is growing. France, Germany, Scotland, Ireland and the Netherlands have stopped this dangerous practice. So have...
Big money is playing Boulder during elections
It’s May 2014 at an annual event called Boulder Startup Week. The topic is entrepreneurs and politics. Congressman Jared Polis (D) has a taunting...
The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Grace B. Matthias
It has become increasingly obvious that we all, in one way or another, are shaped by a culture of rape. Last week, thousands of...
Ollin Farms’ Mark Guttridge: Boulder County ag can save the planet
Now is an important time in agriculture. It’s been said, perhaps best by renowned food writer Mark Bittman, that to care about food now...
The Smashing Pumpkins front man confronts reality
Less than two minutes into our conversation, Billy Corgan asks me to hang on. I hear a muffled and brief interaction he’s having with...