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‘We’re all freaks, together’
G. Willow Wilson has spent her life telling stories. She’s told her own in her graphic novel Cairo and memoir Butterfly Mosque. She’s chronicled...
Jackie Greene is a rock star
It’s easy to picture the life of a hard working musician — playing late into the night, touring long cross-country miles on a bus, lugging...
Thighs and whispers
Like any parent, I wait until I see my child in person to have The Talk. So when Hans unexpectedly visited last weekend from...
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...
Filling in history
In 1950, leaving behind conscious form, Grace Hartigan took her paints and translated her thoughts on the canvas in a burst of red, blue,...
Down to the bone
Boulder is not a town in which there is great need to extol the virtues of healthy eating... healthy anything, really. While every choir...
No hesitation
Yael Naim is on the path of discovery. In her 2008 hit breakout song “New Soul” she sings, “I’m a new soul/I came to...
How lonely does it get?
I first met Bradley Books seven years ago through a thin piece of plexiglass. Sitting inside the staff office at the Boulder Shelter for the...
A real privilege
Late last year, sometime in October, Rod Argent got a call from Billboard. The Zombies’ new album, Still Got That Hunger, had debuted at...
To judge a crust
Being a pie contest judge sounds like a lot of fun, but you aren’t qualified just because you like pie a lot. You can’t...
Building bridges
Melanie Yazzie is an artist. She’s a painter, printmaker, sculptor, jewelry designer and an art teacher. As the head of printmaking at the University...
Crack the ‘egg’
I grew up long ago in the land of eggplant Parmesan. As an Italian Catholic kid in New England, the Friday meatless-meal rotation featured fried...