Tag: cover3
Boulder’s Global Greengrants Fund helps Serbian group fight incinerator
In a world where climate change regularly makes headlines, news of environmental victories are a welcome relief. For a group of activists in Belgrade,...
The Polis administration plays pretend on fracking
As children, we liked to pretend to be adults, usually our parents, but sometimes great athletes and screen idols.
My dad was a railroader. My...
Takács Quartet features Mendelssohn siblings in spring concert series
Programs featuring string quartets by sister and brother Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (Jan. 12-13) and Felix Mendelssohn (May 3-4) will form the bookends of the...
The disinformation nation
It may be getting harder and harder to figure out the truth, but at least this much is clear: It’s a good time to...
Running through walls
Any music act with a unique sound is bound to sound familiar from album to album. But violinist Kev Marcus has no problem seeing...
Politicians, not markets, slow new energy dawn
Often blamed for society’s problems, politicians have now been brought to book for the slow take-up of renewable forms of energy.
These are now so...
Chasing dreams
The race was about to start, and all Laura Knoblach could think about was the fact that the swim she was about to embark...
It’s just like the sanctuary city movement, only with live ammunition
Be careful what you wish for, because you might get it.
Good and hard.
Remember the sanctuary city movement, the strategy the Resistance (or the Democratic...
The Buzz on Rumi
"Under the radar” doesn’t describe just how obscure Cafe Rumi is. This is the most established Boulder restaurant/market that is unknown to even many...
A masochist’s love letter
I love telling the story of my wisdom teeth. Anytime someone mentions a tooth extraction or dentistry mishap, I weasel my experience into the ring...
History is in the telling
History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories — triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically...
My 100-game season
My baseball loyalty was irrevocably formed in 1961 at the tender and impressionable age of six when the Washington Senators relocated to Minneapolis and...
