Tag: Dec 30 2021 issue
What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do . . .
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EVENTS
OK, I’m Mindful-Now What? with Andrew Holecek (virtual)....
Weed in the rear-view
Things change so fast in the cannabis industry that a year can easily feel like a decade—and 2021 surely did. Laws have been evolving,...
A career in beer
Every homebrewer remembers their first. For Julia Herz, the year was 1991, and the brew was a Scotch ale.
“It was just the best thing...
‘How nice it is not to be alone.’
The biggest surprise cinema held for me in 2021 came at the Telluride Film Festival with the U.S. premiere of The Power of the Dog,...
Taste of the Week: Caldo Tlalpeño @ Chili Verde Restaurant
Despite its name, Chili Verde, 2311 Federal Blvd., is different from the many taquerias dishing street tacos along Denver’s major boulevards, and the Caldo...
Open, closed, and revived
One year ago, December 2020, the restaurants of Boulder County and the region were doing their best to survive the unprecedented impact of the...
Reading music
For almost a decade, starting in 2008, I wrote an annual feature for Boulder Weekly detailing 10 great new albums for readers to check...
2021 in the rear-view
The space-time continuum seemed to warp this past year, contracting and elongating: While the post-election, pre-insurrection days when election truthers seemed crazy but not...
A Deadhead Cyclist pandemic
It’s often said that “every cloud has a silver lining.” This ubiquitous expression is typically rolled out in the spirit of putting a positive...
Truth follows
A woman wept at the corner of Table Mesa and Harvard Lane, and all I could do was put my hand on her shoulder.
I...
A year in three tracks
“A letter to my younger self” (Ambar Lucid)She enters with just the bright, plucky guitar and when she leaves, she does the same—but in...
Coming of age in an altered world
In March of 2020 I was studying abroad in Barcelona, Spain with a group of friends, enjoying Europe in the way only a careless...
