Tag: jul 07 2016 issue
Citizen lobbyists push for national carbon tax
On Thursday June 21, 800 volunteer lobbyists, including 11 people from Boulder, spent all day on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. asking their elected...
More than cursory
"You can find music to be cathartic if you’re willing to be honest with it,” says Andy Baxter, lyricist and one half of the...
Environmental groups push back against the TPP
Recently, 450 U.S. environmental groups sent Congress a strong message: Vote down the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the largest proposed trade deal since 1994’s North...
Rocking the gap year
Being caught in the middle of possibility and experience is a defining characteristic of youth. Somehow the experiences of the young are partially valuable...
The Old Man and the Pizza
It’s hard to miss Antonio Laudisio at the Boulder County Farmers’ Market where generations of customers have lined up for his smoky pizzas and Polenta...
Regulate alcohol like marijuana?
The official name of Amendment 64, the ballot initiative that legalized recreational marijuana in Colorado, was the “Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol”.
Amendment 64...
Return of CMF mini-festival and former director
Fans of Brahms’s warm Romanticism (and who in the classical audience isn’t?) have much to look forward to.
In three concerts, the Colorado Music Festival...
Local benefit concert supports effort to return the Black Hills to...
In 1868, the U.S. government, representing all of us, signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie with native peoples including the Oglala, Brule and Miniconjou...
Remember, remember…
For more than 400 years, every Bonfire Night Britons have recited the following verses in remembrance of the foiled plot to assassinate their king...
For easy summertime drinking, reach for Txakolina
With summer here, the frequency of poolside barbeques, lazy picnics and late nights on the patio is rising just as quickly as the mercury....
Ten ways to eat better…
Once upon a time, home cooks used everything from their meats and vegetables: stems and peels and bones and fat. We’ve been conditioned to...
Majestical or just majestic?
Family units are fascinating things. Some come ready-made, while others must be forged out of sheer will. That’s what Ricky (Julian Dennison) is hoping...
