Tag: Mar 02 2017 issue
Wall Street plowboys
I love the names: Bobcat Farm, Golden Eagle Ranch, Long Prairie, Pintail Vineyard, Roadrunner Ranch, and Ten Mile Farm. They conjure up Americana, the old...
Tour de brew: Bootstrap Brewing
Do you remember the beer that made you fall in love? Was it the Coors Light you snuck out of your Dad’s beer cooler?...
Ras Kassa’s is back and that’s a very good thing
Back in the late 1980s, an Ethiopian restaurant called Ras Kassa’s set up shop at the junction of Eldorado Canyon and U.S. 93. It...
The outlaw: Mark Stefanowski
There are 23 students dispersed across three half-orderly rows along the linoleum floor. It’s just past 6 a.m., the air inside is heavy, almost...
Looking for some spanking recreation; Turned on by getting dumped?
Dear Dan: I’m a fan from way back. A therapist told me to go out and have some fun — I’m a married woman...
Slightly worse white people
The satirical thesis of writer/director Jordan Peele’s Get Out is so deliciously literal, Jonathan Swift modestly proposes that his recipe has been bitten. The...
Brick-a-Bat
Forget “Don’t Tread on Me.” If Americans really wanted a flag that captures our collective mentality, it would be a morbidly obese snake with...
Local boy makes God
The old school newspaper headline, “Local boy makes good,” seems to have fallen out of fashion of late. Should we blame the 24-hour news...
Standing still and a lust for bass at The Dairy
The clarinetist says the hardest part is standing still. The violinist also plays the piano because she has a “lust for bass.”
It should be...
The women history forgot
While the world knows the name John Glenn as the first man to orbit the Earth, it wasn’t until last year’s Oscar-nominated hit Hidden...
Ushering in a great era film
Last weekend in an epic mix-up of Steve Harvey proportions, underdog Moonlight triumphed over the season’s darling La La Land to win best picture...