Tag: Mar 17 2016 issue
A rock ‘n’ roll night of Baroque
Zachary Carrettin talks rock ‘n’ roll, but you won’t recognize most of the composers.
The artistic director of the Boulder Bach Festival, Carrettin has put...
Gimme the cold shoulder
In Colorado, climbing is a year-round sport. When the heat of the summer dies down and the shadows grow longer each day, active seekers...
Stuck in a bunker with you?
You can keep your Jason Voorhies and Freddy Kreuger. To me, nothing is more terrifying than an overweight, middle-aged, gun-loving, white man obsessed with...
Astrology: March 17, 2016
ARIES
March 21-April 19:
Artist Steven Spazuk works exclusively with an unusual medium: soot from candles and torches. He spreads the stuff across a blank canvas,...
‘Arabian Nights’ at IFS for a three-night event
Ambition comes in all shapes and sizes, but when it comes to the movies, ambition tends to come big. So big that one night...
The joy of ugly produce
We hold this truth to be self-evident: Americans today are wimps when it comes to dirt, especially on their vegetables and fruit. It seems...
What do chickens and our constitutional rights have in common?
Imagine the outcry by tea party Republicans if state legislators were passing laws banning the use of video cameras in banks to capture images...
Bus operators race to ditch dirty vehicles
In 2013, the Regional Transportation District (RTD) faced a big decision. Advancing technologies, combined with a boom in natural gas production, presented an opportunity...
Boulder’s Buddha Thai has a lot to like
When I moved to Boulder several years ago, I asked the Comcast guy installing our cable for restaurant recommendations in town. Better to ask...
Australia is regaining its mojo
Australian wine has fallen out of fashion.
In the late-1990s, Americans became obsessed with wines from the Land Down Under. For most of this millennium’s...
Genetic change in hatchery fish; new Xenoturbella
Fish hatcheries cause massive genetic changes after a single generation
A study by Oregon State University and the Oregon Department of Fisheries and Wildlife has...
