Tag: Nov 03 2016 issue
The curation of discovery: Part 4
This week’s final serialized installment of “The curation of discovery” deals with not only the discovery and curation of the Mahaffy Cache, a collection...
Back-alley deal
It was summer and it was hot. We sought what respite we could from the sun and also from the occasional passerby in the...
‘Always carry gaff tape’ and other lessons learned by Courtney Barnett
Notoriety came quickly for Courtney Barnett. After releasing her first full-length album Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit in March...
Steak, eggs, astronauts and bodybuilders
Steak and eggs is one of the quintessential American breakfast dishes. It combines the unrivaled satisfaction of eating a juicy steak, a pleasure far...
Trading bullets for ballots
Sometime in mid-2011, Boulder-based negotiations specialist William Ury flew to Bogotá at the request of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. There in the capital...
Marijuana legalization wars: Follow the money edition
A good way to gauge where things stand in the marijuana legalization wars a week before Election Day is to follow the money. And the...
Letters: 11/3/16
BW’s Inexplicable Presidential Endorsement
Thanks for the article “The New Harvest of Rage,” by Joel Dyer in the October 27, 2016 edition of BW. Unfortunately,...
Vote No on 71 to protect direct democracy
Citizen access to our last vestige of direct democracy — the statewide ballot initiative — is under attack. As organizers of recent ballot initiatives...
From rescue to recovery
In 1997, Tom Wood sold everything he owned and cruised the long, flat road from Ohio to Colorado. He had no job, no place...
The world will miss Tom Hayden
Whatever the future holds and as satisfying as my life is today,” Tom Hayden wrote in his 1988 memoir, “I miss the ’60s and...
Walling them out, or walling us in?
Three Guatemalans waited ’til dusk to make their move. Evading security cameras in the remote expanse along the U.S. border, they slipped illicitly into...
ICUMI (in case u missed it)
The weaker sex?
While women have a plethora of birth control options at their disposal — pills, rings, implants, intrauterine devices — men have mostly...
