Tag: nov 30 2017 issue
This is George
Curious George made his debut in 1941, brought to life by the husband-and-wife team Hans and Margret Rey. The premise of the book is...
Wood Brothers
The Wood Brothers’ new LP, suggestively titled One Drop of Truth¸ starts its program with a simple acoustic guitar bounce, a bluesy, sundance-in-the-field filigree...
Staying up late
Each week, Carmen Sandim voluntarily forgoes sleep for two nights. Not back to back, of course, because that would be crazy. Still, two nights...
Brace for Thorgasm
Whether or not we’ve reached the zenith of comic book movies, we have officially achieved “peak Goldblum.” Dressed as the coolest dad at the...
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world?
Outside Sweden’s X-Royal museum of modern and contemporary art, a worker replaces the bricks in the cobblestone courtyard just so and lies down a...
Devastation
Dear Dan: I’m a straight man in a live-in relationship with a beautiful woman. There are no sparks in bed, and it’s been more...
Letters: 11/30/17
A chilling realization
As I was driving home from a gig last Friday night in Denver, I got a real hankering for frozen yogurt. Then...
Hope — if we are committed
In the last several years, a new conventional wisdom has emerged in the West about conflict in the Middle East. World leaders, public intellectuals,...
Why won’t Trump stand up to Putin?
As Donald Trump said: “Strange things happen in life.”
Yes — like him! Take that strange bromance he’s got going with his presidential counterpart,...
DHS terminates protective status for Haitians. Who’s next?
On Nov. 20, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it’s terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 50,000 Haitian immigrants, effective July 2019....
Geo-engineering can stop global warming, at least in theory
Climate scientists now know that geo-engineering — in principle at least — would halt global warming and keep the world at the temperatures it...