Tag: oct 03 2019 issue
Mutual understanding
In June of 1989, a military coup, led by Omar al-Bashir, overtook the government in Sudan. Combined with widespread famine, the military violence in...
To be transformed
As an avid theater lover, I’m always excited to try a new experience. Last spring, I was intrigued when a friend invited me to...
Not as simple as it seems
Have you ever been stranded in an airport between flights?
If so, Boulder’s Ars Nova Singers and Denver’s Stratus Ensemble have a musical program for...
From sea to peak
The mountain known as K2 is also known as “Savage Mountain.” Its sheer, jagged slopes rise from Pakistan’s Karakoram Valley floor and culminate in...
That’s a great idea, Charlie
The year: 1981. The
protagonist: Charlie Papazian, America’s homebrewing advocate. The setting: the
Great British Beer Festival in England.
“In those days, the closest thing to...
Fentanyl in the family
Boulder County is far from immune to the national opioid epidemic. Whether it’s high-profile overdose deaths, like that of Eric Chase Bolling Jr., a...
C’mon get happy
Judy Garland was born in
a trunk. Or so the story goes in A Star Is Born, a movie
about an aging actor on his way...
Celebrating Stan
Watching a Stan Brakhage film is like dreaming with your eyes open. The
collision of colors and shadows, images overlapping images, distortions and
rapid-fire editing imprints...
In our nature
Sue Cass is a Boulder birder with a keen interest in raptors, a master gardener with an encyclopedic knowledge of the area’s wildflowers, trees...
big night out
bits & piecesof me slough offevery day slivers of sanityflecks of hopescraps of intellecti sweep them up & save themfor a rainy day
whispers of old...
The Thai that binds
Fragrant steam permeates the kitchen as Bee Rungtawan Kisich works the wok in her Lafayette home.
She adds fresh tilapia, onions, mushrooms and tomatoes and...
