Tempest under a teacup

City unearths contamination at teahouse site

Something unsightly has gotten a bit too close to one of Boulder’s crown jewels. An environmental contractor hired to deal with possibly hazardous materials from an old gasification plant near the Dushanbe Teahouse downtown has confirmed the need to clean up contamination at the site.

1770 13th St.: A history of contamination, and an odd land-use decision

1770 13th St. wasn’t always a center of Boulder culture. For more than 50 years it was home to a towngas manufacturing plant that appears to have left behind a serious mess in the form of soil and groundwater contamination, contamination that is proving to be quite a challenge to clean up, mostly because the City of Boulder built a plaza and a teahouse right on top of it even after it knew the subsurface contamination was an issue.

The other oil import

Why palm oil is key to cutting the carbon emissions from our food system

Deforestation is at the top of the CIA’s list of environmental issues facing Indonesia, and much of it can be attributed to the creation of palm oil plantations, built to satisfy demands of the American market, which has increased the import of palm oil by 485 percent over the last decade.

Reflections from road royalty

As the Bolder Boulder approaches, runners recall decades of change in the sport

More than 60,000 people are expected to participate in the Bolder Boulder this year — what “may be the world’s best mass participation race in the United States,” according to Runner’s World magazine.

It was the cat rapist in the solarium with the enema nozzle

An R-rated murder mystery at the Dairy

In fact, it amuses me to no end that some of the material on their website (particularly the description of Penumbra in the Garden of Twilight’s Cucumbers, the fictional play they’d intended to produce before settling on Delirium Tremens) and in the program so far exceeds in cleverness and craft the dialogue in Delirium Tremens itself.

Join us in celebrating our 2013 Best of Boulder winners! Our fourth annual Best of Boulder Awards Ceremony is 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday, May 23 at the Boulder Theater. The event is free and open ...