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Tempest under a teacup

City unearths contamination at teahouse site

By Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer

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.

News

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

By Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer

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.

Boulderganic

The other oil import

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

By Elizabeth Miller

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.

Adventure

Reflections from road royalty

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

By Abby Faires

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.

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

An R-rated murder mystery at the Dairy

By Gary Zeidner

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.

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Join us at the 2013 Best of Boulder awards party

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 ...

NEWS
News

Tempest under a teacup

City unearths contamination at teahouse site

By Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer

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.

 
 
BOULDERGANIC
Boulderganic

The other oil import

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

By Elizabeth Miller

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.

 
 
ENTERTAINMENT
Music

Yo La Tengo still has it

Ira Kaplan discusses what 20 years flying under the mainstream feels like

By Dave Kirby

Staying the same for almost 30 years has it benefits, explains Yo La Tengo helmsman Ira Kaplan, but it’s also OK to shuffle the deck once in a while.

 
 
ADVENTURE
Adventure

Reflections from road royalty

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

By Abby Faires

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.

 
 
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Need for feed

In slow economy, food assistance on the rise

By Steve Weishampel

Food assistance in Boulder County has increased rapidly in the past five years. Since April 2007, clients of the Boulder County Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) have jumped from 8,848 to 21,250 as of April 2013, a 240 percent increase.

 
 
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