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Thursday, March 29,2012

Running full circle

Mountain runner Pablo Vigil recounts a career on foot

By Elizabeth Miller
The week he’ll be inducted into the Colorado Running Hall of Fame, Pablo Vigil is likely to spend more hours practicing his guitar than running, a shift that he says is a welcome change.
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Thursday, March 22,2012

Act legalizes cottage chefs

Local Foods, Local Jobs Act allows for sales of food from home kitchens

By Elizabeth Miller
Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed the “Local Foods, Local Jobs Act” into law, exempting small food producers who sell directly to their customers from having to use commercial kitchens and paying for health department inspections.
Monday, March 19,2012

Getting a grip

Boulder resident Cory Richards heads to Everest to repeat 1963 American West Ridge route

By Elizabeth Miller
Not so very long ago, Cory Richards was among those climbers who considered a borrowed floor a suitable bed and scratching out a living by photographing climbers just a dream.
Thursday, March 15,2012

Setting fire to sex trafficking

Matchbox auction funds art therapy with sex-trafficked girls in Cambodia

By Elizabeth Miller
Sue Chambers Wallingford and a team of eight Naropa art therapy grad students were looking for a creative way to engage local artists in producing artwork for an auction benefiting a nonprofit they’ve launched to help sex trafficking victims in Cambodia. On March 17, all that artwork will be unveiled at the “Small Resources = Big Possibilities” gala.
Thursday, March 8,2012

Of adverbs and experimentation

Josh Gross’ short stories reveal a writer finding his voice

By Elizabeth Miller
Of course I liked Secrets & Lies, a collection of short fiction written by Josh Gross. I like Josh Gross. We dated in college, hated each other until I was in graduate school, and then became friends. And there’s enough of him in those pages for it to feel, after reading a story, as though I’ve just had a conversation with him.
Thursday, February 23,2012

Home is where the art is

Peggy Stephen searches for space for her collection of Asian art

By Elizabeth Miller
Selling art out of your house has certain virtues. Art in a gallery can look distant and cool, far too impressive for living room walls. But bring paintings home and they seem to change shape, take on greater intimacy, join the family and get comfortable on the furniture.
Thursday, February 16,2012

Biff 2012 | Covering higher ground

Film documents veterans' summit of Nepalese peak

By Elizabeth Miller
In 2010, to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Eric Weihenmayer’s ascent of Mount Everest as the only blind man to climb the world’s tallest mountain, the same team who went with him reassembled to do a commemorative trip.
Thursday, February 16,2012

Biff 2012 | Grand on a glacial scale

Boulderites travel the world to document glaciers’ final days

By Elizabeth Miller
Most of the time, art and science stare at each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension,” photographer James Balog says in his 2009 Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) talk. “Art, of course, looks at the world through the psyche, the emotions —even the unconscious at times — and of course the aesthetic.
Thursday, February 9,2012

Mountain of a man: Fred Beckey discusses his new book

By Elizabeth Miller
You could say the same about Beckey. Seventy years after he started pioneering routes up mountains, he’s still chasing new summits. And no, he’s not selling a secret formula to successful mountaineering when you’re on the verge of your 10th decade..
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Thursday, February 9,2012

Gimme all your gas money

State alleges that ConocoPhillips has misused environmental cleanup funds

By Elizabeth Miller
The state of Colorado has filed a complaint against the ConocoPhillips Company alleging that ConocoPhillips has profited from the state’s fund for pollution cleanup at service stations by taking $70 million in state funds for clean-ups its insurance company later reimbursed it for.
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