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Giving voice
There’s an earthiness in the air as several young people work on potting some 300 flowers in the lobby of the Boulder Museum of...
Dodging a bullet… for now
In November 2016, Jose (a pseudonym) found himself at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contract detention facility in Aurora. He had been living...
SMiLE, it’s good for you
Ten minutes before I turn onto Pearl Street, my phone vibrates. A message: “I forgot to ask... Will you keep my identity a secret?”...
Colorado Senate set to kill conversion therapy ban… again
A few weeks ago, Silas Musick went to the Colorado State Capitol and testified in support of a bill to ban conversion therapy, a discredited...
Leave it to BETC
Atheist, agnostic or true believer. Which one are you? Whichever it is, you probably feel quite firmly that you’re right and the other two...
Writer’s Block has ‘IT’
It’s a Tuesday night at Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Café’s weekly open poetry reading.
“Writer’s Block,” a poet at the mic says.
“Outside the box,” a...
Stopping the clock
We asked Steve Morse — indisputably one of the planet’s most accomplished guitarists — if there were still parts of his own technique that...
Inspired by a tragic story, ‘Heart of Hungary’ features Edward Dusinberre...
Some stories just have to be told.
That is what composer Jeffrey Nytch thought when he heard about Sandor Feher, a violinist who died on...
Lowering the bar
Last November, Colorado voters passed Amendment 71, a controversial constitutional amendment aimed at making it more difficult for citizens to amend the state constitution....
Luna phase
Drifting through our back pages prior to a chat with Luna’s Dean Wareham last week, we were mildly astonished to see that our last...
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic talks about digging into the deep cuts for...
Between the song parodies, his corny-yet-lovable sense of humor and a quasi-nerdy affection for the accordion, it could have been easy to dismiss “Weird...
Boulder band Envy Alo introduces boogaloo fusion and new vocals
It’s been two years since the Boulder-based band Envy Alo dropped their first album, One Time, but the soulful rock/funk band hasn’t stopped working,...