Boulder County’s Resident Ranchers
Whether for food, entertainment or education, local ranches have been an integral part of Boulder County since our native grasslands first attracted homesteaders in the 1800s.
Culture
Joanna Rotkin: Embracing the Dancer’s Life
Performer and teacher likes making people see things differently By Mark Collins Joanna Rotkin has been dancing her whole life. She danced as a kid growing up in Boulder, in college, and when she moved to Jamestown a little more than a decade ago. All along the way, however, Rotkin thought she would one day
Backcountry Hut Trips
Colorado’s quintessential hut-to-hut trips were birthed from the Alps tradition of ski touring, but we’ve added snowshoes, snowmobiles, automobiles and mountain bikes
A talk with filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll
Pamela Tanner Boll has always focused her lens on the unknown rather than the famous, the underdogs rather than the powerful.
Bears in the Crosshairs
Larry Rogstad addresses the state’s two-strike policy By Julie Marshall Working for Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) for 34 years has given Larry Rogstad a unique perspective not just on the charismatic sage grouse or the magnificent mountain lion, but also on people and their critical role in the midst of ever-increasing resource conflicts. At
‘Ground truthing’ a super volcano at Yellowstone
Too close for comfort? Boulder lies more than 400 miles from Yellowstone. Would we actually be affected by such an eruption? By Terri Cook The movie opens with a dark and wintry Colorado scene: a group of snowmobilers, bundled into fur-edged parkas, frantically racing through several feet of soft powder in the middle of a
Theater Review: The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) (Revised)
By Beki Pineda THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED)(REVISED). Written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield; directed by Nanci Van Fleet. Produced by Longmont Theatre Company (513 Main St., Longmont) through Nov. 22. Tickets available at 303-772-5200 or www.longmonttheatre.org. Note that added last word “Revised” in the title of this show. Not only
Theater Review: How I Learned To Drive
By Beki Pineda HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE. Written by Paula Vogel; directed by Liza Williams. Co-produced by square product theatre and Goddess Here Productions (Diary Center for the Arts at 2590 Walnut St., Boulder) and Buntport Theater at 717 Lipan St., Denver) through Nov. 14. Tickets available at 303-444-7328 or thediary.org through Nov. 7,
Theater Review: Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story
By Beki Pineda Photo Credit: BDT Stage BUDDY: THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY. Written by Alan Janes; directed by Wayne Kennedy. Produced by BDT Stage (5500 Arapahoe Road) through Nov. 14. Tickets available at 303-449-6000 or www.bdtstage.com. If you lived in the late ’50s anywhere in America, you knew the music of Buddy Holly. In three
Theater Review: The Explorers Club
By Beki Pineda Photo Credit: Lone Tree Arts Center THE EXPLORERS CLUB. Written by Nell Benjamin; directed by Randal Myler. Produced by the Lone Tree Arts Center (10075 Commons St., Lone Tree) through Oct. 24. Tickets available at 720-509-1000 or www.lonetreeartscenter.org. While understanding the economic reasons for them, I hate two-week runs. Even if a
Theater Review: Outside Mullingar
By Beki Pineda Photo Credit: BETC OUTSIDE MULLINGAR. Written by John Patrick Shanley; directed by Rebecca Remaly. Produced by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company at the Dairy Center for the Arts (2590 Walnut St.) through Oct. 11. The final four performances (7:30pm Friday, 2pm and 7:30 pm Saturday, 4pm Sunday) are sold out, but a wait
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Touch a cloud, tangle with a tornado, create a little chaos—NCAR’s science exhibits help kids learn about weather, climate and other earth-science topics. Free. (See listing below for Super Science Saturday). Open 8am-5pm weekdays at 1850 Table Mesa Drive. scied.ucar.edu/exhibits.
A New Guide Book: Hiking Colorado’s Front Range
I saw my first Colorado calendar while growing up in California. Replete with fantastic images of mountains, rivers, animals, columbines, aspens and the bluest of skies, the calendar made me wonder, “Does such a gorgeous place really exist?” I discovered it does after moving here 36 years ago. Since then, I’ve hiked a lot of terrain
Helping the Homeless
Like many families, the Weinrauchs visit Costco each month to load up on necessities. But in their case, the necessities aren’t for them. “We give the homeless all this stuff,” says 9-year-old Torre Weinrauch. She and Zyree, her feisty 7-year-old sister, accompany their parents on Costco runs to handpick things like crackers, Band-Aids, water bottles,
Pet Hospice a Growing Trend
For pet owners who prefer to manage their pets’ end-of-life care in their own homes, the growing national trend of pet hospice programs provides support and care. These programs work with animals who have terminal diagnoses and less than three months to live, and also generally offer in-home euthanasia services, owner emotional support and, occasionally,
Fruits of the Farm
If you’ve ever seen a sign like this at Lucky’s Market in Boulder, you might have asked yourself, “Who is this Connie, anyway, and why is her produce so famous?” Connie is Connie Zweck, who owns and operates Zweck’s Farm in Longmont with her husband, Tom, the great-grandson of George, who began farming the land
Ricardo Peña: Life from music to mountaineering
For most of the calendar year, the sounds in Ricardo Peña’s ears are musical: Cuban son, rock ’n’ roll, blues, bolero. The consonance of rhyming instrumentation, Spanish paeans to love and loss from a bygone era, familiar anthems and party songs from Norteamérica. When he’s leading the Ricardo Peña Band, some of the music is
High-intensity indoor cycling options abound
Bike When You Like On a recent Tuesday at the BreakAway Cycle & Strength Studio in Longmont, a nearly full class of riders worked strategically to push their legs at the right speed and resistance to exert the exact number of watts of power needed at that moment to reach their peak performance. In a different
Boulder’s ‘Bugtown’ Brothels
By Charmaine Ortega Getz “Drive the brothels out of town,” the Boulder County Herald editorialized in June 1886. “The first thing a person sees upon alighting from the cars in Boulder and the last seen on getting on the train are these institutions of infamy.” Indeed, despite an 1873 ordinance that outlawed any “bawdy house,
Theater Review: The Odd Couple
By Beki Pineda THE ODD COUPLE (The Female Version). Written by Neil Simon; directed by Edith Weiss. Produced by Senior Housing Options, Inc (Barth Hotel , 1514 17th St., Denver) through Aug. 22. Tickets available at 303-595-4646 X 10 or www.seniorhousingoptions.org. To develop a successful show into a franchise, some playwrights write sequels—as in the cases
Theater Review: Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest Hits
By Beki Pineda; Images: Evergreen Players FORBIDDEN BROADWAY’S GREATEST HITS. Written by Gerard Alessandrini; directed by Kelly Van Oosbree; musical direction by Eric Weinstein. Produced by Evergreen Players (Center Stage, 27608 Fireweed Drive, Evergreen) through Aug. 2. Tickets available at 303-674-4934 or www.evergreenplayers.org. The FORBIDDEN BROADWAY franchise began in 1982, sprung from the fertile imagination
