Boulder author Jonny Waldman finds drama in rust and bricks
The idea for Rust: The Longest War, the winner of the 2016 Colorado Book Award for General Nonfiction, began with a problematic sailboat.
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Boulder Uber driver goes from rags to riches at World Series of Poker
With not much in the bank, the million-dollar win certainly set this Uber driver up.
Louisville sign painter Ed Helmstead brightens a fading art
Sign painting is a somewhat disappearing art in our digital age, and Helmstead is something of an institution in Louisville.
CU professor leads effort to map the Cannabis genome
The Cannabis Genomic Research Initiative was established to determine the biology of the plant, and where it came from and how it grows.
Boulder’s Unpaid Heroes: County depends on search and rescue volunteers
Five nonprofit groups contract through the Boulder County Sheriff’s Department to provide search-and-rescue services by unpaid volunteers at no charge.
Interview with Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle
Sheriff Pelle embodies the personality, character, awareness and compassion needed to be sheriff in our unique community.
Jaipur Literature Festival: An Eclectic Exchange of Ideas
The second annual Jaipur Literature Festival at Boulder is set for Sept. 24-25.
It’s Time for the Colorado Buffaloes to Climb Out of the Hole
Is this going to be the year? By Larry Zimmer As Coach Mike MacIntyre enters his fourth year, Colorado fans wonder: Is this finally going to be the year? MacIntyre’s evaluation? “We are climbing out of a deep hole and the ladder is poking out of the hole. Now we have to get out of
Dana Romanoff’s projects are at heart of pressing contemporary issues
In today’s vast and chaotic digital-information world, the work of award-winning photographer, journalist and filmmaker Dana Romanoff is especially welcome.
Boulder’s LGBT history: from ‘the Hate State’ to the Supreme Court
Boulder’s LGBT history has many lessons to teach, including that backlash often follows progress. By Carol Taylor and Glenda Russell By now, the fact that Boulder County issued same-sex marriage licenses in 1975 is well known in the national media. Clela Rorex, the Boulder County Clerk at that time, was interviewed on NPR last year.
Elite competition, specialization and injuries are hurting youth sports
Overstretched By Julie Kailus Every parent with a kid in sports today has run into hypercompetitiveness in some form. It might be those squawking parents pushing their child inappropriately from the sideline. In other cases, it’s a league that too quickly raised the bar—and expectations—for kids who were just playing sports for fun and fundamentals.
Baseball came to Boulder in the 1860s
Play Ball! with Boulder County’s Hayseeds, Hand-Me-Downs and O Be Joyfuls By Charmaine Ortega Getz Baseball, then spelled “base ball,” was still a young sport when it arrived in a sparsely settled district of the Territory of Colorado known as Boulder County. The first county town to field a team may well have been Valmont.
Fashion: Colorado Style Just for Kids!
Fashion-forward clothes that kids can be kids in By Lisa Truesdale Like most new moms-to-be, the first thing Kira O’Brien did after finding out she was having a baby was to tell her husband (of course), her family and her closest friends. And the second thing? “I went straight to Nest,” she says, laughing. “I
Movers, Shakers and Boulder’s Makers
Locals opt to slow down with handmaking and handcrafting By Eli Wallace For Linda Spillmann, it all happened in a flash. “It was literally a light-bulb moment. One morning I woke up and said, ‘I’m going to open a fabric store in Boulder that sells lovely fabric and helps people learn to sew,’” says Spillmann,
Summer Bucket List: Fun Things To Do in Boulder and beyond
Brock Media had fun coming up with its bucket list of things we plan to do, most of them right here in Boulder County. Go to the Rocky Mountain Tea Festival. Swim in the Eldorado Springs pool. Once a friend and I left one car there (with a picnic lunch) and then hiked the Mesa
Audience names best storyteller in Truth Be Told events
Local storytelling ‘slams’ connect community By Kate Jonuska The competition was fierce. Eleven winners from previous rounds battled live on stage, projecting their voices and baring their souls to an audience of hundreds in hot pursuit of the coveted Truth Be Told All-Star Grand Slam prize. “I won a no-expenses-paid vacation!” crowed Nancy Norton, the
Books Do Furnish a Room
Juniper Books founder makes his own niche in a changing industry By Mary Reed When Thatcher Wine was a Dartmouth College student in the early ’90s, he often found himself in the special-collections library, looking at books from the 18th century along with handwritten correspondence from the college’s founder. He majored in history and art
Boulder’s Disappearing Glaciers
The Arapaho Glacier remains an important water source for Boulder By Terri Cook On July 14, 1900, Boulder pharmacist Eben G. Fine was in the mountains west of town, visiting the owner of a mine in the vicinity of Silver Lake, the lowest and largest in a string of glistening alpine lakes tucked into the
Are You ‘Boulder Athletic’?
Where do you fall on the Boulder athletic spectrum? Take this quiz to find out.
Boulder-based coalition heals Indian boarding-school trauma
Let the Healing Begin By Kay Turnbaugh The story of America’s Indian boarding schools remains a little-known chapter in our history. Beginning in the 1800s and continuing into the 1950s, the federal government forced Native American children from their homes and sent them to often faraway military-style residential schools, a policy that had profound effects
Bringing marijuana into the realm of fine dining
A Pipe at Every Table By Kate Jonuska White wine is for fish. Red wine is for beef. By remembering those basics, a food lover can squeak by in most of the wine-drinking world. Of course, youʼre not in most of the wine-drinking world, but in an envelope-pushing state where diners may soon understand new
