AltWeeklies Wire
Fang Mania: Why Are Vampires Everywhere?new
It may be Halloween, but bloodsuckers are no longer relegated to the end of October. Like a dark cloud of mosquitoes, vampires have descended on America. They're everywhere, from the puppet teaching our children to count to the romantic hero stealing the hearts of teenagers nationwide.
Boulder Weekly |
David Accomazzo |
11-02-2009 |
Culture
Relocalization May be the Key to Not Exterminating Ourselvesnew
What happens when humanity is hit by a big challenge, such as depletion of fossil fuels, global climate change or a prolonged economic crisis? A growing number of people believe the answer lies in relocalization.
Boulder Weekly |
Pamela White |
10-26-2009 |
Culture
Boulder County's Debate on GMOs Infiltrated by Biotech Industrynew
When the Boulder County Commissioners are asked to decide later this month whether six farmers leasing county agricultural land can grow genetically modified (GM) sugar beets, chances are they'll hear from the food biotechnology industry itself -- and they might not realize it.
Boulder Weekly |
Pamela White |
08-10-2009 |
Food+Drink
Can People Eat Nutritiously on Food Stamps?new
I spent Feb. 4 through Feb. 10 eating a highly nutritious, low-carb diet for $33.07, or $4.72 per day, less than food stamps provide. For a month in 2007 my wife and I ate a higher-carb -- but still nutritious -- diet for $2.57 per day each.
Boulder Weekly |
Ari Armstrong |
02-23-2009 |
Food+Drink
Groomers Smooth Out Slopes All Night, Enjoy Sunrisesnew
The average skier pushes a thousand pounds of snow down the hill in a day. Without groomers to plow some of that back up the hill, we’d be rock skiing all season long.
Boulder Weekly |
Andrew Wineke |
02-02-2009 |
Culture
Tags: skiing, cat drivers
Newspaper of the Future: Part IIInew
The daily newspaper business has addressed its problems in much the same way that our government has addressed the recession: by resorting to short-term remedies that fail to address the issues at a fundamental level, rather than engaging in the long-term retooling that is necessary to create sustainability.
Boulder Weekly |
Stewart Sallo |
02-02-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: media, alt-weeklies
What's God Got to Do With It?new
While hot-button religious issues these topics garner lots of ink and keep blogs busy, are they the issues that matter most in the day-to-day practice of religion in our nation?
Boulder Weekly |
Jim Lillie |
02-02-2009 |
Culture
Tags: religion
Rising Homeless Population Finds a Way to Express Itselfnew
A Boulder cafe hosts an exhibit of work by homeless artists to raise funds for a local social services organization.
Boulder Weekly |
Dylan Otto Krider |
01-23-2009 |
Art
Embracing Skepticism in a World of Networked Identitynew
The real purpose of networking sites, we think, is to make it easier to stay close to the people you want to be close to, rather than perform for the world, and for that reason I actually Facebooked up last week. And will not, after consideration, blog next year. Facebook will work if I do nothing to it -- a blog entry is obsolete immediately.
Boulder Weekly |
Dave Kirby |
12-29-2008 |
Commentary
Fundamentalists Have Turned 'Merry Christmas' into a Battle Crynew
At some point, someone decided that Christians are in the minority in this country and that Christmas is in danger of being lost beneath the crush of cross-culturalism and political correctness. Thus began the push to challenge the inclusive phrase "Happy Holidays" and insist that people say "Merry Christmas" instead.
Boulder Weekly |
Pamela White |
12-15-2008 |
Commentary
Len Barron Brings Einstein Back from the Deadnew
Barron has spent the past 20 years trying to exalt Albert Einstein in his one-man show. He just released a DVD, Portraits of Einstein, with clips of his show and other goodies.
Boulder Weekly |
Dylan Otto Krider |
11-20-2008 |
Performance
Colorado City Debates Allowing Backyard Hens as Interest in Urban Farming Surgesnew
Although it's legal to keep chickens in the city of Boulder and in many other communities along the Front Range and across the country, you're likely to get a citation if you try it in Longmont. But this might soon change, as the city is scrambling to review and perhaps change its codes in response to citizen demand.
Boulder Weekly |
Pamela White |
11-17-2008 |
Food+Drink
Righteous Anger: Henry Rollins Plants His Black Flag on the World Stagenew
Anger gets a bad rap these days. If only the Left had Henry Rollins representing them on all these Sunday morning roundtables instead of the weak-kneed Nicholas Kristof's and Joe Lieberman's, then there might have been a check on the madness that hijacked our discourse for the past decade or so.
Boulder Weekly |
Dylan Otto Krider |
11-06-2008 |
Performance
Political Part-tays in Bouldernew
Where to celebrate (or weep) in Boulder County before, during and after the election.
Boulder Weekly |
Dylan Otto Krider |
10-30-2008 |
Recreation
Revenge of the Outcastsnew
In the Internet Age, when everything is democratized, the Fringe Festival is the performance equivalent of blogs: anyone can put up something, leaving it to the audience to be final editor.
Boulder Weekly |
Dylan Otto Krider |
08-14-2008 |
Performance
