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Music Education My Way

In 1972, I earned my first paycheck, took my first guitar lessons, bought my first rock albums and fell in love (and got dumped) for the first time, all at the end of my third-grade ...

High Hopes

This could rock your world: Forget about writing the perfect résumé, about memorizing clever answers to cliché interview questions, about impressing the human resources ...

Let the Games Begin

It seems it’s now officially the general presidential election. We’ve now seen a number of Republican candidates as well as the president and his wife make their ...

Spring Awakening

There I am: my rear-end hanging off a cushy bike seat into the busy early evening traffic of downtown Boulder. I am pedaling with abandon. It’s a good feeling—and ...

Off Track

As romantic and quaint and hip as it would be to commute between Boulder (and Longmont) and Denver by train, it’s not going to happen any time soon. And it shouldn’t; ...

A Media Tutorial

Because I’m a glutton for punishment, I recently read Yellow Scene’s Yelp page. There’s only three, but one reviewer obviously is not a fan. Specifically, the review noted an error in ...

Field of Dreams

“No estampan mi passport, por favor.” A customs official, who couldn’t have been more than 25, slipped a piece of paper into my passport, pounded a blue ink dolphin stamp onto it, and ...

Words with Pictures

I will never forget the images of photographers like Eddie Adams, David Burnett and Chris Hondros. Hondros, who was killed while shooting the civil war in Libya last year.

Coming Home

They say moving is one of the most stressful occasions in life—next to divorce and unemployment. But I would argue that getting settled in a new home and a new ...

When is a Day no Longer a Day?

What is a day? Most would say “24 hours” or the length of time from midnight to midnight or 86,400 seconds. All these definitions are correct in as far as they go.

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