Local duo brings the cinematic spotlight to Boulder once again
The sisters Beeck are calm and happy in their office, despite the fact that in just weeks they’ll open their sixth-annual Boulder International Film Festival, where Alec Baldwin will make a cameo, Blythe Danner will be on hand for a screening of her new film, The Lightkeepers, and 47 films will be watched, discussed and enjoyed.
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February 2010
USA Rugby’s CEO is ready for a revolution in the states
The old English adage goes, “Football is a gentleman’s game played by thugs and rugby is a thug’s game played by gentlemen.” Which means that Nigel Melville is a gentleman who is working to spread a canon of brutishness across the United States. Sort of.
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November 2009
Local is thrust into fracas over climate change and pikas
Chris Ray looks outdoorsy and rugged even as she sits in a bustling Boulder coffee shop, peering into the depths of a laptop. She’s busy. Very busy. More busy than she thought she’d be when she set out, years ago, to study a little mountain creature known as the pika. She also wasn’t expecting the political skirmishes, the spotlight and the requests from other researchers and biologists.
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October 2009
Boulder County’s DA on crime, punishment and tweeting
Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett laughs when he discusses what is arguably the most talked-about issue of his first eight or so months in office.
Of course, if you read the papers, you know that it has nothing to do with a cold case or DNA or term limits but with a social media phenomenon known as Twitter.
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September 2009
CU’s new women’s volleyball coach is one tough cookie
Liz Kritza is home. Years ago, Kritza was a Colorado teenager and a high school volleyball star. Today, she’s the new coach of CU’s beleaguered women’s volleyball team. During the time in between—more than a decade at University of Tulane in New Orleans—she got educated, learned to be a collegiate-level coach and a mentor, survived Mother Nature’s ire and became a buoy even after the waters waned in Katrina’s wake. There were losses and wins—big wins—and victories off the court.
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August 2009
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