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  • Boulder Housing Coalition Brings Back Parts of the ‘old Boulder’ with Communal Living

    Boulder Housing Coalition Brings Back Parts of the ‘old Boulder’ with Communal Living

    Wizards of modern housing  On the corner of 9th and North Street in Downtown Boulder sits a strange-looking house. While some of its residents describe its twisting halls as reminiscent of Hogwarts, the house is home not to wizards, but a wide range of Boulder residents. The house is called Ostara and currently hosts about 20 residents ranging from 15 to 55 years old. If you arrive around dinner time, you may find a few of them cooking in a communal kitchen. Arrive a few minutes later, and one of the chefs will be walking the twisted halls, ringing the

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  • Boulder Housing Coalition Brings Back Parts of the ‘old Boulder’ with Communal Living

    Boulder Housing Coalition Brings Back Parts of the ‘old Boulder’ with Communal Living

    Wizards of modern housing  On the corner of 9th and North Street in Downtown Boulder sits a strange-looking house. While some of its residents describe its twisting halls as reminiscent of Hogwarts, the house is home not to wizards, but a wide range of Boulder residents. The house is called Ostara and currently hosts about 20 residents ranging from 15 to 55 years old. If you arrive around dinner time, you may find a few of them cooking in a communal kitchen. Arrive a few minutes later, and one of the chefs will be walking the twisted halls, ringing the

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  • American Exceptionalism

    American Exceptionalism

    It is hard – no, impossible – to reconcile the brilliant spring day outside my Colorado window with the brutal images from Gaza and from our southern border. We privileged Americans can escape the pain with a quick click of a remote control. We can, but should we? I well imagine that many others experience this conflict: Images of starving children straining against a wire fence, grasping small tin dishes, begging for food we would not even consider eating; body bags the size of carry-on luggage dragged through crushed remnants of what may have been homes (the total devastation makes

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  • Spotlight on Luna Wolf, producer, founder, and organizer LunaFest 2024

    Spotlight on Luna Wolf, producer, founder, and organizer LunaFest 2024

    LunaFest 2024 is a helluva concert with over 70 bands playing over seven days in Boulder at DV8 Distillery. The event runs from April 21st to 29th, 2024. The pre-party is on April 21st, 2024, and is being held at Velvet Elk with the party being kicked off by DJ Drake and Mr. Gettdowne. The post-party is April 29th, 2024, and the location is currently top-secret, but watch for its announcement. The genres run the gamut, but with over 70 bands, how could they not? Headlining acts include: Seckond Chaynce, Flobots, Spyda JC, Biotechnick, and Float Like a Buffalo.  See

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  • These are the tomatoes and peppers that grow best in Northern Colorado

    These are the tomatoes and peppers that grow best in Northern Colorado

    Story by Rae Solomon/KUNC (Via AP Storyshare) Researchers at Colorado State University’s Master Gardener program have finally settled the age-old question of which tomatoes and peppers grow best in Northern Colorado, where the growing season is notoriously short and difficult. Their answers are the result of five years of field experiments that took root in a garden bed in northeast Fort Collins, coordinated by Master Gardener volunteer and retired seed breeder Jon Weiss. While most moderately skilled Colorado gardeners can certainly eke a crop out of hundreds of tomato and pepper varieties, Weiss said that a knowledge gap persisted about

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  • To Find Money, Shift How Boulder Does Transportation

    To Find Money, Shift How Boulder Does Transportation

    First Appeared as a Guest Column for The Boulder Bulletin By Ryan Schuchard, March 4, 2024 Look underneath many of Boulder’s challenges—homelessness, closed swimming pools and parks, families moving out of the city—and you’ll find a common denominator: insufficient funds to meet our demands. On the other hand, one place where resources are untapped is our transportation system. Here I see the potential for meaningful shifts that could save our community real money. #1. PLAN TO DO MORE WITH LESS Our community planning primarily focuses on accommodating personal motor vehicles, visible through many strategies within city policies. We prioritize the

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