Closing Scene

August 21, 2012 Like 0 James Burrus

“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold …” And so it began, with Hunter S. Thompson’s widow, Anita, launching into the opening chapter of Fear and Loathing in Las…

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Summer festival shenanigans

June 11, 2012 Like 0 James Burrus

Summer festival season is here, and with my crew, that used to mean that you couldn’t let your guard down until the sweet corn was out of season. It was the summer of 1993 and I was headed to Telluride…

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Music Education My Way

May 14, 2012 Like 0 James Burrus

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 year. The girl I fell…

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Off Track

April 16, 2012 Like 0 Andra Coberly

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; not with the Burlington Northern/Santa Fe railroad calling the…

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Field of Dreams

March 20, 2012 Like 0 James Burrus

“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 my friend Johnny Rev and I were…

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When is a Day no Longer a Day?

January 2, 2012 Like 0 James Burrus

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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Ski for All

October 17, 2011 Like 0 James Burrus

I have already purchased my multi-mountain season ski pass, so I can assure you all we will have a crummy snow year. There will be massive dumps, yes, but they will come mid-week and shut down I-70 in both directions…

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Double Duty

September 22, 2011 Like 0 James Burrus

When I adopted Bart (short for Slartibartfast) from the Boulder Valley Humane Society, he was relatively young—about nine months—and without a name.

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Road Warriors

June 15, 2011 Like 0 James Burrus

Getting around on two wheels in Boulder County keeps getting progressively easier, safer and more convenient as more roads get the “bike friendly” treatment.

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Off the Air

April 18, 2011 Like 0 James Burrus

National Public Radio has been in the cross hairs of Washington, D.C., Republicans for years. Mostly this is because the venerable news organization used to do a decent job of reporting. Facts, you see, are toxic to the tea partiers…