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Reading Aloud
“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…
Read moreClosing Scene
Summer festival shenanigans
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…
Read moreMusic 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 year. The girl I fell…
Read moreField 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 my friend Johnny Rev and I were…
Read moreWhen 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.
Read moreSki for All
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…
Read moreDouble Duty
When I adopted Bart (short for Slartibartfast) from the Boulder Valley Humane Society, he was relatively young—about nine months—and without a name.
Read moreRoad Warriors
Getting around on two wheels in Boulder County keeps getting progressively easier, safer and more convenient as more roads get the “bike friendly” treatment.
Read moreOff the Air
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…
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