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Health and Wellness

Act Your Age!

They rebelled against the Vietnam War, institutionalized racism, and sexism, and now they’re rebelling against old age. Always the innovators, baby boomers are getting old like no generation before - from extreme sports to extreme travel, nothing is beyond them. 10,000 Americans are turning 65 every day. We found and...

Features

Act Your Age!

Scene

Marijuana as Medicine

With all the promise pot’s shown in helping conditions ranging from the irritating to the life-threatening, there’s been a renaissance in developing formulations to make it available to more folks who aren’t particularly into smoking it,

New Years Resolutions – Politician’s Edition

I’m still not completely convinced Trump isn’t actually the greatest troll of all time. It’s almost as if his entire candidacy is performance art — that he’s acting a role in the fashion of Stephen Colbert’s Colbert Report caricature, and any moment now, he’s going to break the fourth wall and shame the nation for his completely insane and unbelievable popularity in the polls. But just in case actually is the complete nutbag he’s portraying, here’s a couple resolutions for him: Engage in one reasonable discourse with another human being who he disagrees with on some matter of actual substance without resorting to name-calling or grade-school insults. If an insult must be delivered, it must either be done in iambic pentameter or reference a classic work of literature written prior to 1960. Defeat Chris Christie in hand-to-hand combat.

Editor’s Pick: David Dinsmore, Lost Dog Ensemble

"Al Scholl and Dave Willey came aboard because they just love Tom Waits. Al does a very convincing Mark Ribot and Dave seems to already know all the tunes by heart on accordion, piano, guitar, banjo..."

Byron Shaw, Judge Roughneck

"It's all about marketing to the peeps who show an interest in what you're doing. The biggest challenge for bands is not sucking. If you put out a quality product, people here will appreciate it."

Interview with Music Journalist Chris Callaway

Callaway talks about interviewing The Kinks, Ray Davies, and Rush.

Scene Stealers: Best Events to Catch this Winter

Now well into their third decade as one of Colorado’s most beloved blues acts, Chris Daniels and the Kings have found a formula that just simply works for them: Put on a good show, gig relentlessly, and love every minute of what you do.

Spotlight on Sculpture Brunch

Working in teams of 2–6 people, participants craft one-of-a-kind pieces from an array of found materials — stuff we find at thrift stores, yard sales, basements and our back yards. It's interactive unique “upcycling,” which makes for fun team building.

Cuisine

This Month In Top 10 Herbs & Spices Every Cook Should Have: Bay Leaves

Ancient Greeks and Romans thought that the laurel leaf had magical properties. Greek myth describes how the nymph Daphne was turned into a bay laurel tree to keep her safe from the randy advances of Apollo who, thereafter, considered the tree sacred. The Oracle at Delphi was also said to have chewed and smoked bay laurel leaves when seeking visions of the future, but don't go filling your bong with bay leaves; they have no known psychoactive properties.

Also in This Edition

Slip sliding away – Ice as metaphor

You can't beat ice, even if you try. No one can. Magnesium chloride -- which CDOT scatters on the roads -- might dent the ice a little, but it also rots cars' finishes. Gravel gives you purchase, but then clogs the sewers and becomes dust -- and then you just slip on the gravel anyway.

A look at alternative medicine

During her time as a steelworker, Hackett fell 35 feet suffering a spinal injury. At first she turned to western medicine and grew dependent on Percocet, morphine, Neurontin and Etodolac. Her liver was failing, which would soon mean that she couldn’t take her medication. It took a friend three months to convince her to give medical marijuana a try.