Weighting Game

Weighting Game

We’re standing on a perfectly groomed Folsom Field during a gorgeous late summer Friday afternoon. There are no players to be found, the stands are empty and there isn’t a football anywhere in sight...

Your Pick…

There’s much ado about something concerning the upcoming theater season on the Front Range. This year’s got it all: Nazis, sex, murder, musicals, mid-life crises, Monty Python and transvestite nuns. From Longmont to LoDo, here’s just a smattering of what’s in store. Look to local theater snobs to sort out what we couldn’t fit in this space...

They Might Still be New Wave-They Might Be Giants

    Looking at the musical landscape, you’d be hard pressed to find a New Wave band that’s been playing for 25 years, recording new and relevant material, writing TV theme songs and children’s records, and doing it all without sounding stale or rehashing what they’ve done previously.   But that’s exactly the case for They Might Be Giants, who, at the end...

Free Will Astrology

An entertaining outlook on the month ahead

A Real Threat

What do you hear when you play the Prince song, “Let’s Go Crazy?” Perhaps it’s a standard Twin-Cities-soul-inspired, Purple Rain-era groove with plenty of synthesized wizardry and gospel chord changes. Me, I hear the sound of liberty dying...

French Connection

Serving your live music needs for Boulder, Denver & beyond

French’s 5

With the collection of events put together by EcoArts around climate change and sustainability, this month’s 5 features awesome websites about Earth...

September’s Editors’ Picks

Your ultimate guide to arts & entertainment

Weighting Game

We’re standing on a perfectly groomed Folsom Field during a gorgeous late summer Friday afternoon. There are no players to be found, the stands are empty and there isn’t a football anywhere in sight...

Radda: Italian for Boulder Value

I don’t want to oversell this, but you might want to hold onto something. Ready? It’s possible to get innovative, delicious cuisine in an elegant environment without the check getting into what my parents would call “special occasion” territory. In Boulder...

Things Change

When I last visited (and reviewed) Colorado Coal Company in Erie a few years back, I remember being impressed by its elegance and near-fine-dining atmosphere. I remember being shown to a table by a host and seated with a hardbound wine list reminiscent of any big-league steakhouse. I remember a delicious steak and a very reasonably priced bottle of Cabernet...

It’s Time to Make the Bagels

There was literal outrage in March from Lafayette residents when they rolled up to Bunkers Bagels only to find that the staple morning stop had shuttered overnight. Last we heard it was a lease disagreement...

Restaurant Rumblings

Tasty tidbits from the dining world

Planned Blight

The cash registers are ringing like crazy at the new Super Wal-Mart that just opened its doors on Highway 287 in Lafayette. It could mean millions to the local economy. But it comes at a cost. Just ask Elisha Isha...

September Letters to the Editor

"Kudos for printing your personal environmental scorecard. I absolutely agree with the notion that most of us would love to reduce our impact on the environment if it just wasn’t so darned inconvenient—or expensive—or (my personal favorite) overwhelming."

Ollying the Bible

I branched out of my safety zone on a recent Friday, entering a skateboard contest put on by a Christian church. I paid my entry fee, skated for about 10 minutes and won my money back (and then some) in the form of the first-place prize purse...

Check Out Old Town Lafayette

Old Town Lafayette certainly lives up to the old cliché there’s something for everyone. We avoided the pawnshop and focused on the fun stuff...

A Glass of Water Overflowing with Perspective

It was an extremely sad moment akin to losing the family pet. A large glass of water—obnoxiously big, according to my girlfriend—tipped from its resting place on my bedroom desk and poured its contents all over my six-month-old MacBook...

Put Some Clothes on, Please

It’s 5 in the morning; do you know where your priest is? Hopefully not down at the local high school running naked...

BoCo Going Green

Since we’re no good at metric conversions, we have trouble figuring out how much dirty air 12 metric tons of carbon dioxide really is. According to Boulder County, it’s the equivalent of powering five moderately-sized homes a year. Or if you’re talking office space, it’s the amount of pollution that comes from lighting 90 typical fluorescent office light fixtures 10 hours per day, five...