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According to Ben Glover, the rapper known as Blvck Svm, there are two ideal results when it comes to cooking in the stud...
01/23/2025

According to Ben Glover, the rapper known as Blvck Svm, there are two ideal results when it comes to cooking in the studio and the kitchen: extraordinary things made ordinary, and ordinary things made extraordinary.

Both will be on display when Glover’s new album fills the air Jan. 26-27 during an immersive listening party at BRUTØ, Denver’s Michelin-starred, wood-hearth homage to brutalism, tucked into one of LoDo’s back-alley markets. This partnership came to fruition from a music video, inside a kitchen 680 miles southeast of Denver.

Ben Glover, aka Blvck Svm, plates rap with cuisine at Denver’s Michelin-starred BRUTØ during an immersive listening party Jan. 26-27.

This eerie harbinger of climate change isn’t the only thing that has knocked Alan Sparhawk off orbit lately. On the morn...
01/20/2025

This eerie harbinger of climate change isn’t the only thing that has knocked Alan Sparhawk off orbit lately. On the morning he speaks with Boulder Weekly about his disarming debut solo album — 'White Roses, My God', released last September via Sub Pop — it’s been 26 months and two days since the death of Mimi Parker, his partner in life and art for more than four decades.

The married couple started out as high school sweethearts before launching the paradigm-shifting alt rock band Low in 1993. Pioneers of a subgenre known as slowcore, marked by down-tempo beats and sparse instrumentation, the duo of Parker on drums and Sparhawk on guitar — with the two sharing vocal duties — charted a singular and winding course across 13 full-length albums.

On his debut solo album, the seasoned musician experimented with a different vocabulary to feel his way out of the creative wilderness.

Tara Tai’s world is full of unlikely bedfellows. The Harvard Business School graduate works a desk job for Google by day...
01/17/2025

Tara Tai’s world is full of unlikely bedfellows. The Harvard Business School graduate works a desk job for Google by day and moonlights as a rom-com writer. In their fiction, Tai’s two worlds collide — the starchy straight-and-white world of tech bros, and the other, their q***r and creative inner world.

OK, it’s not that straightforward. But one of the things Tai says about the romance genre is that things can be a little unrealistic; characters can be uncomplicated.

'Single Player,' the debut novel from Tara Tai, is a zippy rom-com set at a fictional game developer in Boulder.

On Jan. 20, Donald Trump will become the 47th president of the United States, beginning his second term. While Trump dis...
01/16/2025

On Jan. 20, Donald Trump will become the 47th president of the United States, beginning his second term. While Trump disconnected himself from Project 2025, policy-writers for the document include confidants and administrators from the first administration. Much of the document proposes restrictions to access of life-saving abortions, prosecution of care-providers who administer abortions and restrictions of contraceptives.

Incoming president pledges to chip away at reproductive, LGBTQ rights, but advocates are hopeful local protections will hold. Boulder Weekly

A curious thing is happening to boozy Boulder, a city whose committed, long-term relationship with alcohol dates back to...
01/16/2025

A curious thing is happening to boozy Boulder, a city whose committed, long-term relationship with alcohol dates back to the end of Prohibition.

In the birthplace of the American craft brew movement, Boulder bars and restaurants are full of sober-curious folks celebrating Dry January at zero-proof game, trivia or comedy nights, and highly caffeinated open mics.

Bars and brewers adjust as boozy Boulder embraces zero-proof drinks during Dry January and beyond. By John Lehndorff.

Prairie dogs — seen by some as a cute, playful slice of local wildlife, and by others as pests — have become martyrs in ...
01/16/2025

Prairie dogs — seen by some as a cute, playful slice of local wildlife, and by others as pests — have become martyrs in the ongoing battle between urbanization and conservation. With so much other charismatic wildlife in Colorado, from bald eagles to wolves, and the inevitability of growth in Front Range cities, we set out in another installation of our Weekly Why column to answer: Why do Coloradans care so much about prairie dogs?

How human competition with neighborhood prairie dogs became such a pervasive issue in Boulder County and beyond.

"There are more than 50 programs to choose from this season at International Film Series, including Funny Girl (March 20...
01/10/2025

"There are more than 50 programs to choose from this season at International Film Series, including Funny Girl (March 20) and Stop Making Sense (April 11), both of which are bound to send you out into the world singing. I have a feeling we’re gonna need it."

Celebrate the return of the CU International Film Series with a screening of Mike Judge's "Idiocracy" on Jan. 23

For nearly the first three decades of his life, Rayland Baxter kept a healthy distance from the stage. Despite the fact ...
01/10/2025

For nearly the first three decades of his life, Rayland Baxter kept a healthy distance from the stage. Despite the fact that his late father “Bucky” was an established multi-instrumentalist — whose resume includes work with Steve Earle, Bob Dylan, The Beastie Boys and more — the younger Baxter managed to avoid the call of the spotlight. Until he couldn’t anymore.

Ahead of his show on Friday, Jan. 17 at Mission Ballroom, Baxter stopped by Boulder Weekly for a chat:

The alternative Americana singer-songwriter's metamorphosis from Colorado snowboard instructor to indie-folk heavy hitter

Owners Lisa and Patrick Balcom have announced their award-winning farm-to-table Farow Restaurant will close in Niwot on ...
01/09/2025

Owners Lisa and Patrick Balcom have announced their award-winning farm-to-table Farow Restaurant will close in Niwot on Jan. 11. In a social media post, they noted “the rising costs of doing business have made it impossible to continue in a sustainable way.”

Closure of Niwot's Farow comes after owner-couple shuttered Japanese eatery in Longmont's Parkway Food Hall. Boulder Weekly

President-elect Donald Trump has been making sweeping claims for his goals when he is in office: a call for mass deporta...
01/09/2025

President-elect Donald Trump has been making sweeping claims for his goals when he is in office: a call for mass deportation known as Operation: Aurora, threats to “end DEI” (diversity, equity and inclusion) and a pledge to eliminate the Department of Education. In early December, Trump announced via his social media platform, Truth Social, that he’ll impose 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada and hike current tariffs on China by an additional 10%.

How much of this Trump will accomplish remains to be seen. He made good on fewer than half of his campaign promises in his first term, according to a PolitiFact analysis.

Part 1: Immigration and tariffs - How officials, advocates and small businesses are preparing for another Trump term. Boulder Weekly

With Colorado’s 2025 legislative session starting Jan. 8, we decided to check in with Boulder County’s state lawmakers t...
01/09/2025

With Colorado’s 2025 legislative session starting Jan. 8, we decided to check in with Boulder County’s state lawmakers to see what bills they’ll be bringing forward this year.

What Boulder County's state senators and representatives are working on for the 2025 Colorado Legislative session. Boulder Weekly

Let’s face it: 2024 was a pretty scary year — and that was just the politics. In the culinary multiverse, there’s a buff...
01/03/2025

Let’s face it: 2024 was a pretty scary year — and that was just the politics. In the culinary multiverse, there’s a buffet of news about food, restaurants and culinary technologies coming in 2025 — some truly terrifying trends and some hopeful developments.

Rat cake, sea sq**rt burgers, Ozempic Pilsbury Doughboy and other scary food developments for 2025. Boulder Weekly

Like every year, 2025 promises to bring a wealth of can’t-miss live music to the Front Range. You and your friends are a...
01/03/2025

Like every year, 2025 promises to bring a wealth of can’t-miss live music to the Front Range. You and your friends are already scheming to be first in the queue to avoid resale hell for the season’s landmark gigs, so we don’t need to tell you about the major names coming to town in the months ahead. But what about the opening acts supporting your favorite artists?

Check out these supporting live music acts before they become next year’s next big thing — Wild Pink, Gouge Away, Paris Texas and more.

When we talk about movies, we talk about what they’re about. But when we talk about Nickel Boys, we have to talk about h...
12/23/2024

When we talk about movies, we talk about what they’re about. But when we talk about Nickel Boys, we have to talk about how it’s about what it’s about.

“The intention is to be inside the perspective — inside the worldview of these folks,” says RaMell Ross, director and co-screenwriter of Nickel Boys. “It’s less about iterating the world and more about how you see it.”

RaMell Ross on making ‘Nickel Boys’ a first-person masterpiece: "The intention is to be inside the perspective."

John Mays is a pretty normal guy, for most of the year. His IT job keeps him busy, he volunteers for charity when he can...
12/20/2024

John Mays is a pretty normal guy, for most of the year. His IT job keeps him busy, he volunteers for charity when he can, and he does some special effects, makeup and prop work for indie films on the side.

But in the weeks leading up to Christmas, the kind-hearted man undergoes a devilish transformation.

Mays — or “Krampus of Northern Colorado” as his alter-ego’s page calls him — stalks the streets of downtown Fort Collins every weekend in a fuzzy, handmade and horned Krampus suit.

From John Mays to author Devin Arloski, Krampus tradition is alive and well along the Front Range:

Krampus is a staple in European christmas culture, but the Christmas demon's lore is just now taking hold in Colorado.

The winds of change are blowing through Colorado’s ski resorts, and they’re not showing signs of letting up. Pass prices...
12/19/2024

The winds of change are blowing through Colorado’s ski resorts, and they’re not showing signs of letting up. Pass prices are rising, more people are hitting the slopes, and seasons are getting shorter. At the same time, resorts are building faster lifts and expanding their terrain.

Pass prices are rising, more people are hitting the slopes, and ski season is getting shorter. At the same, resorts are making big upgrades.

Naropa’s Center for Psychedelic Studies (NCPS) will no longer be affiliated with the university, it announced Monday. Th...
12/19/2024

Naropa’s Center for Psychedelic Studies (NCPS) will no longer be affiliated with the university, it announced Monday.

The new independent entity, renamed Memoru Center for Visionary Healing Arts, will expand the center’s offerings to include clinical care and research in addition to training in psychedelic-assisted therapies, according to a Dec. 16 release. The founding NCPS team is teaming up to launch the center with Boulder-based therapists and researchers who previously worked on Lykos Therapeutics and Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) clinical trials for MDMA-assisted therapy.

Naropa’s Center for Psychedelic Studies (NCPS) will no longer be affiliated with the university, it announced Monday.

“I’m going to use the bathroom, mom.” Rohan Mesto jogged up the hill and ducked behind a tree, unaware those were the la...
12/19/2024

“I’m going to use the bathroom, mom.”

Rohan Mesto jogged up the hill and ducked behind a tree, unaware those were the last words he would speak face to face with his mother. Moments earlier, Mesto had snuck his phone away from his father, who planned to try and cross the border into their home country of Syria in the coming days. But Mesto can’t go back.

In a split-second decision, Mesto decided to escape toward the Lebanese border. He ran away from his family, toward a Lebanese army that would have shot him on sight if he was spotted. He was 16 years old.

Today, Mesto is 22. He lives in Lafayette as a refugee through the Welcome Corps program, a refugee sponsorship program established in 2023.

Amid the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime, Welcome Corps refugee Rohan Mesto settles into life in Boulder County. Boulder Weekly

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