Boulder Weekly

02/14/2025

Stout month is back!

More than two dozen stouts - including award winning brews from Left Hand and 300 Suns will be poured at Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery locations in Boulder, Longmont and Denver all February.

Read more about the 30 year tradition, and more of this week's food news here:

Food news: Stout Month returns for 30th year with award-winning beers from around Boulder County. Boulder Weekly

02/13/2025

Catch up with the 'gremlins of bluegrass' ahead of their show this Valentine's Day.

For this week's cover story, Boulder Weekly arts and entertainment editor Jezy J. Gray sits down with the Front Range supergroup Big Richard to run through their debut album 'Girl Dinner' and what life is like for an all female bluegrass group in the industry.

See the queens of bluegrass on stage 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14 at the Boulder Theater.

Local bluegrass gremlins Big Richard swing by Boulder Theater for a Valentine's Day show on the heels of their debut album.

02/13/2025

On paper, Pearl Street is thriving. But restaurant owners paint a different picture.

Read part 2 of contributor Andrea Steffes-Tuttle's series on why there seems to be fewer and fewer people downtown. This time, Boulder Weekly digs into the data behind thin margins for restaurant owners, and how owners are navigating these post-pandemic struggles.

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Crime is down, visitation is up and vacancies are low. So why aren't Boulder's downtown restaurants feeling the love? Boulder Weekly

02/12/2025

On the heels of King Soopers' lawsuit against UFCW 7 - currently organizing a strike across 77 front range stores - the grocery giant has filed a restraining order against picketing workers to "protect the well-being of everyone."

Read updates on the strike and more Boulder County news here:

King Soopers files a lawsuit against strikers, claiming the union violated federal labor laws; Boulder County services facility to be sold.

02/07/2025

Love isn't dead, it's just a little weird.

That's the theme for the Dairy Arts Center's alt-cinema showcase in the month of love. From a pair of Shakespearean sendups to a millennial-core emo caper and a spectrum of strangeness in between, check out what’s on deck this month at Friday Night Weird.

Tonight's showing is Grand Theft Hamlet, a violent take on the Bard's seminal tragedy, shot entirely in the world of Grand Theft Auto. And yes, you read that right.

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From a pair of Shakespearean sendups to a millennial-core emo caper and more, here’s what’s on deck this month at Friday Night Weird.

02/07/2025

Kids Camp 2025 hits the stands today!

Even though Flat Iron Freddy saw his shadow, summer is right around the corner. Don't wait until the last minute to find somewhere to send the kids when school is out.

Pick up a copy of our annual Kids Camp (inside this week's issue) for a guide on the best summer camps in Boulder and beyond, from sports to sailing to French immersion, and so much more.

Link: issuu.com/boulderweekly/docs/kids-camp-2025-dv

02/06/2025

Hot off the presses: This week's cover features a story from our disability columnist Jenn Ochs' skiing experience as a wheelchair user. With the help of Eldora-based Ignite Adaptive Sports, the slopes are opening up to more and more people.

Pick up a copy at your neighborhood Boulder Weekly newsstand, or head to boulderweekly.com to read Jenn's column and all of this week's stories.

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02/06/2025

Matthew Popkin wears the title 'city nerd' proudly. Longmont's new Ward 2 representative might be fresh to the council chambers, but he's ready to take on the challenge. He's not all business; in this story, Popkin talks piano ballads, picnics at Sandstone Ranch and pop girlies with Boulder Weekly reporter Tyler Hickman.

New Ward 2 Longmont council member Matthew Popkin talks managing growth, piano ballads and falling in love with the city's small town charm.

02/06/2025

Boulder's decades long relationship with Vietnamese food finally brings vegan pho to the People's Republic. Boulder Weekly food editor John Lehndorff reveals how the owners at Moon, now open at 2770 Pearl St., dishes up veggie based broth and plant based summer rolls for it's meat-free customers.

Lotus Moon’s lineup of appetizers, noodle bowls, entrees and pho is available with a choice of plant-based proteins.

02/05/2025

Sometimes the things we love the most come with something that stabs us, Demi Demitro, frontwoman for The Velveteers tells us. Ahead of the indie rock trio's sold out Valentine's Day release show for their new project 'A Million Knives', reporter Kaylee Harter sits down with the group to discuss misogyny, Hannah Montana and love letters to the inner child in all of us.

The Velveteers talk misogyny, Hannah Montana and love letters to the inner child ahead of Valentine’s Day show.

01/31/2025

There is no strife on stage when Denver-based indie trio Deborah Solo Trio comes to town. The group members have had their ups and downs on their own, but they find catharsis in their shared experiences. "We're just best friends," singer-songwriter Deborah Solo Collins tells Boulder Weekly.

Catch Deborah Solo Trio at Roots Music Project, Saturday Feb. 1 at 6:30 p.m.

The Deborah Solo Trio talks writing together, mental health and collective empathy ahead of their Feb.1 show at Roots Music Project.

01/30/2025

Workers make the world go round. So Boulder Weekly decided to dedicate an entire issue to the people who make everything in our daily lives possible.

The BW inaugural Workers' Issue is dense with stories from the laborers in our community. We have a status report on local union efforts from reporter Kaylee Harter, arts editor Jezy J. Gray's intimate look at how Front Range musicians roll up their sleeves to keep the dream alive, and a round up of employee-owned businesses in Boulder County like Left Hand Brewing Company, Namaste Solar and Trident Booksellers and Cafe.

Pick up a copy at your neighborhood BW stand or head to our website to read all that and more.
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Photo's courtesy of: Left Hand Brewing Company, Boulder County Employee Union/Steven Blan and Trident Booksellers and Cafe

01/29/2025

Is Sundance coming to Boulder? Well, maybe. As the annual festival kicks off in Park City, Utah, we still don't know if the epicenter of independent film will migrate to Boulder in 2027.

While we wait (somewhat impatiently), read Michael Casey's round up of the splashiest flicks at this year's Sundance so far.

A dispatch from the 2025 Sundance Film Fest while those of us in Boulder — and Cincinnati and Utah — remain in a wait-and-see mentality.

01/29/2025

When Dakota Soifer first opened Cafe Aion, he had a dream to bring 'grownup food' to his patrons on The Hill. This week, food reporter John Lehndorff sat down with Soifer as he celebrates the bistro's 15th anniversary, and reflects on the ups and downs of dishing up tapas in the neighborhood.

Boulder bistro Cafe Aion celebrates its 15th year of dishing up 'grownup food' on The Hill - Boulder Weekly

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.

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.

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.

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