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PlayFest heads toward the future

PlayFest 2023 has set sail with a dedication, a playwright panel and a stunning opening-night solo show that all signal a promising future. Last Sunday, the festival got underway as company ...

Gasoline Lollipops: ‘Man, serve it up’

It’s a band with a “Denver Sound” thing going on. For the unaware, Denver Sound is a term used to describe now defunct bands like The Denver Gentlemen and Sixteen Horsepower, and more curren...

Lidl-Trek cycling era begins

Team aiming high in Tour de France after strong national championships

Restoring the land can actually be fun

Driving back to Colorado State University with a van full of students after a day of working to heal some beat-up land north of Fort Collins, I wondered: Could ecological restoration be a ne...

Choose to exist, cherish where you are now

Appreciating where we are in this moment and what we have in our present life can be a challenging concept. As a society, we seem to be caught up in the idea that our happiness lies in our f...

The bridge in the middle of nowhere

Dear Action Line: While waiting in line at the new car wash south of town, Cascade Xpress, I glanced down into the gully on my right and saw the structure in the attached photo. It looks...

‘How exactly is Polis saving us money?’

Gov. Jared Polis might have gotten his start in the digital flower business, but he just as easily could have been a used car salesman. Like so many politicians today, Polis has become incre...

Wife’s solution raises a stink

DEAR ABBY: I have been married 28 years. I love my husband, but one thing really bothers me that I have told him time and time again, to no avail. We have two small dogs that he insists slee...

Relations with in-laws hit new lows

DEAR ABBY: I was never close to my late husband’s family. He had two half-siblings from his mother and seven from his father. (He was the only mutual child between them.) At his funeral, his...

Titan sub entered our closest alien, hostile world

There’s an underwater mini-volcano of sorts – a conical vent that spurts steaming hot water – at the bottom of a waterway in northern Iceland. I had heard about the geological anomaly on a t...

Nordfest to celebrate local musician, teacher

If you know him, you love him. Local musician and Durango School District 9-R teacher Erik Nordstrom is one of those people you gravitate toward, a dude whom you’re glad you met and glad you...

Going farther, deeper, higher for backcountry rescues

When I led groups into the Wyoming wilderness in the 1990s, once we left a trailhead, we were on our own. If somebody got hurt, we could walk or carry the injured person out or send runners ...