Boulder Weekly

Report shows lack of transparency in gig companies  If Coloradans pay $10 for an Uber ride, the driver could see $5 or less in their pocket, according to a study from Colorado Fiscal Institute (CFI).  The report, released March 22, highlights...

CAN YOU SAY ‘DIRTY HIPPIE’? I have mixed feelings about BW’s cover story about advice from Boulder’s “meme queen,” particularly the response “Help, I’ve Fallen in Love with a Hippy.” I have written a book, Happily Hippie-American, in which I...

Steve Klemish winds through Longmont streets looking for the containers with a green lid.  He knows exactly where he’s going without a map — he’s driven around the city collecting waste for 15 years. His truck, only three years old,...

Most people prefer the easy route — Grant Korgan is not one of those people.  In 2012, the adventurer, nanoscientist and professional athlete became the first person with a spinal cord injury to push himself by ski sled to the...

Hot off last year’s revival production at the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York, the national tour of 1776 is set to wrap its final weekend at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.  The pitch to revive this Tony...

An inconspicuous little house on the east edge of Boulder seems like an unlikely place for a local food revolution.  Inside are shelves lined with a hundred or so glass jars filled with seeds for melons, basil, columbine, wheat, tomatoes,chilies...

Cannabis is currently recreationally legal in 21 states, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Washington D.C. Across those states there are hundreds of counties, all using local marijuana excise tax dollars for different ends. Some are...