Something old, something new: Ellie Caulkins Opera House
The Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver Center for the Performing Arts
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How many drugs are you taking that you don’t even know about? (Hint: a lot.)
Antibiotics, antidepressants, blood thinners, ACE inhibitors, calcium-channel blockers, digoxin, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, painkillers, anti-seizure drugs, cholesterol drugs, diabetes drugs and more – it’s all in your drinking water. Here are five steps to help clean it up. We’ve all read and heard a great deal about pollution in our society – carbon emissions in our air, toxic chemical dumping poisoning
Read moreMessi and Ronaldo stay home? How to make sure all the best players go to the World Cup.
As qualifying wraps up this week, we’re staring at the very real possibility next year’s FIFA World Cup will be staged without Lionel Messi and/or Cristiano Ronaldo. That the greatest competition in world sports, save possibly the Olympics, would fail to include the men most regard as the two greatest players alive (and certainly two of the greatest of all time), seems
Read moreRemembering Ralphie May: Smoking with Jesus
Ralphie May, the comedian many of us first encountered on Last Comic Standing Season 1, is dead at the way-too-young age of 45. Today for Saturday Video Roundup we present one of his greatest routines.
Read morePremier League TV income impasse: are we on the brink of an all-Euro Super League?
Controversy over how to divvy up the revenues means uncertainty in England. The outcome of these deliberations could move us closer to a European SuperLiga including the big six Prem clubs (and maybe more than that)… A couple years ago I wrote about the prospects for a European football SuperLiga. This is hardly a new idea (with Marca suggesting it’s a when-not-if, and perhaps
Read moreThe Industrial Revolution: Old Mill, Bend OR
Dramatic skies over the Old Mill…
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A small prophecy…
Read moreDa Vinci’s camerabox
Five years ago the traveling Da Vinci’s Machines Exhibition visited Denver. During his time, the technology didn’t exist to actually build many of his inventions, but it does today, and this show gives shape and form to dozens of those wondrous ideas. One of my favorites was the camera. Here I crawl as far inside it as I safely can.
Read moreOnce NCAA bribery investigation is done, can we have a look at Congress?
I’m glad the US Attorney and FBI are cleaning up the big-money college sports cesspool, but that’s a drop in the bucket compared to America’s real corruption. First, good on the FBI and US Attorney’s office. But I’m glad someone with a platform larger than mine is pointing out the obvious:
Read moreTotality: Words fail. Pictures fail.
The best photo of a total eclipse you’ve ever seen doesn’t tell 1% of the story. The only way to communicate the reality is through digital processing technology. How very postmodern. August 21, 2017: Easterbrook Campground, SE Wyoming. This was my first total solar eclipse. To say it was life-changing … well, if you’ve seen totality you know what I
Read moreAt summer’s end: Happy Equinox from S&R
Comanche Drive-In, Buena Vista, Colorado
Read moreNebraska fires AD; somewhere Frank Solich is laughing his ass off
Because 10 wins isn’t good enough. As a committed Husker Hater, I can’t stop laughing over this: Nebraska fired athletic director Shawn Eichorst on Thursday, calling for a higher level of competitiveness five days after the Cornhuskers football team lost to Northern Illinois. University chancellor Ronnie Green, who did not hire Eichorst, said in a statement that while Eichorst made
Read moreCan the Caribbean survive?
What will the islands and the Atlantic and Gulf coasts look like in a generation? I’m not a climate expert, so I want to tread cautiously here. That said, our recent spate of catastrophic weather has raised some uneasy questions in my mind. As I write this Hurricane Maria is lashing Puerto Rico. It is, in the estimate of some
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Point/Counterpoint on Medicare-for-All: @Doc argues with himself
There’s been a lot of attention in recent days about the “Medicare-for-All” bill introduced by Bernie Sanders, and the reaction I’m seeing on social media is interesting. People keep posting notes wanting me to tell my Dem Congressperson to support the bill. They want me to encourage Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to support the bill. Tell this Dem to
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