Some writers enjoy sprinkling bits of Latin on their prose the way chefs might deploy cardamom or sage. These are spices you don’t use often and about which you may be a little unsure. You use them sometimes anyway because, dammit, they’re in your pantry and this soup needed something. Thus while diners are left […]
Denver Post/Nov. 2015 By Alex Miller On Halloween this year, we stopped by the most excellent liquor store near our home for their regular Saturday tasting. We enjoy these events at Davidson’s Liquors on Holly and Countyline because we get to try sips of wines, beers and cocktails we’ve never had before. The staff is […]
1 in 8 deaths worldwide each year are a direct result of all kinds of air pollution, most of which comes from stuff we dug out of the ground to burn for fuel.
Denver Post/June 2015 By Alex Miller Like many bad things, student debt has taken a little while to make a mark on our collective consciousness. Sometimes it just takes a magic number — like $1 trillion — to really get the conversation going. Actually, the number is $1.2 trillion, and counting. I have a hard […]
Finding Colorado on the ideological map Denver Post/May 2015 Colorado, it seems, is an island of sanity, a gleaming jewel in the middle of flyover country. We have the poles of Colorado Springs and Boulder a mere 100 miles from one another. Our state contains both the beauty of a Telluride and the, um, industrial […]
Colorado, it seems, is an island of sanity, a gleaming jewel in the middle of flyover country. We have the poles of Colorado Springs and Boulder a mere 100 miles from one another. Our state contains both the beauty of a Telluride and the, um, industrial magnificence of a Commerce City. We’ve got great beer […]
Why moving past oil is the right path Denver Post | 2015 Heard the one about the mess left behind when some unscrupulous soul illegally discarded 4,000 radioactive “oil filter socks” in Noonan, N.D.? These things are “tubular nets that strain liquids during the oil production process,” according to the Associated Press. And I thought […]
By Alex Miller Denver Post Click-bait frenzy aside, the recent announcement that Bristol Palin is pregnant again sans hubby is a story played out in countless homes across the country on a daily basis. Here’s why this shouldn’t be a big deal: People, starting in their teens, like to have sex. Sex leads to babies. […]
Denver Post – 2/28/14 Ski traffic on I-70 is bad enough due to high volume, but when it turns from hassle to nightmare, it’s usually due to foolish drivers trying to make it through the high country on bald tires. This was the ineluctable conclusion stated by Colorado Department of Transportation officials this week, and […]
One reality show worth taking a look at these days is “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution,” the new season of which started airing Tuesday on ABC. Oliver, a British cookbook author and nutritionist who believes strongly that simply cooking our own meals with fresh ingredients would get us a long way toward being a healthier society, […]
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