One week at a time
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Where in the name of Edward R. Murrow has eight years gone? That’s how long it’s been since we brought the Reader back from the dead in January 2015....
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On memories
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff If I want to remember when something happened, I scroll through the photos on my phone. I last cleaned out the folder in late 2019, and have since taken...
Finding Schitt’s Creek in ‘the Caribbean of the Rockies’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It has taken 10 years, many miles and more car barfs, backseat brawls and emergency roadside pit stops than I care to recall (including an apocalyptic diaper eruption six...
River daze
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Every once in a while, as life stacks up a bit too high, the river calls. I dream of long days in the canoe, drifting along with the current,...
On restaurant work
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff I’ve found no greater sense of kinship in this world than while sitting at a restaurant bar on a Saturday night in summer, surrounded by fellow food service workers...
An ‘ungracious’ prayer
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Any halfway diligent reader of the Reader since December 2004 is familiar with my coverage of city decisions, trends and politics. They may also have noticed that I don’t...
Eat a peach
By Ben Olson Reader Staff In Shakey, Jimmy McDonough’s massive 750-page biography of Neil Young, he described the moment when Young bailed on Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young midway through a 1976 tour. The...
The birds in my wall
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There’s a bird that lives in my wall. Actually, there’s a whole family of them in there, jostling around, chirping, fussing and pecking. I first noticed the stowaways a...
Exploding sunroofs and time travel
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff I very rarely indulge in extravagances, but when I bought an almost-new car in 2020, I decided that I wanted a sunroof. There was no logical reason for this...
The Jan. 6 hearings are reminding us what the truth sounds like
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s a singular feeling watching the proceedings of the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the United States Capitol. After years of being gaslit and...
