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2 days ago | boulderweekly.com | Jezy J. Gray

Follow the coordinates in the title of the spellbinding second cut on Ichiko Aoba’s pristine new album — “24° 3′ 27.0″ N, 123° 47′ 7.5″ E” — and you’ll wind up at a lighthouse on the southernmost inhabited island of Japan.  “A lighthouse, by its nature, sort of blinks intermittently,” the 35-year-old musician and vocalist from Kyoto tells Boulder Weeklyvia translator on a recent video call.

1 week ago | boulderweekly.com | Michael Casey

Gutter punks ask for handouts on the streets of Los Angeles in The Decline of Western Civilization Part III. Courtesy: Shout! Studios “Concerned about what?”That was the question an attendee at the Conference on World Affairs posed after hearing about the theme of the ongoing Boulder Weekly special issue series: A Survival Guide for Concerned Citizens. “Concerned about the planet?” he added. “About the country? About other countries?”I gave it a thought.

1 week ago | boulderweekly.com | Jezy J. Gray

Walking through the doors of East Window’s cozy digs on North Broadway in Boulder, a collision of innocence and violence greets visitors on the gallery’s west-facing wall. The site of this confrontation is a large-scale wheatpasted photograph of a 4-year-old girl, her brown eyes shining beneath a mop of bangs as she poses for the camera with hands clasped behind her back.

1 week ago | boulderweekly.com | Jack Armstrong

Courtesy: Boulder Food Not Bombs “Solidarity, not charity.” At its most basic level, that’s how proponents describe mutual aid. Though historically associated with leftist causes, mutual aid is, at its core, about people helping one another — a concept that transcends politics, religion and culture. “Everything that’s happening is about neighbors helping neighbors,” said Silas Atkins, a South Boulder resident and community building.

1 week ago | boulderweekly.com | Allen Best

Fred and Wilma (not their real names) take climate change very seriously. For the last several years, they have been members of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, an organization that advocates for a tax on greenhouse gas emissions. Yet like most of us, they were burning natural gas to heat the space and water in their 2,800-square-foot house near Niwot. Last year, they decided to live their values. They set out to go nearly all electric. You, too, can be like Fred and Wilma. Here’s how.