GOLD STANDARD

100 years of The Sink — plus the rest of your favorites in Best of Boulder County 2023

AIR POLLUTION’S AFFECT ON DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY P. 8

WONDERBOUND BALLET’S ‘NEW FANGLED WESTERN’ P. 17

LOCAL AUTHOR’S MEMOIR SPARES NO ONE P. 26

8 NEWS: Depressed? Anxious? Air pollution may be a factor BY JIM ROBBINS, KFF HEALTH NEWS

17 DANCE: Wonderbound Ballet presents second run of ‘a newfangled Western’ with Gasoline Lollipops BY ADAM PERRY

22 BOOKS: Local author Hillary Leftwich’s memoir spares no one in account of domestic abuse and trauma BY BART SCHANEMAN

37 GOOD TASTE: Chef Dave Hadley builds a new menu for the latest Rosetta Hall stall BY COLIN WRENN

Departments

4 THE ANDERSON FILES: Is gun machismo destabilizing the US?

5 OPINION: Iran’s Women, Life, Freedom movement is encouraging

7 LETTERS: Signed, sealed, delivered: your views

11 NOW YOU KNOW: This week’s news in Boulder County and beyond

15 MUSIC: A.C. Newman of The New Pornographers is a mainstay of modern indie-pop — but he says he’s just visiting

16 THEATER: Broomfield Community Players kick off 2023 season with ‘Cat’s Cradle’

19 COMEDY: Travis McElroy of ‘My Brother, My Brother and Me’ talks podcasting and family

24 EVENTS: What to do this week on the Front Range

27 FOUND SOUNDS: What’s in Boulder’s headphones?

29 FILM:

‘Anthony Mann Directs James Stewart’ on The Criterion Channel

ASTROLOGY: What Chinese Emperor Hongwu and Cancers have in common

31 SAVAGE LOVE: Late-in-life lesbian?

33 NIBBLES: How a Lafayette eatery dishes out everything for everyone all at once

38 WEED: Mescaline has a 5,000-year history — Colorado will help define its future