Little support for ‘Nativity Story’

Congregations not expected to flock to film in ‘Passion’-like numbers By Jenn Fields, For the Boulder Daily Camera Friday, December 1, 2006 So far, “The Nativity Story” is not getting a passionate response in Boulder. New Line Cinema’s film about the Immaculate Conception, Joseph and Mary’s journey to Bethlehem and the birth of Jesus premiered [...]

Dalai Lama: War is wrong

Tibetan leader focuses on compassion, nonviolence in speech Jenn Fields, For the Boulder Daily Camera Sunday, September 17, 2006 Nearly 15,000 people gathered at the Pepsi Center on Sunday to see a man who calls himself a simple monk, nothing special. They waited in lines that stretched far from the main doors toward the CityLights [...]

Coming soon to a theater near you: God

A growing trend of people seeking out meaning in movies Jenn Fields, For the Camera Friday, September 29, 2006 It’s a Tuesday night in September, and more than 700 people are jamming the hallways of the Boulder Theater to see a limited release movie. Many are Buddhist, some monks in maroon robes. The show starts [...]

A traditional Tibetan tale on the big screen

Jenn Fields, For the Boulder Daily Camera Friday, September 29, 2006 People are sometimes tempted by revenge. The temptation can be so great that it persuaded one mother to send her boy to sorcery school so he could punish his greedy aunt and uncle by conjuring an epic storm that flattened their village. That’s how [...]

Night rides

My friend Gen send me an article from the New York Times about mountain bike races in the snow in Minnesota. It took me back the first winter I rode a bike as an adult. (I’m sure as a child it would not have occurred to me to ride my banana-seated Schwinn in the winter. [...]

Haiku to the Prairie Dog

little rodent, you’re not a dog at all, even your bark, it’s a chirp.

Happy Prairie Dog Day

Not to be outdone by other rodent-based holidays, Boulder’s mayor has declared February 2 to be Prairie Dog Day. The Daily Camera, my alma mater, reported that no one’s sure what it will mean if prairie dog sees its shadow today. Nor does Boulder have an official named mascot for the holiday as yet. (When [...]

Protesting

Where have all the protests gone? Well, they’ve come back — a little. I talked with someone earlier today for the book I’m working on (in its infancy) and he had to let me go by a certain time to call his Senators for MoveOn. “Do you work for MoveOn?” I asked him. No no, [...]