Central Features Editor

Christy Fantz

Christy Fantz has been covering Boulder's features beat for 15 years. As a longtime columnist for the Colorado Daily and current features editor for Boulder County newspapers, Fantz enjoys temporarily rendering readers' jaws agape with a little love tase now and again. It keeps us young.

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Fantz In Your Pants: Dracula’s got nothing on these

July 13, 2019 at 6:34 am

Mosquitoes don’t love me like they once did. I feel used, eaten up and spit out. As Maggie Gyllenhaal eloquently said in “Donnie Darko,” they can “go suck a fuck.”...

Fantz in Your Pants: By the skin of my teeth

July 6, 2019 at 6:55 am

I have teeth pain and I have to go to the dentist, but I’m terrified. It all started when I was 12. I arrived at the dentist after school for...

Welcome back to Boulder, Deadheads. Can we abide by traffic laws now? I’m looking at you, California. The blinker isn’t ornamental, fools. Now that you’re back and ready to dance like it’s 1969, might as well pick up some cannabis, melt away and ride the weekend hard and long. We’ve compiled some after parties for […]

Golden Road to Dead & Company after parties, late-night munchies

July 5, 2019 at 11:52 am

Welcome back to Boulder, Deadheads. Can we abide by traffic laws now? I’m looking at you, California. The blinker isn’t ornamental, fools. Now that you’re back and ready to dance...

Fantz in Your Pants: Spooky ad paranoia has me wiretapped out

June 29, 2019 at 7:38 am

Everybody knows that paranoid old lady who thinks the government lives inside her walls. She locks her guest bedroom door every night so Big Brother doesn’t get Doritos crumbs all...

Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing Company will host a Friday Night Bluegrass Jam and fundraiser this weekend to celebrate the life and music of Jeff Austin, with proceeds benefiting the mandolin player’s family. Austin, co-founder of Boulder County’s Yonder Mountain String Band, died Monday in Seattle at the age of 45, according to the musician’s official […]

Left Hand Brewing honors Jeff Austin with Friday Bluegrass Jam

June 27, 2019 at 4:28 pm

Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing Company will host a Friday Night Bluegrass Jam and fundraiser this weekend to celebrate the life and music of Jeff Austin, with proceeds benefiting the mandolin...

“Blue devils,” that age-old slang for depression, is what some say bred the blues. The music genre, born in the Deep South, gave African Americans an outlet to sing freely of suppression, societal challenges and racial discrimination. More than a century later, with its wailing, soulful tones and lyrical talk of affliction and heartbreak, one […]

Mike Zito brings the Gulf Coast blues to Boulder Theater

June 13, 2019 at 2:38 pm

“Blue devils,” that age-old slang for depression, is what some say bred the blues. The music genre, born in the Deep South, gave African Americans an outlet to sing freely...

Fantz in Your Pants: Let’s fight about Mother’s Day

June 8, 2019 at 7:17 am

Recently, I watched comedian Tracy Morgan on Seth Meyers’ show bitching about Mother’s Day. Not bitching, but definitely complaining that Father’s Day doesn’t get equal play. Sidebar: As of late,...

After Grammy-winning stint with Della Mae, Courtney Hartman returns to Colorado with new album, eTown show

June 6, 2019 at 7:18 pm

After Colorado native Courtney Hartman spent an eight-year stint with Grammy-award winning bluegrass group Della Mae, she’s come back to her roots, moving into her family barn in Loveland.Gathering inspiration...

Boulder’s Grant Farm celebrating new album with Fox gig

May 30, 2019 at 8:09 pm

Boulder’s cosmic-Americana band, Grant Farm is celebrating the release of its fifth full-length album, “Broke in Two,” with a party at the Fox on Friday.Founder of the band, Tyler Grant, said...

Fantz in Your Pants: Make your plans for National Masturbation Day

May 24, 2019 at 7:31 pm

Lube up the fleshlight. Dust off the anal beads. Shine up the vibrator. Give Blow-Up Betty a wipe down. Bust out those cucumbers. Ice picks, barstool legs, bubble wands, bananas,...