Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026

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Headlines

Kimbal responds to Epstein Files

Kimbal Musk — brother of Elon Musk and owner of Boulder businesses The Kitchen, The Kitchen Lounge and Nova Sky Stories — sent and/or received more than 100 emails to/from Jeffrey Epstein and his associates between 2012 and 2015.

Musk used an email address associated with his nonprofit, The Kitchen Community, which established gardens at schools. There are currently no gardens associated with Musk at BVSD, a spokesperson confirmed, and Musk hasn’t been present at a school since at least 2021, according to internal records. Read more from The Denver Post.

Musk responded to the recently released emails Monday but downplayed a number of personal exchanges revealed in the documents. Read more from Gizmodo

Nederland-Eldora sale to close April 30; industry insiders out

The $20 million sale will be finalized later this spring, The Mountain-Ear reports. The group of business leaders who connected Eldora’s current owners with town officials is no longer involved, they told the Colorado Sun.

Ex-Longmont senator guilty of 4 felonies

Sonya Jaquez Lewis was convicted of sending fake letters of support to the state house ethics committee prior to an investigation into her alleged mistreatment of legislative aides. Read more from Colorado Sun.

Erie police officer no longer with the department for anti-ICE post

Libs of Tik-Tok on Jan. 28 featured an image of a social media comment from the officer that read “they wear armor so headshots would work better.” Read more from Axios.

In a statement days later, Erie officials said the post violated multiple department policies and was no longer employed with that town’s police department.

Denver Summit FC approach attendance record for women’s sports

40,000 tickets have been sold for the home opener for Colorado’s National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) team, March 28 at Mile-High. That’s just a few shy of the NWSL record AND the record for largest crowd EVER for a women’s professional sporting event in the U.S, according to The Denver Post.

Help make history and buy tickets to the game here.

1. Winter Bike to Work Day on Feb. 13; last week to ice skate in Louisville and Erie!

What will become of BIFF when Sundance lands in CO?

Frequency co-founder Jeff Rozic sits down with Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) co-founder Kathy Beeck ahead of the 22nd event — and the last one before Sundance comes here next year.

“It's everybody's festival”

What makes BIFF special? Collaboration, Beeck says: BIFF partners with local musicians and nonprofits to pull more people into the experience.

Story above all

How do you get a film into BIFF? By telling a great story. “ That's what we look for more than anything else.”

BIFF 2026: April 9-12

Learn more and get tickets

Bonus content

Listen to Jeff’s full interview with Kathy Beeck at Patreon.com/BoulderFrequencyPod.

Next week

Local organizers and a local lawmaker are fighting back against FLOCK… and you can help.

One More Thing

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Music by hijaq.

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