Arts & Culture
#InstaNovels
You may think of Instagram as a platform for images, but it may be the next place you turn to read a novel.
Don’t scoff,...
Frozen Dead Guy Days is back
Fancy an old-fashioned coffin race? Or icy turkey bowling perhaps? Then Frozen Dead Guy Days might just be the festival for you. Starting March 7 and running through March 9, Nederland celebrates the 25th year of Bredo Morstoel on ice...
Arts | Week of July 9, 2015
A Taste of Art Competition Exhibition. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through July 12...
Erasing creation
It’s 5 a.m., and the city is still. Under the Sun doesn’t open until the afternoon, but among the empty chairs sits artist Bryce...
A virtue that produces peace
The emails started coming in on Wednesday, March 11; events canceled and venues closed. There were more emails on Thursday, and by Friday it...
Arts | Week of July 10, 2014
Young Artists at Work. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443- 2122. Through Aug. 16...
Two ways of looking back
So much of art is a reflection of the time period in which it was created, and two new, very different exhibitions at the University of Colorado Art Museum, American West and Interlaced, demonstrate that point very clearly...
Post-apocalyptic life is a blast in Fallout: New Vegas
Back in 2008, the folks at Bethesda Games released a classic game in Fallout 3. Stranded in the wasteland of a post-apocalyptic America, the player is on a journey to find his father while trying to survive among vigilantes and radiation-infected creatures trying to ...
The process of becoming
No artist steps up to the canvas with a fully formed style. It’s easy to forget that once upon a time, famous artists were...
Punching up
This is the first in a series of profiles we’ll be featuring over the coming months in the run up to the Boulder Comedy...
The American dream and the American nightmare
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her...
Is the Internet making us dumber?
A favorite folk tale that captivates children around the country is the legend of John Henry, the tale of the man who bests a steam-powered hammer in a drilling race, only to die with hammer in hand after victory. It’s a tale of Olympian strength and determination, ...
