Arts & Culture
Blurring the lines
The Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival (LEAF) is a place for hackers. Not hackers like Gary McKinnon or Albert Gonzalez, but hackers like Brian Eno,...
Arts | Week of Nov. 19, 2015
Alec Soth: Colorado Dispatch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 29...
Boulder’s Afro-Brazilian dance scene comes to life
Dancing with beings seen and unseen, connecting with nature, culture, and activism are all a part of what you may find in one of the Brazilian dance offerings in Boulder. Ask anyone what the word Afro-Brazilian means and you will surely hear a concoction of ...
Women are beautiful, naturally
Through the decades in which women marched for liberation from secretarial jobs, sexual monogamy and bras, Garry Winogrand walked the streets, his palm-sized camera in hand, photographing women. He caught them with their guard down, their knees too high for their ...
Up against a wall
A couple of winters ago, Fiona Arnold was walking through the streets of Old Town Montreal with her daughter when they turned a corner and...
Drawing us in
Paper has always been a staple throughout JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey’s life. She grew up receiving handwritten letters from her grandfather, and she sold stationary...
Arts | Week of Oct. 22, 2015
Alec Soth: Colorado Dispatch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 29...
Arts | Week of April 3, 2014
American West: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Permanent Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through May 10. Critical Focus — Artist Ian Fisher. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298- 7554. Through April 13. Epic — Artist ...
Just give a damn
In 2012, the world shook with the news that Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old unarmed African American boy, was shot and killed. He wasn’t the...
The forgotten ones
Don Coen’s family had a farm just outside of Lamar, Colorado, southeast of Colorado Springs, about half an hour’s drive from the border of...
What’s in a video game?
As children, many of us spent hundreds of hours competing against the computer, and our parents’ patience, playing epic action-adventure video games...
Keeping the tradition going
When your family has successfully organized and run a multi-day arts and culture festival each of the past 33 years, odds are you’re not...
