Arts & Culture
History belongs to everyone
When author Preston Lauterbach first met Ernest Withers, the famed Civil Rights-era photographer left Lauterbach in his studio alone while Withers took a meeting.
“Before...
Applauding all abilities
In Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, the song “The Farmer and The Cowman” claims the differences between the two shouldn’t prevent them from becoming friends....
Pussy Grabs Back
This is not a typical burlesque show,” says Jenna Noah, aka Madame Merci, co-founder of Conscious Burlesque and creator of Pussy Grabs Back. “This...
Just the beginning
It’s a busy night at VisionQuest Brewery’s StarWater Wednesday. Sitting at a back table, behind the typical crowd of hug-loving, smile-wearing, hairy eccentrics, are...
Romanticizing the glitch
The Amazon rainforest was ablaze last year as artist Mark Amerika and curator Jessica Kooiman Parker began to conceptualize a new media exhibition for...
The sounds of science
On a golden summer evening, the harmonized voices of children fill the Chautauqua meadows with a song about a flesh-eating bacterium: “Oh Giardia, I...
Layers of injustice
By now you’ve likely heard that J.K. Rowling, author of the beloved Harry Potter series, is a TERF.
It’s a term Rowling considers a slur,...
Ally is a verb
Rendered in prismatic colors, their skin defies race.
More than a dozen visages stare back at patrons of The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse at Norlin Commons...
The steep walls of the pyramid
Success, acclaim and wealth can be a dream come true for many artists. But when Jonathan Saiz’s artistic career began to take off, he...
Exploring boldly
When Adam Vicarel first moved to Colorado with big dreams and an empty wallet, he thought he’d made a huge mistake. It was the...
The sacred attempt
When Joshua Emerson’s mom died in the winter of 2019, he felt like a crucial part of himself had been severed. The Denver-based comedian,...
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...
