Arts & Culture
Making a thing while the world ends
As the pandemic stormed in and unceremoniously upended in-person events last March, it also cast members of Writer’s Block across the country.
With the university...
Reading music
For almost a decade, starting in 2008, I wrote an annual feature for Boulder Weekly detailing 10 great new albums for readers to check...
Implied Function
At first glance, it’s not quite clear what Jennifer Pettus’ artwork represents. Upon further inspection, it’s still not clear. But that’s the point.
Jennifer Pettus/”F...
Tommy, can you hear me?
For some, childhood is filled with wonder and happy memories. For others it’s riddled with real-life nightmares and family secrets. For Tommy Walker, it’s...
Boulder Chamber Orchestra returns to Mozart’s Requium with Boulder Chorale
Bahman Saless and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra are returning to old territory and making new discoveries.
Saless and the BCO will be performing the Mozart...
CWA: A magnifying glass on art
When Terrence McNally, the four-time Tony Award-winning playwright, was completing his undergraduate degree at Harvard University in the late ’60s, he spent a summer as program director for a camp of chronic schizophrenics. The camp took 25 patients from a Boston ...
The art in everyday
At first, you might not notice Jorge Pardo’s artwork in the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver’s latest exhibit Saber Acomodar: Art and Workshops of...
What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do…
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Between past and present
History lies close to the surface in Gold Hill. It’s tangible in the town’s rustic and sometimes dilapidated buildings, in the charred woods that...
Building bridges
Melanie Yazzie is an artist. She’s a painter, printmaker, sculptor, jewelry designer and an art teacher. As the head of printmaking at the University...
Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ tailored for the Christmas season
It’s been 276 years, and people are still talking about Handel’s Messiah.
Of course, it’s one of the best-known and best-loved pieces ever written, but...
What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do…
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‘Unhoused’ Episode 4 — Recognizing realities.
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