Arts & Culture
Conversations from the stage
On her way to the Pekoe Sip House on 30th Street, Megan Falley steps across a message painted on the sidewalk. She pauses, reversing her...
Giving voice
There’s an earthiness in the air as several young people work on potting some 300 flowers in the lobby of the Boulder Museum of...
CU Eklund Opera melds Handel’s ‘Ariodante’ with ‘Game of Thrones’
Handel’s opera Ariodante is as old as 1516, when its story was first recorded, and as new as today.
Its theme, the linchpin of many...
SMiLE, it’s good for you
Ten minutes before I turn onto Pearl Street, my phone vibrates. A message: “I forgot to ask... Will you keep my identity a secret?”...
All are welcome
The art of filmmaking can be tedious, admits director and producer Susan Polis Schutz. Projects can take years to complete, and after finishing her...
Writer’s Block has ‘IT’
It’s a Tuesday night at Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Café’s weekly open poetry reading.
“Writer’s Block,” a poet at the mic says.
“Outside the box,” a...
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...
Lost and found
For the past several years, Loren Eiseley’s story “The Star Thrower,” aka “the starfish story,” has made its rounds across the internet. Published in...
A collective cacophony
The story of Meow Wolf starts in a coffee shop with a boy crushing on a girl... sort of.
Really, the story of the...
Big shoes to fill
Theater lovers anywhere outside of New York City must cultivate one similar trait: patience. When a new show opens on Broadway, unless you buy...
In order to form a ‘More Perfect’ union…
If you’ve ever heard Ira Glass talk about his relationship with the radio, you’ve heard him tell a story of being in love with it...
Better than diamonds
Many artists have a trademark. For Monet it was water lilies, Warhol favored soup cans, and Picasso was partial to the rearranged face. But...
