Arts & Culture
Community collaboration
If anyone can appreciate an unexpected collaboration, it’s singer-songwriter Lisa Bell. Her most recent album, The Italian Project, began when the Boulder native reconnected with a high school friend she hadn’t seen in more than 25 years. The friends reunited through...
Let it flow
The Colorado River is in trouble. Now in its 23rd year of drought, the once-mighty water source flowing nearly 1,500 miles from the Rocky...
Making people uncomfortable
There’s a saying in sales: Show up and throw up.
It means knowing your product inside and out, and being ready to offer that knowledge...
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...
Bringing stencils to the studio
She is not Banksy, but she is still badass. Amanda Marie Ploegsma’s first museum show — Purity & Credence — is on now at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) and there is no sign of her badass-ness slowing down...
poetry
After reading the Boulder Weekly’s story on Scholastic National Student Poets Program and the subsequent essay issue of the paper, local poet Troy Suben approached the editorial staff with an idea: What about running poetry in the paper on a weekly basis? We’ve ...
The in-between
Here’s how it was supposed to go: In one of the tall, street-facing windows of the David B. Smith Gallery, a 6-foot-tall neon sign...
The real disruption is coming
Franko Vatterott kept his interest in cryptocurrency to himself for several years — he’s been a self-professed “crypto guy” since circa 2016. He knew...
Fable III is a classic hero story with a twist
The Fable series is a fun one. Created by Peter Molyneaux and the folks at his Lionhead Studios exclusively for the Xbox 360, the stories of the games are the classic hero-type. You start off as an impoverished character just trying to survive until you’re called ...
Honors in art
Film festivals. Galleries. Multiple orchestras in a town of only 100,000. There isn’t much argument against the fact that Boulder is an arts city...
Collective mentality
When a child comes home from sixth grade and renounces school to be a painter, most fathers would usually turn the kid around and...

















