Arts & Culture
Something doesn’t add up
With a little bastardization, Einstein’s most famous equation, E=mc2, sums up the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company’s latest, Smart People, with...
No truth
The paintings of William Stoehr are clearly faces. Some have two eyes, a nose and a mouth. Yet upon further inspection, one eye might...
Off Country
We end, I think, at what might be called the standard paradox of the twentieth century: our tools are better than we are, and...
Longmont Chalk Art and Street Fair
This September, Longmont hosted their inaugural Chalk Art Street Fair & Bin Market, a free two-day street-painting festival where more than 38 artists spent...
Broadening our vocabulary
Each person in Fazal Sheikh’s photography has a story of survival. The men, women and children have persevered through wars, refugee camps, abuse, social...
One story at a time
There is a difference between the Boulder County that we choose to see and the Boulder County that is. We choose to see the...
The zenith
The first sounds are reminiscent of metal on metal, steel against steel, like dragging a pipe across grating in short, regular intervals. An organ...
The benevolent creator
A Dasha Shishkin drawing is by no means straightforward. A picture can show multiple scenes, dozens of characters — some big, some small, some with...
Sweetly agitating, persistently upending
The first thing Joanna Rotkin learned in college was that she didn’t have a ballet body. For a young woman who had dedicated her...
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 familiar frontier
Post-Civil War America was a country in pieces. After years of fighting, the North and the South had to come together as one again....
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...
