Arts & Culture
The intimate is political
In the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election, Boulder-based artists Julie Maren and Joy Alice Eisenhauer were excited. The two had partnered...
Come to this maybe amazing show and hear some things that...
Dear suburbs: Todd Snider and his new band, the Hard Working Americans, are coming after you and any other self-proclaimed “hard working American” who’s stood behind the safety of a picket fence to look down on other people. Of the — generally speaking, as is ...
Celebrated professional tango dancers open Boulder Tango Studio
To hear a person talk about tango is to witness a blushing love affair. They’ll speak of the heart, of an unspoken connection between partners, of passion; they might even go so far as to call it an addiction. To hear tango dancers describe their art is to be a ...
Changing the rules
Karen Oliveto has dedicated her life to the United Methodist Church (UMC) despite the denomination’s stance against same sex marriage and its rules against...
Tragic comedy
Exposition, conflict, action, climax, denouement — the pathway by which order falls to chaos in each of Shakespeare’s plays. How that order is restored,...
Gentlemen, start your symbolism
"Aww, can you buy alcohol now?” A colleague teased Ryan Everson about his recent birthday this past Sunday. Having just turned 24, University of Colorado Master of Fine Arts candidate Ryan Everson has been the center of plenty of youth-driven wisecracks. But his ...
Finding the common struggle
Death has this way of opening doors, of showing the living paths they didn’t realize they could take.
“Mostly it is loss,” mused the German...
What’s in a name?
Her name is Amber Jensdotter. But her last name hasn’t always been Jensdotter. And in the next few weeks, it will be something completely...
Walk with me to the end
Dan Kuester and Kirsten Farnsworth had only been married for two months when Kirsten was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Between aggressive treatments over the...
Collage artist Jimmy Descant is building a different future
In most cases, walking into an art gallery and proclaiming that the exhibit looks like garbage would be considered rude. But in Boulder, such criticism only earns you thanks...
Blurring the lines
The Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival (LEAF) is a place for hackers. Not hackers like Gary McKinnon or Albert Gonzalez, but hackers like Brian Eno,...
For the sake of the endeavor
Under the dim light of the full moon, a group of poets gathers in a hollow of Pearl Street’s Morrison Alley. Most people come...
