Arts & Culture
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...
Framing Frida
The name Frida Kahlo conjures different meanings for different people. For some she was an underappreciated artist, who lacked technical skill but had a strong vision. For others she was a feminist who broke gender roles and challenged traditional beauty. Moreover ...
He who looks in the crystal ball…
Large-scale crises — like a global pandemic, for instance — have a way of exposing society’s vulnerabilities; like a UV light on a crime...
What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do…
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The Senior Class of Tara Performing Arts High School (virtually)...
Making sense of Boulder fashion
Boulder tends to attract superlatives. It’s been named the foodiest town in America by Bon Appetit. It’s routinely among the fittest, the smartest, most likely to succeed, best smile, greatest ever. But nobody’s ever complimented the City of Brown Woolen Sweaters on ...
CU plans to create new, consolidated arts department
The University of Colorado Boulder is moving to combine its three arts departments — Art and Art History; Film Studies; and Theatre and Dance — into a single entity, tentatively known as the Interdepartmental Program in Fine Arts (IPFA...
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...
My fellow Americans . . .
By the spring of 2020, André Ramos-Woodard (they/them) was mad as hell.
It started with Ahmaud Arbery, chased and gunned down by white men while...
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...
Our time in history
Election night was rough for many citizens around the country. Boulder resident Charlie Stein swung from disbelief to shock to sadness. In the aftermath,...
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...
Not going quietly
They are each unique, with nuanced journeys of hardship, trauma and, ultimately, resolve. They are also bound together by their similarities: Latinas, facing impossible...
