Arts & Culture
Hand in hand
While sipping your favorite craft brew, you might have noticed artwork adorning the walls at many local breweries. It seems as though these two...
What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do…
Sourdough Baking — with Sarah Owens and Andy Clark. 5 p.m. Thursday, June 18.
With the popularity of sourdough on the rise, many are turning...
All animals are created equal
Maria Montessori believed in the innate intelligence of children.
“The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have...
‘Listen to the voice of the woods’
To see a Studio Ghibli film is to believe — in wonder, in magic, in childhood imagination and, most importantly, in the capacity for...
Metamorphosis
There is an unmistakeable sound of a woodshop — of the lathes, routers and lasers cutting, etching, carving — all absorbed and echoed in...
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,...
Uncomfortable cuisine
Deep in the back room of the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), an enormous Cheeto, roughly four feet long and made up of thousands of real Cheetos, dangles from the ceiling like dead flesh in a meat locker. Up close, the individual Cheetos have a sticky ...
American dream
Lindy Chambers lives in rural Texas, almost halfway between Houston and Austin. She spends a lot of time by herself in her studio, outside...
How a sunset feels
Try to describe a sunset without using colors; think about how it feels, how the air smells, perhaps about the sounds that arise at...
Sightlines: March 2, 2023
We love our local arts scene here in Boulder County — but with so much going on, it can be hard to keep up....
Speaking for America
"Like campers around a campfire sharing ghost stories, except all the stories are supposedly true, and the thing we’re gathered around is not a...
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....