Arts & Culture

Awakening a lifetime

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It’s a warm spring day when John, dressed in a red plaid shirt with notes peeking out of the breast pocket, the first few scrawled pencil lines of which read yesterday’s date and “7:49 a, wind blowing from the west very hard,” and tan corduroys that sag in the seat, ...

The art of politics

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Over the past several months, the current state of politics has left many dejected. It’s a feeling that weighed heavily on Firehouse Art Center...

You are what you wear

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Identity can take many forms. For the samurai warriors who reigned through Japan for seven centuries, a suit of armor expressed more than a...

The familiar frontier

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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....

Speaking for America

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"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...

Oy, with the podcasts already

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"What qualifies us to talk about Gilmore Girls like experts?” Kevin Porter asks co-host Demi Adejuyigbe, during the inaugural episode of their podcast Gilmore...

‘Listen to the voice of the woods’

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To see a Studio Ghibli film is to believe — in wonder, in magic, in childhood imagination and, most importantly, in the capacity for...

Becoming American

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What does “becoming American” mean to you? Is it a process? A state of mind? An act of participation? When one becomes American, what’s...

Little tweaks

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Every one of Mark Ludy’s artworks has a story, whether it’s a recreation of the tale of Noah’s Ark, or a train flying through...

Voices of dissent

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“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.” —Edward R. Murrow For...

Something doesn’t add up

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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...

Plein Air Festival aims to document and grow Central City

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On Friday, Sept. 28, 20 artists will travel to Central City for Central City Opera’s inaugural Plein Air Festival. For three days, they will...