Arts & Culture
You are what you wear
Identity can take many forms. For the samurai warriors who reigned through Japan for seven centuries, a suit of armor expressed more than a...
Plein Air Festival aims to document and grow Central City
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...
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....
‘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...
Awakening a lifetime
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, ...
Little tweaks
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...
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....
Oy, with the podcasts already
"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...
The art of politics
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...
Exhibit at Firehouse questions technology
The violin is iconic. Whether because of its lovely sound or its elegant design, the violin conjures of feelings of tradition and beauty. Which...
The antidote to despair
In a storage unit in Boulder sits a sort of museum of remembrance, momentos of lives past, curated intentionally by CU Theatre and Dance...

















