Arts & Culture
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...
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....
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...
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, ...
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 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...
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...
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...
Voices of dissent
“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...
The process of becoming
No artist steps up to the canvas with a fully formed style. It’s easy to forget that once upon a time, famous artists were...
Classic Caesar
Man landing on the moon. The Vietnam War. Two gulf wars. VCRs. Video games. Cell phones. The Internet. Cassette tapes. Compact discs. DVDs. AIDS....
More than just pretty still lifes
In the 19th century, Paris was undergoing major change. The city was starting to blossom and open its narrow designs, shedding its medieval past....

















