Arts & Culture
The art of change
Marc Bernardi’s work is all about metamorphosis — turning something as simple as a reed in a pond into an unrecognizable, abstract picture...
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...
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 end of domination?
Art has come full circle for author Tod Davies, at least a portion of it has. This month, the fourth book in her History...
Something doesn’t add up
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...
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...
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...
Tips for thrifty living
Sparrow is a self-taught visual artist, pianist and chef — and has a master’s degree in creative writing. He lives in a doublewide trailer...
Fresh perspectives
Peer through A Window Into Your Imagination, the new exhibition of two Colorado artists at SmithKlein Gallery, and you’ll glimpse a vibrant world rife with beauty. The surreal dreamscapes of Tammi Otis hang across from Bryce Widom’s impressionistic meadows and open...
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...
Women are beautiful, naturally
Through the decades in which women marched for liberation from secretarial jobs, sexual monogamy and bras, Garry Winogrand walked the streets, his palm-sized camera in hand, photographing women. He caught them with their guard down, their knees too high for their ...

















