Arts & Culture
Dildos and the flag flap
The November First Friday at Mighty Fudge Studios in the NoBo Arts District is B.Y.O.D.: bring your own dildo.
In addition to customizing your phallus...
Under the dome
ARISE is in its fifth year and it’s already one of Colorado’s best-known and most successful festivals, and there’s a reason for that. It’s...
Hiding in plain sight
Walk into the main gallery of the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) and you will be blinded by industrial spotlights mounted on large...
New podcast, ‘The Syndicate,’ details one of the nation’s largest marijuana...
As a journalist — a good one, anyway — when the main source in your story is a professional skydiver who used his plane...
Making sense of Boulder fashion
Boulder tends to attract superlatives. It’s been named the foodiest town in America by Bon Appetit. It’s routinely among the fittest, the smartest, most likely to succeed, best smile, greatest ever. But nobody’s ever complimented the City of Brown Woolen Sweaters on ...
The gray area
For thousands of years, humans have passed stories down to younger generations with the hope they’ll continue the practice. As a member of the...
The conservator’s dilemma at Denver’s Clyfford Still Museum
In the back corner of the Clyfford Still Museum, a glass door allows partial views of the interior of the conservation studio, where every few days, a new painting is unrolled and the work of preparing it to be exhibited — often, for the very first time — begins. ...
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...
Inappropriate laughter
The pilot of Tig Notaro’s semi-autobiographical Amazon Prime series One Mississippi wastes no time setting up the darkness that is — in all its...
Broad skepticism
Over the past several years, TED talks have become a staple of everyday life. A coworker or family member emails you a bite-sized piece...
Conversation series focuses on experience of war
It was a holiday weekend tradition: James Speed Hensinger and his parents would meet close family friends for a lakeside vacation full of picnics,...