Arts & Culture
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...
Broadening our vocabulary
Each person in Fazal Sheikh’s photography has a story of survival. The men, women and children have persevered through wars, refugee camps, abuse, social...
BMOCA explores the art of city chicken coops
When was the last time you saw livestock frequenting a fine arts museum? I'm going to say never. Live farm animals might seem like an anomaly at an art exhibit, but as Boulderites swarmed the farmers' market on Sept. 26, their sacks filled with organic produce, live ...
Inspiration and location
The fascinating acrylic-onwood paintings of Caitlin Buck, a Boulder native who graduated from Naropa University in 2012, will see their three-month appearance on the walls of the Laughing Goat Coffeehouse end this month. Buck, 28, lately focuses on realistically ...
Bomba bridging cultures
When she was a kid growing up on the east coast, Maria Sepulveda had an intimate connection with her Puerto Rican roots. The Latino community surrounding her was a diverse collection of families from across the Latino world, and she used Spanish with them daily...
CMF’s mid-summer mini-fest puts the focus on French music
The mid-summer mini-festival, happily restored to the Colorado Music Festival season, this year will fill Chautauqua Auditorium with the sounds of French music —...
Between laughing and crying
After the November presidential election, comedian Dana Gould was taken aback, not just by the results, but how sure he’d been that Trump wouldn’t...
‘Encounters 2016’ spotlights printmakers
After meticulously carving out the perfect design, it is time to put the first round of ink onto the stamp and press it onto...
The STEAM of dreams
“We believe art is a powerful gateway drug into science,” George Sparks,
CEO of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS), says of its...
Finding beauty in everything
Born in 1928 in Pittsburgh as the third child of immigrant parents, Andy Warhol suffered through his childhood as an outcast and a hypochondriac. It seemed unlikely then that this often bed-ridden child would one day rise to fame as one of the leading figures of the ...
‘Dead Space 2’ is one of the scariest games ever made
Back in 2008, EA Games dropped one of the scariest games in this generation of gaming, Dead Space. A horror game set in the emptiness of outer space, Dead Space brought back that fear factor gamers had when space horror debuted in the mid-’90s with the classic video ...
John Waters brings bag of Christmas smut to Boulder
Christmas typically implies a lot of wholesomeness like steaming beverages, wrapped packages and a general influx in morality. But this Christmas, there’s another man...

















