Arts & Culture

‘Local Folk’ exhibits diversity in Boulder County

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Executive director of the Firehouse, Beryl Durazo has inclusivity on the brain. “Especially in Boulder County, diversity is an important role to play in anything,...

Arts and activism

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Arts and media unite communities, says Irene Vilar, the creator and driving force behind the Americas Latino Festival. By harnessing the mainstream appeal and draw of prominent Latino creators, she hopes to brighten the main environmental mission of the festival as ...

Broadening our vocabulary

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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...

‘Dead Space 2’ is one of the scariest games ever made

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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 ...

‘Encounters 2016’ spotlights printmakers

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After meticulously carving out the perfect design, it is time to put the first round of ink onto the stamp and press it onto...

Bomba bridging cultures

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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...

BMOCA explores the art of city chicken coops

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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 ...

Between laughing and crying

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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...

Finding beauty in everything

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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 ...

CMF’s mid-summer mini-fest puts the focus on French music

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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 —...

The STEAM of dreams

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“We believe art is a powerful gateway drug into science,” George Sparks, CEO of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS), says of its...

Venturing off the pavement

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WIlliam Matthews’ watercolor paintings show a predilection for cowboy hats and men astride horses, their faces rarely in view as they head out away from the viewer and into an open range. It’s a trick. It says “get on or get left behind...