Arts & Culture
Becoming a better ally
Monday, Nov. 17 marked 2017’s Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR), honoring the lives of transgender people lost this year. It’s a day to stand...
Surreal oddities
Goldilocks enters the three bears’ home with an excited curiosity; she sneaks around knowing she doesn’t quite fit in, but enjoys the exploration nonetheless...
The joy of circus
Cirque du Soleil is a curious success story in the entertainment business, one that started in Quebec in the early ’80s and grew into an international success of epic proportions, propelling the once-maligned circus arts into the same prominent spotlight shared by ...
Facing your neighbors
A group exhibit of mixed media portraits opening at Core New Art Space on Jan. 4 is putting a face on a faceless population in Colorado — groups of refugees from Burma who have arrived in increasing numbers over the last 15 years and been met with all the ...
Not your average stoner
Michael Grab thrives on the impossible. In fact, the professional stone balancer has made the phrase “as impossible as possible” the motto by which he creates...
What’s in a video game?
As children, many of us spent hundreds of hours competing against the computer, and our parents’ patience, playing epic action-adventure video games...
Bringing stencils to the studio
She is not Banksy, but she is still badass. Amanda Marie Ploegsma’s first museum show — Purity & Credence — is on now at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) and there is no sign of her badass-ness slowing down...
The hope in play
America was reborn after World War II. Industries that thrived producing goods during and for the war sought new means of production. Everyday Americans...
Creative evolution
Anyone who has driven down 30th Street has probably seen it out their window. But in case you’ve never stopped for a closer look, the brightly colored slab of concrete next to the skatepark in Scott Carpenter Park is a penalty-free place for graffiti: the Boulder ...
Frank Frazetta, fantasy painter and illustrator, dies at 82
Frank Frazetta, the fantasy painter and illustrator...
From an immigrant´s perspective
In Boulder, talk of changing seasons can lead to anxiety, happiness, or resolution. But what if we had to experience serious change, such as moving into a new environment or changing from a democracy to a dictatorship? Chances are, our interpretation of things wouldn...
Cultural tensions on display
A massive painting on melted bubble wrap depicts American rock legend, Gene Simmons of Kiss, complete with proverbial white and black face paint and his signature facial expression. The painting hangs to the right of another painting on bubble wrap, this one ...
