Arts & Culture

The original Mafia game, Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, was a story that took place in the 1930s, when the bootlegging of alcohol ruled the streets. In Mafia II, we move up to the 1940s in the midst of World War II and the mob still looking for ways to make money ...

In the summer of 2010, Jeff Emtman, then a student at Fairhaven College, was suffering a sleepless night when he had an epiphany...

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...

Art has an uncanny ability to cut clear through to who we are, where we’ve been and where we’re headed. That we’ve become so mired in technology as to make the relationship between humans and their data impossible to separate is the message poignantly posted on the ...

"Aww, can you buy alcohol now?” A colleague teased Ryan Everson about his recent birthday this past Sunday. Having just  turned 24, University of Colorado Master of Fine Arts candidate Ryan Everson has been the center of plenty of youth-driven  wisecracks. But his ...

As of Dec. 24, Boulder photographer Peggy Dyer had captured the images of 4,340 people, leaving 995,660 to go in her mission to photograph a million faces. For the last two years, Dyer has been steadily amassing what she hopes will be the “single most extensive ...

Everybody kind of stinks, in my opinion. I don’t really like anyone,” says comedian Hannibal Buress. As most comedians do, Buress draws from his daily...

First Annual Boulder Block Party, 6 p.m., Friday, May 16, Madelife, 2000 21st St., Boulder, www.facebook. com/bdrblockparty, 303-927-0802 $10...

Eight black and white images — a photo collage — of a figure that looks wrapped for burial at sea, shrouded and tagged with an American flag occasionally upside down, run in sequence along the opening wall of the gallery. The collage is part of the current exhibit ...

It may have been 20 years ago today that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play, but it was 50 years ago that the Handweavers Guild of Boulder first met up to combine their handweaving powers. And back then, it was for handweavers only, leaving Boulder’s needlepoint ...

Mick Fleetwood is mostly known for co-founding and drumming in the legendary band Fleetwood Mac. But between tours, Fleetwood is putting down the sticks and picking up the camera. His new show, Reflections, will be at the gallery Fascination St. Fine Art in Denver ...

While revitalizing a city’s art scene seems like a daunting task, there are people in Boulder working to make it a reality. Think: more venues, more art districts, more festivals and more resources for artists and the community...