Arts & Culture
CMF ends on a high note
When you plan a summer festival, you want to end on a high note. And this year, Jean-Marie Zeitouni and the Colorado Music Festival...
Monsters in the dark
In the summer of 2010, Jeff Emtman, then a student at Fairhaven College, was suffering a sleepless night when he had an epiphany...
Arts | Week of Oct. 30, 2014
Buy — Sharon Feder. Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through Nov. 16...
The forgotten ones
Don Coen’s family had a farm just outside of Lamar, Colorado, southeast of Colorado Springs, about half an hour’s drive from the border of...
Becoming American
What does “becoming American” mean to you? Is it a process? A state of mind? An act of participation? When one becomes American, what’s...
Naropa’s matchbox art fundraiser: Sparked to make a difference
The drawing shows a purple bird’s nest holding five eggs, each a different color, balanced on the limb of a tree. Filling the sky around the tree branches is a crowd of birds, open V shapes drawn in orange pastel. It’s a simple drawing, but a big story...
Learning from loss
Seth Masket, like some 48% of voters who supported Hillary Clinton (happily or begrudgingly), has spent a lot of time wondering what happened in...
Daring to dream
Motus Theater commemorates the 10th anniversary of DACA through art and activism in Boulder and beyond
Building power
If you live in Boulder County, you’ve probably heard the story of Zayd Atkinson and John Smyly. On March 1, 2019, Atkinson, a Naropa...
Dear Whole Foods Daddy: June 1, 2023
We all have questions and need advice, but sometimes the pseudo therapy in the Instagram stories of astrology girls doesn’t cut it. Or maybe...
A hundred pounds lighter
Everytime 27-year-old Reydesel Salvidrez-Rodriguez shares his story, he’s filled with a sense of relief.
“No more secrets, no more lies,” says Salvidrez-Rodriguez, an undocumented immigrant...
A million pictures worth countless words
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 ...


















