Arts & Culture
Robert Venosa, the shaman
In the realm of visionary artists, Robert Venosa stands as a master of both technique and perception. During his long and varied career, the Boulder painter has created numinous, sparkling paintings that have kindled the imaginations of many people and greatly ...
‘Killzone 3’ pushes the Playstation 3 to the max
When God of War 3 came out last year, it took advantage of every piece of technology embedded in the Playstation 3, making it one of the best games to ever grace the system. Now comes Killzone 3, a first-person shooter exclusively for PS3, which takes place right ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
Photos: Frozen Dead Guy Days
The folks in Nederland, Colorado celebrated their 10th Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival from March 4-6. Check out some images from the events:
Snowballing success
Boulder Weekly's Jules Kueffer was at the Snow Ball Festival this weekend. Check out the slideshow below.
Repurposing meanings
Imagine what flesh would look like if it were made from thin layers of wood, or how a wave in a choppy sea would appear if it were frozen into overarching planks. Picture an animate sense of movement emerging from this wooden mass and visualize shifting colors ...
Post-apocalyptic life is a blast in Fallout: New Vegas
Back in 2008, the folks at Bethesda Games released a classic game in Fallout 3. Stranded in the wasteland of a post-apocalyptic America, the player is on a journey to find his father while trying to survive among vigilantes and radiation-infected creatures trying to ...
Finding the fun in painting
Other than his perpetually paint-stained clothes, Binghamton, N.Y., native Sam Jablon cut a deceptively ordinary figure during his four years (2005-09) at Naropa University, where he graduated with an interdisciplinary degree in writing, meditation and visual art. A ...
Boulder Weekly astrologer Rob Brezsny: ‘Your sign isn’t changing’
Editor's note: In light of the recent news reports that the sun was now passing through 13 constellations instead of 12, therefore shifting the entire zodiac and the astrological signs of many, we here at Boulder Weekly reached out to our resident astrologer, Rob ...
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 ...
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 ...