Arts & Culture
Dear Whole Foods Daddy: Oct. 5, 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...
‘Photography and Vision’ is about just that
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 ...
Venturing off the pavement
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...
Boulder Chamber Orchestra returns to Mozart’s Requium with Boulder Chorale
Bahman Saless and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra are returning to old territory and making new discoveries.
Saless and the BCO will be performing the Mozart...
A virtue that produces peace
The emails started coming in on Wednesday, March 11; events canceled and venues closed. There were more emails on Thursday, and by Friday it...
Sightlines: Aug. 31, 2023
We love our local culture scene here in Boulder County. That’s why we’re bringing you a round-up of goings-on in the world of performing...
And now for something completely different
Unlike the 20-something I overheard on Pearl Street the other day exclaiming to her friends that she was “literally shitting bricks” as she awaited a call or text from some unnamed hottie she met at a recent party/rave/ bash/hoedown/Burning Man, I know the ...
Better than diamonds
Many artists have a trademark. For Monet it was water lilies, Warhol favored soup cans, and Picasso was partial to the rearranged face. But...
Suspension of disbelief
In late March, all 20 or so of the staff and associate artists on Local Theater Company’s team huddled together virtually on Zoom for...
Come to this maybe amazing show and hear some things that...
Dear suburbs: Todd Snider and his new band, the Hard Working Americans, are coming after you and any other self-proclaimed “hard working American” who’s stood behind the safety of a picket fence to look down on other people. Of the — generally speaking, as is ...
Rebel with a cause
In Swahili, the word ujamaa means “familyhood.” Some translate it as “extended family” or “brotherhood,” but for Tanzanian natives like Robert Oyugi, it’s a...
Conning the con
More than once as we sit soaking up sunshine and sipping on tea in her backyard, Anne Waldman alludes to her own death—but not...


















