Arts & Culture

Tips for thrifty living

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Sparrow is a self-taught visual artist, pianist and chef — and has a master’s degree in creative writing. He lives in a doublewide trailer...

#InstaNovels

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You may think of Instagram as a platform for images, but it may be the next place you turn to read a novel.  Don’t scoff,...

Arts | Week of Dec. 2014

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Affordable Art Show. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651- 2787. Through Dec. 28...

Martina Hoffmann’s world as art

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%uFFFDBoulder-based artist Martina Hoffmann says growing up in equatorial Africa as a blond-haired, blue-eyed child was “a beautiful experience.” The German-born painter remembers how indigenous children would surround her, touching her skin and hair with curiosity ...

Arts | Week of November 6, 2014

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ART/TEKNE: Metaphorming Nature: Connecting Human/ Nature’s Creative Potential — Todd Siler. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. 303- 492-8300. Through Dec. 20...

Making people uncomfortable

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There’s a saying in sales: Show up and throw up.  It means knowing your product inside and out, and being ready to offer that knowledge...

Better than diamonds

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Many artists have a trademark. For Monet it was water lilies, Warhol favored soup cans, and Picasso was partial to the rearranged face. But...

An ordered universe

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In David Foster Wallace’s book Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, he attempts to explain the possibility of constructing proof of a...

Outside the frame

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Growing up in the ’60s, when Melanie Walker and her sister would come home complaining about a problem at school, their father would joke,...

Thrust up, twisted and frozen in time

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Seeing an art show at Macky Auditorium feels more like going to church than a gallery. The sunlight drifts in through high lancet windows,...

Between past and present

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History lies close to the surface in Gold Hill. It’s tangible in the town’s rustic and sometimes dilapidated buildings, in the charred woods that...

Lost and found

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For the past several years, Loren Eiseley’s story “The Star Thrower,” aka “the starfish story,” has made its rounds across the internet. Published in...