Arts & Culture

Enhancing the excitability of the whole machine

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Friedrich Nietzsche considered art the “healing balm” for the human condition, the highest form of relief for existential dread, world-weariness and, if you will,...

Shining a light on a musical ‘blind spot’ in Vienna

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Vienna’s rich musical heritage of the Classic-Romantic periods is very familiar to audiences. But for a full century before Haydn or Mozart ever set...

Movies to look forward to in 2014

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Blame it on kismet, chance or “the rain,” but something funky worked in 2013’s favor. For no discernible reason, the year offered up wildly brilliant unexpected gems (Upstream Color, Spring Breakers) and triumphant blockbusters with brains (The Hunger Games: Catching...

Step lively for dance

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Scanning the room, your eyes become locked with a potential partner in a visual embrace that seems to extinguish the outside world. Once intertwined, forceful and deliberate movements make up an exotic language that has no words...

The greatest of all human blessings

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BETC’s ‘14 Funerals’ wraps philosophy in comedy

Repurposing meanings

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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 ...

A fairy tale for Boulder County

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Len Barron, a retired 80-year-old educator, has enjoyed a lifelong fascination with one Albert Einstein. He says he has gone into more than 200 schools since 1989 doing talks on the physicist and education, and for years that included a one-man show he’d perform, ...

Our time in history

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Election night was rough for many citizens around the country. Boulder resident Charlie Stein swung from disbelief to shock to sadness. In the aftermath,...

Hiding in plain sight

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Walk into the main gallery of the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) and you will be blinded by industrial spotlights mounted on large...

Arts | Week of Dec. 24, 2015

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A Place in the Sun. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865- 5000. Through April 24...

Arts and activism

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Arts and media unite communities, says Irene Vilar, the creator and driving force behind the Americas Latino Festival. By harnessing the mainstream appeal and draw of prominent Latino creators, she hopes to brighten the main environmental mission of the festival as ...

Fable III is a classic hero story with a twist

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The Fable series is a fun one. Created by Peter Molyneaux and the folks at his Lionhead Studios exclusively for the Xbox 360, the stories of the games are the classic hero-type. You start off as an impoverished character just trying to survive until you’re called ...