Arts & Culture
The Francesca box
George Lange kept the box shut for nearly 40 years. So long as he did, his old friend Francesca Woodman stayed alive, in a...
Weaving stories
Not many textile artists have to go through security checkpoints every morning.
Anna Olsson did. For five years, the psychologist-by-day and artist-by-night worked in...
A force of nature
This Mother’s Day weekend is all about nature for Boulder’s classical musicians.
The weekend kicks off Friday night with conductor Bahman Saless and the Boulder...
Our time in history
Election night was rough for many citizens around the country. Boulder resident Charlie Stein swung from disbelief to shock to sadness. In the aftermath,...
DJ Hero 2 is a sequel as good as the original
DJ Hero may not have been the sales phenomenon that Activision was hoping it would be last year, you know, like how Guitar Hero grew to be. But the publisher is sticking by the franchise with DJ Hero 2...
Hanging with Hannibal
Everybody kind of stinks, in my opinion. I don’t really like anyone,” says comedian Hannibal Buress.
As most comedians do, Buress draws from his daily...
A&E at CWA
World affairs to be conferenced includes no shortage of arts topicsAfter this many years covering it, there’s not a lot of new things BW can say about the University of Colorado Boulder’s annual Conference on World Affairs in a global sense. Since it was founded in ...
Uncomfortable cuisine
Deep in the back room of the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), an enormous Cheeto, roughly four feet long and made up of thousands of real Cheetos, dangles from the ceiling like dead flesh in a meat locker. Up close, the individual Cheetos have a sticky ...
Echoing across the vista
After hauling backpacks weighing almost 100 pounds to 13,300 feet above sea level, waiting out a snowstorm and finally reaching the perfect spot on...
Boulder Tattoo Project finishes up first phase
At Claw and Talon Tattoo in Boulder, Boulder County resident Joel sits in the waiting room, flanked by colorful posters as the pounding riffs of stoner-metal legends Kyuss fill the room...
Surreal oddities
Goldilocks enters the three bears’ home with an excited curiosity; she sneaks around knowing she doesn’t quite fit in, but enjoys the exploration nonetheless...
When cultures collide
Denver artist Tony Ortega’s attic studio overflows with framed prints he has made during his three-plus decades as a professional artist...


















