Arts & Culture
Context is everything
Ganzeer spends most of his time these days sitting at the orange desk in his apartment overlooking Denver’s Cheesman Park. He’s working on a...
Tapping into history
Eighty-eight-year-old Harriet Butcher vividly recalls Sammy Davis Jr. tap dancing on the stage of the Roxy Theater in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood. Butcher takes a deep breath and closes her eyes as she recalls swooning over the legendary performer...
poetry
After reading the Boulder Weekly’s story on Scholastic National Student Poets Program and the subsequent essay issue of the paper, local poet Troy Suben approached the editorial staff with an idea: What about running poetry in the paper on a weekly basis? We’ve ...
Call of Duty: Black Ops rivals any Hollywood blockbuster
When the drama between Activision and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward began to unfold this summer, hardcore fans worried about the future of the Call of Duty franchise. Despite the fact that developer Treyarch has been creating Call of Duty games...
Layers of injustice
By now you’ve likely heard that J.K. Rowling, author of the beloved Harry Potter series, is a TERF.
It’s a term Rowling considers a slur,...
Conversations from the stage
On her way to the Pekoe Sip House on 30th Street, Megan Falley steps across a message painted on the sidewalk. She pauses, reversing her...
Arts | Week of Dec. 31, 2015
A Place in the Sun. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 24...
What can’t be spoken
In an email exchange between cocurators of the art exhibit for Veterans Speak, Army veteran Adam Nilson explains his photography this way: “I have discovered that art is a therapeutic outlet and another way for me to communicate difficult situations and feelings that...
An insatiable appetite
There’s nothing quite as inviting as a table with white linens, clean plates and shiny silverware. It makes the stomach growl and mouth water....
How lonely does it get?
I first met Bradley Books seven years ago through a thin piece of plexiglass. Sitting inside the staff office at the Boulder Shelter for the...
Up against a wall
A couple of winters ago, Fiona Arnold was walking through the streets of Old Town Montreal with her daughter when they turned a corner and...
Punching up
This is the first in a series of profiles we’ll be featuring over the coming months in the run up to the Boulder Comedy...
