Arts & Culture
On paper wings
Boulder’s Marisa Aragón Ware didn’t know what to expect when she was chosen as a contestant on the Discovery Channel’s Meet Your Makers earlier...
For the sake of the endeavor
Under the dim light of the full moon, a group of poets gathers in a hollow of Pearl Street’s Morrison Alley. Most people come...
If you knew my story
There’s something about folk music — the twang of a banjo, the lonesome drawl of a singer’s voice — that captures a certain melodrama...
SMiLE, it’s good for you
Ten minutes before I turn onto Pearl Street, my phone vibrates. A message: “I forgot to ask... Will you keep my identity a secret?”...
A forgotten chapter of the Impressionist story
If ever there was a group of artists to leave a lasting impression, it was the rightly named Impressionists. Dominating the late 19th century,...
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...
Dear Whole Foods Daddy: Holiday edition
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...
Boulder resident Robert Venosa, foremost master of visionary art, dies
Robert Venosa, one of...
For they know not what they do
Last summer, Pedro Silva, an associate pastor at First Congregational United Church of Christ, was walking toward the pop-jet fountain on Pearl Street when...
What new beginnings…
After 42 years of topless and nude entertainment, the Bustop Gentleman’s Club in North Boulder has closed and is slated for demolition. In its...
Erasing creation
It’s 5 a.m., and the city is still. Under the Sun doesn’t open until the afternoon, but among the empty chairs sits artist Bryce...
