Arts & Culture
Broad skepticism
Over the past several years, TED talks have become a staple of everyday life. A coworker or family member emails you a bite-sized piece...
Welcome the stranger
“For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed...
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...
Review: (Watch your) Step right up to the Circus of Fear...
The first stop on my October Haunted House crusade? The Circus of Fear 3D, at Fat Cats “All Out Fun Center” in Westminster (10685 Westminster Blvd...
Arts | Week of May 7, 2015
Acrylic Paintings by M.G. Davis. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through May 30...
Fright Night
Fact: Halloween is the greatest holiday ever. There are costume parties, free license to be a weirdo and all the candy you can shake a wizard staff at...
Mafia II: Great story, but limited gameplay
The original Mafia game, Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, was a story that took place in the 1930s, when the bootlegging of alcohol ruled the streets. In Mafia II, we move up to the 1940s in the midst of World War II and the mob still looking for ways to make money ...
Shear zone
Wandering aimlessly about the internet in the early, lockdown days of the pandemic, Marina Kassianidou stumbled onto some research out of Harvard that proves...
Arts | Week of Dec. 10, 2015
A Place in the Sun. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 24...
Arts | Week of Feb. 19, 2015
Beyond Words: Contemporary Book Art. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303- 279-3922. Through March 22...
#InstaNovels
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,...
A logical explanation
One word resonates through my mind when movies suggest the existence of “the Other” or people exchange scary stories: fake. It’s fun to watch horror films and pretend there are witches, ghosts and monsters lurking about, but it’s just that — imaginary. While part of ...


















