Arts & Culture
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...
‘We’re still here’
Melissa Fathman remembers a moment two years ago, on Indigenous Peoples Day, watching Sarah Ortegon, an enrolled Eastern Shoshone also of Northern Arapaho descent,...
Arts | Week of June 5, 2014
The Art of Data. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through July 6...
‘A resting place for worried minds’
"I know it’s hard to believe, but these days I feel upset a lot of the time,” says artist Kathryn Jill Johnson with a...
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...
Historical amnesia
Reiland Rabaka’s got a diagnosis for the American people: historical amnesia.
How else could so many people feel justified in taking to social media to...
The ghosts of Manitou Springs
Dead leaves swept gently across the footpaths in Crystal Valley Cemetery last Saturday evening, as if brushed away by a great, unseen hand. A crescent moon slipped silently behind the hills, and several large deer munched quietly on the short grass overlying Manitou ...
Ransomed for charity
Flight For Life helicopters and airplanes usually fly people out of the mountains...
Making a thing while the world ends
As the pandemic stormed in and unceremoniously upended in-person events last March, it also cast members of Writer’s Block across the country.
With the university...
Please touch the art
Ann Cunningham was born in the gravel capital of the world, Oxford, Michigan. Surrounded by a variety of rocks, she’d spend hours sorting through stones...
Bomba bridging cultures
When she was a kid growing up on the east coast, Maria Sepulveda had an intimate connection with her Puerto Rican roots. The Latino community surrounding her was a diverse collection of families from across the Latino world, and she used Spanish with them daily...


















