Arts & Culture

Arts | Week of Nov. 26, 2015

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Alec Soth: Colorado Dispatch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 29...

Art show goes B.L.A.M. in your face

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Art is often made in isolation, but the community around its maker can inspire and influence the final result. Sometimes, an art scene is more than the sum of its parts...

KGNU turns 32

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A perfect example of the invaluable contributions community radio stations make came on the radio as I drove to work last week...

The forgotten ones

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Don Coen’s family had a farm just outside of Lamar, Colorado, southeast of Colorado Springs, about half an hour’s drive from the border of...

Chief Niwot’s Curse

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On the longest night of the year, we sit cross-legged in a circle and watch unfamiliar faces across from us flicker in candlelight. We...

An insatiable appetite

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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....

‘Local Folk’ exhibits diversity in Boulder County

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Executive director of the Firehouse, Beryl Durazo has inclusivity on the brain. “Especially in Boulder County, diversity is an important role to play in anything,...

Visiting a haunting history

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When people find out that Ralena Gordon spends her time photographing abandoned mental institutions, often the first question they ask is about ghosts...

Review: (Watch your) Step right up to the Circus of Fear...

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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...

Cascading success

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R. Alan Brooks has been busy.  Over the last several years, one success has led to another for the Denver-based writer. In 2016, Brooks teamed...

Hanging with Hannibal

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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...

Mark Rothko: The vanishing figure

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If it is true, as Mark Rothko has said, that art lives in the eye of its viewers, then what comes to life in the Denver Art Museum exhibition of his work is the most formative decade of his life. A decade in which the nearly mature artist uses the anguish and angst ...