Arts & Culture
Narratives of our land
When the Denver Art Museum invited artist Ramiro Gomez to contribute to an exhibit featuring Latino artists, he knew right away he wanted to...
What can be done with what we throw away
Nick Cave can take a garish ceramic bird, and a kitschy ceramic fruit bowl, and a few strings of plastic beads, and put it all together in a way that makes a stunning, and beautiful, sculpture. There’s no breaking that equation down to make the math work on how ugly ...
Imagination knows no age
At an age when surrealist painter Joan Miró might have considered retirement, or at least allowing age to excise the demands on his speed and productivity it seems to necessitate for most of us, he didn’t back off or slow down...
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...
A hundred pounds lighter
Everytime 27-year-old Reydesel Salvidrez-Rodriguez shares his story, he’s filled with a sense of relief.
“No more secrets, no more lies,” says Salvidrez-Rodriguez, an undocumented immigrant...
Thrust up, twisted and frozen in time
Seeing an art show at Macky Auditorium feels more like going to church than a gallery. The sunlight drifts in through high lancet windows,...
Facing our history
The second season of the Colorado Chautauqua was a success. Good thing, too, as a reporter from the Daily Camera wrote after the six-week...
Enhancing the excitability of the whole machine
Friedrich Nietzsche considered art the “healing balm” for the human condition, the highest form of relief for existential dread, world-weariness and, if you will,...
Between laughing and crying
After the November presidential election, comedian Dana Gould was taken aback, not just by the results, but how sure he’d been that Trump wouldn’t...
Sightlines: March 2, 2023
We love our local arts scene here in Boulder County — but with so much going on, it can be hard to keep up....
Spring in winter
Walking into Margaretta Gilboy’s retrospective, Flying in the Hands of Time, at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), it’s easy to pretend —...

















