Music
Your imaginary friend
Most musicians want to be known. Some even want photos of their faces plastered across the covers of high-profile music magazines and lining the walls of teenagers’ bedrooms. The allure of “celebrity” often fuels the desire to keep creating. Slow Magic, however, is ...
Three’s a crowd, but four’s a party
The Devil Makes Three has been together now for a decade, but guitarist/ singer Pete Bernhard says he feels the group is only now starting to hit its stride...
Words from the road
It’s just like me singing in your living room with a three-piece band, or in some little dive bar,” indie-folk singer-songwriter Luke Redfield told me about his new album, The Cartographer, by phone from Minnesota just after spending Christmas with his family there...
The mad scientist
By day, Jake Sheppard is a Boulder-based scientist, studying how the immune system interacts with cancer, using gene-editing software to explore how cancer cells change when certain genes are repressed...
Inspiring social change through hip-hop
Choreographer Rennie Harris goes beyond linking together steps to make a cool new dance. His performances are all about narrative. In his new dance company, Grass Roots Project, Harris sets out to use dance as a vehicle for change...