Entertainment
An Odyssey of one’s own
Think about the homecoming that is taking place right now — slowly — across the globe. We are all, in some way, returning. To...
The greatest scientists are artists
Humans like taking the scenic route when we can. It means we have a little time to appreciate the world around us, to sit...
Is Eric Johnson learning to relax?
Anyone following the career of Austinbased guitarist Eric Johnson has learned to reconcile the guitarist’s singular fretboard mastery with his sluggish pace of releasing recordings. Johnson endured years of interview questions about his notorious perfectionism (...
What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do…
EVENTS
Premiere of “A Better Life?” — a podcast. Aug. 20 on all major distribution platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Himalaya, Pocket Casts, Spotify and...
Glassblower: Hillary Cooper (aka Hilltree Glass)
Insta: @Chillerybogart
How long have you blown glass?
Since 2008.
What—or who—drew you to the art form?
I’ve loved art since I was little, but my...
The forgotten ones
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...
A safe space to fashion identity
Elaine Waterman was teaching a youth fashion design class a few years ago when she took note of a trans student enjoying the work...
Final frontier
Geoff Marslett found cinema through science. During the 1990s he worked as a physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory before turning his hand to...
What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do…
EVENTS
Mountain Blooms Garden Tour. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, June 19, Intersection of High Street and Highway 36, Lyons, lyonsgardenclub.com
Spend a relaxing summer afternoon visiting...
From a second-rate Bette Davis to a first-rate auteur
They say the future of film is female. It is. But so is the past. Maybe
that’s not evident upon first glance — certainly not...
Yes, and…
In improv — that’s improvisational theatre, but who says that? — there are no two stronger words used in tandem than “yes, and... .”
What...
Now I gotta cut loose
It’s possible when Footloose was first created, it meant to serve as a metaphor about art prevailing in times of tyrannical control. It could...

















