Arts & Culture
Collage artist Jimmy Descant is building a different future
In most cases, walking into an art gallery and proclaiming that the exhibit looks like garbage would be considered rude. But in Boulder, such criticism only earns you thanks...
Artist Dana Schutz: Rearranging the world
What if, Dana Schutz asked herself, you remove the finite result from an action, the part where death would result from something like eating yourself, and the narrative of your life was freed from that inevitable end? She painted the answer in oil on canvas — slick...
From an immigrant´s perspective
In Boulder, talk of changing seasons can lead to anxiety, happiness, or resolution. But what if we had to experience serious change, such as moving into a new environment or changing from a democracy to a dictatorship? Chances are, our interpretation of things wouldn...
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 ...
Visiting a haunting history
When people find out that Ralena Gordon spends her time photographing abandoned mental institutions, often the first question they ask is about ghosts...
It’s no invasion
Ed Sullivan isn’t around to introduce them, and you’re not gonna want to slug your partner every time you spot one. Yet for those who aren’t bugged by the sight of crawling creatures, a local exhibit showcasing an interesting and diverse culture will finally bring ...
Step lively for dance
Scanning the room, your eyes become locked with a potential partner in a visual embrace that seems to extinguish the outside world. Once intertwined, forceful and deliberate movements make up an exotic language that has no words...
Ransomed for charity
Flight For Life helicopters and airplanes usually fly people out of the mountains...
Monsters in the dark
In the summer of 2010, Jeff Emtman, then a student at Fairhaven College, was suffering a sleepless night when he had an epiphany...
Hanging out on the fringe
The Boulder International Fringe Festival (BIFF) is a little more than a week away, and Executive Producer David Ortolano has deep, dark bags under his eyes...
Birds of a feather
For centuries, humans have been inspired by witnessing their fellow citizens attempt to fly. Despite a lack of wings, we have been awed and amazed when people propel themselves off the ground and into another dimension. A popular 19th-century folk song captures...
