The ’80s were known for big hair, daring fashion and MTV, but a Boulder theater troupe is challenging audiences to take off their rose-colored glasses and see past the nostalgia. ...

The Strokes wrecked rock ’n’ roll, if you ask Esteban Flores.  The 31-year-old Chicano artist behind the music project Slow Joy makes this passing claim while chatting about his upcoming...

When Christopher B. Duncan was offered the role of Blaze, a new character in the ongoing third season of Black Mafia Family (BMF), he hadn’t seen a single episode of...

ON THE BILL: BoCo instrumental psychonauts Prairiewolf bring their spacey fusion of cosmic country, ambient Americana and psychedelic easy-listening to Globe Hall in support of Color Green and Rosali on...

Improv Workshop6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 14, Healing Solutions, 6363 West 120th Ave., Unit 310, Broomfield. $20 Improv isn’t just for the theatrically-inclined. Healing Solutions will help you learn the basics...

Ray Chen doesn’t define success by artistic accomplishments alone, although they are many.  The violinist — born in Taiwan and raised in Australia — won the 2008 International Yehudi Menuhin...

The only constant is change. Just ask California singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe, whose seventh studio album She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She marks an inflection point in a...

It started as love but it ended with a body in the desert. Sometimes, that’s how these things go. But one look at the small New Mexico town where Loves...

Ever wanted to be in the room where the seeds of theatrical masterpieces are sown? Local Theater Company’s (LTC) 13th installment of Local Lab, hosted at the Dairy Arts Center’s...

BoCo Flamenco Festival7 p.m. Thursday, March 7, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St. $25-$45 Step into the striking world of Latvian-born American abstract painter Mark Rothko during this “mesmerizing flamenco dance...

ON THE BILL: Canadian indie-rock royalty Dan Bejar brings his critically lauded Destroyer project to the Front Range for a special solo performance at the Marquis Theater on March 9....

Since forming in 2022, Oklahoma City’s Free 4 All has been busy. The five-piece hardcore band delivered three releases last year, playing dozens of local and regional shows and developing...

There is an unspoken hierarchy in most art galleries: The viewer is subordinate to the artist, who commands the space. However, upon entering the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s (BMoCA)...

For our latest foray into the local theater scene, we travel to Arvada, Denver, Lafayette and Johnstown to review a quartet of productions ranging from classic musicals to world-premiere plays....

One of the central questions in contemporary literature and art is: “Who can speak for whom?” Can a straight Black man write from the perspective of a queer white woman?...

When renowned documentarian and filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite was initially approached about directing the sci-thriller I.S.S., she didn’t know anything about the International Space Station. But that’s exactly what attracted her...

She makes the bed. She peels and boils the potatoes. She prepares the coffee and drinks milk. She cleans the small apartment she shares with her son. She takes a...

“I hate the governor in Texas,” says 8-year-old Reece.  The second-grader is sitting alongside their mom for an interview with photographer Jesse Freidin, who has been traveling the country since...