Women

If Your Ma Can’t Go To The Spa, Bring the Spa to Your Ma: Mother’s Day Gifts to Create Peace and Sanctuary at Home

May 4, 2020 Like 1 Jennifer Arnone

Moms give us so much of their time, focus, and energy, often placing their own needs on the back burner. It’s no wonder that the gift of spa is such a popular Mother’s Day way to say that we see…

Women

I have a story to tell, but nobody will listen: The Story of Alana Chen

March 2, 2020 Like 0 Jennifer McCarthy

“My daughter wrote in her journal, ‘I have a story to tell, but nobody will listen,’” says Joyce Calvo-Chen, Alana’s mother. Calvo-Chen is determined to keep her daughter’s life and struggles in the hearts of the public through telling her…

Health

Dance To Be Free: Empowerment through Movement

October 7, 2019 Like 0 Jennifer Arnone

Wallace is offering women an opportunity to move through trauma and into empowerment. The women who attend Dance To Be Free have often experienced a lifetime of violence and trauma. They may never have experienced their own body as a…

Women

DiverCity Series: Serene Singh’s High Spirits

September 1, 2019 Like 0 De La Vaca

Serene Singh. She's a proud Coloradan. She is someone who defines herself by the things she is rather than the things she isn’t, a distinction I appreciate. It reminds me of being for things rather than just against. It reeks…

Women

Summer Books: SheFactor and the Politics of Empowerment

June 18, 2019 Like 0 Julia Wild

The concept of women's empowerment is the compelling centerpiece of Heidi Ganahl's 200-page book, SheFactor. You may also know Heidi Ganahl (nee Heidi Flemming) as the accomplished female founder of the $100 million canine daycare and boarding franchise, Camp Bow…

Health

You, too, can help stop Sexual Assault

April 25, 2019 Like 0 Holly Snyder

Every year in April, MESA - and sexual assault prevention organizations across the country - promotes Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), which is used to shine a spotlight on what D’Anniballe refers to as an “epidemic crime,” for which both…

Women

Preview | Cindy Brandle Dance Company: A World on Fire at Dairy Arts Center April 19 – 20

April 15, 2019 Like 0 Jennifer Arnone

One to watch is Cindy Brandle Dance Company’s A World on Fire, premiering April 19 - 20 at The Dairy Arts Center. This work takes on “social privilege, racial discrimination, the #MeToo movement, LGBTQ marginalization, and the constantly evolving antics…

Women

Evolving Doors Dance Company Rips the Sky, Mends the Moon: Contemporary Dance Review

March 10, 2019 Like 0 Jennifer Arnone

A Rip in the Sky & Mending the Moon, a premiere of contemporary dance, theater, poetry and original music, opened on Thursday, March 7 and ran until March 9 at The People’s Building in Aurora. The 75 minute piece weaves…

Music Scene

Mavis Staples brings old ghosts to new music at Lincoln Center

January 22, 2019 Like 0 Nick Snyder

We’ve come too far to turn around now, and we have to keep marching, together, and remember how far we’ve come together and remember what has brought us here today. Good thing we have soundtracks from Mavis Staples to keep…

Women

Forever Champions: Boulder’s Elite Competitors

June 20, 2018 Like 0 Mara Abbott

Our community’s victory is retaining these champions in our midst. This is the story of those Boulder County athletes that chose to become champions...after sports.