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Faces of Summer: Taking Arts into the Open

The lights go down. There’s a hush over the crowd. The music starts up. A show is about to begin. The magic of live theater is almost always an exciting time, but when you attend a show by Arts in the Open, it’s a totally different experience. Instead of the lights dimming and the orchestra striking its first note...

Features

Faces of Summer: KUNC’s Neil Best and the future of radio

"Radio was gonna die when TV came out. Radio was gonna die when cable came out. Radio was gonna die when the internet came along. We’re still here,” says Neil Best, president and CEO of KUNC and The Colorado Sound.

Faces of Summer: Bringing Magic Back to Denver

"What we sell is experience, because Matt does magic for everyone who comes in the door. We try to make it a fun place for people to come in and have a lot to look at."

Faces of Summer: Swapping Genders at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival

Since 1958 The Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF) has been taking over Boulder for a few months every summer, offering up four works by the Bard (and one other show, usually inspired by his works.)

Faces of Summer: Getting Artsy with Planet Bluegrass

Planet Bluegrass is basically the face of the music style in Colorado. There are three huge annual festivals as part of it — Telluride Bluegrass, RockyGrass and The Folks Festival.

Faces of Summer: Taking Arts into the Open

The magic of live theater is almost always an exciting time, but when you attend a show by Arts in the Open, it’s a totally different experience.

Summer Fashion: Accessorizing With Your Ink this Summer

This year, the skin underneath the clothing has become a focus of summer fashion — and if that skin is inked, all the better.

Scene

Spotlight On: The Motet

French Davis looks into the staying power behind The Motet.

Duly Noted

French Davis examines the value of music.

Voices: Understanding the Denver DA’s office

Alex Landau of Denver Justice Project explains the importance of Denver's upcoming district attorney primary.

Cuisine

Through the Drinking Glass

What's going on in the local world of adult beverages.

Eating Local For Less

Pitch-in with local farmers to get closer to the foods you eat.

Month in Review

Month in Review – June

Construction has begun on the new Boulder Valley school set to open in Erie in the Flatiron Meadows neighborhood. The 100,000 square-foot school is designed for 750 students and is expected to open for the fall semester in 2017 serving preschool through seventh grade and, eventually, eighth grade as well.

Also in This Edition

Watts the Future of Bicycling?

And there I was, in my usual bike-riding outfit: Dockers, a crumpled J. Crew shirt and clunky hiking boots, as aerodynamic as a hippopotamus on a skateboard. My demeanor screamed, "I am impressed with the all-you-can-eat crab legs at the Country Buffet."