Arts and Culture

The Bar at Plaza38 vibrated with energy the afternoon members of Colorado Alliance of Latino Mentors and Authors (CALMA) met in person for the first time. Founded in March 2020, CALMA propelled itself onto the […]

Alex Weimer hangs a large, black curtain above the stage at The Bug Theatre while, in record-breaking heat, workers put the finishing touches on the building’s new roof. A year and a half after the […]

Denver native Rico Jones, a professional musician and composer, didn’t know that an informal musical gathering of friends on his porch would take him to mediation with the City Council of Denver. What began as […]

Mayor Speer (yes, like the street) died during the pandemic of 1918, quite possibly of the Spanish flu. The Auraria campus area was once the home of a thriving Latino community who were pushed out […]

Mark Dardano is a verifiable Denver Northsider with almost 100 years of community history to his family’s name. In the early 1900s, his grandfather built a house on 38th & Kalamath Street where his father […]

After over a year of being closed to the public, Denver Public Library’s Smiley Branch Library looks forward to opening its doors again in late April. While access will initially be in a limited capacity […]

Artists Michael Dowling and Brett Matarazzo attended the same Denver high school back in the day, but they weren’t friends until 3 years ago when mutual friends suggested they meet “because they were both artists.”  […]