- The film recounts the last months of Jadin’s life and his father’s mission to travel and talk about his son’s experience.
- After over a year of adapting to the coronavirus pandemic, the festival is getting ready to welcome dancers and audiences again in person for this year’s edition.
- After the mass shooting at a King Soopers in Boulder in March, an outpouring of art scattered near a memorial — poems, paintings and paper cranes. These artists hope their work can help give the people of Boulder and Colorado hope for the future.
- They’d been married just 10 days when the diagnosis came. Treya Killam Wilber had breast cancer. It was a battle she and her husband, Denver philosopher Ken Wilber, would wage together -- until her death in 1989. Wilber shared their love story in the 2001 book “Grace and Grit.” Now it’s a movie. Director Sebastian Siegel adapted the story for the big screen.
- Most movie theaters have reopened across the state, and now even a few local film festivals are welcoming guests back in-person.
- Many viewers are asking why there weren't any dark-skinned Afro-Latinos in any of the leading roles to represent a place as diverse as Washington Heights.
- Students from CU Denver are teaming with History Colorado to look at Denver's architectural past for glimpses into the city's future.
- This year, when it comes time for the fireworks show, viewers can tune in to a number of radio stations in the area to hear the holiday’s patriotic fanfare. The musicians from the Colorado Springs Philharmonic say because of a labor dispute with management, it won’t be theirs.
- Two Indigenous artists are debuting a new show at the museum, and finding that collaboration along the way builds and maintains their sense of community.
- A new show at the art museum in Denver's Santa Fe Art District teams survivors of domestic violence with artists to build community and shine a bright light on the problem.
- Poetry Out Loud exposes kids to literary greats and gets them comfortable in front of an audience. The national finals are May 27, with students reciting poetry. And representing Colorado is Aidyn Reid, an 11th grader at Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs.
- Much of the gardens’ annual plant sale was moved online because of the pandemic, but any leftover plants will be available to take home (for a price) on May 10 and 11.
- It was an invitation Leisle Chung, of Colorado Springs, couldn’t refuse. To fly out to Los Angeles and support her filmmaker brother during the Oscars. Her brother is Lee Isaac Chung, director of “Minari,” which won for Best Supporting Actress. The movie is based on the Chung family’s real-life story of moving from Colorado to a farm in Arkansas.
- Dance schools, theaters, performances were closed for much of the COVID pandemic. But many companies made it work, offering a mix of online classes and performances to tide people over until we can dance together again.
- CPR arts and culture reporter Monica Castillo joins us to talk about some of the moments during the 93rd Academy Awards, including the best supporting actress win for Yuh-Jung Youn in "Minari." Youn is the first Korean to win an acting Oscar and her acceptance speech was one of the evening's highlights. The film's director, Lee Isaac Chung, was born in Colorado.
- Tejano superstar Selena would have turned 50 on April 16. Her legacy lives on long after death.
