Local Culture, Arts & Community

Blacklist Boardshop: 86ing Mainstream Culture

By Brady Smith 86ers: A self-proclaimed title of the growing counterculture that lingers at the underbelly of the largely conservative super culture and is proudly stamped on skateboards, t-shirts, street signs, and windows of the […]

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Potter's Guild: Not Just 'Kiln' Time

By Crystal Campbell The Northern Colorado Potter’s Guild (NCPG) has only been around for five years, but their impact on the community suggests otherwise. Located at 209 Christman Drive (close to the intersection of East […]

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Local Artist Uses Medium to Raise Money for Haiti

By Maggie Canty-Shafer Artist Abby Sponaugle can find hope in a trashcan. After rebuilding an orphanage destroyed by the hurricane in Haiti, the 23-year-old artist painted 32 of the resident children’s portraits on old window […]

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Darren Mahuron: The Mind Behind the Art

By Emily Clingman-Johnson Boldly turning regular folks into rock stars and movie stars and sometimes even hanging them from stars, Darren Mahuron has photographically transformed dozens of local bands, icons, rebels, families, well-knowns and unknowns […]