Workers at Opera Colorado will get to vote whether to form the collective bargaining unit they asked for earlier this year. The National Labor Relations Board issued a decision on Friday, saying that eligible solo singers, chorus members, stage directors, assistant stage directors, stage managers, assistant stage managers, choreographers, solo and ensemble dancers, and performers…
A half-century-old Basque handball court that was nearly knocked down to make way for a parking lot is Colorado’s newest historic treasure. The History Colorado Board of Directors on Wednesday approved a Basque fronton in Grand Junction for inclusion on the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties. The fronton, named Plaza Urrutia by its founder,…
In 2019 Emmanuel David, a gender and sexuality researcher at CU Boulder, and Yumi Roth, a sculpture professor at CU Boulder, were searching the archives for a Filipino presence in Colorado. Nestled into an 1899 routebook of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, the world-famous traveling show, David found the names of three Filipino Rough Riders: Ysidora…
Story first appeared in: Colorado’s craft beverage producers are tapping into a best-in-class source of flavor. And it’s coming from the farmer up the road or the next county over, from the Western Slope to the Front Range. A handful of small Colorado farmers grow and supply hops, the pungent flower that lends its punchiness…
It’s mid-September and many chile roasters stand clean and silent at farm stands east of Pueblo. The smell of roasting chiles wafts only occasionally through the air. Workers are idle. The first day of picking at Mauro Farms and Bakery brought in just 70 bushels instead of the usual 500. The tired, grim-faced farmers are…
One day on the playground at a Montessori preschool in Boulder, the school principal approached a teacher, Andrea Gibson, and asked why they were always talking to themself at recess. “I was writing poems in my head,” Gibson told The Colorado Sun. “And she said something like, ‘Maybe you should try doing that full time,’…
Sunshine streamed through the mosaic of bullet holes that perforate the roof of a cavernous storage shed squatting on the south end of the sprawling sugar factory site just south of Longmont. Some of the light hit the shoulders of Elliot Moore as he played a snippet of Bach’s Prelude in G Major on his…
Five Colorado restaurants were awarded Michelin stars on Tuesday, a mark of excellence in the culinary world. In June, Michelin and the Colorado Tourism Office announced that Michelin’s full-time staff of inspectors would anonymously evaluate restaurants in Denver, Boulder, Aspen and Snowmass Village, Vail and Beaver Creek. Colorado is the sixth region in the U.S.…
Joshua Zabatta spent weeks mentally preparing himself to testify about his experiences singing with Opera Colorado before the National Labor Relations Board. The Denver-based tenor had never done anything like this before. “I had a ton of anxiety,” said Zabatta, who has performed with Opera Colorado on and off in chorus and some solo roles…
Much of Colorado was built on the backs and determination of burros, and the same holds true for the state’s oldest church. But nearly 170 years ago it was the donkey’s stubbornness that determined the home for Our Lady of Guadalupe parish in Antonito. Aaron Abeyta’s family has been in the San Luis Valley for…
