A poem by David Roderick.
Arts & Culture
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Hunting for dark nights and wishing on stars
A bike ride into the desert and an author in search of darkness.
Posted inApril 2025: A Monumental Reckoning
The importance of Indigenous curators
These caretakers can help ensure museum collections are handled, and expanded, appropriately.
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Five books to help young readers understand wildfire
Age-appropriate narratives and beautiful illustrations teach children how wildfire touches people’s lives.
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The indomitable Butte, Montana
The misunderstood, often-maligned mining town helps itself.
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Indigenous spaces all around new Arizona exhibit
Fine art, downtown markets and natural aesthetics bloom at the Heard Museum as Phoenix’s cultural institution springs forward with Native artists.
Posted inFebruary 2025: Immigrant Stories
Reenvisioning the image of immigration
Artist and refugee Papay Solomon juxtaposes European painting with African ancestry.
Posted inFebruary 2025: Immigrant Stories
How do we raise our children in a time of wildfire?
The poet Rachel Richardson learns, through writing and motherhood, to defy fear.
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The importance of ‘Being Caribou’
Remembering the activist and author Karsten Heuer.
Posted inJanuary 2025: The West's Most Wanted
Tribal objects returned to the Northern Arapaho Tribe
After years of negotiation with the Episcopal Church, over 200 cultural items finally come back home.
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Culture that impacted our sense of the West
Some books, happenings and other cultural endeavors that helped expand our sense of place in 2024.
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How Utah’s Christmas Festival has buoyed a changing coal community
Thirty-five years ago, Helper was nearly a ghost town. Now, art and tourism are providing new paths forward.
Posted inDecember 2024: Land as Reparations
The passion of the Mormon feminist
For 50 years, ‘Exponent II‘ has made the LDS Church squirm. It has no plans to stop.
Posted inDecember 2024: Land as Reparations
How blue jeans got their sexy reputation
The artist George Quaintance painted some of the first erotic depictions of denim.
Posted inDecember 2024: Land as Reparations
Spring of Whirling Omens
A poem by Carolina Hotchandani.
Posted inDecember 2024: Land as Reparations
Raccoons rampage, kangaroos cavort, and ‘art bombing’ hits Oregon
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Posted inNovember 2024: The Once and Future Prairie
In Washington’s Yakima Valley, quinceañeras connect people and place
Teens are making the tradition their own with high-top sneakers, glowing dresses and Tiktok dances.