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Arts and Entertainment

The audience watches "Life After," an ACT Film Festival featured a projects directed by Reid Davenport, at The Lyric April 4. "Life After" was the winner of the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

ACT Human Rights Film Festival brings hope to screen

Sananda Chandy, Staff Reporter April 9, 2025

People across various communities and identities eagerly gazed up at the flickering images of powerful film, excited to engage with the work of filmmakers and artists from across the world in the most...

Photo courtesy of Jennifer Clary and Colorado State University's University Center of the Arts

Susanne Hou, Bryan Wallick perform live violin sonata at CSU’s Organ Recital Hall

Evan Borman, Staff Reporter April 8, 2025

Chinese-Canadian violinist Yi-Jia Susanne Hou performed at Colorado State University's Organ Recital Hall April 1 with pianist and Associate Professor of Music at CSU Bryan Wallick. The two performed...

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Horoscopes April 7-13

Sophia Masia, Staff Reporter April 7, 2025

After four straight months of nasty eclipses and back-to-back retrogrades, the skies will clear this week, and we can finally begin 2025. The week begins with Mercury going direct in Pisces, so we’ll...

Image of cartoon red carpet, curtains and movie screen.

Bong Joon Ho does it again with hilarious, smart ‘Mickey 17’

Gigi Young, Digital and Social Director April 2, 2025

Leave it to filmmaker Bong Joon Ho to take a wild sci-fi premise and turn it into something equal parts thrilling, hilarious and self-aware. "Mickey 17" isn’t your typical existential, brooding space...

Best local FoCo craft stores now that Joann Fabrics is gone

Best local FoCo craft stores now that Joann Fabrics is gone

Audrey Weishaar, Staff Reporter April 2, 2025

Today, all current crafters and artist mourn the loss of Joann Fabric and Crafts as the chain begins to close locations and shoppers are left with one of their top fabric and art stores gone. Now that...

Interactive art installations including Expected, a pile of 8-ton blocks constructed from Colorado State University faculty documents, and Effort Distribution, made of interactive pie chart pieces, are arranged in the center of the Directions Gallery space and are informed by hung television displays that encourage spectators to pick up and move pieces of the art March 28. These installations are part of the "Knowing Her: Women’s Work and Leadership at CSU from 1925-2025" art exhibit, which focuses on women faculty members at CSU. The exhibit is located in the Directions Gallery in the Visual Arts building.

‘Knowing Her’ art exhibit honors past, present of women at CSU

Audrey Weishaar, Staff Reporter April 2, 2025

On March 26, Colorado State University's Morgan Library and Visual Arts building hosted a joint opening reception for the "Knowing Her: Women’s Work & Leadership at CSU, 1925-2025" exhibit. The exhibition...

Hank Hatten sings and plays bass for band Choam Nomsky March 27. Hatten performed as part of KCSU's fourth annual Fools Fest.

CSU’s Sutherland Community Garden turns punk for 4th annual Fools Fest

Ruby Secrest, Arts and Entertainment Editor April 2, 2025

Colorado State University's Lory Student Center hosted the fourth annual Fools Fest, giving a platform to the punk community in Colorado and bringing it to CSU's campus. This year's Fools Fest was held...

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Horoscopes April 1st, 2025

Starry Moon, Staff Reporter April 1, 2025

For the first time ever, the Sun has gone retrograde along with the Earth and sixty-nine of Jupiter's moons. What does this mean for you? You should panic– like a lot. Tell everybody that the things...

April Fools': CSU prepares to say goodbye to Amy Parsons, hello to Slim Blondee

April Fools’: CSU prepares to say goodbye to Amy Parsons, hello to Slim Blondee

Rizzle Cigcrust, Farts and enter-painment editor April 1, 2025

Editor’s Note: This is a satire for April Fools’ Day. Real names and the events surrounding them may be used in fictitious/semi-fictitious ways. Those who do not read the editor’s notes are subject...

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Horoscopes March 31 to April 6

Sophia Masia, Staff Reporter March 31, 2025

Life is about to get easier as we wrap up all of the retrogrades and eclipse messes this week. But before we can step into the fresh energy of a new astrological year, there are some loose ends to tie...

An orange book, a pink book and a yellow book lying atop one another. Over the photo is a crinckled paper texture.

‘Sunrise on the Reaping’ is story of tragedy, both familiar, unexplored

Emily Flaherty, Staff Reporter March 31, 2025

The new addition to "The Hunger Games" book series, "Sunrise on the Reaping," is like no book I have ever read before. It is full of one overarching story, with elements both familiar and new, with one...

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