Carl Sagan once said, “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” At the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, the time is now, and the place is the new Space Odyssey exhibit, which opens ...

Legendary Afrofuturist bandleader, composer, and musician Sun Ra had an eye on the cosmos. Though he passed away in 1993, the members of his 13-person musical ensemble, the Sun Ra Arkestra, have since ...

Alamo Drafthouse is launching Weird SF, a new monthly film series that showcases the fringe, the forgotten, and the fantastically bizarre movies set in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sun Ra delivers a ...

Sun Ra--space-age prophet, pharoanic jester, shaman-philosopher and avant-jazz keyboardist/bandleader--lands his spaceship in Oakland, having been presumed lost in ...

During the height of COVID-19, Arizona Arts Live at the University of Arizona sought to provide opportunities for and showcase Southern Arizona artists through its Tucson Studio series. Now, they are ...

Three books push back on a rising tide of optimism about space settlements. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are bitter rivals in the commercial space race, but they agree on one thing: Settling space is an ...

“Space” is one of those words that doesn’t really mean anything. It’s a concept that can’t really be put into a concise term. You can’t define space as boundary-less, because my half-empty Dr Pepper ...

Winter is when the Denver Center Theatre company delivers the meat of its season’s repertoire: an annual selection of DCTC-commissioned world premieres offered in conjunction with the company’s yearly ...

In John Coney’s 1974 video the avant-garde jazz artist Sun Ra turns up in Oakland after years in outer space, rapping with ghetto youths and playing cards with the devil. Its lighthearted surrealist ...

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