Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera at the Bowes Museum

An odd couple take over the former home of another odd couple. No wonder Frida Kahlo's winking. The Guardian Northerner 's arts ace Alan Sykes explains Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera made a pretty odd couple – Rivera the much older, much travelled, much married friend of Modigliani and Picasso, Kahlo the Hungarian-Jewish-Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter from the Casa Azul . The Bowes Museum 's ...

Colorado history museum lures visitors with new insights and interactive, fun activities

When the dedicated staff at the History Colorado Center sat down to plan out a new museum, it had to face a cold, hard fact about the old one: It wasn't a very popular place. Oh sure, school kids came by the busload, but they didn't really have a choice. And tourists visited; the museum offered out-of-towners some excellent lessons on our Rocky Mountain past.

Sounders FC News & Notes

Riding the best start in franchise history, Sounders FC returns to the Pacific Northwest for its first two-game week of the Major League Soccer season.

Fort museum open to public

For many years Garland Richards had to store valuable artifacts that were found at Fort Chadbourne in boxes at his home. But all that changed last week with the opening of the fort's new Visitors Center and Museum, the Roberta Cole Johnson Building.

Summer movie guide | Bring on the bad guys

Evil equals box office, and it's another dastardly season at the cineplex. Soon we will be bombarded by wicked witches, mysterious aliens and undead confederates. What follows is our guide to the summer’s most wanted — the bad, the worst and the truly heinous.