Sarah Silverman thinks Tig Notaro is the cat's meow. "Tig is so funny. She is so comfortable on stage and takes her time like a master. She has the timing of Bob Newhart and the body...
After major remodeling and renovations at the Peaks Resort and Spa, the iconic Telluride hotel donated major surpluses of furniture, linens and appliances to the humanitarian organization Habitat for Humanity in Montrose, Colorado this week. Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit housing organization which builds simple,...
Friday – Sunday, March 11 – March 13, Jeremy Lurgio and Tony Rizzuto are scheduled to lead a photography intensive at Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts. The subject matter: "The Photography of People."
Portrait photography like portrait painting raises any number of provocative questions. To what extend does or should a portrait function like a literary biography? What distinguishes a fine art photography portrait from the digitals you snap of your family to email to relatives? Does the answer have something to do with the extent to which the person doing the shooting manages to reveal his sitter's inner landscape. Irving Penn's spare, frank compositions shot in the natural light of his studio with rudimentary props helped define define the look of Vogue magazine in the 1940s. Penn's images, like those of Avedon later, produced intense engagement with his subject that made viewers feel like voyeurs.
[click "Play" to hear Beau and Caci talk about their event]
For sure the whole is greater than the sum of its parts when Telluride's Dolce Jewels and CashmereRed get together to party. Thursday, February 17, 6 – 8 p.m., the two stores host their 2nd annual Cashmere & Diamonds event at Dolce, 226 West Colorado. This year the featured designers are Begg of Scotland and Pamela Froman.
Pamela Froman's fine jewelry collection is comprised of handmade, one-of-a-kind, limited edition pieces fashioned from multiple colors of precious metals (22 karat gold or platinum) and rare natural stones.
The 12th annual Telluride Comedy Fest begins Thursday night, February 17 and continues through the weekend, ending Sunday, February 20. (Show time is 8 p.m.) Jeb Berrier's Telluride Comedy Fest is four nights of the kind of...
Esperanza Spalding's first Telluride appearance was 2007 for Winter Jazz. Those of us who know Telluride Jazz Celebration's impresario Paul Machado know the man has an eye for the ladies. His special gift is to catch rising stars before they have reached their zenith: violinist Regina Carter, guitarist Badi Assad, chanteuses Diana Krall, Jane Monheit, and Lizz Wright to name a few of Machado’s picks early in their careers.
The story of Esperanza Spalding is a rags-to-riches-tale, an American dream come true, because a smart single mom recognized she had a gifted daughter who thought – and played – out of the box. Years later, the jazz bassist/singer has clearly earned the respect of her peers. And one of her major fans happens to be President Obama. Last night, Sunday, February 13, Esperanza took the Grammys by storm, winning Best Artist, trumping popsters Justin Bieber and Drake, plus bands Mumford & Sons (Telluride Bluegrass Festival, 2010) and Florence & The Machine.
[click "Play" to listen to Aubrey's conversation with Susan] Think of it as an amuse bouche for the original Telluride Yoga Festival, a taste of what is to come this summer. Thursday, March 10 – Sunday, March 13, the Telluride Yoga...
by Tracy Shaffer
It was a brainstorm marketing session seven years ago that launched Curious Theatre Company’s Girls Night Out, as a way to reach out to a broader audience and a niche market. Both have grown a lot since then. Seems a gal can find some thing to do any night of the week with her BFFs, as the girl’s night out concept has spread faster than a hot rumor. Most of these evenings involve a bar, a mani/pedi or a gabfest, and if there’s a bit of theatre involved it’s a fem-centric musical, an inside joke. The wave of “Chick-Plays” has crashed, save for Eve Ensler’s “The Good Body," leaving us to find our commonality solely within our humanity, thank god. This year’s Curious offering breaks from their usual provocative premiere productions and promises a “transformational” evening as Denver femmes cultivées gather to mix, mingle, and enjoy a performance of the hit show Circle Mirror Transformation.
Museum Mine Hike, 2009
kicker: The Telluride Historical Museum aims to collect reviews and $5,000 for programs and exhibits.
Tick tock. Tick tock. We're halfway through the deadline.
Here's the big idea: The Telluride Historical Museum has an opportunity to win $5,000. But it is going to need your help. And fast.
Starting February 1, the Telluride Museum began competing with non-profits all over the country for prize money awarded to the organization that garners the most reviews throughout the month.
by Lisa Barlow
It’s Valentine’s Day and while you may be content to buy your love a pretty box of chocolates, there are a host of other foods that can convey your message more effectively.
Since ancient times clever cooks have concocted seductive recipes to tempt their paramours and the list of edible aphrodisiacs they have come up with is long and varied. Some foods merely look suggestive. Others have been clinically proven to help get the job done.
In the first category, bananas top the list. Mae West’s famous query says it all: Is that a banana in your pocket …or are you happy to see me? Asparagus and carrots, like figs and cherries, also arouse some fertile imaginations. But then just about anything can excite some folks. In her book Aphrodite, A Memoir of the Senses, Author Isabel Allende says she tested her recipes on friends over 40 “since even a cup of chamomile turns on the young.”
