Telluride is not the only place to achieve (or underachieve) in hedonistic bliss. There's also Paris. Mais oui: Paris. Air France touched down at 6:30 a.m. and within hours I found myself a refugee from Woody Allen's latest gambit. Paris. Always an epiphany. Sometimes, like now,...
Pentimento The pond will not decide if it’s solid or liquid. Some mornings a palette of ice stipples the sunrise. Some evenings the wind stirs the surface with brushstrokes. It’s a composition in flux, counterpointed by three ducks with their rumps sticking out the water....
In May of 2011, President Barack Obama declared he was "100 percent committed to the mission of NASA and its future" as he outlined plans for federal spending to bring more private companies into space exploration following the soon-to-end space shuttle program. "We want to leap...
“It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.” Mickey Mantle Substitute sport for game in the above quote, and Mantle pretty much nailed my naivety about skate skiing. For the past fifteen or so years, I’ve always owned...
If there was any doubt that Ted Hoff of Cottonwood Ranch and Kennel loves dogs, this week's video should clear that up. All the dogs in Ted's care, boarding, training, living at Cottonwood, are "his" dogs. Which is why Gina the Dog (early in the...
The notion that a man makes a woman, although absurd, is deeply engrained in the female psyche. It tells women they need a man to nurture and love them, to provide for them, and to protect them from the dangers of the world. What it...
Jack Hoffman is an irascible piece of work. My 15-year-old daughter does a spot-on impersonation of his crotchety scold: “I know what I’m doing,” he screeches in a biting whine at his son Todd. This is from the “Gold Rush” reality show on The Discovery Channel. If...
“We had the opportunity to bring a hot, indie, L.A. band to town and we couldn’t turn it down,” Jennie Franks, founder of Sparky Productions, said of the band He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister, who is slated to bring their strong vocals, vintage costumes...
Tonight, Saturday, January 7, is the annual Moonlight Progressive Dinner on the Telluride Valley Floor. OK, there may not be a lot of snow on the valley floor yet , and the full moon is two nights away, but that is no excuse not to...
Friday is a transition day of cooling temperatures and high clouds moving into the area. The first snowfall in a long while is due to arrive Saturday evening in the San Juan Mountains. The ridge of high pressure that has been parked in our backyard...
