November 2016

Note: Once again, it is impossible to load large files while we are on the Jayavarman. We plan to publish photo essays of the trip once we are on dry land. Meanwhile, please draw the images in your mind’s eye. It is a story is written in...

Hi my name is Keaghan. I’m a 10- year-old Border Collie without a home. That just sounds so wrong, right?!?  Like getting along in years isn’t bad enough – let’s just take your home away too…  Well good thing November is Adopt-A-Senior Shelter Pet Month. [caption id="attachment_62481" align="aligncenter"...

Telluride's Sheridan Arts Foundation & Black Tie Ski Rentals present Matchstick Production’s “Ruin and Rose.” The event takes place Friday, November 18, 6 & 9 p.m.Tickets $15 per show adults, $7 kids 18 and under at the Sheridan Opera House. Watch the trailer below. The Sheridan Arts Foundation...

Editor’s note: Our trip on the Jayavarman, now in Cambodia, includes lavishly decorated palaces and colorful happenings on the water, right now, the Mekong. But you will have to use your mind’s eye to see it all through our words. Internet constraints make uploading large files...

Ed. Note: Photos to follow. We are internet constrained, but want to publish this post in a timely fashion. Living the life of luxury on the Mekong River can entail an early get-up: specifically, the tai chi session on the pool deck begins at 0630. About...

We keep capturing the rapture, the limelight, surrounding Telluride Film Festival regular and student alum Barry Jenkins’ latest project. His “Moonlight” screened at the 43rd annual gathering of cinephiles over Labor Day weekend. It opened in general release on November 4. Wherever the movie was screened, critics have tripped over...

The point of it all is to break down the headlines, determine why an issue is important and reveal the best arguments on each side of the story. In some of  the most recent iterations of The Short Version, Cleo Abram looked at the pros and cons...

“Hand to God” now up at Denver’s Curious Theatre Company through December 17, 2016. Tickets here. Our Denver theater critic, award-winning author Mark Stevens, reviews the production. [caption id="attachment_62406" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Tyrone wakes up Jason. Courtesy, Curious Theatre Company.[/caption] "Hand to God” thrives on the good side of...

Tai, a former teacher, switched careers and has worked in the travel/cruise industry for over 10 years. On the hour-and-a-half bus ride from Saigon, ok, Ho Chi Minh City, to My Tho, where we would board our boat, he gave us the requisite chapter and verse about the Mekong...

In Vietnam now. Ironically. Received this story from Jesse James Mctigue today. She picked up the link from NPR. It is about a daughter who explored her father’s PTSD, the result of his service in the Vietnam War. Documentary is inserted below. Editor's Note: NPR's Kara Frame made...