Author: Susan Viebrock

Holidays making you feel blorfty? Can't say cause you don't know what blorft is? "Blorft" is Tina Fey's way of describing angst, holiday angst included. According to the superstar comic, the adjective is shorthand for "completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to...

[caption id="attachment_25471" align="alignright" width="300"] Telluride Choral Society performing at Christ Church[/caption] "Joy to the World." Or not. It's tinsel time all over the globe, including here in Toy Town, the time of year some shiver in anticipation; others just quake from the cold. The secular holiday features all the...

It's a concert for you, but a birthday party for Stu Sundel-Norlin of Joint Point, when the Sheridan Arts Foundation kicks off its winter season with the local jam band. The party takes place Friday, November 23, 8 p.m. Formed in 2009 and named after a...

Editor’s note:  Year after year, the Library Journal Index of Public Library Services, a public library rating system, has designated Telluride’s Library a five-star institution. And it just earned its fifth star in a row, which puts The Wilkinson Public Library into an elite club...

Game over. OBAMA WINS! Good news? The following imbed will buoy your already soaring spirits. Not thrilled? Forget your troubles. Go on. Get happy. On a whim, Blues & Brews market director Bill Kight sent me the following video. Watch it. Think back on that gorgeous fall weekend –...

Gus Kenworthy and local filmmakers Ben Knight & Travis Rummel of Felt Soul Media serve a quick-­fix for the snow­-starved. "Travis Julia Presents" kicks off the ski season with two screenings of ski films: a short by Ben and Travis, "Unicorn Sashimi," and "Superheroes of Stoke,"...

[caption id="attachment_24656" align="alignleft" width="300"] Torino and the Alps, Sunset[/caption] We returned. Most vagabonds never get there. And that's a miss. Turin (or Torino in Italian) is a very interesting town in the northern Piedmont region, Italy's first capital (in 1861) and home to Italy's royal family,...

[caption id="attachment_24445" align="alignleft" width="300"] Chez Steel, Provence[/caption] When Peter Mayle moved to Provence over 20 years ago, his idea was to write, yes, but a novel, not a memoir that put his adopted hometown dead center of any tourist's map of Provence. For better or for...