[caption id="attachment_23359" align="alignright" width="300"] Urban Stages, How to Make a Rope Swing[/caption] Shawn Fisher is not just a pretty face. Though Fisher earns milk money designing sets, he is also a playwright, producer and director, who runs the MFA program at Utah State University. Fisher's most recent play,...
[caption id="attachment_23318" align="alignright" width="300"] Taylor 2, The New York Times[/caption] Think of the troupe as an amuse bouche, served just before the main course to whet the appetite. “Inclusion in Taylor 2 is a major achievement and a significant rite of passage in the dance world…Taylor 2...
"How about these numbers," exclaimed Mountainfilm in Telluride in its 2010 program. "Americans spent $165 billion on consumer electronics in 2010, and we bought more than 260,000 computers a day. E-waste is the fastest-growing stream of waste in the world (there are approximately 40 million...
God Speaks to Each of Us God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like flame and make big...
40th reunion show at Telluride Gallery of Fine Art [caption id="attachment_23327" align="alignleft" width="171"] "Approaching Autumn," Elaine Frenette[/caption] Author Tom Wolfe coined the term that defined the era when Americans transitioned from lives focused on community or tribe (think "Hair") to "run-with-the-loot" individualism. The 1970s was the "Me...
To make his point, Victor Garlock, Ph.D. and author, tells a whale of a tale in a metaphor drawn from the Polynesian culture: "Standing on a whale fishing for minnows." Minnows, he explains, are life's noises, the distractions our mind and senses glom onto everyday that...
Bal de Maison features Little Hurricane to warm up Blues & Brews crowd for super cool weekend [caption id="attachment_23045" align="alignright" width="200"] "C.C." and "Tone" of Little Hurricane[/caption] Hurricane season is not quite over. At least not in the Telluride region. The 19th annual Telluride Blues & Brews Fest...
PROGRAMMING WITH STRONG NUMBERS, A NEW INCLUSION PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES AND A NEW HOME! Soon the streets of Telluride will see fewer kids clad in green and yellow Telluride Academy shirts. As the Academy winds down its 32nd year of programming, it seems there...
[caption id="attachment_22901" align="alignright" width="300"] Echo Rock by Elaine Fischer[/caption] When you head out on Telluride Arts' walk about town, the First Thursday Art Walk, Thursday, September 6, plan to hang out at two art venues run by the region's grassroots arts organization, the Stronghouse Studios +...
"(Telluride) is actually one of the few film festivals that really is about seeing movies instead of just walking around and talking about them." (Ben Affleck at the world premiere of "Argo") The 39th annual Telluride Film Festival began with a crude knock-knock joke. Here goes: Knock,...
