[caption id="attachment_22470" align="alignleft" width="236"] Leni Riefenstahl[/caption] The choice was somewhat controversial, but 39 years ago in 1974, the year the Telluride Film Festival opened for business, Leni Riefenstahl (1902 – 2003), was among the original tributees. (The other two were Gloria Swanson and Francis Ford Coppola.) Telluride...
“If this were 1971, these gentleman would be the biggest band in the world. It may be a disservice to such outfits as the Allman Brothers and Led Zeppelin, who actually held such titles in that age, but after seeing the Allstars live, there's really...
Our money is riding on The Ride. KOTO's inaugural Ride Festival happens the weekend of the Denver finish of the Big Ride, the USA Pro Cycling event, Saturday, August 25 (starting at noon) – Sunday, August 26 (ending at 10 p.m.) (The Telluride leg –Stage #1– is...
He is not one to parade and peacock around. He simply gets the job done. And he's cool. I am talking about Scott Doser. [caption id="attachment_22045" align="alignright" width="240"] Scott Doser (left) & friend[/caption] Yes, "Scott from the Library" Doser, who came on the scene when Telluride's consistently...
The Bóogravîan Opera Naçionale is Presenting to All Peoples Very Nice Spectacle Here's the BIG QUESTION: When the hip cat's away will the mice still play? Rather, produce a play? There was much gnashing of teeth and beating on chests when Telluride Theatre's artistic director, Sasha Cucciniello,...
"Being in nature is an opportunity to cultivate the child-eyes, the child-mind that neither knows nor presumes to know," Kathleen Harris The quote by Kathleen Harrison brings to mind something Picasso once said about the ideal state of an artist, which was returning to the vision...
Forget Russia. The final concert for the 39th annual Telluride Chamber Music Festival, a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. on August 19, hits a high note when mezzo-soprano Erin Neff sings a program entitled "From Spain with Love." Two years ago, when Neff performed at a...
Five more months and then? With over 20 years defining and debating the issues, John Major Jenkins is best known for his works as a researcher and author that theorize certain astronomical and esoteric connections of the calendar systems used by the Maya civilizations of pre-Columbian...
[caption id="attachment_21725" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Big Head Todd & The Monsters, C. Taylor Crothers"][/caption] Three words that instantly brighten up any dark associations with the Colorado town named "Columbine": Former Columbine locals, Big Head Todd. Over nearly three decades – college-town concerts in the 1980s to national...
In the context of the Telluride Shroomfest, the world wide web takes on a whole other meaning: we are talking about mycelium, the sentient cobweb-like web of cells, which, in just one magical phase of its life cycle, fruits mushrooms. Shroom evangelists and guests of...
