"I was born at the right place and the right time to a wonderful family" If he appears too good to be true, that's because he is. It goes without saying, five-time Grammy-winner Victor Wooten is on any list of all-star bass players. In 2011, Rolling Stone...
Remember the headlines? They keep coming. Cover-ups to protect the guilty – and the church's reputation. Footsies in a bathroom stall. The affair with the wife of a senior staffer. Tweeting body parts. Dirty showers and iconic statues ditched. When it happens, we find ourselves...
"Some cats love it, man. Most simply ain't digging' it no matter what angle they's swingin' at. Layin' down ten, Jack, blow'n a riff, ya can't hate Jazz 'cause there ain't no such animal. ("Jazz: A Multimedia History," Compton's New Media) There is such an animal,...
From Darien Rainforests to Telluride: Opening reception Thursday, July 26, 4 – 8 p.m. Gallery hours, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. daily. Their story is written in palm fiber – the Wounaan Indians from the Darien Rain Forest in Panama believe they emerged from the palm trees...
On a road trip last Spring, we made a stop in Ashland, Oregon, home of a world-famous Shakespeare Festival. The play we saw, Chekhov's gut-wrenching "The Seagull," turned out to be a warm up for our next act, which involved an entire menagerie. Harry the...
In a way, the Bard set the stage for – oh lord, shut me up – reality TV when he concocted tales of sex, power and morality in complex tragicomedies as "Measure for Measure." However, in the end, a sanctimonious hypocrite gets a totally to...
The 36th Annual Telluride Jazz Celebration/Festival and National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization are pleased to announce the first “Special Musical Partnership for Care." Telluride Jazz is among the seven music festivals across the country selected to help educate the general public on the benefits of...
The new face of Telluride TV is not just pretty. Executive director Katie Karow is hell bent and determined to re-establish the public access station, the smallest in the country, as a go-to media platform in the region. And she is making fast tracks in...
Editor's note: From "Darkness to Light" arrived on my doorstep about a month ago, courtesy of a former classmate at Gary Kraftsow's Viniyoga teacher training program in 2008, Trish Elting. Early for Christmas but perfect time in the roll-up to Telluride Yoga Festival, this weekend,...
The flowers that bloomed in the spring – tra la – are covering the walls this summer, when the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art presents its first ever group show of floral paintings, featuring Mark English, Robert Weatherford, and Karen Kokjer Wilcox. The exhibition of...
