Apres le boeuf, la creme brulee. After the steak, dessert. The Stein Collection for example versus the show at the Musee D'Orsay, "Beaute, morale et volupte dans L'Angleterre d'Oscar Wilde," apologetically about sex and sizzle. Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and critic. As one of...
The historic Beaux-Art building known as the Grand Palais (Grand Palace) on the Champs Elysee (8th arrondissement) marked the first stop on yesterday's tour of the City of Lights. The Grand Palais is currently playing host to a family reunion of sorts. Art collected by writer...
Talk about window treatment. The boys from the 13th century really got it down. The most famous feature of the 13th-century royal chapel known as Sainte-Chapelle are the stained glass windows: 15 of them fill the nave and apse and a large rose window dominates...
Telluride is not the only place to achieve (or underachieve) in hedonistic bliss. There's also Paris. Mais oui: Paris. Air France touched down at 6:30 a.m. and within hours I found myself a refugee from Woody Allen's latest gambit. Paris. Always an epiphany. Sometimes, like now,...
During the holidays, many of us solemnly swear to do Big Things to improve our lives – such as fit into those super skinny jeans. For the first Fashion Friday of the New Year, our fashionista, Kristin Holbrook of Two Skirts, suggests a makeover is...
Telluride Arts ongoing event begins its winter season on January 5, 5 - 8 p.m. Telluride Arts First Thursday Art Walk is a walk about town to celebrate the town's vibrant cultural scene, especially fine art venues. One dozen venues open their doors to art lovers,...
When the ball drops in Time Square, the holiday trifecta finally – amen – comes to a close. How will you end 2011? With a yawn or a bang? Kristin Holbrook of Two Skirts wants to put a shine on your finish – with lurex. Two...
Two down, one to go, so GO BIG. Telluride goes for broke on New Years Eve with special dinners at restaurants around town and in Mountain Village. And here's the really good news: it's quite possible to have your cake and rock it too. You might...
"On The Road Again." Still. One of the best American blues-rock/boogie-rock band from the flower child era of the 1960s still generates plenty of heat. Canned Heat is scheduled to perform with the Fabulous Thunderbirds on New Year's Eve at the historic Sheridan Opera House. Doors...
Raise your hands if spending a few hours with a beautiful, intelligent, articulate woman is appealing. You get your chance at Between the Covers Bookstore on Friday, December 30, 5 – 7 p.m.. when poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer signs her latest book of poetry, "The Miracle...
