Author: Susan Viebrock

We are busy now trying to actualize what we resolved, champagne glass in hand, to accomplish in 2015. But how about this sobering news found in a blog by Anastasia Pantsios in EcoWatch? Anyone who has ever visited a zoo has probably seen the charts depicting how...

SPARKy Productions, also host of the Telluride Playwrights Festival, presents David Hare’s SKYLIGHT with Bill Nighy, Carey Mulligan and Matthew Beard to be broadcast at the Palm Theatre by National Theatre Live Bill Nighy, Carey Mulligan and Matthew Beard appear in the West End production of David...

Found this end-of-year story in Vanity Fair online. It’s a laughing matter to close out 2014. Unless, of course, you are in the business of disseminating opinions and other forms of information. Unless you happen to own an online magazine (like Telluride Inside...

Some women live by “The Rules.” Others write new rules every day. Meet Pia-squared. Pia-squared is Pia Kamala and Pia Gedeon, two abundantly talented ladies who have redefined the term “MIXXology." Simply calling their brand new venue, MIXX Projects + Atelier, 309 East Colorado, a gallery would be as dated as the doilies...

You’ve made a little list and checked it twice. No, not that list. Christmas is over. Your New Year’s Eve resolutions. The top 10 usually include losing weight, eating more healthily, exercising more, stopping smoking, sticking to a budget, saving money, getting more organized, being more patient, finding...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAFnby2184o   Although his HBO show Last Week Tonight is technically on hiatus, John Oliver made a brief appearance on YouTube to make a public service announcement reminding us that New Year’s Eve is “the worst.” Oliver started by discussing how sick most of us are of...

Inaugural event ignites Wednesday, January 14 and burns hot through Monday, January 19. Tickets here. Some like it hot. And in the Telluride region the New Year is off to a flaming start thanks to two locals, Erin Ries and Chris Myers. From the fire in their bellies emerged a fabulous phoenix: the first ever Telluride Fire Festival....

When you are five years old, the bigger the box the better the present. Over 20, not so much. Still recovering from that vacuum cleaner you gave her? A present should confer pleasure. Not remind her of her shortcomings. Think a gift of flowers would do...

Editor’s note: Poet extraordinaire Kierstin Bridger never disappoints, but often shocks. There, packed in the back of the closet with the tired tinsel star and the good holiday plates lie our memories of the season: some are of angels; others, well, the devils that nip at our souls. Here...

Denise Mongan of Beyond the Groove has three great nights of music planned for Club Red, an intimate pop up venue inside the Telluride Conference Center, Mountain Village.  Monday, December 29, Cash’d Out pays tribute to the music of The Man in Black, aka, Johnny Cash. For New Year’s...