Author: Susan Viebrock

TVA Selected as one of 50 Winners out of 800 Nationwide Applications [caption id="attachment_41331" align="aligncenter" width="350"] MIT’s Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast featured TVA’s Thea Chase, then managing director of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.[/caption]   Last week, the Administrator of the...

For one to three-day Festival passes, go here.     "Wow!” The interjection expresses excitement and surprise, amazement and awe. Perfect fit, (yes, pun intended) for Telluride's very first fitness festival. Oh...

What happens when the curtain closes on Telluride Blues & Brews? Yes, lots of folks high tail it out of town. But if you are the part of the crowd that hangs around to watch the colors changing, the next big event could be something truly exotic...

“With daring accompaniment, penetrating lyrics and a combined sound that bleeds triumph and lovesickness all at once, Fields and co. stand solidly apart.” – NPR Music [caption id="attachment_44889" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Lee Fields[/caption] He came of age in the era of be-ins and psychedelics. Of flower children, “Hair,”...

It was meant to be a remix of the David & Goliath story, with the Telluride Film Fest being the underdog and Toronto the towering giant. And so far the outcome fits the outcome of the story, however dubious: Telluride #41 was a critical and popular success, with...

Not only is the Telluride Film Festival done and gone, so is the After the Telluride Film Fest, but the reviews keep rolling in. We think one from The Wall Street Journal online is particularly good. The very first thing I saw at this year's Telluride Film...

In the second decade of the 20th century old-fashioned realism made way for abstraction, which became the Holy Grail of modern art. Cezanne and Cubism were two of the triggers that motivated painters and sculptors to stop copying what is and instead find the essence of what is. Commune...

It’s a bird. It’s a plane – not. It’s “Birdman,” a winged version of Superman and all the other hollow comic book super heroes at the center of pow!, wow!, bang, snap, crackle and pop orgies, the “toxic crap” (according to “Birdman’s” fictive New York Times critic) at...