With a glint in her eye, the lovely young concierge stationed at Allred's sent us off with the words "pow pow, gnar." Translation: The snow was dumping as our group set off in a heated snow coach up a popular ski run for dinner at...
It's all about bodacious shapes: some look like escapees from a story by Dr. Seuss; others are unapologetically voluptuous. Goedele Vanhille is a longtime, regional ceramicist whose phantasmagorical vessels amount to jewel-colored surrealistic paintings-in-the-round that allude to their modest ancestry: squash and gourds, aubergine, pears, and...
You've heard it before: when one door closes, another opens. This wonderfully affirming, informative blog by Carolyn Gregoire in Huff Post Healthy Living about 'The 9 Essential Habits of Mentally Strong People" is a guide to turning the lemons life hands you into lemonade. In 1914, Thomas...
He's at it again and that's a good thing. And just in time for Telluride Arts First Thursday Art Walk, a celebration of creativity in downtown Telluride, when all sorts of venues stay open late until 8 p.m. Malcolm Liepke's new body of work goes...
Well, Telluride. Judging from the lines at any movie, people who make the popcorn seem to know what they are doing. Apparently so do the people who put together the Telluride Film Festival. [caption id="attachment_38653" align="aligncenter" width="600"] "12 Years a Slave" team after winning Best Pic. (Image,...
The San Miguel Resource Center's Phenomenal Women's Week in Telluride, this year, March 2 – March 8, coincides with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. The celebration is dedicated toward promoting gender equality globally by acting locally. [caption id="attachment_38639" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Image, a spoof of artist...
In last Sunday's sermon, "From Garden to Ghetto to Giants," I discuss what Ken Wilber calls the two major views of human evil and how to overcome it: the recapture-goodness model and the growth-to-goodness model. I then ask which of these is most supported by...
This is a story about seeds and the good and great things they germinate. Eric Earley knows all about seeds. Seeds were the central conceit of an Op Ed piece he penned for the New York Times. Earley grew up in the Oregon hills and mountains, where...
Sunday night is the Oscars, when Telluride will be in the limelight with the films and actors that got kickstarted at the 2013 Telluride Film Festival: "Inside Llewyn Davis," "12 Years A Slave," "Gravity," Blue is the Warmest Color," "All is Lost," "Nebraska," "Frances Ha,"...
"Urinetown" & Telluride Theatre, the backstory: The Declaration of Independence made it very clear: life, liberty – and the pursuit of a toilet are among man's inalienable (read "natural") rights, right? Well, only maybe...
