Author: Susan Viebrock

Telluride Arts' Twenty(by)Telluride is a lively, casual event that offers an intimate glimpse into some of Telluride's most creative minds through very fast-paced slide presentations. Each presenter has exactly 20 slides and each slide is shown for exactly 20 seconds, challenging the presenters to be clear...

[caption id="attachment_36616" align="alignright" width="300"] From Brody blog, New York Times[/caption] Found this post by health nut Jane Brody in her Personal Health blog in the New York Times and wanted to share. Don't know about you, but our snack dish is regularly stocked with pistachios, walnuts, and...

Telluride Theatre & The Sheridan Arts Foundation present a non-denominational holiday extravaganza, December 18 -22, 2013, 8 p.m. live at the Sheridan Opera House Dude and Bro are BACK in a totally new play adapted straight from Charles Dicken’s classic, “A Christmas Carol.” Telluride’s most lovable ski bums are...

"At 14, I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship," Gene Kelly Thank heaven for little girls. Without them, we might have been denied the king of Hollywood musicals and such shoe-shaking...

[caption id="attachment_36576" align="alignright" width="190"] Bruce Dern, who starred in "Nebraska" is a contender (from The New York Times)[/caption] This time it was the New York Times' Melena Ryzik, aka, The Carpetbagger, weighing in. The article about the rogue's gallery lined up (or lining up) in Best...

Locals and visitors from the region turned out in record numbers for Telluride Ski Resort’s Donation Day. This year the ski resort hosted 1,035 skiers on Wednesday, November 27, the day before the resort’s official Opening Day. Each skier, pass holder or employee, paid $25 to...

[caption id="attachment_36539" align="alignright" width="300"] Key members of Telluride Choral Society[/caption] No holiday is more closely associated with music than Christmas, whose evolution as a cultural phenomenon is reflected in those sounds. As Christmas became more secular, spiritual songs were largely supplanted by chestnuts such as Rudolph, sleigh...

[caption id="attachment_36520" align="alignright" width="150"] Rings by Cheryl Rydmark[/caption] Dreaming of a white Christmas? Saturday, December 14, 5 - 8 p.m., Telluride Arts hosts a special holiday edition of its monthly First Thursday Art Walk, and three of the principal venues will showcase works in many shades of...

Palm Arts Dance  winter recital, Sparkle, takes place on Sunday, December 15, 2 p.m. Now in its third year of operation, the Palm Arts Dance Program has named Shirley Fortenberry to the position of artistic director. In that capacity, Ms. Fortenberry will be responsible for conceiving,...

  [caption id="attachment_36459" align="alignright" width="300"] Part of "Snow" series by Antonio Marra[/caption] Sculptor Antonio Marra's early sculptures were figurative bronzes – but don't think Rodin's "The Thinker." Don't think traditional at all. The abstract forms and lyrical grace of those works pledge a certain allegiance to the...