Author: Susan Viebrock

Sunday is Earth Day, 24-hours to take a step back, stop the glooming and dooming because of, say, the drought in the Southwest, and think about ways to make changes in our lives that make a positive difference around the issue of climate change. Small...

Sometime accidents are good things. As in the case of a recent discovery by researchers in the U.S. and UK. We curated this story from EcoWatch. Finally a happy headline –  a solution, or perhaps just a partial solution, for a global challenge: plastic pollution....

Missed the white flakes falling from the sky this winter? You could rail against Ullr, the Snow God – or you could support a lawsuit. According to a blog by senior writer Elliott Negin of the the Union of Concerned Scientists, if you are a San...

For more information about the Telluride Transfer Warehouse project, visit Telluride Arts website and/or call Telluride Arts' executive director Kate Jones at 970-708-8845 To better understand  the evolution of Telluride’s cultural core at the corner of Fir and Pacific and the role of Telluride Arts and...

We can name him, so we claim him: Telluride's favorite Olympian, Gus Kenworthy, is a golden boy at the opening of Nordstrom's new New York store.  The following fluffy fun by Michael Schulman was the lead in the Sunday New York Times Style section on 4/15/18. And...

Kick-started by the Telluride Foundation's Telluride Venture Accelerator Program in 2016, Side by Side Pet Nutrition officially went national on Wednesday, April 11, 2018. The media launch took place at the James Hotel in Chicago. Side by Side's new line of frozen and freeze-dried food, treats,...

In Chicago, "Hamilton" is up at the CIBD Theatre. Click the link or call 800-22-0351 for guaranteed tickets. For a full review of the blockbuster show at play, go here. And please check out my take below. Understood every word? Don't be absurd. But got the gist. Across the pond, the king...

The doors of Chicago's Union League are open to the public the first  Friday of every month and with a requisite RSVP, guests are welcome to view its vast art collection and learn about the institution's Distinguished Artist Program. Go here for reservations at Elske,...

The Durango Blues Train announces its artist lineup for the August event on August 17 & August 18. Featured are The A.J. Fullerton Band, The Rebekah Meldrum Band, Molly Gene - One Whoaman Band, D.W. Doucet, Cary Morin, and RL Cole. Tickets are now on...

On a long list of challenges our world – writ large and small – faces today is how we communicate (or not) with one another. Increasingly we speak only to our choir and almost never to The Other (like supporters of the current resident of...