Telluride Arts Amplifier, Update!
Telluride Arts curated the following story from “Americans for the Arts” titled “Relief for Artists and the Arts Included in Emergency Stimulus Package.” Ap
Beyond Telluride
Why a Tiny Colorado County Can Offer COVID-19 Tests to Every Resident
This story titled “Why a Tiny Colorado County Can Offer COVID-19 Tests to Every Resident” by Sarah Zhang for The Atlantic was published on March 23, just prior to the r
Global Health Expert & TED Talker on COVID-19!
A close friend sent us this story by Karen Frances Eng from Zora.medium.com featuring global health expert Alanna Shaikh. Her perspective is fact-based, clear-eyed and no-nonsense.
The Palm: Announcing Nightly Met Opera Streams
The following is a note from The Palm, with a link a watching opera online. Take me to the OPERA Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Metropolitan Opera announced that the company
Best Theatre & Dance to Watch Online
TIO curated the following story from Carol Tambor who curated the link from The Guardian, an article titled: “Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watch on
18th Annual Telluride Gay Ski Week Starts 2/22: Overview
Fifty Shades of Gay? Everyone is invited to join in the fun at the 18th annual Telluride Gay Ski Week, February 22 – February 29, hosted by the Telluride Ski Resort – in fact
Poets Corner: Feela for Valentine’s Day
Cupid’s Day has evolved into the signature day of the year when a gift of any kind ought to express positive sentiments within a primary relationship of any kind: married or part
Shrink Rap: What’s in a Pronoun?
Telluride-based Dr. Susannah Smith goes in-depth to parse gender pronouns. Are you a she, he, or they? And how does one know? We as a society and community are beginning to shift o
Trip Advisor Hearts Telluride!
Trip Advisor recently published a special feature titled 17 Small Towns to Visit in the United States. Telluride came after Hanalei, Hawaii, and before Headlsburg, California. Belo
BestLife Hearts Telluride – Focus on Main Street!
And the beat goes on. Over the past two years, prestigious media outlets such as Conde Nast Traveler, Architectural Digest, Good Morning Texas, Travel & Leisure, Town & Cou
Beyond 2020: Won’t Be Pretty
A future in which cars fly. And jobs (blue and white collar, like doctors, accountants, and lawyers) fly away too, replaced by all-pervasive technology, which includes zero-click s
New Year’s Eve: A Brief History
About the last Big Event of the holiday trifecta, talk show host and comedian John Oliver was quoted as saying: “New Year’s Eve is like the death of a pet. You know it’s goin
Telluride Theatre: Holiday Cabaret, Through 12/24!
Telluride Theatre is bringing the spirit of the holidays to Town with “Holiday Cabaret,” an original, family-friendly variety show that will keep the audience singing,
Winter Solstice, 12/22: Down Low + Poems
The term “solstice” means “sun stands still.” On the year’s two solstices (winter and summer) the sun appears to halt in its incremental journey acros
Thanksgiving: A Short History
With snow fall comes the holiday season in Telluride and around the world. You can like the celebrations. You can lump them all into one Scroogey ball. The only thing you cannot do
Halloween, What a Scream!
It’s not all about pumpkins, costumes and candy – though more candy is sold for Halloween than any other time of the year. (The estimate from The National Confectioners Associ
TIO NYC: Fall Happenings, Wrap Up!
We hit the ground running (per usual) in New York, where the fall season is just getting started. Regardless, Chelsea is already setting the Pace (literally at “Super Pace
Telluride #1 Best Small Town to Visit
Joining an illustrious fraternity that includes (but is by no means limited to) “Good Morning Texas,” Travel & Leisure, Town & County, W, Vogue, and Forbes, now US News
Telluride Foundation: Montgomery in Botswana to Help Nonprofits
The Telluride AIDS Benefit keeps repeating itself – and with good reason: it is not over until it is over. The need to Fight, Fund, and Educate ends when the HIV/AIDS pandemic
Rethinking Aging & Old
A favorite writer, Adam Gopnik, published the following story titled “Can We Live Longer But Stay Younger,” in the May 13th issue of The New Yorker. Is aging a fact o
Poets’ Corner: Rosemerry for Mother’s Day
The greatest love is a mother’s; Then comes a dog’s, then comes a sweetheart’s, Polish proverb. Mother’s Day is always celebrated on the second Sunday in May, so Sunday, Ma
Poets’ Corner: Feela for Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe (who wrote the words to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”) as a day dedicated to peace. In 1907, Philadelphian Ana
TIO NYC: Grab Bag – Chelsea, Lower East Side, Frick & “Tootsie”
Our last days in New York were the usual mix of art and theatre: galleries in Chelsea and the Lower East Side near the New Museum (with a little help from our friend, artist and lo
TIO NYC: Anxiety & An Antidote
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, but Fountain House is on the job every day. The nonprofit is dedicated to the recovery of men and women with serious mental illness by providi