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
Beyond Telluride
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
TIO NYC: Art, Upper East Side
A gem of a show titled “German Expressionism and 20th Century Masterworks From Galerie Thomas, Munich” is up through May 16 at the Richard Feigen Gallery, then the ar
TIO NYC: “King Lear” & “INK”
Shakespeare’s “King Lear” starring Glenda Jackson at the Cort Theatre, 138 West 48 Street, and “INK” at the Manhattan Theatre Club, 261 West 47, are b
TIO NYC: Frida & Frieze
“Frida Kahlo:Appearances Can Be Deceiving” at the Brooklyn Museum runs through May 12. Advance tickets are now sold out through the close of the exhibition. Same-day, o
Beraza’s “Massacre River” to Screen at Hot Doc Pre-PBS
Since 2017, Suzan Beraza has nailed it as Festival Director of Mountainfilm. (Go here for ongoing coverage of the weekend. ) She is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker in h
TIO Ashland: Oregon Shakespeare & Indie Film Festivals
After a weekend in Ashland attending early days of the productions in the 2019 season of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, we are betting two of three plays will wind up as hits in
Congratulations to Telski’s Bill Jensen, New Hall of Famer
Bill Jensen, Partner of the Telluride Ski & Golf Resort, (per Forbes) the “alpha” in North America, was honored in April 2019 by the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Club, inducted