Master wordsmith David Ives is probably best known for his evenings of one-act comedies, All In The Timing and Time Flies. All In The Timing won the Outer Critics Circle Playwriting Award, ran for two years Off-Broadway, and in the 1995-96 season, was the most performed play in the country...
[caption id="attachment_40173" align="aligncenter" width="194"] Spectacular necklace patterned on the Julius Set, a chaotic mathematical arrangement. Contains 2000 diamonds and sapphires.[/caption] We arrived in the Big Apple on Monday, toast from a cross-country trip (in a truck. Long story). But, stalwart souls that we are, we hit...
Thanks to the miracle of modern technology – and the Formbys (and their team) – last week Telluride was able to ingest Tuesday and Wednesday's sessions of the TED Talks (via simulcasts) taking place in Vancouver, British Columbia. The rock star Sting was one of...
[caption id="attachment_36071" align="alignright" width="300"] Mosier, foreground, down toward Hood River[/caption] Stay tuned…. There will be a Telluride connection… Always is. Mosier, Oregon: The population of Mosier, Oregon was not always 421. There were even fewer people, about 280 locals, living in the picturesque hamlet when Arlene Burns discovered the...
Day #2 began with a ride in a long-tailed boat along the canals of Chaophraya River, a rite of passage for Bangkok virgins. The tour guide representative at our hotel, again the Royal Orchid Sheraton, arranged the hour-long tour. Long-tailed boats or Ruea hang Yao are a...
[caption id="attachment_35202" align="alignright" width="150"] MASS MoCA, third incarnation of industrial site[/caption] The Site: A Phoenix It's Bilbao all over again, a story of a museum reviving a surrounding town. Starting in colonial times, North Adams was a prosperous place of wholesale shoe manufacturers, the site that is now MASS...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: "Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade" and Julia Margaret Cameron: Set your watches back to the 16th century, a colorful time in history, when countries including Portugal, Spain, France and Holland created a virtual cat's cradle of trade routes on the world...
Little known fact: she painted and though no Picasso, she was good. She was a fashionista and though no Anna Wintour, she became a trend setter. In 1966, when she joined the Haight-based psychedelic-rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, her adoption of a wildly...
It’s not easy to learn an instrument. Most of us can think of a dreaded piano teacher or worse, the dreaded conversation with mom or dad telling us “it’s time to practice!” But at Mark Galbo’s Rock and Roll Academy, the fun is put back...
Each time we travel we have a choice. We can be a tourist or a traveler. In my younger life I was always a traveler. I backpacked through South America, teaching English along the way, exchanging room and board for language lessons and trying my...
