Remember the 21-year-old, disaffected hero who starred in the blockbuster film "The Graduate"? Ben was portrayed as smart but aimless, so a well-meaning friend of the family suggested there was a great future in plastics. What was true in 1967 now lands squarely in the...
Tired of the holidaze by now, from Christmas to Chaunukah to Kwanzaa? Well then rest assured, there is one seasonal event that unites us all regardless of religious (or not) background or ethnicity: New Year's Eve. About the last Big Event of the holiday trifecta,...
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 across the sky and change little in position during this time. Of course, contrary to appearances from Earth, the sun’s “changing...
It’s all about altitude – with attitude. Two long-time Telluride locals and internationally renowned tastemakers, Ellen Geldbaugh and Catherine Walsh, conceived of ON MAIN as a collaborative space dedicated to fine art and the art of living well. The goal of their venue is to push the cultural envelope...
In this Thanksgiving poem by our not-regular-enough contributor David Feela, an endless buffet becomes a meta for a world increasingly divided by haves and have nots and the consequences of ignorance and indifference. Spoiler alert: in this unusual case, the haves get their comeuppance. Food for...
[caption id="attachment_36145" align="alignright" width="200"] Photograph of President Truman receiving a Thanksgiving turkey from members of the Poultry and Egg National Board and other representatives of the turkey industry, outside the White House., 11/16/1949Harry S. Truman Library[National Archives Identifier 200138][/caption]With snow fall comes the holiday season...
An article written by Tara Bahrampour for The Washington Post looks back to the 1960s, but this time, not to the Vietnam War and the antiwar protests, not to the Civil Rights movement and those protests, not to the high-profile assassinations and not to the...
Michael Pollan (of "How to Change Your Mind") must be psyched. And those who've attended the John Hopkins lectures at the Telluride Mushroom Festival about extremely positive results using psilocybin to mitigate depression and PTSD and help with smoking cessation should be cheering too. The...
"The Humans" by Stephen Karam, which received the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play, is now up at Denver's Curious Theatre Company. The run is through December 22. Our Denver theater critic, award-winning author Mark Stevens, reviews the production. Tickets here. [caption id="attachment_77829" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Left to...
Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? Or is simply eating when you are actually hungry the way to go, even if that occurs later in the morning? Is it ok to skip breakfast altogether? This story by Leigh Weingus, writing for...
