David Holbrooke is widely known and highly regarded locally as director of one of Telluride’s signature festivals, Mountainfilm, whose impact he has deepened and broadened through deft programming and force of personality. But David was a filmmaker whose docs often premiered at Mountainfilm years before he became...
Urban Stages is the theatre founded (over 30 years ago) and run by (long-time, part-time) Telluride local Frances Hill Barlow. From the get-go, the Big Idea idea was to provide emerging talent with a venue to address the multi-faceted issues facing our contemporary world and include the...
A revival of Harold Pinter's “The Homecoming” at the Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, features sometimes Telluride local David Barlow. Production runs through Saturday, October 25. Purchase tickets here. [caption id="attachment_54432" align="aligncenter" width="500"] (l to r) Rocco Sisto, Tara Franklin, David Barlow and Joey...
Claire Fallon and Maddie Crum, books and cultural writers for the Huffington Post, compiled the following list (and rationale) of can’t-miss new reads for Fall 2015. Huffington Post must-read books out this fall. Setting aside Jonathan Franzen's ubiquitously discussed new novel Purity, fall 2015 is an embarrassment of literary...
Deepak Chopra was the keynote speaker at the Telluride First Foundation’s inaugural Integrative Wellness Summit, where he had the audience in the palm of his hands for over two memorable hours. Here, Huff Post associate editor Emily Tess Katz summarizes Deepak’s message about peace to world...
All roads lead to (and from) Telluride, this one specifically from the Telluride Wine Festival, where we met Max McCalman. (Story and interview here.) [caption id="attachment_54081" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Le District, photo courtesy of blouinartinfo.com[/caption] Max is a Really Big Cheese in the world of food and beverages A...
Joy. The conventional definition is “a feeling of great pleasure and happiness." Case in point, the must-see “Picasso Sculpture” at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. (Through February 7, 2016.) Picasso was our first stop on what is always an invigorating, enlightening cultural bath in the great tub known...
If you have lived, as I have, the notorious Saul Steinberg cartoon, (“View of the World,” 1976, with Manhattan as the epicenter), the state does not even exist. The emphasis would be on the “MISS" in Missouri. But if you are driving cross-country in your new Tesla named “Current” – cobalt blue, dove...
September 17 to 24, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Venus, Mars, Jupiter Evening: Mercury, Saturn “Same thing only different.” It’s something an old cowboy friend of mine liked to say. He was also the one who used to tell me to “baby up” – as opposed to “man...
Winner of 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, “The Flick,” runs through October 17 at Denver's Curious Theatre Company. Tickets here. The latest book in the award-winning Allison Coil Mystery Series by our theatre critic/author Mark Stevens is “Lake of Fire.” Mark will be in town for a book...
