Beyond Telluride

A Colorado-based company named “Dixie One” has nothing to do with ice cream. It’s product line includes THC-infused chocolates and a line of elixirs containing 75 milligrams of THC. And earlier this year, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra held a “Classically Cannabis” fundraiser, with highfalutin’ patrons...

You  know how it can be with all the family gathered together over the holidays. One wrong move, one smart (read snarky) remark and someone leaves the table in tears. The whole game changes, however, if everyone stays put and any tears are from laughter. I found these laugh-out-loud jokes in...

In the run-up to Thanksgiving, a treat for denizens of the Big Apple: for the 5th year, Mountainfilm in Telluride returns to the Film Society of Lincoln Center  with a weekend of documentaries about adventure, environment, and culture. But mainly adventure. From wrangling buffalo in...

The Veterans Day National Ceremony is held each year on Tuesday, November 11, at Arlington National Cemetery. The ceremony commences precisely at 11:00 a.m. with a wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknowns and continues inside the Memorial Amphitheater with a parade of colors...

Buy tickets for “Kinky Boots” at the Denver Center here. Tropes abound, but “Kinky Boots” chews them all up with unabashed pleasure and drops them all in your lap with a big fat smile. The sets fly. The choreography dazzles. The earworms crawl up inside your...

“Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs” is a show you won’t want to miss. But you will want to wait. (It opened on October 12 and runs through February 8). And you will not want to go on a rainy day. On rainy days in the Big Apple, the Museum of Modern Art...

Whether you're into mining, energy or tourism, there are lots of reasons to explore space. Some "pioneers" even believe humanity's survival depends on colonizing celestial bodies such as the Moon and Mars, both becoming central hubs for our further journey into the cosmos. Lunar land...

In Telluride, we can no longer pretend that it’s summer. Gone are the days when the sun baked Main Street and the San Miguel River tempted us to dip in its waters. Gone are the river and all wildness that came with it, its reckless...

[caption id="attachment_45707" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Pueblo Bonita at Chaco Canyon[/caption] Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it, Edmund Burke. Here’s the dirt on dirt. Dirt (or soil) isn’t just a mix of clay, sand and humus that lies over bedrock. It isn’t simply dust, grime or filth...