Telluride’s Sheridan Arts Foundation (SAF) this year hosts 26 nationally recognized American plein air artists from June 28-July 4, 2023. The group gathers in Telluride for the 2oth annual Telluride Plein Air. Artists will spend one week painting outside capturing the light, color and unique...
Father’s Day is a celebration honoring, well, fathers. The holiday also celebrates fatherhood in general, paternal bonds, and the influence of dads in society. For some, however, Father’s Day is shorthand for pulling out a wallet. Again. Gifts of watches and Fitbits, beard trimmers, bespoke...
Telluride's Sheridan Arts Foundation celebrates 30 years of the Wild West Fest (WWF). The event takes place June 4-10, 2023, a week of empowering activities for 37 kids from various Boys and Girls Clubs of America including Mobile, AL; Wichita Falls, TX; Farmington, NM; and...
'The greatest love is a mother’s; Then comes a dog’s, then comes a sweetheart's," Polish proverb. Happy Mother’s Day Telluride – and beyond. We celebrate the holiday by sharing Word Woman Rosemerry Trommer's heart-wrenching, words, her pearls forming a mala, something to mediate on. Rosemerry clearly...
In 1907, Philadelphian Ana Jarvis began a campaign to establish a national Mother’s Day. She persuaded her mother’s church in Grafton, W.V. to celebrate Mother’s Day on the second anniversary of her mother’s death, the second Sunday of May. After establishing Mother’s Day in Philadelphia, Jarvis...
Culture bathing in New York has been fun – and eye-opening. Into the home stretch our focus ws on rape. Have I got your attention now? Literal rape defined as a "type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried...
Too bad, so sad, Thierry Mugler: “Couturissime,” a costume mega-show, closes May 7. The tribute to one of fashion's greatest showmen, populated by his "fembots" and "glamazons," is the very definition of "over the top." In short, it is noisy, good fun, the designer's virtuosity...
The Martha Graham Dance Company returned in triumph to The Joyce Theater: as “spellbinding and prescient as ever” (The New York Times). Program mix included Graham classics enhanced by a bouquet of new works! (Sadly if you missed this happening, however, Graham is only up through...
Telluride local Simon Gerald Alexander Perutz passed away unexpectedly on April 19, 2023 in the English countryside. Above everything Simon was kind and generous and so deeply loved. To honor his memory, the family requests donations be made to Connections for the Homeless. To plant trees...
"Roses are red, violets are blue, I am a schizophrenic, and so am I." or, "What the world needs is geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left." Both quotes by the once legendary Oscar Levant, Hollywood actor, concert pianist, and the most...
