"Signature Theatre’s revival of August Wilson’s Piano Lesson brings a timely reminder of how consoling, how restorative, how emotionally sustaining great theatre can be," Charles Isherwood, The New York Times [caption id="attachment_26471" align="alignright" width="300"] Scene, August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson[/caption] Stephen King would have taken the story...
[caption id="attachment_26439" align="alignright" width="150"] Kandinsky[/caption] On a two-day whirlwind trip to the Big Apple, we hung with a group of artists who lived at the same time and were similar in the fact they marched to their own drum. Or drums. Since their chosen paths were...
[caption id="attachment_25932" align="alignleft" width="300"] Bill Zeffiro and Carole J. Bufford[/caption] Wednesday, 12/12/12, would have been Frank Sinatra's 97th birthday. Though he died in 1998, the night proved once again that Frank's musical legacy is as fresh as tomorrow. Sinatra, as interpreted by a host of mostly young...
Editor's Note: Of course there's a Telluride connection. Some of the biggest names in music will play at a benefit concert on Wednesday at Madison Square Garden. The Stones join a trio of 1960s British rock royalty on the bill, including Paul McCartney and the...
On Monday, November 26, I went to church, where I had a vision of the ocean and the sea. It was "Off the Coast of Me." And beyond good: the Roman god Neptune had invaded the sanctuary and was smiling. Yin meets yang in this show...
Sus and I have done it again: Just over eleven years ago, we arrived at her parents' new apartment in Hackensack, NJ, to help them move in. On September 10. Now we have just returned from a two-week trip to Europe with the idea of spending...
[caption id="attachment_24656" align="alignleft" width="300"] Torino and the Alps, Sunset[/caption] We returned. Most vagabonds never get there. And that's a miss. Turin (or Torino in Italian) is a very interesting town in the northern Piedmont region, Italy's first capital (in 1861) and home to Italy's royal family,...
[caption id="attachment_24502" align="alignleft" width="207"] "The Blute-fin Mill," courtesy of the Denver Art Museum[/caption] One word on “Becoming Van Gogh” at the Denver Art Museum: GO! To most of the world, Vincent van Gogh is a storied super-legend. We think of sunflowers and haystacks, swirling stars, straw hats...
There's something new in Megéve everyday. Today, it was a cow contest. Farmers came from all over, bringing their best cows, hoping to to win the bragging rights of having the most beautiful cow in the countryside. Like a dog show, the cows were tethered in...
Inspired by last week paragliding fest, this week, I, too, took to the sky. I flew with Allen. He was strapped in a seat behind me, and he controlled all the sail movements, take off, landing, and all the technicalities. I only had to run on...
