[caption id="attachment_27084" align="alignright" width="225"] The sacred mountain, Kailash[/caption] More than 30 years ago, I saw the Dalai Lama on German TV, laughing and joking as he likes to do. And I was appalled. I wondered self-righteously how the exiled leader of a country in utter despair...
Editor’s note: Telluride Inside… and Out’s monthly (more or less) column, Tall Tales, is so named because contributor Mark Stevens is one long drink of water. He is also long on talent. Mark is the author of “Antler Dust” and “Buried by the Roan,” both...
"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...
