Now I know where the snow gods traveled when they went AWOL around the New Year. They made a beeline for the Alps. For the past several days we have been in Megeve, located in the Haute-Savoie department, Rhone-Alpes region, southeastern France. Megeve started its development as...
Yesterday we did a lot of looking again, this time thinking outside the frame as it were. We were not focused on paintings, but on clothes. My friend and I determined to shop until we dropped. January is the month the government sets for sales. In...
Apres le boeuf, la creme brulee. After the steak, dessert. The Stein Collection for example versus the show at the Musee D'Orsay, "Beaute, morale et volupte dans L'Angleterre d'Oscar Wilde," apologetically about sex and sizzle. Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and critic. As one of...
The historic Beaux-Art building known as the Grand Palais (Grand Palace) on the Champs Elysee (8th arrondissement) marked the first stop on yesterday's tour of the City of Lights. The Grand Palais is currently playing host to a family reunion of sorts. Art collected by writer...
Talk about window treatment. The boys from the 13th century really got it down. The most famous feature of the 13th-century royal chapel known as Sainte-Chapelle are the stained glass windows: 15 of them fill the nave and apse and a large rose window dominates...
Telluride is not the only place to achieve (or underachieve) in hedonistic bliss. There's also Paris. Mais oui: Paris. Air France touched down at 6:30 a.m. and within hours I found myself a refugee from Woody Allen's latest gambit. Paris. Always an epiphany. Sometimes, like now,...
Clyfford Still Museum quietly shouts for joy, provides counterpoint to Denver Art Museum. A paean to the artist, Denver's brand spanking new Clyfford Still Museum is also a monument to the glory days of America, which emerged Phoenix-like from the ashes of World War II as...
"The Apple Pushers," kicks off the weekend, when Mountainfilm in Telluride returns to the Big Apple, October 21 – October 23, for an encore program at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theatre.
"Apple Pushers" is not about the friendly folks who sell bites out of the technological magic "The magician" (The Economist, October 8 – 14), Steven Jobs conjured. The documentary features a whole other category of vendors.
"The Apple Pushers," written and directed by Mary Mazzio, narrated by Edward Norton, and underwritten by the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, follows immigrant street vendors who roll fresh fruits and vegetables into the inner cities of New York, where finding a fresh red ripe apple can be a serious challenge. These pushcart vendors, who have immigrated here from all parts of the world are now part of a new experiment in New York to help solve the food crisis and skyrocketing obesity rates, particularly in the inner city.
Mountainfilm in Telluride began as a homespun gathering of outdoor enthusiasts 33+ years ago has evolved into a colorful tapestry of talks, exhibits, music and films. And Mountainfim has grown legs. Good news for Telluride, because there could be no better ambassador for the "brand."
By Jesse James McTigue
Moab, Utah is full of some of the most mind-boggling spectacles and seeming impossibilities. Flowers bloom among the arid, desert landscape; rock-towers spiral skyward; and delicate arches perforate smooth rock formations.
Every October, in the middle of all of this natural wonderment, an even more mind-boggling spectacle occurs – the 24 Hours of Moab mountain bike race.
The race occurs at the end of the mountain biking season and has contenders racing from noon Saturday to noon Sunday, for 24 hours straight. Most competitors race on a four or five person team, requiring each individual rider to complete the 15-mile course three or four times. There are also competitors who compete as solo and duo riders and some of these folks do it on a single-speed—a mountain bike with one fixed gear.
Every year, I am amazed at how many people are willing to subject themselves to this race (including myself). Competitors range from professional cyclists to groups of friends looking for a good time and a personal challenge. Some teams are raising money for a cause; others are just hoping to survive.
