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Mother’s Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe (who wrote the words to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”) as a day dedicated to peace. In 1907, Philadelphian Ana Jarvis began a campaign to establish a national Mother’s Day. She persuaded her mother’s...

Mountainfilm takes place in Telluride over Memorial Weekend, May 25 – May 28. Passes to the 2018 festival are selling out very fast., very few remain. To get your passes or for more information about Mountainfilm, visit here. Telluride author Susan Dalton captures Mountainfilm‘s best memories in “Mountainfilm: 40...

Mountainfilm takes place in Telluride over Memorial Weekend, May 25 – May 28. Passes to the 2018 festival are selling out fast. To get your passes or for more information about Mountainfilm, visit here. Telluride author Susan Dalton captures Mountainfilm‘s best memories in “Mountainfilm: 40 Years.” The beautiful coffee...

"The Metromaniacs" at The Duke Theatre, 229 West 42 Street (between 7th & 8th) is up through May 26. Non-stop laughs, especially if wordplay is your thing, this show is nonstop zing. Tickets here.   Also, food, drink and music at the sexy bar, The Blacktail. Great Indian food...

On yet another fine day in the Big Apple, on stage and on the walls of the many galleries in Chelsea we visited, we found the lines between reality and fantasy, fact and fiction, past and present blurred. And, as always, the Devil was in the...

"Harry Clarke" at the Minetta Lane Theatere through May 12. Don't miss Billy Crudup's tour de force performance. Tickets here. "Three Tall Women" at the Golden Theatre through June 24. Tickets here. Tickets here. Run! Glenda Jackson razzle-dazzles. "Like Life" is up at the Met Breuer though July...

For Peter Pino’s petroglyph  workshop, the  Telluride Institute is partnering with the Ah Haa School for the Arts, the Wilkinson Public Library, and the Telluride Historical Museum. For more information on the Pino course, contact Ah Haa’s Kristin Kwasniewski at 970-728-3886 or go on-line at www.ahhaa.org...

The Downlow is an evening of storytelling and an initiative of Telluride Theatre. The theme of the show Thursday, May 10, 7 p.m., a collaboration with the San Miguel Resource Center, is #MeToo. The event takes place at Sheridan Opera House SHOW Bar and is FREE...

The play about a really bad dad on a power trip who trips and falls is over. Shakespeare's "King Lear " is dead and buried. We were in the audience for the final matinee on Sunday, April 29. Sorry you missed it, but we are...

Thanks to a generous donation from Elaine Cantor’s family, this year the Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Program will add a $500 Cantor Award to its national Fischer Prize contest for the best poem by a Colorado poet. The Cantor Award will be presented at the...