Culture

[caption id="attachment_36543" align="alignright" width="300"] Photograph by Ben Knight[/caption] Painter Brucie Holler and photographer/filmmaker Ben Knight are featured. Menu by Eliza Gavin of "221." The holidays are a whirl of parties, cultural events, dances, and getting together with friends and family. Perhaps the merriest gathering of them all...

  [caption id="attachment_36459" align="alignright" width="300"] Part of "Snow" series by Antonio Marra[/caption] Sculptor Antonio Marra's early sculptures were figurative bronzes – but don't think Rodin's "The Thinker." Don't think traditional at all. The abstract forms and lyrical grace of those works pledge a certain allegiance to the...

Freedom fighter, prisoner, moral compass, South Africa's symbol of the struggle against racial oppression, an icon of equality and in the words of our President "the last great liberator of the 20th century." Nelson Mandela died last Thursday, December 5.  Joyous South African and dozens of...

[caption id="attachment_36489" align="alignright" width="300"] Bullock in Gravity; Ejiofor in 12 Years A Slave; Lawrence in American Hustle, from BBC News & Entertainment[/caption] My husband Clint sent me a link to this blog by Tim Masters that appeared in BBC News, Entertainment Arts,  about the Oscars. The...

December 5 to 12, 2013   Visible Planets: Morning: Mars, Jupiter    Evening: Venus I see the dramatically delicate crescent new Moon shining in deep turquoise twilight, hanging slightly above brilliant Venus, low in the southwestern sky. The fields are covered in snow, crystalline white, reflecting the ebbing...

[caption id="attachment_31094" align="alignright" width="223"] TFF #40 by Dean Tavoularis[/caption] For all your hardcore cinephiles, this just in from the Telluride Film Festival: Warm Holiday Greetings. We hope you enjoyed our 40th as much as we did. We're now looking forward to a great year ahead and the 41st...

[caption id="attachment_36396" align="alignright" width="224"] Steel & tin heart By Jill Rikkers. Wall hanging measures 9 x 12 inches.[/caption] If Ah Haa was not in your line of march Noel Nite, it's not too late to find a gift of art from the heart. A gift of art...

University Centers of the San Miguel is the Regional Center for the Colorado Northwestern Community College (CNCC). It also partners with Colorado Mesa University (CMU), Prescott College, Western State Colorado University, Fort Lewis College, and Northern Arizona University. Since its inception in 2005, UCSM is the only higher education organization...

Talent is arguably the two percent you leave on the table after the perspiration. We received the following email from a program that is all about the two percent: America's Got Talent (Season 9). My name is Lindsay Spaulding and I'm a Casting Producer for America's Got...

A series of vignettes based on the Peanuts comic strip written and directed by Jennifer Julia. Performed by students in grades 6 - 8 live at the historic Sheridan Opera House. Dec. 6-8, 2013, 6 p.m. nightly Good grief! Join a cast of beloved characters: Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy,...