My wife, Debbie, and I recently visited our families in Atlanta. The focus of our trip was to address some financial and housing issues of our aging parents, my 84-year-old mother and Deb's 80-year-old father. We knew that it wasn't going to be easy. So...
“Copenhagen,” a play by Michael Frayn, is about a meeting between two people in 1941 that held major implications for the course of events during World War II. [caption id="attachment_40909" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Wes Munsil as Neils Bohr; Marc Graham as Werner Heisenberg, courtesy John Hand Theater[/caption] That...
If you marvel at the prose of John Updike, you’ll enjoy the biography by Adam Begley. I suppose my job is to answer the question for non-believers: Why should I read this? My answer is this: Begley’s fine portrait helps us see the combination of family forces and...
"Raising the Dead: A Walking Celebration of Landscape and Literature," Saturday, May 17 [caption id="attachment_40751" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Amy McHarg by Susie Grant[/caption] Writers, readers and lovers of books are invited to a workshop with award-winning Colorado authors Amy Irvine McHarg and Craig Childs on Saturday, May 17,...
In conjunction with the first annual Telluride Literary Arts Festival, the Wilkinson Public Library is hosting a very special event with author Pam Houston. The event takes place Sunday, May 18, 10:00 am. Join us for coffee and bagels and book talk. Pam Houston’s most recent book is Contents...
What: The Sheridan Arts Foundation Young People’s Theater presents “10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse,” a comedy by Don Zodilis, directed by Jennifer Julia When: Sunday, May 18, 7 p.m., doors at 6:30 p.m. Where: Sheridan Opera House, Telluride, Colorado, 110 N. Oak Street Ticket Info: This show...
SPARKy Productions is gearing up for its 10th year of organizing the summer program of the Telluride Playwrights Festival. An exciting week of two new staged play readings, a one-man show and improv night are all planned during the week of July 21 – 27,2014. The Playwrights Festival brings...
Mark Fischer Poetry Prize Awards Celebration, presented in conjunction with Telluride Literary Arts Festival. At Arroyo, 6 – 7:30 p.m. [caption id="attachment_40841" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Kyle Harvey judged the 2014 Mark Fischer Poetry Prize contest. Celebration at Arroyo, Saturday, 6 – 7:30 p.m.[/caption] The 16th annual Mark Fischer Poetry Prize...
The Sheridan Arts Foundation & Telluride Ski Resort present music icon Jimmy Cliff. Tickets on sale now. The Sheridan Arts Foundation and Telluride Ski Resort presents music legend Jimmy Cliff at the Telluride Conference Center, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. The special concert is a fundraiser to help...
This is the razor’s edge. It is the line between sexuality, tease, and the real deal, the raw, cutthroat gulp where performance meets poetry, where neo-Burlesque meets memoir, where fiction flies like a dove from a magic hat. This is the Ah Haa School’s Friday, May...
