Depending on your age and stage in life and the way things have been going lately, this time of year, a time of assessment, is not necessarily easy. Take refuge in art for the start of the New Year. Attend the Ah Haa School for the Arts'...
[caption id="attachment_36635" align="alignright" width="300"] Audrey Hepburn And Peter O'Toole in "How to Steal A Million," from The HOllywood Reporter[/caption] How time flies. Hard to believe it was almost 12 years ago when Peter O'Toole came to town to be honored as a tributee of the Telluride...
Telluride Theatre & The Sheridan Arts Foundation present a non-denominational holiday extravaganza, December 18 -22, 2013, 8 p.m. live at the Sheridan Opera House Dude and Bro are BACK in a totally new play adapted straight from Charles Dicken’s classic, “A Christmas Carol.” Telluride’s most lovable ski bums are...
[caption id="attachment_36576" align="alignright" width="190"] Bruce Dern, who starred in "Nebraska" is a contender (from The New York Times)[/caption] This time it was the New York Times' Melena Ryzik, aka, The Carpetbagger, weighing in. The article about the rogue's gallery lined up (or lining up) in Best...
[caption id="attachment_36539" align="alignright" width="300"] Key members of Telluride Choral Society[/caption] No holiday is more closely associated with music than Christmas, whose evolution as a cultural phenomenon is reflected in those sounds. As Christmas became more secular, spiritual songs were largely supplanted by chestnuts such as Rudolph, sleigh...
Palm Arts Dance winter recital, Sparkle, takes place on Sunday, December 15, 2 p.m. Now in its third year of operation, the Palm Arts Dance Program has named Shirley Fortenberry to the position of artistic director. In that capacity, Ms. Fortenberry will be responsible for conceiving,...
[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...
