Here are several excerpts from an article in NPR.com by Robert Krulwich about history debunker, CGP Grey: Here are five stories we tell ourselves — five famous history stories that you have heard all your life — that aren't true. Not only are they not true,...
Last Sunday was Trinity Sunday in the church year. The Trinity is one of the ways that we picture God in the Christian tradition. When we try to literalize it, it makes no sense to modern consciousness. When we tap into the rich spiritual history...
Telluride Film Festival, presented by National Film Preserve LTD., is thrilled to announce its 2014 Guest Directors, Guy Maddin and Kim Morgan. The husband and wife team is set to select a series of films to present at the 41st Telluride Film Festival running over...
Besides nesting dolls, samovars, borscht, big fur hats, Nureyev, Baryshnikov, vodka – and Telluride local Gus Kenworthy taking silver in the country’s recent Olympics – we may have Russia to thank – ok, indirectly – for Telluride Musicfest. When the revolution failed, the “Red Menace” (a...
SPARKy Productions kicks off the summer with an NT LIVE simulcast on Tuesday, June 24, 7 p.m. at The Michael D. Palm Theatre. The production is Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy "A Small Family Business." This is a pre-recording of a play performed by The National Theatre of...
David Streitfeld, a New York Times Technology Reporter, offers up some initial impressions on Amazon's new Fire phone, announced yesterday by Amazon CEO, Jeffrey Bezos. Here are several excerpts: Amazon on Wednesday announced a device that tries to fulfill the retailer’s dream of being integrated into...
Single Day and Late Night Tickets for Telluride Blues & Brews on sale as of Friday, June 20, 10 a.m. (MDT)! Single Day and Late Night Tickets for the 21st Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival go on sale this Friday, June 20th at 10:00 a.m. (MDT)....
There's a new trend in New York City; a cross-over between an art exhibit and an educational experience. Marisa Meltzer, writes about a new company named after the writer and art collector Gertrude Stein: On a Saturday afternoon in Chelsea, a group of a few dozen...
Can Beautiful Art Cause Delirium? Watch this video about Stendhal Syndrome from Jason Silva and see for yourself! Stendhal Syndrome: "A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give weight in one's life...
What? Me worry? Well yes. Especially if you are a parent. Most skin and hair care products for kids contain a laundry list of ingredients with strange, often unpronounceable chemical names. In fact, many commonly used in products for children, paragons and quaternium 15 for two examples,...
