Some faces of KOTO Beyond Telluride’s KOTO, the FM and AM radio dials are crowded with commercial stations, offering not very much worthwhile around the clock, an incessant roar of rock, C & W, lots of “oldies,” inane talk and harsh rap. Of the...
by Cynthia Zehm January 15 to 22, 2009 Visible Planets: Morning: Saturn Evening: Venus Last week's Capricorn/Cancer Full Moon rose above the relatively flat eastern horizon of the Uncompahgre Plateau exactly as the Sun set below the distant "Blues" in Utah's canyonland country south...
Regina Zwilling Ana Forrest’s life is grist for the mill of the daytime soaps: She was born crippled, and growing up experienced physical abuse, drug addiction, epilepsy, and bulimia. Forrest took her first yoga class at age 14, becoming an instructor at 18. Over...
[click to hear Elisabeth Gick on Tibet] Elisabeth Gick first came to Telluride in September of 1979, like so many of us, an “accidental tourist.” “The beauty of the valley sucked me right in and has not let go yet.” Gick’s children, now adults, went...
[click play button to hear Art Goodtimes interview] Art & Rio I created “Doers” in February 1993, when Tony Daryani and Mike Ritchey asked me to write a weekly column for their newborn Telluride Daily Planet. The column continued to appear every Friday during...
[ click play button to hear] No sweat. The band just keeps on keepin’ on despite the fact its founding members, among them, Al Kooper, Bobby Colomby, David Clayton-Thomas and Steve Katz, are part of rock lore. Rather than being a personality cult, Blood, Sweat...
“Telluride Inside…and Out” is all about what makes Telluride sing, which comes down to the soaring, quirky, original voices of locals such as Ilene and Richard Barth, pedigreed authors in their own right, and also founders/owners of the New York-based boutique gift book publishing company,...
Add comedy to the list of unsolved mysteries right after the Big Bang and black holes. In the Woody Allen movie “Crimes and Misdemeanors,” one character describes what tickles our funny bones and wrinkles our noses as “tragedy plus time.” Steve Martin famously described comedy...
Rebekah Diaddigo,Sugar Plum Fairy Thanks to the gift of memory, we make Nat “King” Cole rituals of the holidays. Folks dressed up like Eskimos build frosty snowmen. As chestnuts roast on an open fire, we sit squinched into a favorite armchair staring at presents...
Ten years ago, when a starry-eyed go-getter named Jen Nyman (now Julia) arrived in town to build a young people’s theatre program at the historic Sheridan Opera House, Telluride pulled its Missouri stunt: “Show me, “ we said. Jen did. Big time. Her response to...