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28 Jan NEW LOOK FOR A STRONG COMMUNITY
Wilkinson Public Library is one of 30 libraries nationwide to receive programming support from the Fetzer Institute and the American Library Association for “Building Common Ground: Discussions of Community, Civility and Compassion.” The nine- month program series introduces the tenets of Slow Money to inspire...
17 Jan TIO IN MEGEVE: MONDAY IN TOWN
One of Salvador Dali’s signature images, “Persistence of Memory, ” 1931, inspired three of the nine sculptures currently on display throughout Megeve: “Persistence of Memory,” “Profile of Time,” and “Dance of Time II.” All three works of art feature melting clocks. And “melting” became a...
13 Jan TIO PARIS: LAST DAYS
Yesterday we did a lot of looking again, this time thinking outside the frame as it were. We were not focused on paintings, but on clothes. My friend and I determined to shop until we dropped. January is the month the government sets for sales....
12 Jan TIO PARIS: OSCAR WILDE AT MUSEE D’ORSAY
Apres le boeuf, la creme brulee. After the steak, dessert. The Stein Collection for example versus the show at the Musee D’Orsay, “Beaute, morale et volupte dans L’Angleterre d’Oscar Wilde,” apologetically about sex and sizzle. Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and critic....
09 Jan TIO IN PARIS: LET THEM EAT (KING) CAKE
Telluride is not the only place to achieve (or underachieve) in hedonistic bliss. There’s also Paris. Mais oui: Paris. Air France touched down at 6:30 a.m. and within hours I found myself a refugee from Woody Allen’s latest gambit. Paris. Always an epiphany. Sometimes, like...
03 Jan WHAT’S UP DOWNTOWN DENVER
Welcome to a whole new year! If the January line up is any indication, 2012 is sure to be jam-packed and fun-filled with exciting events in the Denver cultural scene. I’ve checked in with my sources, made notes in my calendar and I’m ready to...
25 Dec THREE MUSES AT BETWEEN THE COVERS
It’s all about the ladies this coming week at Between the Covers Bookstore and High Alpine Coffee Bar. Line ‘em up like beautiful literary cocktails and sip, one at a time … Starting Wednesday, three authors grace our space this week: Jill Burchmore, Erzsebet Gilbert,...
06 Dec OLD-FASHIONED CHRISTMAS AT SCHMID RANCH
by Beth Roberts On Christmas Day, 1908, Harriet Fish Backus, later known as the “Tomboy Bride,” awoke to a gift that would certainly turn the most modern San Juan citizen Christmas-colored with envy: “sparkling diamonds.” But these “diamonds” did not come in the usual small...