Author Archives: Mark Stevens

TIO DENVER/TALL TALES: “RED” AT CURIOUS THEATRE

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Editor’s Note: Our Tall Tales contributor, Mark Stevens, is the author of “Antler Dust” and “Buried by the Roan.” “Buried by the Roan” is a finalist for the 2012 Colorado Book Award. Both books are the shelves at Telluride’s own Between the Covers Bookstore, 224 W Colorado Ave, Box 2129. “Picasso and Pollock are in…

TALL TALES: MARC MARON AT COMEDY WORKS, DENVER

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Editor’s Note: We met author Mark Stevens through Mountainfilm in Telluride. He was in town for a book-signing at Between the Covers during the event. Now the book,”Buried by the Roan,” is a finalist for 2012 Colorado Book Awards. Good luck Mark. It’s a beautiful early-April night, the cross-hatch lights of Larimer Square like a…

TALL TALES: SHAKESPEARE AND PARROTS

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TIO contributor Mark Stevens discusses and compares two documentary films, The Hobart Shakespearians and The Wild  Parrot of Telegraph Hill. From: The Department of Nourishment for the Soul To: All Fans of Inspiring Documentaries Re: Rafe Esquith & Mark Bittner Outliers and oddities both, two documentary films, The Hobart Shakespearians and The Wild Parrots of…

TALL TALES: NUTRITION COPS AT THE DOOR?

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Run—quick!—and hide the Kellogg’s® Special K® Chocolatey Delight cereal. It’s not for my stash, never had a bite. We have one teenager left in the house. You know how it is. Not that I can blame our 15-year-old daughter for any possible visit from the health police, who would, no doubt, leave our kitchen with a modest…

TALL TALES: ROADS, THE MOON, NEWT

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Editor’s note: “Tall Tales,” a monthly column on Telluride Inside… and Out is so named because the author knows how to spin a yarn, tall or otherwise. And, well, Mark Stevens is tall. Very tall. Perhaps tall enough, when he stands on tippy toes to touch the moon with his fingertips. The moon. Ah, talk…

COMMENTARY, MARK STEVENS: THE COST OF THE LAST GAS WELL?

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Jack Hoffman is an irascible piece of work. My 15-year-old daughter does a spot-on impersonation of his crotchety scold: “I know what I’m doing,” he screeches in a biting whine at his son Todd. This is from the “Gold Rush” reality show on The Discovery Channel. If you dig reality television, it’s an addictive show….