For any community, encouraging and expanding the education of its youth means investing in an individual success in life as well as building prosperous and future leaders within a community. The Sun Valley Wine Auction, a benefit for art and education, has long been a successful fundraising event supported not […]
Lifestyle
Body, Mind, Spirit, Environment: 4 Ambassadors Bring Wellness to the Sun Valley Wellness Festival by Hayden Seder
There are so many words associated with the term “wellness”: woo-woo; health; yogis, shamans and gurus; and so many more. But in the end, wellness can be approached in four different segments—mind, body, spirit, and environment. And in following this study of wellness, the annual Sun Valley Wellness Festival strives […]
A Family Wellness Odyssey: Arianna Huffington, Agapi Stassinopoulos, and Isabella Huffington by Martha McGuinness
As I write this piece, on deadline, I have decided to employ a tip from Arianna Huffington and put my phone in another room. “We’re addicted to our devices,” she warns. “They are harsh taskmasters and they mine our attention and focus and keep us in a permanent state of […]
Locally Grown: Sun Valley Filmmakers Shine by Kim Frank
This year’s Sun Valley Film Festival features several selected films that have locally connected actors, filmmakers, and/or producers. To honor the local talent and these spectacular films, SVPN sat down with a handful of the filmmakers to discuss the making of their films and the ways the Sun Valley area […]
A League of Her Own: Honoring Geena Davis by Kim Frank
Geena Davis, Academy Award-winning actress and gender-rights advocate, is this year’s recipient of the Sun Valley Film Festival’s Vision Award and Zions Bank-sponsored Grand Dame Award. With a career that includes decades of films that push the envelope for women’s roles, including her most recent virtual reality film, Dear Angelica, […]
Groundbreaking Innovation: TEDxSun Valley by Sabina Dana Plasse
How much of what we think we know, do we really know? How often do you hear someone refer to a great TED talk to enlighten you about an idea or concept? On Wednesday, November 30, the inaugural TEDxSun Valley was launched at the Sun Valley Opera House. Featuring a […]
Spirits of Another Sort by Laurel Holland
SUN VALLEY, ID. Dust off those folding lawn chairs and pull out the family picnic blanket: Summer Symphony Season is here! And with another star-studded lineup on tap, this year’s Orchestra Festival is slated for a larger-than-life opening act. On Monday, August 1, the highly anticipated production of Stravinsky’s The […]
Visionary Filmmaking: An Interview with Oliver Stone by Kim Frank
Midnight Express, Salvador, Platoon, W, Wall Street, Talk Radio, JFK, Heaven on Earth, Natural Born Killers, Nixon, Scarface, Evita, People vs Larry Flynt, The Joy Luck Club, The Untold History of the United States, Snowden…. When spoken aloud to almost any adult, virtually every movie on this list elicits some […]