December 2011

In this week's video, Ted Hoff of Cottonwood Ranch and Kennel is working with his young Yellow Lab male, Drake. In demonstrating the remote "Stay!" command, Ted has to raise his voice, but it's the distance, not his demeanor which has influenced the sound. The...

The Year in Preview Next year will be different: suicide bombers will be kinder, senseless shooters more considerate, the banks less greedy. Congress will get to work legislating America’s confidence and hangovers from drunken holidays will be covered by Medicare. European debt will melt like polar ice and dead movie stars will come back to...

Dec. 29, 2011 to Jan. 5, 2012 Visible Planets: Morning: Mars and Saturn  Evening: Venus and Jupiter As we cross the illusionary bridge of time that takes us from the known lands of 2011 to the future frontiers of 2012, we find ourselves in a topsy, turvy...

When the ball drops in Time Square, the holiday trifecta finally – amen – comes to a close. How will you end 2011? With a yawn or a bang? Kristin Holbrook of Two Skirts wants to put a shine on your finish – with lurex. Two...

Two down, one to go, so GO BIG. Telluride goes for broke on New Years Eve with special dinners at restaurants around town and in Mountain Village. And here's the really good news: it's quite possible to have your cake and rock it too. You might...

The end of the old year and the start of the new year has been celebrated around the globe for more than five millennia with pretty much the same idea: Purge the former and ensure good times in the latter. One example is a tradition...

"On The Road Again." Still. One of the best American blues-rock/boogie-rock band from the flower child era of the 1960s still generates plenty of heat. Canned Heat is scheduled to perform with the Fabulous Thunderbirds on New Year's Eve at the historic Sheridan Opera House. Doors...

Raise your hands if spending a few hours with a beautiful, intelligent, articulate woman is appealing. You get your chance at Between the Covers Bookstore on Friday, December 30, 5 – 7 p.m.. when poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer signs her latest book of poetry, "The Miracle...

Artist's reception Thursday, December 29, celebrates 10 years with Gallery German-born metal smith Petra Class tends to work thematically, using stones the way painters use paint to create her signature collections of whimsical jewelry. Leitmotifs for her upcoming blockbuster at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art...

One year ends, another begins. We humans traditionally review what we did (the good, bad and indifferent) and look to what we want and need to do in the next 12 months – our New Year’s Resolutions. The change of the calendar (whenever that happens culturally)...