December 2011

William Richard "Bill" Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American guitarist and composer.  One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more. He is known for using an...

My father led me into the hills one Sunday in December more than 35 years ago.  I carried the saw; he carried the axe. We trudged through the snow, hunting the wild Christmas tree.  He checked each tree for fullness and height, trying to picture it...

Daniel Tucker is a gardener of sorts. The Telluride institution he founded 21 years ago, the Ah Haa School for the Arts, is a place where the seeds of creativity get planted and nurtured. Multi-media artist  – printmaker, painter and sculpture, Barbara Gilhooly, puts an...

Your dog wants to run and play with other dogs, and you have a mission that requires Rover to be attentive to you? Watch as Ted Hoff of Cottonwood Ranch and Kennel works with his Lab female, Mae, as the other dogs run loose. Maintaining...

For all you trivia buffs, here's one. Or two. Thomas Edison once invented an electric golf ball to enable night play. And, Richard Nixon played golf alone every Wednesday at 10 a.m. wearing a business suit and tie. That image in itself is rib tickler, but...

 December 15 to 22, 2011 Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, Mars and Saturn  Evening: Venus and Jupiter Aries (Mar. 20-Apr.19) With both Mercury and Uranus now moving direct in fire signs, you may feel more invigorated and excited about life than you have in months. Cool your jets and...

If evergreens get to sparkle and shine at Christmastime why shouldn't you get blinged out too? According to Telluride Inside… and Out's fashionista, Kristin Holbrook of Telluride's Two Skirts, there is no good reason not to glam it up over the holidays with sequins. This week's...

Tired of same old turkey on your holiday table? How does a whole roasted leg of lamb with risotto sound as an alternative? The holiday menu prepared by Peter Cumplido, Executive Chef, Hotel Madeline, Mountain Village, also includes a baby spinach salad with cranberry vinaigrette,...

It's unlikely you know the name of the songwriter (it's Felix Bernard) or the lyricist (he was Richard B. Smith), but their 1934 joint venture produced a song that became a holiday evergreen: "Winter Wonderland." In Bernard and Smith's fictive landscape, sleigh bells rang, snow...

The New Community Coalition has been around the Telluride region since 2007. As the Sustainability Coordinator for the region I’ve been pleased to have a full, strong work load that addresses all areas of sustainability: environmental, social and economic. After 5 years, some in the...