Tim DeChristopher is an American climate activist and co-founder of the environmental group Peaceful Uprising. On December 19, 2008, he protested an oil and gas lease auction of 116 parcels of public land in Utah's redrock country, conducted by the Bureau of Land Management. DeChristopher...
December 8 to 15, 2011 Visible Planets: Morning: Mars and Saturn Evening: Venus and Jupiter “Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it." - Niels Bohr “The most startling quantum fact is that there is no objective reality; the observer shapes what is...
When we think of Telluride’s Noel Night, we often think shopping. We think of deals and discounts and raffles. But to say Noel Night is about shopping is like describing Telluride as just a ski town. Telluride’s Noel Night falls during the bitterly cold and short...
Dr. Paul Hokemeyer is the author of one of favorite features: Shrink Rap, which focuses on hot-button physical, mental and emotional health challenges that influence pop culture. The formula is simple: Paul writes a post on a subject of interest and then we get...
Wildness does not go away because we bring it indoors. This is especially true of animals. Tom had two Malamutes, Neshka and Ashi, named for Eskimo heroes he had read about. He lived with them in a one room cabin up Coal Creek Canyon. The...
Give the gift of creativity to yourself or a loved one this holiday season. The Ah Haa School for the Arts has a great lineup of workshops to get you in the holiday spirit. From making your own holiday cards (and giving a set as a...
The holiday season in Telluride this year will miss baby ballerinas gracing the Palm stage in "The Nutcracker," generally speaking, a sine qua non at mistletoe time. (Although the Telluride Dance Academy is performing "Winter Wonderland" at The Palm.) And here's more good news: Main...
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 package...
Sarah Jarosz is a bluegrass multi-instramentalist, singer and songwriter whose first CD, Song Up in Her Head, was released by Sugar Hill Records on June 16, 2009. She was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Country Instrumental Performance for the track...
To hear folks tell it, the holidays sounds like a segment of "Survivor." People use terms such as "endurance" and "survival" to describe the run-up to season, but not in Mountain Village, where the focus is where it should be, on family. Mountain Village is now...
