February 2012

Editor's note: This is the first in a series of  five poems by our favorite Word Woman, the lovely Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, each meant to set the heart aflutter in the roll up to Valentine's Day. So if you think you can't find the right...

Greg Stump is an American ski and snowboarding filmmaker.  Before Stump, extreme skiing was known to only a handful of skiers who skied beyond the boundaries of ski areas and within ski area boundaries beyond the groomed runs. Extreme skiing appeared in each of his...

February 9 to 16, 2012 Visible Planets: Morning: Mars and Saturn  Evening: Venus and Jupiter By the time you read these words, I’ll be on my way back home to Colorado.. I’m writing this column two weeks in advance so I can email it long before it’s due....

Two Skirts' Fashion Friday is a weekly feature that focuses on international fashion trends as reflected on a local level in Telluride, and on important emerging and established designers. This week's blog, however, is an exception to the rule. This week, Kristin Holbrook of Two...

If necessity is the mother of invention then it is no wonder that Telluride, with its breathtakingly beautiful, rugged mountains permeated with precious metals, bright sunshine and light powder, and a boom and bust economy, has been an incubator of creative ideas for more than...

The Mountain Village Winter Games return February 11 to benefit the Telluride Adaptive Sports Program; athletes converge on snow-packed soil for some winter adventure on skies, snowshoes and bikes. (Editor's note: TASP recently completed its 12th annual "Expand Your Horizons" camp. See the video below for...

It's has to be one of the greatest things to happen to bluegrass since the mandolin: Drew Emmitt and Bill Nershi teamed up to form the Emmitt-Nershi Band. And here's more good news: Their quartet plays the Llama on Sunday, February 12. Nershi, a former longtime...

Community Response to Building Common Ground #1 plus Transition Our Way The Telluride-based New Community Coalition and the Wilkinson Public Library were thrilled to have such a fantastic turnout and post-presentation dialogue at last week's Building Common Ground and Green Business Roundtable gatherings. Thursday evening, January 2,...

He won his first competition at Sugarloaf in 1970 at age nine. In 1978, he took the Junior National Championships at Copper Mountain, Colorado. His strengths: bumps and ballet. When he won the North American Freestyle Championships at Edelweiss Valley, Ontario, Greg Stump became the...

Greg Stump’s long-awaited final cut of “Legend of Aahhh’s,” to premiere in town The Sheridan Arts Foundation, Telluride Historical Museum, Bootdoctors and Travis Julia Presents celebrate the Telluride Ski Resort’s 39th anniversary with back-to-back major film events, two nights of special guests and world premieres, including...