February 2012

Sunday at The Palm features award-winning animation Academy-Award-nominated French animator Dominque Monfery celebrates the joy of reading in his animated adventure, "Eleanor's Secret," (2009). The story centers around Nat, a young boy who discovers he has inherited a magical library from his beloved but eccentric Aunt Eleanor....

It may be counter intuitive but criminals usually do not target expensive well kept homes. If they are driving around looking for a house to break into (and all criminal attacks have some degree of pre-attack surveillance) they act like predator animals looking for the...

This coming weekend, Saturday, February 11, 2012, 7:30 – 11:30 p.m., Telluride Conference Center, Mountain Village, is the 17th annual Chocolate Lovers’ Fling, the only  major public fundraiser of the San Miguel Resource Center.  The event features hot auction items –  a week at a...

While all of the recent snowfall has been great for on-mountain shredding, it’s made the backcountry pretty damn sketchy. Sure, people are still “getting after it” in Bear Creek and beyond, but considering that natural avalanches are still prevalent, we’ve decided to wait a bit...

Bluegrass lottery runs Tuesday, February 7 – Thursday, February 9 The following is the single-day lineup for the 39th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival: Thursday, June 21, 2012 Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas | John Prine | Laura Marling | Thelma & Louise featuring Chris Thile &...

Supporting Pinhead's summer interns helps support the future of our country Ever wanted to study plants in Hawaii?  Or work to conserve native turtle habitats in Costa Rica?  Or maybe you would prefer sequencing DNA of poisonous spiders? Students interested in science with an adventurous spirit...

Facing a fast foot of snow, February’s First Friday found us in front of the fireplace. Now Denver’s 20 minutes of cabin fever has worn off and the rest of the month looks fast and furious. Dance and multi-media collide in Ballet Nouveau Colorado’s latest, “Love...

In this week's video from Cottonwood Ranch and Kennel, Ted Hoff gives us some ideas about working with small dogs with large personalities. Zoe, a mixed terrier, is Ted's subject today, and we can see that under Ted's tutelage, Zoe doesn't behave differently from the...

When you see someone ripping down the Mountain, jamming to their iPod, do you ever wonder what they’re listening to? I do. So I decided to ask. And who else do you ask such a question to but your Facebook friends -- a group of people who...

Play and childhood seem to be – or at least used to be–  synonymous. With the simple directive, “Go play outside," parents gave their children a free pass to a kind of freedom that is all too often left behind (and longed for) as we...