Yesterday Susan and I spent our second full (emphasis on "full") day in the Ovalle area of El Norte Chile. In a sense the day was a continuation of the day before. Our first stop was at the Tabali Vineyards, which not only share a road...
Telluride’s five-star Wilkinson Public Library continues its free cooking series and demonstration, Feasts of Spring, featuring the witty, talented chef/author/anthropologist Dr. Susannah Hoffman. On Thursday, March 22nd, 6 p.m., Susanna focuses on the “Greek Feast of Easter." The menu will include: Greek Saint George Wine Classic Filo Cheese Pie Lamb Stew...
Telluride has its own collection of performers and tricksters. But coming to town this Thursday, March 22nd is something a little different: Stunt Dogs. The Extreme Stunt Dog Performance features a cast of fabulous dogs who fly, leap, jump rope, you name it. They even...
On a cold winter day in 2003, four electric cars sat on Telluride’s main street waiting to be driven. No one knew much about them, yet the town was excited. Telluride Town Councilman Chris Myers had started a movement to educate the community about the...
Here comes the bride. But not yet. The punch line is The Wedding. Tomas Correa marries Fernanda Sanchez at an intimate gathering of 500 of their closest friends and family on Friday, March 23. We met the Correas, a founding colonial family, six years ago on...
Everything's coming up Sasha. We are talking about the one and only Ms. Cucciniello, artistic director of the (relatively) newly formed Telluride Theatre. The nonprofit is the platform that will allow Sasha and partner Colin Sullivan, executive director, to enhance the region's dramatic landscape big time....
Whether it's an epic powder day or bluebird, sunny, slush fest on Telluride Mountain, nothing should get in the way of another run. Hunger and thirst may beg for attention, but they’re trivial sensations compared to the bottomless turns on Kant-Mak-M or the slushy bump...
If you have a child who is learning to ski, chances are you’ve been posed with the question, “When can I get poles?” To the kids, who gets poles seems rather arbitrary; it’s like losing a tooth. It eventually happens to all of them, but when...
I have been talking about the “spiritual revolution” as described by religious scholars Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead, philosopher Charles Taylor, and psychoanalyst David Tacey. The question raised in last Sunday’s post was: Is the current turn toward inner experience expressive of anything more than...
Editor's Note: TIO is excited to welcome poet Kierstin Bridger to our Poet's Corner family. Kierstin is the 2011 winner of the Mark Fischer Poetry Prize and the contest's 2012 judge. She splits her time between Telluride and Ridgway and is currently pursuing her MFA...
