March 2012

If you haven't noticed magical Venus and magnificent Jupiter in the western evening sky over the last few weeks, you haven't looked. It's virtually impossible to miss them shimmering above the twilight horizon as they move ever closer to conjunction on March 13th. This is...

My mom often complains that I never ski with her. For the record, I ski with her every year on her birthday, when my sister and brother visit and often with my five-year old daughter. But, she is right; exclusive ski dates are rare. So, last...

221 South Oak first on board to Adopt-A-Cabin as part of the Green Gondola Project Mountain Village’ s Green Gondola Project snagged its first Adopt-A-Cabin sponsor when 221 South Oak restaurant purchased an advertisement for gondola cabin six. The Green Gondola Project was started in 2009 by...

Spooked by the wave of regime change around the world, the Chinese government is cracking down hard on the Tibetan people. Inspired by Time magazine’s 2011 recognition of the power of “The Protestor,” Tibetans — mostly monks — have been fighting back in the most desperate way: by setting themselves...

Editor's note: Pat Bailey is Reverend of Telluride's Christ Presbyterian Church. This series reflects his ongoing research for his PhD thesis. I have been talking about the “spiritual revolution” as described by religious scholars Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead in "The Spiritual Revolution: Why Religion is...

Jazz concert to include great composer, originals, Latin & Blues Mullti-instrumentalist and band leader Jeff Solon is a regular at the Telluride Jazz Celebration's After Dark performances at venues all over town. His usual perch: the New Sheridan Bar. Think of his upcoming concert as a...

Editor's note:  This is the fourth story in a weekly series by the team of scholars/dynamic enviro-activists Anna Zivian and Billy Mason. Both have deep ties to Telluride, but have gone out into the world to make a difference. They are. Yesterday I grudgingly went to...

 March 8 to 15, 2012 Visible Planets: Morning: Saturn  Evening: Venus, Mars and Jupiter Venus, Jupiter and the Moon have been stellar performers in a dazzling display of celestial light over the last few weeks. The Feb. 21st Pisces lunar cycle opened the show with several evenings...

Gear is no guarantee Historically dangerous avalanche conditions persist in the Mountain West this winter because of a variable snowpack. This degree of instability hasn’t been seen, according to many, in roughly 30 years. For better or worse, it’s been a year for some unfortunate backcountry...

Tonight. Ice Hockey. Hanley Rink. 7PM. Bring beer, canned and cold. There’s little else that needs to be said. Or is there? To those of you who don’t obsess about getting a tiny puck in a net while skating on ice, let me back up a...