April 2012

  Editor's Note: The dynamic duo of Billy Mason (who wrote this post) and Anna Zivian, scholars with an agenda to save our planet,  posts weekly, stories about everything from what happened to bees to strawberries, the state of the ocean, and climate change. All of...

Filmmaker Tips and Secrets to Come It requires some serious planning to deliver four days of artists, art, activists, documentaries, shorts, filmmakers, panel discussions, scientists, books, authors, slide presentations, environmentalists, extreme athletes and other socially important elements. With the festival less than two months away, it’s crunch...

April 19 to 26, 2012                  Visible Planets: Morning: Saturn      Evening: Mars, Venus and Jupiter “Taurus teaches us that there are two ways to be rich: One is to have what you want and the other is to want what you have.”  -   Stephanie Austin Ahhhh, Taurus –...

Telluride Film Festival (August 31 – September 3, 2012), presented by National Film Preserve, Ltd. announces its Call for Entries in all categories including student, short and feature length films. Submission period begins April 15, 2012. Telluride Film Festival 2012 Film Entry Form is available for...

I may not represent the norm: I never feel the necessity to leave our box canyon. That said, our family members have busy schedules, some have a bit of difficulty traveling; so if we're going to spend time with loved ones who don't live in...

Springtime in the Rockies. Ah yes. We go from toasty warm, shorts and tank top weather to eight inches of snow, from dry roads to muddy ruts to icy pavement and back again in the blink of an eye. Telluride is quiet, but certainly not dead....

I had the privilege of spending Friday morning with Madeline Albright as she led a tour through the Read My Pins: The Madeline Albright Collection, exhibit at the Denver Art Museum. It was a dazzling break from the Hilary Rosen/Ann Romney controversy and the tired...

Editor's Note: We met author Mark Stevens through Mountainfilm in Telluride. He was in town for a book-signing at Between the Covers during the event. Now the book,"Buried by the Roan," is a finalist for 2012 Colorado Book Awards. Good luck Mark. It’s a beautiful early-April...

Editor's Note: Reverend Pat Bailey of Telluride's Christ Presbyterian Church continues his provocative series about the pursuit of spiritual values in the context of contemporary religious beliefs. Please take a moment to digest his carefully considered thoughts and comment. (Prior posts are readily available simply...

The news has migrated from the front page to back pages, but it's still news: Honeybees are dying. So many bees have bitten the dust the phenomenon has a name: Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). And to date, it has been hard to establish a definitive...