Editor's Note: With Kristin Holbrook of Two Skirts on vacation for two weeks, Fashion Friday was on hold until April 27 – that is until Ivar Zeile of Denver's PLUS Gallery weighed in about the YSL Retrospective, currently on display at the Denver Art Museum....
April 12 to 19, 2012 Visible Planets: Morning: Saturn Evening: Mars, Venus and Jupiter I’ve been writing on and off about the rather muted energy of spring this year. Normally springtime runs rampant with primal passion and devilish desire. The emerging life force of the tropical...
With mud season in full swing, it’s time to start looking to the summer season, when Telluride's younger citizens get to enjoy all the wonderful extracurricular activities now being offered by local institutions. At the top of the list is the Sheridan Arts Foundation’s Young...
In the spring, when the weather in southwestern Colorado flips between winter and summer, often in the same hour, it can be hard to stay focused. Should we bike or ski? Spring clean or hunker down with that classic we’ve wanted to read for years?...
Coincidence? Serendipity? Call it what you will, while we were planning our road trip to southern Oregon to meet Kid 1 and family, the April Smithsonian magazine arrived with its lead story: "The Basque Revolution." The author, Jonathan Gold, wrote: "If you want American Basque food...
Tempus fugit. So do ideas. Long before the snow stopped flying, ideas were flying as the staff at the Ah Haa School for the Arts focused on building a robust summer schedule. During Telluride's festival season, the school becomes a playground for young and older alike. For the...
On March 22, the Telluride Historical Museum announced it had hired a new executive director. Like Jodi Pounds, the (relatively) new executive director of the Ah Haa School for the Arts, the book on Erica Kinias includes adjectives such as "smart," " highly skilled" and...
For Telluriders, twinning "fine dining" with "Grand Junction" in the same sentence amounts to an oxymoron. You say: "Grand Junction? Really? The town is politically red and culturally dead, right?" I say: It ain't necessarily so. For starters, wonderfully whimsical sculptures greet pedestrians on downtown corners,...
Those who’ve attended Mountainfilm know that we like to start most programs with a short trailer, a compilation of footage that’s accompanied by music. In the office, we simply call these “intros.” Clips are pulled from footage featured at the festival, but the music is hard...
Editor's Note: Reverend Pat Bailey of Telluride's Christ Presbyterian Church gives TIO readers a bird's eye view of the ideas he is exploring in his PhD thesis. You can use Comments to express your point of view about the questions he poses at the end...
