May 2012

May 31 to June 7, 2012       Visible Planets: Morning:  Jupiter  Evening: Mars and Saturn  "As above, so below…as within, so without." - Hermes Trismegistus With so much going on – heaven and earth – the cosmos rock n’ roll. We are living in a symbiotic universe of...

PLEASE NOTE: THE "GLO" IS SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY EVENING, NOT FRIDAY AS TIO ORGINALLY PUBLISHED. WE REGRET THE ERROR. “If you hold my hand we’ll chase your dream across the sky/For we can fly, we can fly” (Fifth Dimension’s “Up, Up and Away,” 1967) As the saying...

With summer around the corner,  are you ready to strut your stuff in the nude? I am talking about nude-colored  and other neutrals in footwear of course. Can't decide what color shoe to wear with your new pink jeans, white dress, or orange shorts?  The answer...

Festival season is upon us and we at the Ah Haa School for the Arts are excited to announce a related new offering this September. Ah Haa's Backstage Pass: Telluride Blues & Brews. Music and photography lovers can merge their twin passions and learn to capture...

Mountainfilm in Telluride is such an incredibly important event. It kicks off our very full summer season here in Telluride, but more than that, through its programs we get to experience intellectual and artistic stimulation that makes us realize how blessed we are. Blessed to...

Season #5 for him and counting. When you've given as good as it gets and you know it, it's time to kick back and enjoy the fruits of your labor. At Mountainfilm 2012, festival director David Holbrooke introduced speakers, greeted the crowds at the various...

Have you noticed that a lot of women, and more specifically moms, are entering weekend races? The moms I know seem to always be training for and planning excursions to participate in events ranging from relay runs, half marathons, bike races, triathlons, Cross Training competitions...

Do you know what a "squibble" is? Don't try looking it up. "Squibble" is not in the dictionary. It's a made-up word Mark Fischer used to describe his rather esoteric (read: eccentric) brand of poetry that was a Rorschach for his Energizer Bunny kind of...

Libraries spend a lot of time working out contracts with vendors. Historically, libraries have paid to access electronic information based either on the number of uses, or the number of people served (potential uses). Signing contracts that force the library to pay by use is...

Editor's note: Reverend Pat Bailey of Telluride's Christ Presbyterian Church, has been claiming in his doctoral dissertation (and in this weekly column) the  the need for a re-visioning of the Christian church’s theology and its understanding of mission, the need for a more natural, integrative...