May 2012

Speaking just for me, I want, no I need, more creative moments in my life. Those moments that feed my soul and bring a smile to my heart. Whether it's designing Ah Haa School's new summer catalog, creating dresses for the Telluride AIDS Benefit, or...

Editor's note: Mountainfilm's Reading Frenzy, themed, "Conversations through Lenses and Pens," takes place Sunday, May 27, 2 – 4 p.m., at the Between the Covers Bookstore "annex," the Telluride High School Cafeteria. It’s that time of year: stacks and stacks of boxes show up on...

Editor's Note: Nick Brandestini's  "Darwin" screens twice at Mountainfilm in Telluride: Saturday, May 26, 12 p.m., The Nugget Theatre and Sunday, May 27, 10 a.m., Masons Hall Are these folks really the fittest? Start with Monty, a salty old miner, who, with the help of his firecracker...

Twenty(by)Telluride is a fun and creative gathering produced by Telluride Arts and held throughout the year at venues around town and in Mountain Village. Twenty(by)Telluride is designed to showcase the innovation, knowledge and ideas of members of our community through very short, fast-paced presentations: presenters are...

Editor's Note: "Mission of Mermaids is scheduled to screen twice: Saturday, May 26, Nugget Theatre and Sunday, May 27, High Camp (Telluride Conference Center), 9:30 a.m. "Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal,...

Editor's Note: James Balog is everywhere you want to be at Mountainfilm in Telluride. In-person appearances include the following: Images from Extreme Ice Survey at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art during the weekend kick-off, Gallery Walk, 3:30 – 6:30 p.m., Friday, May 25. Balog...

Beloved a capella group to perform Wednesday, May 23, Ah Haa School for the Arts How to make your heart sing? Heartbeat, an eight woman a cappella group, performs a host of fun tunes, Wednesday, May 23, at the Ah Haa School for the Arts. Included...

Editor's note: With Mountainfilm in Telluride fast approaching – the Festival takes place over Memorial Weekend – the preservation of the earth and all things endangered, species, cultures and ideas, becomes an even more compelling notion. Mountainfilm guests don't just pay lip service to the...

Editor's Note: Last week, our regular contributor and friend Jennie Franks (of the Telluride Playwrights Festival) wrote a wonderful tribute to Judge Sharon Shuteran, who died earlier this month while hiking in Mexico. Her untimely death left her family and her extended in Telluride and...

"Plastiki" screens Saturday, May 26, 9.pm. and Sunday, May 27, 12 p.m., Sheridan Opera House In a way, David de Rothschild's "Plastiki," the documentary, is a response to to a Sixties pop phenomenon, another film, "The Graduate." In "The Graduate," Benjamin Braddock, (Dustin Hoffman), a recent college...