June 2012

Waldo will be in Telluride July 1 – July 15. Join Between the Covers Bookstore in the search. Can you believe it? The world has been searching for the iconic fellow in the striped shirt and black-rimmed spectacles for 25 years. To celebrate the milestone – and...

Let's play a game of free association. I say "Ashtanga yoga." You say what? "I live for power yoga." Or "Love the workout." Or, "Can't do Ashtanga. That's for the young and for super jocks." And what would Ashtanga yoga teacher Annie Pace say? She would...

Learning to ride a bike used to include training wheels and bloody knees. Not anymore. With products like the Skuut bike, Strider, and Tag-a-Long, it’s easier than ever to get kids riding bikes. Each of these products allows kids to play with balance before they’re...

The gravitational center of the Telluride Musicfest, June 27 – July 8, is its artistic director,  the beautiful and charismatic violinist Maria Bachmann and the founding trio, The Trio Solisti: Bachmann, cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach and pianist Jon Klibonoff. The group is renowned worldwide for...

There is a certain homespun lyricism, complete authenticity and distinctly regional cast to the new body of work by painter Julee Hutchison. (See my catalog foreword for details.) If you find magic in the Telluride region, then the bottom line on the paintings is short...

Last April I visited Moscow as part of an American theatre group, attending the Russian Case Theatre festival. All the talk was of the public protests in November, where a few thousand brave people marched in the freezing cold, against the repressive Putin regime. Now spring...

Mixing it up with mixologists at the Peaks resort & Spa, Crystal Room and Deck, 7:30 – 11:30 p.m. Intense geeks and high octane liquid refreshments. A potentially lethal combination. Nope. It's a party. And for a great cause: bio-literacy for young people thanks to the...

Editor's note: In his doctoral dissertation, Pastor Pat Bailey of Telluride's Christ Presbyterian Church is claiming the need for a re-visioning of the Christian church’s theology and its understanding of mission, the need for a more natural, integrative theology and for an earth-focused, contextual approach...

Editor's note: Yes, I know, I am posting this from the media tent. We are hard into Telluride Bluegrass with talent like k.d.lang, Sam Bush, John Cowan, Jerry Douglas, Bruce Hornsby  yet to come this weekend. Yes I know, posting this announcement from Telluride Blues...

June 21 to 28, 2012  Visible Planets: Morning: Venus & Jupiter  Evening: Mercury, Mars & Saturn Breakdowns and breakthroughs, tragedy and ecstasy, love and war. Music, mountains and muses, madness and mayhem, magic and magnificence...