July 2012

What do the sun and schools have in common? This week it’s the EcoAction Roundtable being held Friday the 13th at 8:30 a.m. in the Wilkinson Public Library’s Program room. Farms you say? Yes – of sorts. We are delighted to have Tom Sweeny from the Clean...

Aubrey Hackman's 5th annual Telluride Yoga Festival take place this week, Thursday, July 12 – Sunday, July 15,  and includes a cast of illustrious presenters: Dr. Jayashree and M.A. Narasimhan, Duncan Wong, Annie Pace, Mark Whitwell, Beryl Bender Birch,  Stacey Rosenberg, Nancy Stechert, Karl Straub,...

Twin events are headed to town to take place at Telluride’s Palm Theater and the historic Sheridan Opera House from July 18 – 22: The Telluride Institute’s Compassion Festival, "No Place like Home" and "The Science of Compassion," a joint venture between the Institute and...

The Telluride Playwrights Festival, July 9 – July 15, brings playwrights, directors and actors to town from all over to workshop new works. Main Stage reading for the 2012 Festival include: "Chez Rikers" is a new comedy by Charles Leipart in which a well-to-do couple find themselves...

Free performances every Wednesday, Sunset Plaza, Mountain Village, 7/11 – 8/29 The Telluride Mountain Village Owners Association invites everyone to another season of outstanding music on the Sunset Concert Series stage. In its 13th year, the series brings an impressive lineup to the Telluride region, a mix of...

My grandfather used to say that family is like fish. They start to smell after three days. He was right. In my experience, three is the magic number when it comes to how many days to spend with family, especially on vacation and in shared...

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...

Now in its second year, Lawn Chair Classics, a film series sponsored by the Wilkinson Public Library, shows classic films from the 1970s and 1980s. Screenings take place at the Telluride Conference Center, Mountain Village, every Tuesday at dusk through September 11, 2012. Many of...

The Declaration of Independence was adopted by Congress on July 4, although the resolution that led to its writing had been approved two days earlier, prompting President James Adams to say: “The second day of July 1776 will be the most memorable epoch in the history...

In 1996, a young comedian came to town to perform at the Sheridan Opera House. On opening night, the house was a perfectly respectable two-thirds full. Within 24 hours, however, after the buzz hit the street: writer and actor Bob Dubac (and his one-man show,...