[caption id="attachment_22557" align="alignright" width="225"] Telluride Film Fest 2012 poster by Dave Eggers[/caption] Lights! Camera! Action! The 39th annual Telluride Film Festival officially begins with the start of Labor Day weekend, Friday, 8/31 – Monday, 9/3,when the legacy of Georges Melies parades all over town. For those unfamiliar about...
[caption id="attachment_22631" align="alignright" width="300"] Examples of work by Painting Academy teachers[/caption] The historic Telluride train Depot has housed many a business and organization over the years, but it truly came to life when the Ah Haa School for the Arts took up residence there in 2006....
Editor’s note: In 2011, for the fourth time in a row (and running), the Library Journal Index of Public Library Services, a public library rating system, designated Telluride’s Library a five-star institution. The Wilkinson Public Library ranks fifth in the nation among public libraries with...
[caption id="attachment_22615" align="alignleft" width="300"] Neil Armstrong[/caption] With the death of Neil Alden Armstrong on Saturday, August 25, 2012, Telluride lost a friend and our country, a true hero. Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. His words,...
Just couldn't help myself: I took these photographs from our bedroom fifteen minutes ago. I think this is proof positive- at the end of the rainbow you'll find Telluride! Come and see for yourself....
On the Double Armstrong weekend—when “Giant Step” Neil passed away after 82 unblemished years on this planet (minus one day on the moon) and Tour de France Lance fell a long way from grace after deciding to no longer fight to protect his dope-tinged reputation—the...
Sidewalk Signings during Film Fest … an annual tradition! [caption id="attachment_22538" align="alignleft" width="300"] Ken Burns, filmmaker & author[/caption] What do a kick-ass director, the dust bowl, an ex-pat dog in Paris, and two criminal cases that captured the American psyche have in common? They are the lineup...
[caption id="attachment_22544" align="alignleft" width="300"] Landscape by Margaret Hixon-Griffith[/caption] Gallery 81435 hosts an artists' reception Thursday, August 30, 5-8pm. Come meet the artists and enjoy the last days of our August exhibit featuring texture, shape and color. Colorful landscapes in oils by Margaret Hixon-Griffith will be featured on...
The final stage of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge was run in the (comparatively) level streets of Denver Sunday afternoon. Taylor Phinney (BMC) ran the 9.5 mile course in 17:25:50 to win the stage. Christian Vande Velde (Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda) and Tejay van Garderen (BMC), who spent...
[caption id="attachment_22516" align="alignright" width="225"] 39th annual Telluride Film festival poster, by Dave Eggers[/caption] "Nosferatu," (1922). "Dracula" (1931). "Cat People," (1942). "Horror of Dracula," (1958). "The Innocents," (1961). And more…. No, I have not let the cat out of the bag. Those are not the names of dark classics to be screened at...
