December 2012

Applicants from around the world seek to participate in new entrepreneur initiative [caption id="attachment_25239" align="alignright" width="200"] Telluride Foundaton's Jesse Johnson (left) & Paul Major (right)[/caption] Launched in the fall of 2012 as an initiative of the Telluride Foundation, Telluride Venture Accelerator (TVA) ended the year with a...

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...

Change is moving our way as the ridge of high pressure and Colorado blue skies break down with a plume of moisture associated with an upper low moving inland in pieces from the Pacific NW this weekend.  Clouds are on the increase today/tonight/Sunday morning with...

Launched in 1979, Mountainfilm in Telluride is one of America’s longest-running film festivals – although calling Mountainfilm a "film festival" is an understatement. Now celebrating its 35th year, the event includes, but is not limited to, films about mountain living, adventure, socio-cultural challenges, cultures under...

Editor’s Note: Kierstin Bridger is the 2011 winner of Telluride Arts’ Mark Fischer Poetry Prize and a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. Usually the edgiest, often the darkest member of our family of fabulous writers/poets, including Word Woman Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and “Feelasophy”...

[caption id="attachment_26171" align="alignleft" width="150"] Staghorn coral[/caption] Star. Pillar. Elkhorn. Staghorn. Mountainous star. Pocillopora elegans. Pachyseris rugosa. Astreopora cucullata. Barabattoia laddi. Those are just nine of the 66 species of coral proposed for endangered listing under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). On Friday, November 30, after more than three...

John Major Jenkins came to town in August for the Telluride Shroomfest. Jenkins is best known for his works as a researcher and author that theorize certain astronomical and esoteric connections of the calendar systems used by the Maya civilizations of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. His efforts are...

Editor’s note: The seasonal significance of the winter solstice, also described as "the longest night", "the shortest day" or "the first day of winter," is the gradual lengthening of days and shortening of nights. In the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice is the time at...

December 20 to 27, 2012    Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, Venus, Saturn  Evening: Jupiter, Mars Well, here we are. The end of the world. Apocalypse, End Times, Armageddon, the Rapture…    I’m writing these words on Thursday, Dec. 20th and by the time you read them, the exact...