December 2012

The I Hate to Shop Guide to making the season bright It’s true. I really do hate to shop. But Noel Night – Telluride’s annual kick-off to the holiday season – actually makes shopping fun. This Wednesday, December 5, is the big night. It’s a huge boon...

Drumroll please: The Telluride Mountain Club is turning 25! And to celebrate we are putting on a party. The event takes place Thursday, December 6, 7 p.m., the Last Dollar Saloon. Local band "The Great Funktiers" will play two sets, one mellow so we can mix...

Holidays making you feel blorfty? Can't say cause you don't know what blorft is? "Blorft" is Tina Fey's way of describing angst, holiday angst included. According to the superstar comic, the adjective is shorthand for "completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to...

Telluride Historical Museum celebrates the holiday the old fashioned way, at Schmid Ranch. [caption id="attachment_25482" align="alignright" width="300"] Beth Batcheller, circa 1910, pictured here on the roof of her Tomboy home. Batcheller was known to deliver holiday gifts to all the children who lived at Tomboy.[/caption] On Christmas...

[caption id="attachment_25471" align="alignright" width="300"] Telluride Choral Society performing at Christ Church[/caption] "Joy to the World." Or not. It's tinsel time all over the globe, including here in Toy Town, the time of year some shiver in anticipation; others just quake from the cold. The secular holiday features all 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...