January 2013

Today, the end of our January Thaw as high pressure breaks down allowing a change of weather.  Several low pressure systems will be blowing into Colorado from Thursday through early next week. The first of the storms beginning tomorrow evening will favor the mountains north of...

[caption id="attachment_26969" align="alignright" width="222"] Out of the box: orange & yellow silk weaving, Nancy Craft[/caption] In July, 2011, fiber artist Nancy Craft was part of a group show at the Ah Haa School for the Arts. "Road to Xanadu" also featured husband, writer/painter Rob Schultheis, and...

Kimber Ludiker is a Grand National Fiddle Champion.  Born of fiddle-playing parents--who met competing with each other at a fiddle contest!--this Washington state native excelled from an early age at Texas-style fiddling and went on to win multiple fiddle championships including the Washington State Championship,...

Colorado based artist Keith ‘Scramble’ Campbell is nationally recognized for his paintings ‘live and in concert’ because he actually attends concerts where he completes paintings during the course of a single performance. Campbell endeavors to capture- through light, color, texture, composition and vigorous brushwork- the...

[caption id="attachment_26934" align="alignright" width="280"] Rooftop solar[/caption] The city of Boulder, Colorado, has long been a vibrant community that understands the symbiotic relationship between quality of life and health of the natural environment. Since at least the 1960s, “Boulderites” have perceived themselves as environmental conservation trendsetters. When most...

The Telluride Foundation hosts its first Executive Director Breakfast for 2013. The meeting takes place Monday, January 28, 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m, in the Telluride Room (upstairs meeting room at the Wilkinson Public Library. ) The featured speaker at the event is Stuart Halpern,...

Sunday at the Palm presents "A Cat in Paris," (2010). The free screening takes place Sunday, January 27, at the Michael D. Palm Theatre for the Performing Arts. Running time is 70 minutes. "Gorgeous!  Like an animated children’s version of an Alfred Hitchcock or Roman Polanski...

I should preface this column by saying that I am a really awful liar—I just don’t have the acting chops or the skills to pull off a lie. I never have. I am utterly unconvincing, I stammer, and my face always gives me away. So being...

[caption id="attachment_26905" align="alignright" width="300"] MARTIN LUTHER KING, BY DAN BUDNIK[/caption] Martin Luther King, Jr. made history. Dan Budnik was an eyewitness and chronicler. Many of Budnik's images were never published in the mainstream media. Others, such as one his portraits of King delivering his "I Have...