February 2013

[caption id="attachment_27470" align="alignright" width="236"] Monophonics[/caption] Telluride Blues & Brews Festival brings back the funk with Monophonics. The music is Saturday, February 9, doors, 9:30 p.m., show time, 10 p.m., Telluride Elk’s Lodge, 472 W. Pacific Avenue. Over the past seven years, Monophonics have staked their claim as...

Editor's note: Announcing "Telluride Venture Accelerator companies presenting." Owners of the four companies who won the inaugural initiative plan to present regularly to the local entrepreneur community (tellurideXchange). First gathering is Monday, February 11, 5:30 – 7:30, 2nd floor, Camel's Garden Hotel. Snow. [caption id="attachment_25239" align="alignright"...

Editor’s note:  Year after year, the Library Journal Index of Public Library Services, a public library rating system, has designated Telluride’s Library a five-star institution. And it just earned its fifth star in a row, which puts The Wilkinson Public Library into an elite club...

[caption id="attachment_27514" align="alignright" width="300"] Regan & Brittany Raven, pregnant[/caption] If you’ve ever had a baby, you can relate. Being pregnant, especially for the first time, is a whirlwind of strange bodily changes, solicited and unsolicited advice, and pure expectation and joy. For nine months, it’s all about...

[caption id="attachment_27362" align="alignright" width="300"] Stephanie Morgan Rodgers at Gallery 81435[/caption] Stephanie Morgan-Rodgers is  interested in rural life, “salt of the earth” daily work. Living close to the land gives her a unique perspective. “I am able to experience how the seasons affect this work, and how people,...

THE BIG PICTURE: Out of sight. Out of mind. Some minds anyway. Once the disease du jour, HIV/AIDS rarely makes national headlines. We saw no red ribbons attached to gowns and tuxes at the Golden Globes or SAG Awards. Once trendy, AIDS Rides have been run off...

Looks like the San Juans will have clear, sunny and dry conditions with daytime temperatures into the mid 40's through Thursday, but with a few mid/high level clouds invading on Tuesday. Zonal flow and high pressure will dominate the region then beginning late Thursday clouds...

[caption id="attachment_27549" align="alignright" width="300"] Whitney Johnson & her "boys"[/caption] When Sandy Hook happened, the headlines wept for the 20 murdered children. We all wept. But who is weeping for the millions of young people, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, dying at the hands of a serial killer...

Artist's reception coincides with First Thursday Art Walk, 2/7 When last seen, artist Christian Burchard was surrounded by gorgeous flowers. At least his work was. Pieces fashioned by this master wood turner and sculptor made the perfect complement to a show featuring images of flowers interpreted by...

Beyond KOTO, the FM and AM radio dials are a wasteland, crowded with commercial stations offering not very much worthwhile around the clock, an incessant roar of rock, C & W, lots of “oldies,” inane (and insane) chatter and harsh rap. Of the 900 or...