July 2013

[caption id="attachment_32890" align="alignright" width="300"] Dan Castellaneta, playwright & voice of Homer Simpson, in town for Telluride Playwrights Fest[/caption] SPARKy Productions is proud to present the annual Telluride Playwrights Festival, which takes place this heart from Tuesday, July 23 – Sunday, July 28. The 2013 event includes...

The mountains of Telluride beg visitors to play in them in the summer months. The endless trails lead those who are willing to follow up rocky peaks, across colorful meadows, and along clear rivers. But there can be one major obstacle for families who want...

Nonequilibrium phenomena, biomagnetic particles, thermal transport, quantum trajectories, phrases like those reverberate through the halls of Telluride Science Research Center (TSRC). For the majority of the public, they are perplexing or intimidating “sciency” words, but for scientists, they are the foundational theories that solve bigger...

[caption id="attachment_32786" align="alignright" width="300"] 1970s reunion[/caption] Inaugural Telluride Homecoming Festival Town Park, Saturday, July 20, 5 p.m.-9 p.m. The newly created Telluride Homecoming Festival is an all-community “Big Tent Gathering” organized by Telluride Rotary. The main event takes place in the Town Park Oval Saturday, July 20,...

[caption id="attachment_32776" align="alignright" width="300"] Josh Landis Press Play Theatre[/caption] Explore the creative spaces and great minds of Telluride, Colorado Telluride’s Art + Architecture Weekend is a unique opportunity to explore the distinct art, design, and culinary treasures of Telluride. For three days, artists, chefs, and architects open...

 July 11 to 18, 2013    Visible planets: Morning:  Mars, Jupiter      Evening:  Venus, Saturn This week I feel compelled to write about the long-standing, ongoing Uranus [in Aries] – Pluto [in Capricorn] cardinal square. Once again, like so many planetary transits, I feel the pull of the...

[caption id="attachment_32735" align="alignright" width="200"] Artist at work, Ron Allred[/caption] The auction in brief: The Ah Haa School for the Arts 21st annual art auction. It's all about "The Wild Years" in "To-Hell-U-Ride," the 1970s, when the region began a steady march from (relative) famine to feast, hippy...

[caption id="attachment_32729" align="alignright" width="300"] David Byrne & St. Vincent[/caption] Where were you Thursday night, June 20, 2009? If you, like we, were at Telluride Bluegrass, you witnessed the white out. We are referring to that magic moment when David Byrne & Co. – band and dancers – all...

[caption id="attachment_32748" align="alignright" width="297"] Flash[/caption] Second Chance Humane Society is really digging into Phase Two of its capital campaign, "Building Second Chances," for the construction of new dog facilities on its 52 acre Angel Ridge Ranch in Ridgway. Angel Ridge was purchased in October 2011, the result...