August 2013

The funny thing about Telluride is that after you accomplish your personal, most challenging, athletic feat, there is always someone to tell you a story about those who are way harder core than you. You raced the Iron Horse Bike Classic from Durango to Silverton; they...

New campaign launched to advocate awareness and tax on sugary drinks Kick the Can Telluride is a local initiative, which aims to raise awareness about childhood obesity and to create a funding stream, via the Sugary Drink Tax, for programs that promote active healthy youth. The tax on...

August 29 to September 5, 2013  Visible Planets: Morning: Mars, Jupiter  Evening: Venus, Saturn   The waning Moon is a time of inner light and illumination. As nights grow darker, stars become brighter. The vast canopy of deep space shimmers with mystery and possibility, inviting us...

  [caption id="attachment_32712" align="alignright" width="201"] Dan Jansen, Mayor, Mountain Village[/caption] Mountain Village has just completed an important upgrade to the town’s broadband Internet system that will deliver significantly greater access speeds for its customers. The speed with which a computer can access the Internet (also referred to...

Editor’s note: Kierstin Bridger, a winner of Telluride Arts’ Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, is a regular contributor  to Telluride Inside… and Out. She is nothing if not arch and, like painter Edward Hopper, a keen observer of our solitude, for better or for worse, always pregnant...

[caption id="attachment_34316" align="alignright" width="100"] Philip Kaufman[/caption] We love assembling a bunch of smartypants for a sidewalk event – especially around a wonderful celebration like Telluride Film Festival's 40th anniversary. This weekend, specifically Sunday, September 1,1:15 p.m., we’ll have the literary celebritati in town for the Big Event...

A critical part of the Second Chance Humane Society mission is the prevention of unwanted pets, and one of our most successful and longest running programs is our Spay/Neuter Financial Assistance Program. We have been operating this program for over a dozen years and prevented...

Werner Herzog and Telluride Film Fest's newest venue: Telluride Film Festival co-director Gary Meyer, who became a director seven years ago after #33 remembers when he first came to the annual celebration of film and filmmakers. "I sadly missed the first year of the Telluride Film Festival,...

[caption id="attachment_34358" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo Credit: Clint Viebrock[/caption] Telluride has its fair share of star-laden premieres, but the SHOW has a strong tradition of non-fiction, which has equal footing with features. Hands down, the one with the loudest Internet chatter among the docs in the 2013 Telluride...

Please note: Whenever available, posts contain links to trailers for the films for your previewing pleasure. [caption id="attachment_34355" align="alignleft" width="200"] Photo Credit: Clint viebrock[/caption] In Telluride, as regulars know, the full list of films, filmmakers and tributes are not released until the first day of the long...