October 2013

[caption id="attachment_35315" align="alignright" width="300"] Telluride, pictured in Transworld Business.(Here's hoping winter looks like this.)[/caption] Browsing the Internet, I came across this article in Transworld Business about Telski's new eyewear partner. "ZEAL Optics, the most sustainable sunglass company in the world, and Telluride Ski Resort, the most beautiful...

  The Telluride Horror Show is in its fourth year, and it has proven itself as a serious film festival that explores the genre of horror movies. This year is no exception, with guest director Frank Henenlotter, who helped to sculpt the genre with his 1982...

And the beat goes on. At the close of the fall film festival season, I came upon yet another article about a Telluride Film Festival favorite, the documentary "Tim's Vermeer," this one from The Hollywood Reporter. [caption id="attachment_35247" align="alignright" width="199"] "Tim's Vermeer," The Hollywood Reporter[/caption] "THR's awards...

[caption id="attachment_35310" align="alignright" width="300"] Biscotti the Scottie[/caption] Tuesday, October 15, marks the two-year anniversary of Second Chance Humane Society operating from Angel Ridge Ranch. Although we have only scratched the surface of the potential the property holds for our organization’s mission, we have settled in like a...

[caption id="attachment_35244" align="alignright" width="180"] Thea Chase, new director, Telluride Venture Accelerator[/caption] Thea Chase brings 20 years of experience building successful entrepreneurship and accelerator programs After a nationwide search with over 50 applicants, the Telluride Venture Accelerator (TVA) announced Thea Chase will be the new director. TVA is a...

[caption id="attachment_35202" align="alignright" width="150"] MASS MoCA, third incarnation of industrial site[/caption] The Site: A Phoenix It's Bilbao all over again, a story of a museum reviving a surrounding town. Starting in colonial times, North Adams was a prosperous place of wholesale shoe manufacturers, the site that is now MASS...

Editor's Note: We met Erica Stock at an awareness and fundraiser for American Rivers, her employer, and the leading organization working to protect and restore the nation’s rivers and streams. (We are proud supporters.) Erica's driving professional passion is to build the organizational capacity of...

One thing is for sure about horror movies: someone is going to get whacked. But who? Most cinema critics and film buffs agree that the modern horror film genre has Marxist elements, the classic socioeconomic warfare between the rich and the poor, the upper crust...

  [caption id="attachment_35224" align="alignright" width="300"] Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon[/caption] Editor's note: Crow Canyon Archaeological Center is located in southwestern Colorado, a rewarding day trip from Telluride of a little over two hours each way.  For over 28 years, the on-campus staff has made its business to study and...