December 2013

University Centers of the San Miguel and Rotary Club of Telluride are excited to announce a collaboration. The start-up is a new Mobile GED Testing Center Project for all interested regional residents 16 years and older within the San Miguel River watershed. UCSM is very grateful...

[caption id="attachment_36832" align="alignright" width="300"] Scrooge (from Furlong PR blog)[/caption] Telluride Inside… and Out means the challenges of social media are as much a part of daily life as walking Gina the Dog and flossing. In honor of Christmas, we found lessons from Furlong PR and Charles Dickens' "A...

[caption id="attachment_36732" align="alignright" width="248"] Kelley Zinge[/caption] "Crazy." "Walkin' After Midnight." "Your Cheatin' Heart" "I Fall To Pieces." "Sweet Dreams." To this day, country music fans make pilgrimages to Wincester, Virginia, Patsy Cline's hometown to pay tribute to the celebrated country singer whose smooth-sounding, emotive voice turned those tunes into pop hits...

Mountainfilm is pleased to present a special screening of one of this year's best feature documentaries, "The Armstrong Lie." The film, produced by Frank Marshall and directed by Alex Gibney, is on the Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary for 2013. "The Armstrong Lie" is currently screening...

Celebrate a white winter by attending the premiere of the latest Warren Miller production. "Ticket to Ride" premieres in Telluride Monday, December 23. There are two showings, both at the historic Sheridan Opera House, 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. (Doors open 30 minutes prior to show...

[caption id="attachment_12347" align="alignright" width="225"] Pastor Pat Bailey[/caption] Part of our recent conversation at Christ Church has been about the importance of mythology as a conveyor of truth. Some folks become a bit nervous when I describe the New Testament accounts of the life of Jesus as a...

"How does the ordinary person come to an experience of the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It...

[caption id="attachment_36797" align="alignright" width="300"] The Oh Hellos[/caption] What I love best about music writing is discovering new bands. And, lucky for all of us, if I’m writing about a band I’ve never heard of, they must be appearing on a stage in Telluride. This week, the...

Heavyweight (we mean that in the good sense) Green Party county commissioner, shroom afficionado,  accomplished basketweaver, potato farmer– and poet extraordinaire (in 2011, he was named Western Slope Poet Laureate), let the Goodtimes roll. We are, of course, talking about none other than the force...