December 12 to 19, 2013 Visible Planets: Morning: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn Evening: Venus Believing in religion is a lot like believing in fairy tales. Mystical, magical stories of heroes and heroines, impossible tasks and amazing miracles. Walking on water and virgin births, fairy godmothers,...
Locals and visitors from the region turned out in record numbers for Telluride Ski Resort’s Donation Day. This year the ski resort hosted 1,035 skiers on Wednesday, November 27, the day before the resort’s official Opening Day. Each skier, pass holder or employee, paid $25 to...
[caption id="attachment_36539" align="alignright" width="300"] Key members of Telluride Choral Society[/caption] No holiday is more closely associated with music than Christmas, whose evolution as a cultural phenomenon is reflected in those sounds. As Christmas became more secular, spiritual songs were largely supplanted by chestnuts such as Rudolph, sleigh...
[caption id="attachment_36520" align="alignright" width="150"] Rings by Cheryl Rydmark[/caption] Dreaming of a white Christmas? Saturday, December 14, 5 - 8 p.m., Telluride Arts hosts a special holiday edition of its monthly First Thursday Art Walk, and three of the principal venues will showcase works in many shades of...
Palm Arts Dance winter recital, Sparkle, takes place on Sunday, December 15, 2 p.m. Now in its third year of operation, the Palm Arts Dance Program has named Shirley Fortenberry to the position of artistic director. In that capacity, Ms. Fortenberry will be responsible for conceiving,...
[caption id="attachment_36543" align="alignright" width="300"] Photograph by Ben Knight[/caption] Painter Brucie Holler and photographer/filmmaker Ben Knight are featured. Menu by Eliza Gavin of "221." The holidays are a whirl of parties, cultural events, dances, and getting together with friends and family. Perhaps the merriest gathering of them all...
[caption id="attachment_36529" align="alignright" width="199"] Shay[/caption] “The Hills are Alive….With the Sound of Muuuusic…!” My favorite song from my favorite movie musical, "The Sound of Music" and the first thing that entered my head when I heard about the dude climbing the BIG mountain in Argentina (Aconcagua, one of...
[caption id="attachment_36459" align="alignright" width="300"] Part of "Snow" series by Antonio Marra[/caption] Sculptor Antonio Marra's early sculptures were figurative bronzes – but don't think Rodin's "The Thinker." Don't think traditional at all. The abstract forms and lyrical grace of those works pledge a certain allegiance to the...
Freedom fighter, prisoner, moral compass, South Africa's symbol of the struggle against racial oppression, an icon of equality and in the words of our President "the last great liberator of the 20th century." Nelson Mandela died last Thursday, December 5. Joyous South African and dozens of...
