January 2014

About 20 million Americans are doing it. Are you one of them? If yes, do you want to deepen the relationship you are building with yourself, one definition of yoga. If no, isn't it time to begin a practice? One of the primary purposes of yoga...

    After getting both of them dressed in long underwear, ski bibs, jackets, mittens and helmets, loading up their skis, driving 40 minutes to town, and getting them out of their car seats, the 2-year-old lay down on the asphalt of the parking lot. “I don’t...

Telluride Theatre's winter blockbuster is "Urinetown," scheduled to go up at the Palm Theatre Tuesday, March 11 – Sunday, March 16. One of the most uproariously funny musicals in recent years, "Urinetown" is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love, and revolution in a time when...

[caption id="attachment_37347" align="alignright" width="268"] Twinkee, photographed by Andrew Grant for "Rover"[/caption] Major event in support of Second Chance Humane Society takes place at The Peaks Wednesday, January 22, 3 – 6 p.m. Dogs, please bring your people! The backstory: The science is becoming abundantly clear. The statistics, however,...

[caption id="attachment_37319" align="alignright" width="268"] Molly, by Andrew Grant, for the third edition of "Rover," a book and initiative to rescue "rescues."[/caption] In the run-up to the Big Event at The Peaks, a casting call on Wednesday, January 22, for inclusion in the third edition of Andrew...

January 16 to 23, 2014   Visible Planets: Morning: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn    Evening: Venus, Jupiter How about that magnificent full Moon? Wow! All over the world - on January 15th and 16th - people watched the rise and set of the New Year’s first full Moon. Here we...

Editor's Note: On January 4, the New York Times published a major story about a bill to ban genetically engineered crops on the island of Hawaii. I asked scientist Billy Mason to comment. His response is below. In the past, the top-down distribution of news in...

[caption id="attachment_37280" align="alignright" width="300"] Huge colonies of Little Auk are found in the fjords of Svalbard. They are nesting in little cavities in the steep rocky cliffs. West coast of Svalbard, European Arctic, image by Florian Schultz[/caption] “In wilderness is the preservation of the world," Henry...

Executive Director* breakfast  Thursday, January 23, 8:30 a.m. – 9:4 5a.m. at the Sheridan Opera House, downstairs meeting room The featured speaker at the Telluride Foundation's next breakfast meeting is Stuart Halpern, who will lead a discussion on strategic planning for nonprofits. Stuart has a small practice,...

 Telluride Film Fest's “Sunday at the Palm” presents "High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 (2013)," Plus Local Filmmaker TCTV Competition Winners The Telluride Film Festival’s Sunday at the Palm series is proud to present "HIGH AND HALLOWED: EVEREST 1963" (2013, 49 min.), produced and directed by David Morton...