June 2014

Colorado Senator Michael Bennet to help conclude intensive five-month business accelerator program The Telluride Venture Accelerator (TVA) is entering the final phase of its second year. Launched in the fall of 2012 as an initiative of the Telluride Foundation, TVA selected six companies out of 75...

The title to my sermon last Sunday was "Have You Been on Your Knees Lately?" The posture of bowing or kneeling is one that reflects an attitude of heart. It can be seen as a posture of submission, as when we kneel before a king...

"Tuesday afternoon's match between the U.S. and Belgium will pit two countries with burgeoning beer scenes — and a shared love of fries." Bill Chappell, an NPR blogger and producer, explores how USA craft beer ranks against the beer made in Belgium: The Americans have the...

Eugene Boudin was one of the more adventurous 19th-century painters, known primary for his beach scenes and seascapes of northern France, and luminous skies. When Boudin taught his young student, Claude Monet, the importance of painting a scene directly from nature in the light, in...

June 26 to July 3, 2014  Visible planets: Morning: Mercury, Venus       Evening: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn Here we are, on the brink of summer’s first New Moon. Taking place in sweet and nurturing Cancer, sign of the Mother, the Mother Earth and the Cosmic Womb from which...

As reported in this article in the New York Times, "the Bloomberg big-soda ban is officially dead." The state’s highest court on Thursday refused to reinstate New York City’s controversial limits on sales of jumbo sugary drinks, exhausting the city’s final appeal and dashing the hopes...

Tasneem Raja, Mother Jones Interactive Editor, writes about alternative scenarios to mega-venture-capitalist Marc Andreesen's vision of the future; one that he says will be a robotic utopia of leisure. Marc Andreessen recently wrote a widely shared post about how robots will change the economy. The Netscape founder turned...

Artist will be painting on site at Lustre Gallery, 171 South Pine. Artist reception this Sunday, June 29, noon – 6 p.m. [caption id="attachment_42636" align="aligncenter" width="481"] Blue Sky, Buffalo Hill, by Marshall Noice[/caption] In sync with the artists gathering in town for the Sheridan Art Foundation’s 11th annual...