December 2014

On November 10, we received an email from Telluride Institute board prez Dan Collins, announcing Maggie Klinedinst would be executive director of the 2015 Telluride Mushroom Festival. Maggie, a festival regular, has for years worked at The Johns Hopkins Behavioral Pharmaceutical Research Unit, which takes conventional...

Picaya launches online collection and events to celebrate two decades of business. Stop by Picaya at 101 West Colorado Avenue December 10 for snacks and store-wide discounts. Or join the Private Party after 6 p.m. for fine food, drinks and giveaways. Visit picaya.com  for an invite to private...

December 4 to 11, 2014   Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter, Saturn     Evening: Venus, Mars "Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!” might be the most appropriate mantra for the current and sixth exact Uranus-Pluto square in orb this month. With the “trend” of killings between law enforcement “peace” officers or...

Not all green-leaning folks fit under one large umbrella. Turns out there are shades of green, real differences among those who love Mother Nature and want to save the planet. In this article which appeared in Grist, David Roberts parses the term “environmentalist," explains the differences among...

In our  review of Telluride Film Fest #41 feature (and now Oscar contender) “The Imitation Game,” we described a film that found its way to the top of everyone’s must-see list over Labor Day weekend. The epicenter of the story is Alan Turing, played by superstar Benedict Cumberbatch,...

The 8th annual Telluride Yoga Festival takes place Thursday, July 9 – Sunday, July 12. As the holiday season fast approaches, we remember all that we have to be thankful for and the Yoga Fest family is filled with gratitude for an amazing year. With that in...

The Telluride Film Festival is thrilled to present the free community Sunday at the Palm series in collaboration with the Telluride R-1 School District. This month’s special family screening of Jean-Francois Laguionie’s THE PAINTING is “a feast for the eyes and the imaginations” for all...

Among the many adjectives friends and acquaintances of former Telluride resident Oleh Lysiak would use to describe him, one would not be “sappy sentimentalist.” But they would be wrong. Under that tough, gruff exterior lies a giant marshmallow. Oleh’s soft spot is aroused when he thinks about the bad old...

In my experience, most Western slope dogs are “fit." They walk, run, swim, bike, ski and hike with their owners. They have great circulatory systems, well-toned muscles and admirable respiratory capacity. However, there is a myth circulating about that as long as pets get lots...

High clouds floating through today from a closed low off the California coast that is spinning warm air  into western Colorado  and carrying impressive moisture on SW flow..  But with weak storm dynamics (low vorticity/vertical instability), warm temps & mostly orographics for moisture production the...