February 2015

When you live in a ski town, the amount of time your inner thighs spend bare and exposed to sun is almost zero. ALMOST zero. Occasionally you spend an off-season or a week on a surf trip to the beach, meaning you’re going to be...

Festival scheduled for September 18-20, 2015. Tickets on sale March 2, 10:00 a.m.  mountain time. You snooze, you lose: tickets generally sell out in minutes. Celebrating 22 years in Telluride, Colorado, the annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival​ will take place on September 18-20, 2015. The festival boasts four days...

Scattered light snow showers develop later today/tonight as the latest moisture over eastern Utah moves overhead. There will be a small break in the snowy weather early tomorrow for a few hours. Later in the day, the storm that’s being advertised as a “potentially very...

Pinhead Scholar hosting stop-motion animated features, with Q&A, at the Steaming Bean Thanks to a guest from the non-profit organization’s “Scholars in the Schools” program, the Pinhead Institute is able to offer the community two special animated features: “ParaNorman” and “The Boxtrolls." The films come courtesy of LAIKA, a stop-motion animation...

February 26 to March 5, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Saturn  Evening: Venus, Mars, Jupiter The last days of February and the waxing week of the Virgo-Pisces full Moon emanate themes of holistic health and universal healing – individually and collectively, locally and globally – as well...

Folksy town; music to match. Juno-winning banjoist Jayme Stone and his Lomax Project, now on a major six-month tour, performs the sweet sounds of traditional root music on Friday, March 6,  7:30 p.m., at the Palm Theatre.  [caption id="attachment_48796" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Jayme Stone & The Lomax Project[/caption] A composer, educator and...

Grammy-winning saxophonist Ernie Watts, James Brown collaborator Maceo Parker, New Orleans Supergroup The M&Ms & More Set to Play Telluride Jazz Festival July 31 ­- August 2, 2015   Two-time Grammy Award winning saxophonist Ernie Watts, rare New Orleans supergroup The M&Ms featuring John Medeski, Papa Mali,...

Ridgway organization works with underserved communities in Nepal [caption id="attachment_48788" align="aligncenter" width="348"] Nepalese children fill up the family water jugs at one of the 486 water taps dZi has built to date. Centralized drinking water systems improve health and allow women and children to efficiently and safely gather...