May 2015

First the insistent nudge, then the turn to see the LED numerals on the clock. "What!?" grumpily. "Gina has to go out." "*%#^! It's a quarter to five!" "Do you want me to take her out?" "No, damnit! I'll do it!" Still a bit dazed from...

Here’s the dirt on dirt. Or Dyrt. [caption id="attachment_51057" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Goose Lake Camgpround, WA[/caption] Dirt (or soil) isn’t just a mix of clay, sand, and humus that lies over bedrock. It isn’t simply dust, grime, or filth either. For archaeologists, dirt—or the layers of sediment they call “stratigraphy”— is...

Ultimate opportunity for an up-and-coming or relatively unknown band to thrust themselves into the national spotlight on the stage of the 2015 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival alongside some of the biggest musical names in the country! Submissions through Friday, June 5. Telluride Blues & Brews Festival,...

Telluride's Sheridan Arts Foundation presents its Wild West Fest Benefit Concert featuring Durango-based indie-soul power quartet Hello, Dollface. Show takes place Friday, June 5, 2015 and is free and open to the public. But a $5 donation is suggested to go toward our Wild West Fest Scholarship Fund. Doors...

May 28 to June 4, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: none Evening: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn Full Moons bring light to dark, illuminating what has been hidden, or in the shadows of our lives and consciousness. On a full Moon, we experience the Sun and Moon aligned in...

Telluride Film Festival Cinematheque at the Wilkinson Public Library – Summer Series. This Monday’s Cinematheque welcomes a very special guest - Glory Fioramonti, Susan Sarandon's stunt double in “Thelma & Louise." The Telluride Film Festival and Wilkinson Public Library are thrilled to present THELMA AND LOUISE (1991, 106...

Event takes place Thursday, June 4, 2015, 4-6 p.m., FREE in Elks Park For the past 24 years, the Sheridan Arts Foundation kicks off the summer with the Wild West Fest bringing 30-50 underserved youth from all over the country to Telluride for a week of...

Jill Burkey of Grand Junction received the $1000 Mark Fischer Poetry Prize for her poem, “Beginning Mind,” at a ceremony May 16, 2015, during the Talking Gourds poetry program segment of the Telluride Literary Arts Festival. [caption id="attachment_51009" align="aligncenter" width="384"] Jill Burkey, winner, Mark Fischer Poetry...

Word Woman Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer of Placerville, Telluride, was named the third Poet Laureate of the Western Slope during the Talking Gourds Poetry Performances Saturday, May 16, 2015, at the Ah Haa School of the Arts during the Second Telluride Literary Arts Festival (LitFest). Emeritus Laureate...

Many of my clients have close, loving relationships with their pets: they play, wrestle and even sleep with them. (Yes, I'm guilty too, my husband can barely fit in the king-sized bed after all the dogs get in…).  But that kind of closeness raises health...