May 2015

Over Mountainfilm weekend, find Emilie at the Telluride Art District’s Stronghouse Studios & Gallery, where she will be for sure during Gallery Walk, Friday, May 22, Passes and tickets for Mountainfilm here. Full schedule for Gallery Walk here. [caption id="attachment_50692" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Emilie Lee, artist-in-residence, Telluride Mountainfilm[/caption] A group of...

Anyone who has lived in the mountains will caution you against making plans. The weather can change at any moment. So what if it’s May, and it hasn’t really snowed in close to 3 months? It’s high time for a good snow storm! Still, even though...

Mountainfilm began as a gathering for climbers and mountaineers in 1979, and last year to honor our outdoor roots we created programs to get guests outside the theaters and into Telluride’s beautiful surroundings. We call these Free Range Programs because these events not only offer...

May 14 to 21, 2015   Visible planets: Morning: Saturn   Evening: Mercury, Venus, Jupiter This week we are graced with the advent of a May 17th late degree Taurus New Moon, followed the next day by a Mercury station retrograde in mid-degree Gemini. This translates as a...

What: The Sheridan Arts Foundation Young People’s Theater presents “This is a Test,” a one-act play by Stephen Gregg, directed by Jennifer Julia When: Monday, May 18, 2015, 7 p.m., doors at 6:30 p.m. Where: Sheridan Opera House, Telluride, Colorado, 110 N. Oak Street Ticket Info: This show...

Good day pet column readers, my name is Daisy and I am writing another installment in our series about the Enrichment Program at Second Chance Humane Society. As a dog that has truly benefited from this program, I am going to discuss how the variations within...

Telluride Film Festival Sunday at the Palm Presents: 8th annual Children’s Film Festival. All kids and kids-at-heart are invited to attend the event. This year's presentation will include a selection of short films from the Chicago International Children's Film Festival. “For more than 30 years, the Chicago International...

"A simple journey, a complex problem and an epic journey" – straight from the horse’s mouth. Mountainfilm guest, photographer, author Ben Masters writes about his first movie, a doc about wild mustangs. “Unbranded” is also a book. Passes/tickets for Telluride Mountainfilm here. Unbranded started with cheap tequila, greasy enchiladas...

Even favorite aphorisms can have geography. Take “saved by the bell” for example. The expression refers to a knock-down in the ring, a slow count of ten and a bell, which saves a fighter from defeat. Well yes – at least in some parts of the...

Seven talented women writers reveal vulnerability through Literary Burlesque. "Close to the Bone," Friday, May 15, 7 p.m. at the Ah Haa School. What’s beneath the language of poetry? What does it mean to be vulnerable, to be a woman exposed? How much is too much...