September 2015

Tickets and passes to the 22nd annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival here.  Please scroll down to the bottom of the story to read Billy Gibbons’s answers to my questions about weekend headliner ZZ Top. If you’ve been around since 1969, fans know most of your secrets,...

Mountainfilm named one of MovieMaker’s 25 Coolest Film Festivals. Prestigious list decided by panel of festival experts. Earlier this wee, MovieMaker magazine confirmed what staff and fans of Telluride Mountainfilm have known for decades — that it’s one of the coolest festivals on the planet. Mountainfilm was included on...

My favorite summer sport is mountain biking. But, I’ve found, if I want to hang with my girlfriends in the summer, I’ve got to hike. Sure, a few are up for a weekday ride, and more are game for a road ride, but when it...

The Telluride Venture Accelerator (TVA) announces the opening of their applications for the 2016 cohort. Applications will be open through Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. MST. [caption id="attachment_40587" align="aligncenter" width="144"] Thea Chase, director, Telluride Venture Accelerator[/caption] The Telluride Venture Accelerator (TVA) is currently receiving applications for its...

Telluride First Foundation’s inaugural conference in Mountain Village features Dr. Deepak Chopra as keynote speaker. Dr. T. Colin Campbell, co-author of “The China Study,” the largest investigation of nutrition every conducted, and ultra-athlete, Rich Roll, also a plant-based food advocate, among top-tier presenters. The Integrative Wellness Summit takes place Friday, September...

Over $35 million in total given to Telluride community since Foundation’s inception in 2000. The Telluride Foundation’s annual Community Grant application is now available, and regional nonprofit organizations are encouraged to apply. This year, the Foundation will be instituting two new aspects to the Community Grants program, introducing...

September 3 to 10, 2015     Visible planets: Morning: Venus, Mars   Evening: Mercury, Saturn Today, driving back home from running to Norwood for carryout pizza, I was overcome with the beauty of the countryside surrounding me. The vast mesa, with its big ranches and crisscross wire fences,...

The Telluride Hospital District (THD) announced this week the appointment of two new members onto its Board of Directors as well as the resignations of two outgoing directors. Joining the Board of Directors are Davis Fansler and Richard Betts. "These newest directors embody the spirit of...

Dr. Haley Perlus continues with weekly tips about ways to empower “Your Inner Athlete.” Discover this week ways to increase finding your flow. You’ve most likely heard people talk about the runner’s high or being in the zone. Sport psychologists call it Flow, but it all...

Indiewire previewed these fall film and has selected “The 15 Films We’ve Already Seen (And You Won’t Want to Miss). A number of which are on the program for the 42nd annual Telluride Film Festival, including “Steve Jobs,” “Carol,” "Son of Saul.”  [caption id="attachment_53583" align="aligncenter" width="600"]...