January 2016

The 21st annual Chocolate Lovers’ Fling, a fun-raiser for the San Miguel Resource Center, includes chocolate treats by local chefs, a silent auction, music, raffle, and cash prizes for the Best Dressed. Tickets in advance, $45, available at Two Skirts in Telluride and online at sanmiguelresourcecenter.org....

Denver’s Curious Theatre Company’s ‘Sex With Strangers,” through February  20, 2016. Tickets here. [caption id="attachment_56655" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Paige Price as Olivia and Michael Kingsbaker as Ethan in Curious Theatre Company’s “Sex With Strangers."[/caption] “Sex With Strangers” is deliciously funny play about the pros and cons of self-publishing. It’s about art...

The Telluride Medical Center experiences continued growth and maintains high patient satisfaction in 2015. The Telluride Medical Center (TMC) experienced yet another busy year in 2015.  The Primary Care (PC) and Emergency Departments (ED) saw increases in patient visits of 14% and 8%, respectively over the previous...

Each sport has its own rituals, its own culture, its own weekend routine. And for those of us who grew up as athletes, it is these weekend routines, more so than the competitions, that defined our childhood. For me that sport was ski racing, and...

Something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone is happening tonight –or rather, Friday through Sunday nights, January 29 – January 31, 2016, at 6 p.m. That’s when the Sheridan Arts Foundation Young People’s Theatre presents director Jen Julia’s adaptation – for the second time around –...

Ed. Note: The 40th Telluride Jazz Festival Names Jon Cleary as Guest of Honor for 2016. New Orleans Legend to Perform with Absolute Monster Gentlemen and Special Guest. Passes/tickets here. Please scroll down to the bottom of the story to listen to my podcast with Cleary. The 40th...

Filmmaker and photographer James Marcus Haney will be in town for screening and workshop of “No Cameras Allowed." No ticket? No money? No problem. That’s the philosophy at the heart of "No Cameras Allowed," the excellent music documentary by James Marcus Haney about sneaking into festivals, refusing to...

The 2nd annual Telluride Fire Festival consumed three plazas in Mountain Village for three nights with over 30 fire-art performers on two stages, as well as fire art installations and fire-breathing art cars. The sky was ablaze with flames spewing from a Phoenix Dragon of...

Telluride Arts District is now accepting applications for the 2016 cycle for Small Grants for Artists. Funding for individual artist’s projects, professional development, and artist-to-artist workshops. Deadline to submit: March 7, 2016 by 5 p.m. Small grants support the innovation, creativity and professional development of individual artists living in...