February 2016

In its inaugural year as a locally-produced event, the new organizers of Telluride Gay Ski Week are taking it up a notch with more provocative entertainment and broadened community outreach. Scheduled for Saturday, February 20-Saturday, February 27, this year’s event is action packed with an impressive...

Kong Hei Fatt Choy! Happy Chinese Lunar New Year of the Monkey* 4714 The Chinese Lunar New Year begins each year at sunset on the evening following the second New Moon after Winter Solstice, which almost always takes place in the zodiac sign of Aquarius. This...

With major support from the Telluride Ski Resort, Denise Mongan’s Beyond the Groove is pleased to announce an encore show, welcoming back the New Mastersounds, Tuesday, February 16, 2016, Club Red at the Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village. Doors, 7:30 p.m.; show, 8 p.m. Tickets, $22...

Telluride Arts' Gallery 81435 will be hosting three fabulous local jewelers for trunk shows just in time for Valentine's Day. Ridgway artist Stephanie Morgan Rogers will be displaying her jewelry and gifts on Wednesday, Feb. 10 and Thursday, Feb. 11. Stephanie will be present both days...

Consider them the warm-up act for the 17th annual Telluride Comedy Festival, which opens at the Sheridan Opera House with Locals Night, Thursday, February 11, 8 p.m., right after authors David Feela and John Christian Hopkins close their show. Feela's and Hopkins' “show” is part of the the...

Telluride AIDS Benefit, February 19 – February 29, hosts events to raise awareness and funds for HIV/AIDS in Colorado + Africa. To support TABs and its beneficiaries, seven in all, go to the online auction and BUY NOW. The current cost of care for one person living...

Tickets here for the 17th annual Telluride Comedy Fest at Telluride's historic Sheridan Opera House, co-produced by Sheridan Arts Foundation and hosted by former town clown and thespian Jeb Berrier, 2/11 - 2/14, 8 p.m. Two former locals, now successful touring comedians/writers/improvisers, Andrew Michaan and Lily Sullivan,...

Register to TEDxTellurideLive here. "Dare to Dream big dreams; only big dreams have the power to move men’s souls," Marcus Aurelius.     Don Quixote (in Tony-winning Broadway 1965 smash ‘Man from La Mancha”) set the famous Roman emperor/philosopher’s idea to music. Is dreaming the impossible dream the only sure...

[caption id="attachment_56899" align="alignright" width="225"] Moving day[/caption] My cold arrived the same day that the moving boxes arrived. Of course it did. It made sense in some kind of perverse world order that at the same time that I was that packing up the home that had...

The upcoming winter live music schedule for Telluride's Fly Me To The Moon Saloon continues to bring a full week of artists and events in February. Established event nights include Open Mic Night every Monday, Kegaraoke every Tuesday, and the reestablished Latin Night on Wednesday. Highlights of the...