June 2016

Kenya, a country twice the size of Nevada, is located in East Africa near the Equator. Its regions are varied and range from year-round snow in the Kenya and Kilimanjaro Mountains to warm, tropical beaches and deserts, but most of the land is rolling grasslands and forests. When...

Beyond the Groove is pleased to announce Karl Denson's Tiny Universe on Friday, July 1. Karl Denson and his band return to perform at Club RED in the Telluride Conference Center, Mountain Village. Doors open at 8 p.m.; show time is 8:30 p.m. Tickets are...

Dr. Haley Perlus is a regular presenter at the Telluride WOW Festival, (June 9 - 12, 2016), where this year she talked about “The Psychology Behind Good Nutrition” and "The Only Way to Really Conquer Your Fear.” Missed it? Here’s the skinny: in its fourth year, Becca Tudor's and Albert Roer’s WOW lived...

Tickets for the Telluride Wine Festival here, including Max McCalman’s seminars. On opening day of the Telluride Wine Festival, Thursday, June 23, one of the banner events on the robust schedule is the Patron Dinner + Movie, “King Georges,” (6:30 - 9 p.m., Telluride Conference Center, Mountain...

Back in the 1300’s, bubonic plague killed 25 million people in Asia and Europe. No one knew back them that the virulent bacteria was carried by fleas, which in turn were carried by rodents. In fact, superstition led some in the Middle Ages to blame...

Tickets to the 2016 Telluride Wine Festival here. Please scroll down towards the bottom of the story to watch a video interview with this year's Telluride Wine Director and somm to the stars, Christopher Sawyer. [caption id="attachment_59607" align="aligncenter" width="526"] Christopher Sawyer[/caption] In vino, some split decisions about the...

Pinhead Institute’s 6th annual Science of Cocktails supports local STEM programming. General admission to the Science of Cocktails is $50 and includes private demonstrations, cocktail samples, appetizers, desserts, and a vote for People’s Choice, Top Shelf admission is $100 and also includes a grand prize raffle...

Mountain Munchkins Child Care and Preschool  in Mountain Village will host the ninth annual Touch-A-Truck, a kid-centric fundraising event in which children can touch, climb, explore, and sit in the driver’s seat of a variety of vehicles: service vehicles, work equipment, fire trucks, and police...

Denver’s Avenue Theater now featuring “Bakersfield Mist” (through July 2). Tickets here. Below is award-winning writer (and our Denver critic) Mark Stevens' take on the production. [caption id="attachment_59700" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Maude Gutman (played by Abby Apple Boes) shows art expert Lionel Percy (John Ashton) her idea of quality art.[/caption] Based on a real-life...

A Telluride Wine Fest gourmet dinner prepared by world-famous chef Georges Perrier plus a movie about the man (“King Georges”) takes place Thursday, June 23, 6:30- 9 p.m., Telluride Conference Center, Mountain Village. For tickets. go here or call 800-656-0713. "Nobody who is a chef is a normal person, because a chef...