June 2017

Father's Day is a celebration honoring, well, fathers. The holiday also celebrates fatherhood in general, paternal bonds, and the influence of dads in society. For some, however, Father’s Day is shorthand for pulling out a wallet. Again. Gifts of watches and Fitbits, beard trimmers and bespoke home distilleries and grills, tickets...

T’is the season. That is the season of bright sunshine, river music, and tourists wandering through our streets, jaws agape. Summer also means Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts is fully geared up to launch 10 weeks of youth summer art camps and Fabulous Fridays for ages 4 – 18. To...

To honor the memory of his father - and friend who was a father who just past – on Father’s Day, David Feela choose to continue a tradition scholars say might have emerged from Babylonian ruins, where upon a 4,000 years ago, a boy named Elmesu...

How did Father’s Day come about? According to history.com, during the 1920s and 1930s, a movement arose to scrap Mother’s Day and Father’s Day altogether in favor of a single holiday, Parents’ Day. Every year on Mother’s Day, pro-Parents’ Day groups rallied in New York City’s...

We first met Dr. Haley Perlus at the Telluride WOW Festival. We asked if she would share her pearls with out readers and it’s been happily ever after ever since. Haley’s advice tends to apply equally to sports - and to life in general. This week, the sport...

Tim O’Brien returns for the umpteenth (actually 41st) time to perform on the Main Stage at the 44rd annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival. His band, that is The Tim’ OBrien Band, this year includes the friends who helped make Tim’s new CD, “Where the River Meets the Road”: Mike Bub,...

Telluride's EcoAction Partners is pleased to announce another year of GREENLIGHTS, a rebate program sponsored by San Miguel Power Association (SMPA) and supported by the Telluride Foundation, participating governments, and EcoAction. The initiative, which started May 1, 2017, was just extended through July 11. The program is a win for...