May 2018

This summer, the Telluride Ski Resort and The Peaks Resort & Spa are hosting a series of week-long wellness intensives under the banner of Live Longer Retreat. The Big Idea is to support your (recurring) New Year’s resolution to get really healthy and therefore live longer – and well. The intensive includes...

Rosemerry Trommer and Art Goodtimes, co-directors of the Telluride Institute's Talking Gourds program, announce the winners of Fischer Prize and Cantor Prize, chosen by judge Joan Logghe of New Mexico and featured at the Telluride Literary Arts Festival. (Go here for more on Lit Fest...

Telluride-based EcoAction Partners announces its annual Spring Clean Up program for electronics in partnership with San Miguel County and the Town of Telluride. Note: EcoAction's Ophir Composting Show-and-Tell takes place Tuesday, May 15, 10:30 a.m. More information about that initiative, go here. Do you have old electronics laying around...

To date, the current resident of 16 Pennsylvania Avenue and his band of merry men, particularly one Scott Pruitt, have gutted the EPA's budget under the guise of fixing budget issues; killed the Paris Climate Agreement, denying climate change; and in general relaxed environmental rules...

Western State Colorado University students in the School of Environment & Sustainability plan a trip to the Himalayas starting May 17. Their goal is to build a mountain partnership and sister city relationship between the towns of Gunnison and Majikali, India. Western students in the...

Playwright Meridith Friedman and director Dee Covington, present "Your Best One," at Denver's Curious Theatre Company. The show is up through June 10. Our Denver theater critic, award-winning author Mark Stevens, reviews the production. Tickets here. [caption id="attachment_74200" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Colin Covert as Josh and John Jurcheck...

Mother’s Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe (who wrote the words to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”) as a day dedicated to peace. In 1907, Philadelphian Ana Jarvis began a campaign to establish a national Mother’s Day. She persuaded her mother’s...

I just watched the fun animated kid’s movie called "Boss Baby" in which Baby Corp. – You know… the corporation that makes babies and delivers them to families – was deeply concerned about the competition they were seeing from pets.  [caption id="attachment_74185" align="aligncenter" width="399"] Panda[/caption] Baby Corp....

Mountainfilm takes place in Telluride over Memorial Weekend, May 25 – May 28. Passes to the 2018 festival are selling out very fast., very few remain. To get your passes or for more information about Mountainfilm, visit here. Telluride author Susan Dalton captures Mountainfilm‘s best memories in “Mountainfilm: 40...