I repeat: “WHAT Off-Season?!?!?!?!?” Major fests are over. Academic and sport schedules dictate the rhythm. Start making off-season to-do list. Um, scratch that last one. Way too many cool events have fallen like splendid leaves into our events calendar, offering locals and visitors a menagerie of bookish...
[caption id="attachment_22863" align="alignright" width="211"] Holli Pfau, author/animal advocate[/caption] She’s gone to the dogs, literally … Film Fest is a wrap and life is back to somewhat normal around Telluride. We’re packing school lunches, nabbing a lunch-hour hike with a pal, stopping by the bookstore to reserve a...
Sidewalk Signings during Film Fest … an annual tradition! [caption id="attachment_22538" align="alignleft" width="300"] Ken Burns, filmmaker & author[/caption] What do a kick-ass director, the dust bowl, an ex-pat dog in Paris, and two criminal cases that captured the American psyche have in common? They are the lineup...
[caption id="attachment_21715" align="alignleft" width="217" caption="Amanda Eyre Ward, award-winning author, "Close Your Eyes""][/caption] Fresh back from Lithuania, I’m inspired to slink off into the woods and hunt edible gold. Witnessed through a car window so many times on our trip were families, led by grandmothers in head...
Even if you’re not a diehard sports fan, there’s something about that Olympic music* that gets you right there. As the background sonata for the battleground of interconnected nationalism, it stirs up a brew of nostalgia, history, politics, statistics, and achievement. An avid Olympiphile since...
Waldo will be in Telluride July 1 – July 15. Join Between the Covers Bookstore in the search. Can you believe it? The world has been searching for the iconic fellow in the striped shirt and black-rimmed spectacles for 25 years. To celebrate the milestone – and...
Editor's note: Mountainfilm's Reading Frenzy, themed, "Conversations through Lenses and Pens," takes place Sunday, May 27, 2 – 4 p.m., at the Between the Covers Bookstore "annex," the Telluride High School Cafeteria. It’s that time of year: stacks and stacks of boxes show up on...
Meet “The Man Who Quit Money” on Tuesday, April 3, at the library … Where you’ve been, physically and emotionally, is what shapes you in the moment. And at this very moment, a man from Moab has honed his existence into a freedom that almost no...
Saint Augustine wrote: “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” Words that eloquently marry books and travel. It’s that time of year, when we live vicariously through customer travel book purchases, watching them sway back and forth in front of...
First of all, what a great celebration of the book the 2012 Oscars were, eh? Six of the nine most nominated films were adapted from books we love to recommend. We like to say “never judge a book by its movie” but this year’s films...
