Have you ever heard of a fundraiser that offers a kid an opportunity to win $500? How will they use that money? New skis? Soccer camp? An iPad? During Pinhead’s Minecraft Mania, kids are the big winners. And it is all about supporting science in...
A heady tale of a treasure map, a perilous sea journey across the Spanish Main, a mutiny led by the infamous Long John Silver, and a lethal scramble for buried treasure, all witnessed through the eyes of a cabin boy, Jim Hawkins. It's an action-packed...
[caption id="attachment_30037" align="alignright" width="290"] Bar Marco, no miss watering hole in Pittsburgh's Strip District[/caption] Wine and wafers. Standard fare at Sunday church services across the country, right? But croque madam? Sweet risotto? Craft cocktails? Not so much. Unless, of course, you happened to patronize Bar Marco, a relatively...
Training on Net Zero Homes comes to Telluride Friday, May 10 (and Durango Thursday, May 9) The Colorado Green Building Guild, a trade organization focused on advancing the craft of sustainable building in Colorado, announces a new partnership with the Department of Energy to provide dynamic...
[caption id="attachment_29888" align="alignright" width="300"] Scene from "People." Image shot by the BBC.[/caption] Tuesday, April 30, 7 p.m., SPARKY Productions presents Alan Bennett’s new play "People" as part of the first NT LIVE program with Telluride's Palm Theatre. NT LIVE is a simulcast, live broadcast of a National...
“One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty," Martin Luther King [caption id="attachment_29198" align="alignright" width="300"] Beth & George Gage visiting Tim in prison[/caption] In a real-life game of monopoly (of the fossil fuel variety), he played...
Off season, when we leave Telluride on vacation, Gina the Dog does too. For the past 12 years (nearly her entire life), she has headed to the Cottonwood Ranch & Kennel in Crawford, where she became the loving pet she is today (albeit, still quirky)...
[caption id="attachment_29682" align="alignright" width="85"] "Life on the Rocks," by Kathleen Wells[/caption] Katherine Wells's obsession with petroglyphs (images pecked on stone) began in the 1960s. Three decades later, after careers as a teacher, a businessperson, and an artist in Southern California, Wells and Lloyd Dennis, her partner,...
On Sunday, April 14, 10:00 p.m. MST), PBS premieres an awe-inspiring film from Academy Award-nominated director Josh Aronson. Aronson's latest documentary,“Orchestra of Exiles,” tells the dramatic story of Bronislaw Huberman, the celebrated Polish violinist who rescued some of the world's greatest musicians from Nazi Germany, then...
[caption id="attachment_29569" align="alignright" width="300"] Cover art by Kellie Day[/caption] Poetry began to spill out of Erika Moss Gordon when she was a young child. Today, the themes have changed, but the words are still spilling. "Of Eyes and Iris" is her first book and it charts...
