Editor's Note: Documentary's theme, population explosion, the subject of a Mountainfilm Moving Mountains Symposium, Friday, May 25 We like to put “mental” back in “environmental": John B. Calhoun Mountainfilm in Telluride 2012 opens with a bang. That would be the sound of the population bomb exploding. Among the...
The Independent Publishers Association awarded Telluride-based author R.J. (Bob) Rubadeau the Bronze Medal for Fiction in the Mountain West Region of the United States for his recently published (Beacon Hill, 2012) "The Fat Man: A Telluride Murder Mystery." The prestigious international competition celebrates the Best...
Public events of epic proportions orchestrated by Plus Gallery Want to know who's helping to light the fuse in Denver's exploding art world? Follow the breadcrumbs. They will take you directly to the door of the Plus Gallery, 2501 Larimer, where director Ivar Zeile works his...
Vincent and Anne Mai (along with filmmaker/pianist Josh Aronson) produce the extraordinary Telluride Musicfest, an event that occurs annually in Telluride in June – this year, starting June 27, marks the 10th anniversary – to celebrate chamber music in its intended form: top tier musicians...
"I have watched Network 20/20 grow from a small start-up into a dynamic organization making a difference because it listens to leaders of other countries and reports their views to U.S. policy makers," former Ambassador and special representative for President Obama (and Telluride local), Richard...
If art is a mirror of life (here I am paraphrasing 19th-century French critic Baudelaire), then artist Cindy Sherman (born 1954) must be running through bottles of Windex keeping that glass clean. Using the lens of her camera to capture her vision of things –...
Tempus fugit. So do ideas. Long before the snow stopped flying, ideas were flying as the staff at the Ah Haa School for the Arts focused on building a robust summer schedule. During Telluride's festival season, the school becomes a playground for young and older alike. For the...
On March 22, the Telluride Historical Museum announced it had hired a new executive director. Like Jodi Pounds, the (relatively) new executive director of the Ah Haa School for the Arts, the book on Erica Kinias includes adjectives such as "smart," " highly skilled" and...
For Telluriders, twinning "fine dining" with "Grand Junction" in the same sentence amounts to an oxymoron. You say: "Grand Junction? Really? The town is politically red and culturally dead, right?" I say: It ain't necessarily so. For starters, wonderfully whimsical sculptures greet pedestrians on downtown corners,...
Same song. Different verse, and this, the last verse of the winter season. Telluride Arts First Thursday Art Walk happens, as its name suggests, the first Thursday of every month in season in the region: winter and summer. The ski lifts close Sunday, April 8....
