Author: Susan Viebrock

Here's some good news about climate change for a change – and more. This story from the World Wildlife Fund details "The Biggest Conservation Wins of 2017." It’s been a big year for conservation. Together we assured the world that the United States is still an ally...

In the final newsletter of 2017, the New York Times' Smarter Living editor Tim Herrera offers advice on "How to Be Happier, Safer, Healthier and Smarter in 2018." To welcome in 2018, here is some our best advice from this year for doing things better, whether...

T'is the end of the season, the last hurdle of the holiday trifecta that began with Thanksgiving. But other hurdles remain, namely The List. Writing for Lifehack, Ivan Dimitrijevic offers up "50 New Year's Resolution Ideas And How To Achieve Each of Them." The New Year is slowly...

The Telluride Gallery of Fine Art’s “Non Objective” show, December 14, 2017 – January 14, 2018, bookends the earlier “Objective," which opened in July 2017. Both exhibitions were curated by that “impresario of abstraction,” James Hayward, artist, historian and teacher, also father of the TGFA’s...

Sheridan Arts Foundation presents its annual fundraiser, the 2017 Holiday Concert Series. The event features Shawn Colvin, John McEuen, Purely Patsy, Elephant Revival, Robert Randolph & The Family Band and Lez Zeppelin, all live at the Sheridan Opera House. Tickets and additional event information are available at sheridanoperahouse.com...

Ask yourself if you really want to know all that you can know – which is not everything, just looks that way – before you submit to the new black dress of the medical world: genetic testing. Genetic testing was a highly publicized gift idea....

Harvard social psychologist, bestselling author, and brain injury survivor Dr. Amy Cuddy will speak (for one hour) at Telluride's Palm Theatre on December 28, 5:30 p.m. Cuddy's TED Talk is the second-most watched in TED’s history, with more than 44 million views. All proceeds will be donated to the...

Now entering its 4th year, The Downlow is an evening of storytelling and an initiative of Telluride Theatre. The theme of the show on Tuesday, December 26, is Holidays & Family. Storytellers are Christopher Beaver, Landon Feller, Sarah Holbrooke, Sissy Zoller...

Telluride regional local Kierstin Bridger got several early Xmas presents. In October she won a Women Writing The West Award in the Poetry category for her book, "Demimonde," which delves into Telluride's sultry, salty past and our ladies of the night. (More on that here.)...

The term solstice means “sun stands still.” On the year’s two solstices (winter and summer) the sun appears to halt in its incremental journey across the sky and change little in position during this time. Of course, contrary to appearances from Earth, the sun’s “changing...