“Spring has sprung, The Grass has riz, I wonder where the birdies is? The little bird is on the wing, But that’s absurd! Because the wing is on the bird!” (Ode to Spring) “For the birds…” "According to Robert Claiborne in Loose Cannons and Red Herrings, the expression refers to city streets...
Our recent weekend in Denver proved that getting high in the Mile High City does not necessarily twin with cannabis and vaporizers. At the end of the cultural banquet that defined our romantic getaway, we did indeed inhale – the pure oxygen of gratitude. Home base was...
Win or, what the heck, just finish, we are talking seriously gnarly. [caption id="attachment_49712" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Jon Miler & Erik Dalton at the Traverse[/caption] The Elk Mountain Traverse is an extraordinary 40-mile backcountry ski race between the towns of Crested Butte and Aspen, CO., where it finishes in...
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up,” Pablo Picasso A mashup of the celebratory and the fanciful and frankly off-the-wall can be found on the walls of the Daniel Tucker Gallery at the Ah Haa School for the...
Telluride knows from virgins. Well, a few. Only recently the town, supported by Quentin Tarantino and the cast of his upcoming movie, “The Hateful Eight,” sacrificed a virgin to Ullr, Norse God of Snow, to end the drought. And by gum the gambit worked. Then there are...
“Still Alice” just played at The Nugget. But even you if missed the movie, its premise was grist for the media mill: Julianne Moore is Alice Howland, a linguistics professor at Columbia diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s, having inherited the life-changing disease from her father. It could happen...
The fourth annual TEDxTellurideLive simulcast the world-famous TED Conference at the Michael D. Palm Theatre on St. Patrick’s Day, Tuesday, March 17. The theme of this year’s conference was “Truth and Dare.”And here’s the truth. Telluride scored. “We are still on a high from listening to the...
Beyond the Groove presents The Motet and Elephant Revival to play Club Red at the Telluride Conference Center, Mountain Village, Thursday & Friday, April 2 & 3, 2015. Doors, for The Motet, 7:30 p.m.; show time, 8 p.m. Doors for ER, 8 p.m.; show time, 8:30...
The complaint is epidemic: not enough time in a day for a consistent practice. But what if seven minutes is all you need to enhance your life with yoga? Telluride Yoga Festival regular Mark Whitwell created an app called “I Promise,” which contains an elegant breath-with-movement...
All-women a cappella group in concert Tuesday, March 31, 6:30 p.m., Ah Haa School. Free, but donations gratefully accepted. [caption id="attachment_49459" align="aligncenter" width="462"] Heartbeat[/caption] How to make your heart sing? Heartbeat, a seven-woman a cappella group, will be performing on Tuesday, March 31, in Telluride at the...
