Author: Susan Viebrock

How much do you love Telluride? Can you count the ways? Rachael Oakes-Ash, blogger and founder of www.elephanttruths.com offers up “Ten Reasons You Should Pay Telluride Forward,” which she recently put up in Huff Post. From carbon neutral micro brew festivals to the complimentary bio fuel...

The end of ski season this coming weekend marks the official start of Telluride’s off season, when many locals head for the hills – or rivers and streams. This story by former Telluride local Oleh Lysiak is about a favorite hang among Telluride locals looking for a...

“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...