Author: Susan Viebrock

This is the week that is for TED Talks and simulcast TEDxTelluride Live, produced by Katrine and Bill Formby. “At our TEDxTellurideLive event, TEDTalks video featuring dynamic speakers should spark deep discussion and connection in a small group,” explains Katrine. For more on the local get together to celebrate “Ideas...

What do macaroni and cheese and Broadway show tunes have in common?  For many of us, they strike an old-fashioned, cultural chord deep in our memory. What could be more "American" than mac-n-cheese and Gershwin, or Rodgers and Hammerstein? On Friday night, March 20, beginning at...

When former CIA operative (and Ophir local) Bob Baer spoke in town on February 9, the Program Room at the Telluride Library was SRO. To accommodate the crowds who missed the talk, the remix hosted by The Telluride Conference Center takes place Thursday, March 19, 7-9 p.m.  The program is...

Telluride Theatre presents its own unique slant on the classic sci-fi rock musical “Little Shop of Horrors” live at the Palm Theatre Tuesday – Sunday, March 10–March 15. Showtime through Saturday is 8 p.m.; Sunday matinee at 4 p.m. Seating is limited since the audience is seated ON stage. To purchase tickets visit www.telluridetheatre.org/tickets or call...

 "The teaching of art is the teaching of all things," William Ruskin. Three talks about “What Makes Art?" feature visiting art historian/cultural critic Paul Evans, Monday – Wednesday, March 16 – March 18, 6 – 8 p.m. Sponsored by the Ah Haa School for the Arts, Telluride Library and Telluride...

These days, yoga dances with many unlikely partners: nudity, marijuana, SUP, heat, even dogs. But snow? Yes, according to this recent article by Courtney Rubin in The New York Times entitled “Frozen Yoga? It’s Snowga.” Pairing yoga and snow in March brings us home, where a locally grown company named...

Friends of the Library announces its annual book sale, which takes place this year Thursday, March 12 through Sunday, March 15 as follows: Thursday, March 12:   9:30-4:00   Set-up 4:30-6:45   Pre-sale for FOL members & volunteers 5:30-5:45   FOL annual meeting (refreshments provided) Friday & Saturday, March 13...

Telluride Professional Forum, an initiative of the Telluride Women’s Network, hosts talk featuring Drs. Grundy & Hamrick. Thursday, 11:30 – 2 p.m.; talk on skincare, noon – 1 p.m. Tickets, $25 in advance; non-members, $30. Sign up here now. A show of hands please. How many of you...

“Ecstatic experiences disassemble us in some significant way and swirl our pieces back together again in new configurations,” Barbara Carrellas, from “Ecstasy is Necessary” Meryl Streep could not curb her enthusiasm when Best Supporting Actress winner (for “Boyhood”) Patricia Arquette used the podium soap-box style to...

Note: This is the second of what we hope will be a series of posts and images by long-time local talent Ingrid Lundahl, author of “Telluride: The Outlaw Spirit of a Colorado Town.” Most know Ingrid as a killer photographer, but she started out in the professional...