Author: Susan Viebrock

[caption id="attachment_36965" align="alignright" width="300"] Two Bureau of Indian Affairs firefighters take a break in a blackened aspen grove during the Burn Canyon Fire near Norwood, Colorado, Ben Knight[/caption]   In the halcyon days of the 1990s, Telluride was flush, the local daily was fat and happy and the...

You have reached the finish line. The holiday trifecta is effectively OVER. Except for The List. Have you made your New Year's resolutions yet? Mine involve daily meditation, yoga for my husband, as much cross-country skiing as possible, and bee pollen. Blocked? This article I...

Fashionistas, this one's for you. Found this tongue-in-cheek (not really) blog in HuffPost Style about shooting for the stars on New Year's Eve  – only to crash land back on Earth. New Year's Eve is probably the most overrated event on the calendar. And yet each...

[caption id="attachment_36854" align="alignright" width="300"] From SayEducate, Money Management Blog[/caption] New Year's Eve is coming on faster than a freight train, and with it the inevitable list of promises you make to yourself. How did you fare with last year's list? Will you do better in 2014?...

  [caption id="attachment_36903" align="alignright" width="300"] Dude & Bro doing what they do best: hangin'.[/caption] Telluride Theatre's latest production was a Christmas show, "Dude & Bro' s A Christmas Carol," very very very loosely based on the Charles Dickens classic. If you missed it, you are sorry. In this particular...

The Americans Circus reinvented in timber, steel and ingenuity. Performances at Telluride's Palm Theatre, Monday, December 30, 7 p.m.; Tuesday, December 31, 8 p.m. (New Year's show with bubbly and ball drop.) In 2002 Chris Lashua and Aloysia Gavre began experiments using an innovative aerial apparatus. This...

[caption id="attachment_36840" align="alignright" width="300"] Dogs given celebrity names at shelters in the hopes of attracting adopters include, clockwise from top left: Connie Britton, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Bill Murray, Cat Deeley, Rod Stewart, Diane Sawyer and James Earl Jones. (From The New York Times article...

[caption id="attachment_36858" align="alignright" width="190"] The swans, above, at $1,000 each, are the costliest gift, although the price hasn't budged from 30 years ago. (From New York Times Biz section post)[/caption] Turns out the cost of engaging the lords and ladies went up the most. The price...