Author: Susan Viebrock

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...

University Centers of the San Miguel and Rotary Club of Telluride are excited to announce a collaboration. The start-up is a new Mobile GED Testing Center Project for all interested regional residents 16 years and older within the San Miguel River watershed. UCSM is very grateful...

[caption id="attachment_36832" align="alignright" width="300"] Scrooge (from Furlong PR blog)[/caption] Telluride Inside… and Out means the challenges of social media are as much a part of daily life as walking Gina the Dog and flossing. In honor of Christmas, we found lessons from Furlong PR and Charles Dickens' "A...

[caption id="attachment_36732" align="alignright" width="248"] Kelley Zinge[/caption] "Crazy." "Walkin' After Midnight." "Your Cheatin' Heart" "I Fall To Pieces." "Sweet Dreams." To this day, country music fans make pilgrimages to Wincester, Virginia, Patsy Cline's hometown to pay tribute to the celebrated country singer whose smooth-sounding, emotive voice turned those tunes into pop hits...

Celebrate a white winter by attending the premiere of the latest Warren Miller production. "Ticket to Ride" premieres in Telluride Monday, December 23. There are two showings, both at the historic Sheridan Opera House, 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. (Doors open 30 minutes prior to show...

Heavyweight (we mean that in the good sense) Green Party county commissioner, shroom afficionado,  accomplished basketweaver, potato farmer– and poet extraordinaire (in 2011, he was named Western Slope Poet Laureate), let the Goodtimes roll. We are, of course, talking about none other than the force...

The Stikine Valley in British Columbia is sacred to the First Nations people, the Tahltan. The region encompasses one of the largest predator-prey ecosystems in North America. Rich in wildlife –  caribou, stone sheep, moose, mountain goats, grizzlies and wolves – and mountain majesty, the...