Climate Change Important to Record Numbers of People
We curated this story by Olivia Rosane in EcoWatch because, for a change, there is something positive to report on the climate change front. A record number of Americans now say th
Beyond Telluride
Telluride Film Fest & The Oscars: “Roma” & “The Favourite”
The New York Times recently pushed out Oscar news and two films that premiered at the Telluride Film Festival share the honor of the most nominations – 10 in all – for the cele
Is Sunscreen the New Margarine?
It’s a powder day and you are trotting out the door to the slopes. But heeding the warning of your a) mother or b) dermatologist before you leave the house, you slather on su
Telluride Gallery of Fine Art: Honoring Martin Luther King
The Telluride Gallery of Fine Art has mounted a show of the work of the iconic American photographer Dan Budnik, a man close to The Man whose name rhymes with the Civil Rights move
Schultheis: “Deep in Bears Ears Country”
On Dec. 4, 2017, newly elected President Donald Trump decided to shrink the Bears Ears region of southern Utah, downsizing by 85 percent (or more than a million acres) a monument
Women’s March Comes to Montrose, 1/19
On Saturday January 19, 2019, 10–11 a.m., the Women’s March comes to Montrose, Colorado. March from Demoret Park , 246 W Main Street, corner of Main & Townsend (meet
Health Benefits of Cannabis Oil
Barrett Jones is a clinical pharmacologist who studied at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas. He currently works in a chemistry laboratory in Columbia University (where he also lect
9 Renewable Energy Highlights of 2018
Climate change challenges facing the world in the New Year leaving you feeling blorft? (Check out Tina Fey.) Here’s an antidote: some good news from Jeff Deyette and the Unio
Telluride Film Fest & The Golden Globes
When it comes to Big Surprises, nothing, err, trumps the Telluride Film Festival, which has managed to keep the names of the films and special guests on its annual program a secret
A New Year A New You?
Just days into 2019 are you still resolved to become other than who you were in 2018? Often we make those annual promises to ourselves only to break them. Here’s what Mark T
Could Seaweed Save the Ocean from Plastic?
Remember the 21-year-old, disaffected hero who starred in the blockbuster film “The Graduate”? Ben was portrayed as smart but aimless, so a well-meaning friend of the f
New Year’s Eve: A Brief History
Tired of the holidaze by now, from Christmas to Chaunukah to Kwanzaa? Well then rest assured, there is one seasonal event that unites us all regardless of religious (or not) backgr
Poets’ Corner: Rosemerry & Elissa for the Solstice
The term solstice means “sun stands still.” On the year’s two solstices (winter and summer) the sun appears to halt in its incremental journey across the sky and change littl
ON MAIN Reopens with “HANDMADE,” 12/20
It’s all about altitude – with attitude. Two long-time Telluride locals and internationally renowned tastemakers, Ellen Geldbaugh and Catherine Walsh, conceived of ON MAIN as
Poets’ Corner: Thanksgiving Banquet, A Meta for Consequences of Excess?
In this Thanksgiving poem by our not-regular-enough contributor David Feela, an endless buffet becomes a meta for a world increasingly divided by haves and have nots and the conse
Thanksgiving: A Short History & An Even Shorter Poem by Rosemerry
With snow fall comes the holiday season in Telluride and around the world. You can like the celebrations. You can lump them all into one Scroogey ball. The only thing you cannot do
Accidental Alzheimer’s Test
An article written by Tara Bahrampour for The Washington Post looks back to the 1960s, but this time, not to the Vietnam War and the antiwar protests, not to the Civil Rights movem
Psilocybin: FDA Grants “Breakthrough Therapy” Status
Michael Pollan (of “How to Change Your Mind”) must be psyched. And those who’ve attended the John Hopkins lectures at the Telluride Mushroom Festival about extrem
Tall Tales/TIO Denver: “The Humans” at Curious Theatre Company
“The Humans” by Stephen Karam, which received the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play, is now up at Denver’s Curious Theatre Company. The run is through December 22. O
Just How Important is Breakfast?
Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? Or is simply eating when you are actually hungry the way to go, even if that occurs later in the morning? Is it ok to skip b
Bhutan: Teaching the World About Being Carbon Negative
Talking heads report healthcare is top of mind these days, not climate change, though scientists report the world has until 2030 to fix the mess we put ourselves in – or else.
TIO Peru: Lake Titicaca
Floating islands made out of reeds are home to a tribe that have lived there for centuries. On a nearby island of only 2.3 square miles 2,500 people live in a closed community wher
TIO Peru: Lows & Highs, Amazonia & Machu Picchu
Susan and I arrived in Peru around midnight on October 15th, the beginning of our two-week tour of the country. After a brief introductory stay in Lima (elevation 505′) the T
TIO Peru: In General & Lima
Our whirlwind tour of Peru, just under two weeks, was choreographed by the award-winning Kensington Tours, whose “destination experts” (like ours, Sarah Roberts) are good liste