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The Telluride Film Festival and Telluride’s five-star Wilkinson Public Library are pleased to launch the 19th edition of  "Cinematheque" at the Library. From Luis Buñuel to Guillermo del Toro (TFF #44 festival guest with his new masterpiece, THE SHAPE OF WATER), from magical realism to...

The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds program named David J. Rothman of Crested Butte to serve as the fourth Western Slope Poet Laureate at the Telluride Literary Arts Festival this past May. [caption id="attachment_69046" align="aligncenter" width="300"] David Rothman is 4th Western Slope Poet Laureate.[/caption] Started at the Karen Chamberlain...

Labor Day weekend in Telluride twins with the Telluride Film Festival. Elsewhere it is four days that mark the end of summer. Designated a holiday since 1884, Labor Day was instituted to celebrate the contributions of labor to the national welfare of the U.S. In the current climate of...

On Wednesday, August 9, 4 - 6 p.m., Telluride’s Between the Covers Bookstore welcomes author/photographer Michael Crouser for a book launch and signing of his latest work, Mountain Ranch.  Please scroll down to listen to a podcast featuring Michael Crouser. In his new book of photography, Mountain Ranch, Michael...

Do you believe in ghosts? Is it possible that new life, or better, new perspectives could spring from the shadows of a dead relative? Brooke Williams would answer ”yes.” In fact, Williams gives a full-throated response in the affirmative in his latest book, “Open Midnight: Where Ancestors and Wilderness...

Father's Day is a celebration honoring, well, fathers. The holiday also celebrates fatherhood in general, paternal bonds, and the influence of dads in society. For some, however, Father’s Day is shorthand for pulling out a wallet. Again. Gifts of watches and Fitbits, beard trimmers and bespoke home distilleries and grills, tickets...

To honor the memory of his father - and friend who was a father who just past – on Father’s Day, David Feela choose to continue a tradition scholars say might have emerged from Babylonian ruins, where upon a 4,000 years ago, a boy named Elmesu...