What else happens over Telluride Blues & Brews weekend? Besides great music and brews that is. The other big event is something truly exotic (and stimulating) – curling up in a comfortable chair with a good book, courtesy of the Friends of the Library, whose annual book sale takes place Friday,...
Winner of 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, “The Flick,” runs through October 17 at Denver's Curious Theatre Company. Tickets here. The latest book in the award-winning Allison Coil Mystery Series by our theatre critic/author Mark Stevens is “Lake of Fire.” Mark will be in town for a book...
A collaboration by Telluride’s Bookends: Between the Covers Bookstore and Wilkinson Public Library. [caption id="attachment_52699" align="aligncenter" width="412"] Clare Vanderpool[/caption] Newbery Medal-winning author Clare Vanderpool will pay a first-time visit to Telluride, Saturday. August 1, 11 a.m. at the Wilkinson Public Library. Vanderpool won the award in 2011 for “Moon...
In conjunction with the 2015 annual exhibit: Forces of Nature: Telluride's Prehistoric Journey, the Telluride Historical Museum presents a series of free monthly lectures featuring experts in the local and regional natural history of Telluride, as follows: “The Electric Edge of Academe: The Saga of Lucien L....
According to history.com, during the 1920s and 1930s, a movement arose to scrap Mother’s Day and Father’s Day altogether in favor of a single holiday, Parents’ Day. Every year on Mother’s Day, pro-Parents’ Day groups rallied in New York City’s Central Park–a public reminder, said Parents’ Day...
A collaboration among Between the Covers Bookstore, Jagged Edge Mountain Gear, and Telluride Mountain Club starts Tuesday, June 23, Jagged Edge. Between the Covers Bookstore (BTC), Jagged Edge Mountain Gear, and Telluride Mountain Club (TMC) have collaborated on a new project: The Mountain Lit Author Series. Tor Anderson,...
Telluride Film Festival Cinematheque at the Wilkinson Public Library – Summer Series. This Monday’s Cinematheque welcomes a very special guest - Glory Fioramonti, Susan Sarandon's stunt double in “Thelma & Louise." The Telluride Film Festival and Wilkinson Public Library are thrilled to present THELMA AND LOUISE (1991, 106...
Jill Burkey of Grand Junction received the $1000 Mark Fischer Poetry Prize for her poem, “Beginning Mind,” at a ceremony May 16, 2015, during the Talking Gourds poetry program segment of the Telluride Literary Arts Festival. [caption id="attachment_51009" align="aligncenter" width="384"] Jill Burkey, winner, Mark Fischer Poetry...
Word Woman Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer of Placerville, Telluride, was named the third Poet Laureate of the Western Slope during the Talking Gourds Poetry Performances Saturday, May 16, 2015, at the Ah Haa School of the Arts during the Second Telluride Literary Arts Festival (LitFest). Emeritus Laureate...
Telluride’s one and only public library is turning 40 and we are celebrating! To honor the 40th anniversary of the Wilkinson Public Library, on Friday, May 29, 7 p.m., the Telluride community is invited to AFTER HOURS IN THE STACKS. The celebration features drinks and appetizers, interactive theater by Telluride Theater;...
