Culture

The official holiday kick-off concert at the Bob Saunders Theatre inside the Palm Arts Complex featured award-winning violinist Tessa Lark and composer/bassist Michael Thurber on 12/8. The series continued through the month. Next up: magician Adam Trent, 12/30. For more information, go to www.telluridepalm.com. “The Illusionist Presents...

With her poem (below), Rosemerry Trommer transcends the canned rhetoric of the holidaze and goes straight to the the true reason for the season. For many, Xmas is a period for the renewal of faith, but it also also a time for personal reflection. What...

Creating holiday magic takes work - or in the case of Telluride's favorite Wordwoman, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: words. Her marks on a page shine as brightly as any ornament on a sparkling Christmas tree. Find examples of Rosemerry's magical musings below – or at Telluride's...

Every Christmas is a palimpsest for the one that came before and the one before and so on back. Memories of Xmases past are as persistent as Santa myths– and as unavoidable as carols, “It’s A Wonderful Life,” and telemarketers. One of our favorite writer-poets...

Telluride Theatre is bringing the spirit of the holidays to Town with "Holiday Cabaret," an original, family-friendly variety show that will keep the audience singing, dancing, and laughing their jingle bells off. Shows are at 7 p.m. Dec. 20 – Dec. 23 with a matinee...

Telluride's Sheridan Arts Foundation (SAF), the non-profit organization that owns and operates the historic Sheridan Opera House, proudly presents its 2019 Holiday Concert Series. Shows feature a variety of highly acclaimed artists performing the week after Christmas. The Sheridan Opera House raises critical funds through its...

On December 18, the Colorado Creative Industries (CCI) announced the recipients for the "Colorado Creates" grant program for the fiscal year 2020. Hot news: the Telluride Fire Festival made the cut. Colorado Creative Industries announced a total of 134 grants in 27 counties across the state...

His show at the Slate Gray Gallery, which opened with the Telluride Fire Fest in early December, proved Ben Kapp himself is on fire. The art of the Telluride local is featured through January at the Gallery.  It was early days when the word came down...

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 but change little in position during this time. Of course, contrary to appearances from Earth, the sun's "changing...