Culture

The Telluride Literary Arts Festival or Lit Fest, takes place in town Friday, May 18 – Sunday, May 20. The featured author is Craig Childs, who is scheduled to speak on Sunday, May 20, 7 p.m., at Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library. The subject is his...

Start planning your 2018 Mountainfilm Festival happening over Memorial Weekend in Telluride The schedule includes times and venues for films, presentations, the Moving Mountains Symposium, parties, town talks, book-signings, special events and more. Click on the FULL SCHEDULE HERE. Go to FESTIVAL ON A BUDGET  for all...

Mountainfilm takes place in Telluride over Memorial Weekend, May 25 – May 28. Passes to the 2018 festival are nearly sold out. To get your passes or for more information about Mountainfilm, visit here. Telluride author Susan Dalton captures Mountainfilm's best memories in “Mountainfilm: 40 Years.” The beautiful coffee...

Rosemerry Trommer and Art Goodtimes, co-directors of the Telluride Institute's Talking Gourds program, announce the winners of Fischer Prize and Cantor Prize, chosen by judge Joan Logghe of New Mexico and featured at the Telluride Literary Arts Festival. (Go here for more on Lit Fest...

To date, the current resident of 16 Pennsylvania Avenue and his band of merry men, particularly one Scott Pruitt, have gutted the EPA's budget under the guise of fixing budget issues; killed the Paris Climate Agreement, denying climate change; and in general relaxed environmental rules...

Western State Colorado University students in the School of Environment & Sustainability plan a trip to the Himalayas starting May 17. Their goal is to build a mountain partnership and sister city relationship between the towns of Gunnison and Majikali, India. Western students in the...

Playwright Meridith Friedman and director Dee Covington, present "Your Best One," at Denver's Curious Theatre Company. The show is up through June 10. Our Denver theater critic, award-winning author Mark Stevens, reviews the production. Tickets here. [caption id="attachment_74200" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Colin Covert as Josh and John Jurcheck...

Mother’s Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe (who wrote the words to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”) as a day dedicated to peace. In 1907, Philadelphian Ana Jarvis began a campaign to establish a national Mother’s Day. She persuaded her mother’s...

Mountainfilm takes place in Telluride over Memorial Weekend, May 25 – May 28. Passes to the 2018 festival are selling out very fast., very few remain. To get your passes or for more information about Mountainfilm, visit here. Telluride author Susan Dalton captures Mountainfilm‘s best memories in “Mountainfilm: 40...

Mountainfilm takes place in Telluride over Memorial Weekend, May 25 – May 28. Passes to the 2018 festival are selling out fast. To get your passes or for more information about Mountainfilm, visit here. Telluride author Susan Dalton captures Mountainfilm‘s best memories in “Mountainfilm: 40 Years.” The beautiful coffee...