Arts-based community development investment for Telluride, Colorado: Telluride Arts is one of 89 National Endowment for the Arts "Our Town" projects selected nationwide. National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu announced 89 awards totaling $6.89 million supporting projects across the nation through the NEA’s Our...
Telluride’s Pinhead Institute offers range of STEM camps throughout the summer season. [caption id="attachment_66602" align="aligncenter" width="450"] A student engrossed in (This Is Not) Math Camp.[/caption] Summer is upon us and things are heating up at the Pinhead Institute. This season, the nonprofit is offering exciting new and tried-and-true STEM camps...
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...
T’is the season. That is the season of bright sunshine, river music, and tourists wandering through our streets, jaws agape. Summer also means Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts is fully geared up to launch 10 weeks of youth summer art camps and Fabulous Fridays for ages 4 – 18. To...
The 2017 Telluride Wine Festival takes place Thursday, June 22 - Sunday, June 25. Don’t have a pass? Don’t pass. This year’s weekend is billed as "Choose Your Own Adventure” – though some events are reserved for pass-holders and patrons only. For a full schedule,...
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...
Telluride Bluegrass 2017 hit the ground running on Thursday. Literally...
Telluride has its festivals. Nederland has Frozen Dead Guy Days. No kidding, celebrated annually from Friday – Sunday the first full weekend of March. A centerpieces of Frozen Guy Days is a screening of the film “Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed,” a magnum opus which...
How did Father’s Day come about? 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...
Tim O’Brien returns for the umpteenth (actually 41st) time to perform on the Main Stage at the 44rd annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival. His band, that is The Tim’ OBrien Band, this year includes the friends who helped make Tim’s new CD, “Where the River Meets the Road”: Mike Bub,...
