Culture

The point of it all is to break down the headlines, determine why an issue is important and reveal the best arguments on each side of the story. Last week the subject was the fine line between  political favors and political corruption. The case of former...

Telluride’s Ah Haa School’s Daniel Tucker Gallery played host to an impressive Youth Art Awards reception on April 28.  The show featured paintings, drawings, printmaking, ceramics, even woodwork. There were 120 submissions from public school students from Telluride, Norwood and Naturita, as well as Telluride Mountain School students....

In most cases, the lucky ones, mothers are the Linus blankets of our early lives. We hang on as long as we can. Early on, we can’t go to sleep without them nearby. When we think of our most cherished childhood memories, moms typically play central roles in the...

Telluride Mountainfilm, which opened for business in 1979, uses the power of film, art, and dynamic conversations to inspire audiences to create a better world by helping to preserve and protect endangered people, places and ideas. [caption id="attachment_58636" align="aligncenter" width="600"] From "Life Animated, "courtesy, Mountainfilm[/caption] Tellluride Mountainfilm screens feature documentaries on...

In a recently resurfaced 1985 interview, famed astronomer Carl Sagan finds common ground between science and spirituality. Writing in the Huff Post, Carolyn Gregoire explains. Watch the talk on video too. When you imagine an alien, what do you think of? A green, slimy creature with jagged...

Are you an early adopter? Do you love being the person who knows before anyone else about the latest trends? Are you an investor looking for the next billion-dollar business? Attend this Shark Tank-inspired event and become part of the entrepreneurial culture of startups. Come and listen to the innovators, the creative people, the risk-takers...

The point of it all is to break down the headlines, determine why an issue is important, and reveal the best arguments on each side of the story. Last week in The Short Version, Cleo Abram blogged about the strike by Verizon workers, but the...

We claim her, so we name her. Telluride’s Word Woman is Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. The Telluride Literary Festival describes Rosemerry as one of its notorious “Burl Gurrls,” an elite sorority that includes other red hot poets: Amy Irvine, Kierstin Bridger, and Ellen Metrick. (For more on Lit Fest 2016, May...

The Ah Haa School for the Arts Telluride Painting School announces merit scholarships. Discounted housing for 2016. [caption id="attachment_58473" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Image, Ying Li[/caption] Each fall, the Telluride Painting School brings celebrated visiting artists to the Ah Haa School for the Arts to teach a series of three two-week...