Culture

The Sheridan Arts Foundation’s 10th annual Telluride Plein Air event begins this week through the Fourth of July. New this year are two mini paint-outs in Mountain Village, Wednesday, June 29, to coincide with the Farmers’ Market, 1-3 p.m. and with the Sunset Concert Series, 5-7 p.m., with the...

Kenya, a country twice the size of Nevada, is located in East Africa near the Equator. Its regions are varied and range from year-round snow in the Kenya and Kilimanjaro Mountains to warm, tropical beaches and deserts, but most of the land is rolling grasslands and forests. When...

Tickets for the Telluride Wine Festival here, including Max McCalman’s seminars. On opening day of the Telluride Wine Festival, Thursday, June 23, one of the banner events on the robust schedule is the Patron Dinner + Movie, “King Georges,” (6:30 - 9 p.m., Telluride Conference Center, Mountain...

Tickets to the 2016 Telluride Wine Festival here. Please scroll down towards the bottom of the story to watch a video interview with this year's Telluride Wine Director and somm to the stars, Christopher Sawyer. [caption id="attachment_59607" align="aligncenter" width="526"] Christopher Sawyer[/caption] In vino, some split decisions about the...

Denver’s Avenue Theater now featuring “Bakersfield Mist” (through July 2). Tickets here. Below is award-winning writer (and our Denver critic) Mark Stevens' take on the production. [caption id="attachment_59700" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Maude Gutman (played by Abby Apple Boes) shows art expert Lionel Percy (John Ashton) her idea of quality art.[/caption] Based on a real-life...

A Telluride Wine Fest gourmet dinner prepared by world-famous chef Georges Perrier plus a movie about the man (“King Georges”) takes place Thursday, June 23, 6:30- 9 p.m., Telluride Conference Center, Mountain Village. For tickets. go here or call 800-656-0713. "Nobody who is a chef is a normal person, because a chef...

He is now making beautiful, brightly colored paintings, soulscapes that reflect his inner Cheshire Cat (plus Fauve/Magic Realism antecedents). [caption id="attachment_59619" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Dome of the Rock, by Daniel Tucker[/caption] In the introduction to the catalog for the exhibition of his new paintings, collectively The Museum of Feelings, Daniel Tucker explains: “For...

What happens when the curtain comes down on Telluride Bluegrass? Yes, more festivals. More music especially. Had enough of the crowds in your face and dust in your nose and toes? Try something truly exotic for a change. Try a book. You know, a book, one of those written or printed work consisting of...

The 35th annual Telluride Wine Festival was named official qualifier for the World Food Championships. For more information, go here. Call 970-728-9790 or email wine@telluridewinefestival.com for entry information. Telluride Wine Fest’s events take place in the Towns of Telluride and Mountain Village. For tickets to Wine Fest...

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 debate was about a sexual assault case at Stanford, also wealth and privilege, gender and race - plus the...