Culture

On August 26, Telluride Mountainfilm will screen "The Diplomat,” a film by Mountainfilm festival director David Holbrooke. Two screenings at Nugget Theatre, 6 p.m.p.m. & 8:30 p.m. (Tickets, $15 for adults and $10 for children, go on sale 30 minutes prior to the show.)   Telluride Mountainfilm will present two special late-summer...

Telluride's Sheridan Arts Foundation presents a night of reggae with Jamaican legends The Mighty Diamonds, the most consistent and long-running vocal trio in Jamaican musical history, live at the historic Sheridan Opera House Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015.  Tickets are $20 GA floor and $30 reserved balcony...

The 2015 Telluride Foundation Community Grant application is now live. You can find it on our webpage, www.telluridefoundation.org, click on “Our Work” and then “Community Grants,” scroll down to “Community Grants Application.” Also, there will be a live webinar about the 2015 application process on Tuesday,...

Beyond the Groove Productions presents Jenny Lewis, live at Club Red, Wednesday, August 19. Doors 8 p.m.; show, 8:30 p.m. All ages. Tickets, $35 in advance and $37 at the door here. Or stop by Wizard Framing and Entertainment, 126 East Colorado. Beyond the Groove is pleased to announce...

TMVOA  2015 Sunset Concert Series concludes, this week featuring Jon Wayne and The Pain. More sounds through August 19, Sunset Plaza in Mountain Village. Show time is 6 p.m.  See full schedule below. Now in its 16th year, the free outdoor live music program, The Sunset Concerts Series, overlooking the scenic...

Join the Telluride Historical Museum at its 12th Annual “Feasting on History,” featuring Flint Whitlock. Event is Saturday, August 29, 6:30– 10 p.m. at La Piazza del Villaggio in Mountain Village. Ticket prices are $275 for the Museum Lover;  $200 for a Museum Friend. Both options...

Colorado's Durango Blues Train returns Friday & Saturday, August 21 and & 22, 2015. Unique music experience presents two full bands, and four solo acts. Musicians perform in their own vintage coach, while passengers are free to sample each act by traveling from one coach to the next. Lineup features...

My Huff Post feed this morning included a short blog by Stephanie Marcus, Entertainment Editor. The subject: Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight,” which, as locals know– we hung with cast members, fed them in our restaurants, sacrificed virgins to the god of snow with them...

Starting in the mid-1990s, dance in Telluride rhymed with the name of former prima ballerina Valerie Madonia.  [caption id="attachment_53082" align="aligncenter" width="197"] Valerie Madonia[/caption] When we first met in the mid-1990s, I did not speak fluent ballet. And I am still not sure if a revoltarde is something...

Telluride Theatre SINGS! With a Pick-A-Prize Raffle, a fundraiser for Telluride Theatre. Paddle board from Jagged Edge is grand prize.  Friday, August 21, Telluride Theatre will hold a fundraiser at the Palm Theatre. The happening includes local singers and dancers theatricalizing a very famous album as well as...