Last Saturday night, February 21, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival was awarded “Music Festival of the Year” at the 26th Annual Pollstar Concert Industry Awards, held at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. This marks the first time a Colorado festival, or any bluegrass festival, has ever won...
Most nonprofits depend on successful fundraising and a lot can be learned from a local expert successfully working in the field. Due to the importance of fundraising to local nonprofits’ growth and vitality, the Telluride Foundation is hosting a free, public workshop, “Raise More Money.” The...
Since we are talking Oscars and “Birdman” in the same sentence, I gotta crow. Here’s the lead to my review of the 41st annual Telluride Film Festival. It’s a bird. It’s a plane – not. It’s “Birdman,” a winged version of Superman and all the other hollow comic book super heroes...
Google the Oscars. The same story pops up everywhere: Best guess it’s Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood” versus Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “Birdman,” which opened in North America to raves at the 41st Telluride Film Festival.” Does it all really come down to heart verus heady? The New York Times'...
Very special SPARKfilms presentations Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, February 24 – 26. [caption id="attachment_48664" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Director Francois Truffaut[/caption] Next week SPARKy is hosting three big screen events. The National Theatre of Great Britain’s NT LIVE series presents a new production of the classic, “Treasure Island.” The screening...
Note: If you failed to score tickets for the fashion show, there is yet another opportunity to watch the action and be inspired to give. The Town of Mountain Village plans to air the Gala live – on Mountain Village Cable Channel 15 and online at townofmountainvillage.com/video – Saturday, February 28, 8 p.m When Kandee DeGraw &...
Leftover Salmon at the Opera House Thursday & Friday, February 19 & 20,. Doors 7:30 p.m.; show time is 8 p.m. Tickets, $30* GA; $40* reserved seats in balcony here. Looking back over the past 25 years of rootsy, string-based music, the impact of Leftover Salmon...
The Telluride Film Festival presents a not-to-be-missed Japanese animated masterpiece at this month’s free community "Sunday at the Palm” screening. Hiroyuki Okiura’s "A LETTER TO MOMO" was hailed as “stunning!” by Variety, and is made possible in part by New York-based distributors, GKids, who work with the Telluride...
On Valentine’s Day, it all seems so straightforward, so simple: he gives you a little box or a big bouquet, chocolates too maybe; you give him, what?, basketball tickets. Long glance looks over a romantic dinner. But through her words, her pearls, regular contributor (thank heaven),...
February 12 to 19, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Mercury, Saturn Evening: Venus, Mars, Jupiter The waning Moon rises in pre-dawn darkness all week, its shape more slender with each passing night. The starry blue-black canopy of deep space shimmers above, a sparkling canvas upon which...
