Culture

Filmmaker and elite athlete Ben Clark screens his latest film about “Nolan’s 14,” the biggest mountain line in North America, perhaps the world. Show time is Sunday, 7:30 p.m., at the Nugget. Free to all, including swag. Think you’re tough? Think you are hardwired for serious adventure? A...

Two Telluride Science Research Center scientists win 2014 Nobel Prize in chemistry TSRC scientists Eric Betzig, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and William E. Moerner, Stanford University, were awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work developing super-resolved fluorescence in microscopy, along with Stefan W. Hell, Max Planck Institute....

Telluride’s Wilkinson Public Library has once again earned a “Five Star” rating from Library Journal. The top-rating is a tribute to the staff’s hard work and dedication to making our library the best it can be for the greater Telluride community. Administration and staff take pride in knowing...

This one from Oleh Lysiak is all about dying tradition and the rugged individualism that ties some folks to the land tight as a roped calf. That image, if photoshopped on one of today’s reality of land for sale (and not for man and beast) might...

Executive Director Breakfast on “Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health," Thursday December 4, 8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m., at the Telluride Ski & Snowboard Clubhouse, base of Lift 7, 300 Mahoney Dr, C4.   Paul Major, President & CEO of the Telluride Foundation leads a discussion on the...

Is There More than Meets the Eye? Is there a deeper order to our reality? I reveal my one fundamental. [caption id="attachment_12347" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Pastor Pat Bailey[/caption] http://youtu.be/xSuvvKHB9gU Editor’s Note: Dr. Pat Bailey of Telluride’s Christ Presbyterian Church, is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church...

Helen Thorpe is an author and freelance journalist who has written articles for the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Texas Monthly, Westword, and 5280. Her first book, "Just Like Us," was published by Scribner in 2009 and named one of the best books of the year by the...

James "The Amazing" Randi was a guest at Mountainfilm 2014, in support of the doc about his life and work, “An Honest Liar," a festival favorite – both the film and the man. James Randi became a world-famous magician and escape artist by studying the art of...

The film was a crowd favorite at the 41st annual Telluride Film Festival. Film critic Lisa Kennedy interviews Jon Stewart about “Rosewater” for the Denver Post. [caption id="attachment_46239" align="aligncenter" width="268"] Gael Garcia Benal, star of “Rosewater," with his director, Jon Stewart[/caption] While being held and tortured in Iran's...