Culture

"Many of our past winners have submitted photos from their cell phones--there are so many chances to get a good picture on July 4th,” said event founder Katrine Formby. Daniel Tucker founded Telluride’s Ah Haa School for the Arts in 1991 based on the idea that...

I don't watch TV, but if I did, I'd watch "Shark Week" on the Discovery Channel.  As Brian Koerner notes in his Mashable article: "We don't like to use the word 'epic' often, but the commercial features a chum-tossing, shirtless man leading a swarm of sea...

Colorado Senator Michael Bennet to help conclude intensive five-month business accelerator program The Telluride Venture Accelerator (TVA) is entering the final phase of its second year. Launched in the fall of 2012 as an initiative of the Telluride Foundation, TVA selected six companies out of 75...

The title to my sermon last Sunday was "Have You Been on Your Knees Lately?" The posture of bowing or kneeling is one that reflects an attitude of heart. It can be seen as a posture of submission, as when we kneel before a king...

Eugene Boudin was one of the more adventurous 19th-century painters, known primary for his beach scenes and seascapes of northern France, and luminous skies. When Boudin taught his young student, Claude Monet, the importance of painting a scene directly from nature in the light, in...

Artist will be painting on site at Lustre Gallery, 171 South Pine. Artist reception this Sunday, June 29, noon – 6 p.m. [caption id="attachment_42636" align="aligncenter" width="481"] Blue Sky, Buffalo Hill, by Marshall Noice[/caption] In sync with the artists gathering in town for the Sheridan Art Foundation’s 11th annual...

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.“ Mark Twain Maria Popova, a Bulgarian writer and critic living in Brooklyn, New York and best known for one of my favorite blogs, brainpickings.org, offers up a post about something near and dear...

“What makes Adam Neiman a genuine rarity is that he plays with imagination and authority, not just an extra helping of technique. He was clearly born to be a pianist and is carrying out a destiny written in his genes,” Chicago Tribune Like the Telluride Playwrights...

Here are several excerpts from a Scientific American article by Daniel A. Yudkin and Yaacov Trope about a recent paper that was published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology that argues that different music encourages different frames of mind; it quite literally changes the way...