Culture

SPARKy Productions is the non-profit founded by Jennie Franks, a playwright and actor, to bolster the diverse cultural life of rural communities like Telluride through theatre, film and the written word. The sun at the center of the SPARKy universe is the Telluride Playwrights Festival, now...

Sleek and sultry, with a capacity of 450, a large performance stage, red ambient lighting throughout the room, and seating areas for a more private experience, Club Red is is reminiscent of speakeasies of the past with the feel of a 30’s era jazz club...

I came across a press release about "What Are You Waiting For?" author Kristen Moeller joining the Tiny House movement and being the guest on the premier of the new A+E show, Tiny House Nation.  Here are several excerpts from the press release. Tiny House Nation,...

Here are several excerpts from an article by Michael Forrester, a spiritual counselor and practicing motivational speaker, about recent research on energy transference between plants. A biological research team at Bielefeld University has made a groundbreaking discovery showing that plants can draw an alternative source of...

The Sheridan Arts Foundation is proud to present actor and country musician John Corbett and his band live in concert at the Sheridan Opera House Saturday, July 5, 2014. Showtime is 8:30 p.m. Recognize the name? You should. John Corbett is a Hollywood and TV luminary. But stars...

“I want to make this moment worthy of your attention; something unique, something honest," Zoltan. Telluride Arts’ First Thursday Art Walk celebrates the bounty of the Telluride Creative District. It is a meet-and-greet for locals and visitors alike, when venues around town stay open late until...

Kenneth Chang, a science reporter for The New York Times,  has written about the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 Satellite that is Launching on Tuesday Morning.  Here are several excerpts: On an average day, some 100 million tons of carbon dioxide is liberated from oil and coal by...

"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...