Culture

[caption id="attachment_37846" align="alignright" width="300"] Telluride Monks, Amy Levek[/caption] The Chimera of legend was a monstrous, fire-breathing creature composed of the parts of three animals, a lion, a snake and a goat. Today the term has come to describe any fictional beast with parts taken from various...

[caption id="attachment_37870" align="alignright" width="300"] Lizard Head Peak from San Juan Basin[/caption] One down. Eleven to go. And the Telluride Historical Museum keeps up the pace this month. See below for what is happening in February. Victorian Valentines: Tuesday, February 11, 3:30 – 5 p.m. Come with a song in...

Here's one for all you trivia buffs. The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club was established the late 19th century: 1887 to be exact. Say what, you say? Get out of your hole. That is the fraternity dedicated to the only true weather forecasting groundhog on the planet,...

[caption id="attachment_12347" align="alignright" width="225"] Pastor Pat Bailey[/caption] A concept that I find in a variety of spiritual traditions, including Christianity, is mysticism. It is the assertion that what we most deeply seek in our spiritual lives is something that is already real and true and has...

Telluride Film Festival Cinematheque at the Wilkinson Public Library  The Telluride  Film Festival and Wilkinson Public Library are pleased to present Cinematheque, a collaboration that brings Festival-quality films year-round to the community of Telluride. The current series, entitled They Came to Telluride: Women Behind the Lens,...

Telluride Arts now accepting applications for Small Grants program. Deadline is Friday, February 28. Small grants support art at its source, the artists who create the paintings and sculptures, plays and dances, music, films and novels that enrich our lives. The grant program is a unique...

We remember it like yesterday. Friday evening, February 9, 2001 we were in the audience for the opening night of the Sheridan Arts Foundation Young People Theater production of "Grease," the jumping, jitterbugging, and leaping spoof of all the rock 'n roll movies made in that...

At Christ Presbyterian Church, Telluride, we describe ourselves this way:  "A progressive, inclusive, evolutionary Christian community that values the unique quality of your spiritual journey toward a more authentic life." To understand what we mean by "evolutionary," please listen to last Sunday's sermon about why evolutionary consciousness is important for...

January 23 to 30, 2014 Visible Planets:Morning:Venus, Mars, Saturn  Evening:Mercury, Jupiter  I have to admit, I love football. Also that I am a life-long Denver Broncos fan. Good, bad or ugly… I was born and raised in the “Big D” and I grew up on football. My...

It doesn’t matter where. It doesn’t matter who. Sexual assault and domestic violence ignore cultural boundaries, race, even gender – although women are more often victims than men. Fact is those twin horrors are equal opportunity offenders. And it turns out intimate partner violence is the most...