The end of the year brings an extra holiday gift to many local nonprofit organizations that serve the Telluride community and San Miguel County. On Monday, December 30, the Telluride Foundation Board of Directors awarded over $900,000 in Community Grants to 75 regional nonprofits, bringing...
[caption id="attachment_36807" align="alignright" width="200"] Rosemerry wishing everyone a Happy New Year[/caption] Traditions for the transition into the New Year abound. In many cultures, fireworks are a symbol of light in the new year. While they are restricted in Iceland the rest of the year, on New...
We tend to think of the beginning of the New Year as a cosmic white-out: bad things disappear; hope springs eternal. Regular TIO contributor David Feela is a retired teacher, poet, free-lance writer, and workshop instructor. His writing has appeared in hundreds of regional and national...
[caption id="attachment_36903" align="alignright" width="300"] Dude & Bro doing what they do best: hangin'.[/caption] Telluride Theatre's latest production was a Christmas show, "Dude & Bro' s A Christmas Carol," very very very loosely based on the Charles Dickens classic. If you missed it, you are sorry. In this particular...
[caption id="attachment_36849" align="alignright" width="300"] Thea Chase, director, Telluride Venture Accelerator[/caption] Six Companies Selected for 2014 Accelerator Class Telluride Venture Accelerator (TVA), an initiative of the Telluride Foundation, is pleased to announce the six winners slated to participate in the five-month Accelerator program in 2014. Winners were selected...
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees to play Sheridan Arts Foundation’s New Year’s Eve Gala At its annual New Year’s Eve Gala, The Sheridan Arts Foundation is ringing in 2014 with Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Jefferson Starship. The party takes place the Sheridan...
[caption id="attachment_12347" align="alignright" width="225"] Pastor Pat Bailey[/caption] Part of our recent conversation at Christ Church has been about the importance of mythology as a conveyor of truth. Some folks become a bit nervous when I describe the New Testament accounts of the life of Jesus as a...
"How does the ordinary person come to an experience of the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It...
[caption id="attachment_36797" align="alignright" width="300"] The Oh Hellos[/caption] What I love best about music writing is discovering new bands. And, lucky for all of us, if I’m writing about a band I’ve never heard of, they must be appearing on a stage in Telluride. This week, the...
Heavyweight (we mean that in the good sense) Green Party county commissioner, shroom afficionado, accomplished basketweaver, potato farmer– and poet extraordinaire (in 2011, he was named Western Slope Poet Laureate), let the Goodtimes roll. We are, of course, talking about none other than the force...
