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December 5 to 12, 2013   Visible Planets: Morning: Mars, Jupiter    Evening: Venus I see the dramatically delicate crescent new Moon shining in deep turquoise twilight, hanging slightly above brilliant Venus, low in the southwestern sky. The fields are covered in snow, crystalline white, reflecting the ebbing...

[caption id="attachment_31094" align="alignright" width="223"] TFF #40 by Dean Tavoularis[/caption] For all your hardcore cinephiles, this just in from the Telluride Film Festival: Warm Holiday Greetings. We hope you enjoyed our 40th as much as we did. We're now looking forward to a great year ahead and the 41st...

[caption id="attachment_36396" align="alignright" width="224"] Steel & tin heart By Jill Rikkers. Wall hanging measures 9 x 12 inches.[/caption] If Ah Haa was not in your line of march Noel Nite, it's not too late to find a gift of art from the heart. A gift of art...

University Centers of the San Miguel is the Regional Center for the Colorado Northwestern Community College (CNCC). It also partners with Colorado Mesa University (CMU), Prescott College, Western State Colorado University, Fort Lewis College, and Northern Arizona University. Since its inception in 2005, UCSM is the only higher education organization...

Talent is arguably the two percent you leave on the table after the perspiration. We received the following email from a program that is all about the two percent: America's Got Talent (Season 9). My name is Lindsay Spaulding and I'm a Casting Producer for America's Got...

A series of vignettes based on the Peanuts comic strip written and directed by Jennifer Julia. Performed by students in grades 6 - 8 live at the historic Sheridan Opera House. Dec. 6-8, 2013, 6 p.m. nightly Good grief! Join a cast of beloved characters: Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy,...

[caption id="attachment_12347" align="alignright" width="225"] Pastor Pat Bailey[/caption] From its inception as a community church and the first congregation organized in Telluride, the name has always been “Christ” Church. The Presbyterian moniker was added almost 50 years later when a struggling church in the midst of the...

Telluride Film Festival Cinematheque at the Wilkinson Public Library, Monday, December 2. Pre-SHOW reception starts at 5:30 p.m. Screening at 6 p.m.  The Telluride Film Festival and Wilkinson Public Library are pleased to continue the 2013-14 Cinematheque lineup: They Came to Telluride: Women Behind the Lens. The popular...

November 28 to December 5, 2013 Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn    Evening: Venus  Here we are, Thanksgiving. A time to pause, count our blessings and share our bounty. Food, friends and family; roast turkeys and pumpkin pies. Whether we stay home or...

[caption id="attachment_36151" align="alignright" width="300"] Golden Oscars (from Show Biz)[/caption] The girl can't help it. I try to look away, but find myself drawn like a moth to light to articles speculating about films that might make it to the Oscars. Everyone who attended knows #40 was...