Culture

Ekphrasis: Generally considered to be a rhetorical device in which one medium of art tries to relate to another medium by defining and describing its essence and form, and in doing so, relate more directly to the audience, through its illuminative liveliness. Telluride Arts' First Thursday...

Editor’s note:  Year after year, the Library Journal Index of Public Library Services, a public library rating system, has designated Telluride’s Library a five-star institution. And it just earned its fifth star in a row, which puts The Wilkinson Public Library into an elite club...

Editor’s note: In his doctoral dissertation, Pastor Pat Bailey of Telluride’s Christ Presbyterian Church is claiming the need for a re-visioning of the Christian church’s theology and its understanding of mission, the need for a more natural, integrative theology and for an earth-focused, contextual approach...

The Telluride Foundation and other local nonprofit organizations hope that every single citizen will log-on to Telluridegives.org and contribute for the benefit of local charities. Donors search for and choose a nonprofit and give directly to something that will make a difference to and celebrate...

[caption id="attachment_25677" align="alignright" width="300"] Karen Akers & musical director Don Rebic, by Maryann Lopinto[/caption] I have two questions for the lady. Who does your hair? (Looks like a Sassoon disciple.) I wouldn't mind the phone number of your dentist either. And this long-stemmed rose of a chanteuse – with...

December 6 to 13, 2012     Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury and Venus  Evening: Mars and Jupiter The waning Moon rises near dawn this week, each morning moving closer to the Sun. On Dec. 9th and 10th, expect to see a delicate lunar crescent hanging close to brilliant...

[caption id="attachment_25647" align="alignright" width="199"] Jerry Joseph[/caption] The Sheridan Arts Foundation presents a special evening of music, Saturday, December 8, 2012, 9 p.m., featuring rocker Jerry Joseph.  Some songwriters just strike down to the heart of things, shaking us with words and wires and something inescapably human. Jerry...

[caption id="attachment_25579" align="alignright" width="300"] Judy Kohin, artist and fearless leader[/caption] She’s back! Judy Kohin was executive director of the Ah Haa School for the Arts from its inception in 1991 until 2006. And now has returned to the school, assuming the same role she held – and...

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But...