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Editor’s Note: Kierstin Bridger is the 2011 winner of Telluride Arts’ Mark Fischer Poetry Prize and a subsequent judge. She is also a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. Usually the edgiest, often the darkest member of our family of fabulous writers/poets, which includes...

Editor note: About now you should start sweating, then grab your wallet and be ready for bolt out the door to buy your sweetheart a little something, at least a bouquet of roses or chocolates from Telluride Truffles. Why you ask? Because WEDNESDAY IS VALENTINE'S...

[caption id="attachment_27605" align="alignright" width="215"] Sarah Fazendin, founder, Globa.li[/caption] Here's a good one for a hot game of Scrabble: "glamping." The word is a mash-up of "glamorous" and "camping," on the face of it, an oxymoron. In fact, glamping is one the latest trends in luxury travel, which...

Editor's note: Did you know that that Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare's lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine's Day? We continue with our series of poems for Valentine's Day with another poem by Art Goodtimes and...

Editor's note: Cynics insist Valentine’s Day is the day men atone for their ignorance by buying sweethearts toasters and scant silky undergarments and women make desperate attempts to put the magic back into relationships by swooning over professional basketball. The rest of the world, however,...

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...

On Valentine's Day, we suggest an early dinner at your favorite local watering hole and laughs for dessert. As sure as Cupid's arrow, barbs tossed from the stage of the historic Sheridan Opera House are guaranteed to hit their mark – us – when the...

February 7 to 14, 2013   Visible Planets: Morning: Venus, Saturn  Evening: Mercury, Jupiter  I so love a starry night. And this week, the stars have been phenomenal. Down here, in the wild West End of San Miguel and Montrose Counties, there is no light pollution and...

[caption id="attachment_27470" align="alignright" width="236"] Monophonics[/caption] Telluride Blues & Brews Festival brings back the funk with Monophonics. The music is Saturday, February 9, doors, 9:30 p.m., show time, 10 p.m., Telluride Elk’s Lodge, 472 W. Pacific Avenue. Over the past seven years, Monophonics have staked their claim as...