Culture

I repeat: “WHAT Off-Season?!?!?!?!?” Major fests are over. Academic and sport schedules dictate the rhythm. Start making off-season to-do list. Um, scratch that last one. Way too many cool events have fallen like splendid leaves into our events calendar, offering locals and visitors a menagerie of bookish...

"His ideal society has crystallized round him and learned to love his entropy,” Robert Hughes [caption id="attachment_23556" align="alignright" width="300"] Koons relief juxtaposed to Warhol self-portrait[/caption] Jeff Koons had a mother. His name was Andy Warhol. I know. Hold the drumroll. No big reveal – except for the legions...

Telluride Foundation Releases New Program to Nurture an Ecosystem of Entrepreneurs The Telluride region has a rich history of innovation, invention and reinvention. The well-known collaboration between LL Nunn, Nikola Telsa and George Westinghouse in 1891 forever changed the delivery of energy. The mining era transformed the...

Twelve years making grants available to regional nonprofits The Telluride Foundation’s annual Community Grant application is now available. Nonprofit organizations serving the people who live or work in San Miguel County are encouraged to apply. Grant applications are due  Monday, October 29, 2012, by 5 p.m. A...

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 Film Festival is thrilled to launch its free Sunday at the Palm Series with a remastered version of the Beatles’ celebrated animated adventure, "Yellow Submarine." The screening takes place Sunday, September 30, 4 p.m. at the Michael D. Palm Theatre for the Performing...

Boy in bras? Nope, not a drag club. Anything but a drag. Mark your calendar for Thursday, October 18, 7 p.m., historic New Sheridan Bar, when the Ah Haa School for the Arts presents its third annual BRAvo event in support of the San Miguel Resource Center and...

[caption id="attachment_23318" align="alignright" width="300"] Taylor 2, The New York Times[/caption] Think of the troupe as an amuse bouche, served just before the main course to whet the appetite. “Inclusion in Taylor 2 is a major achievement and a significant rite of passage in the dance world…Taylor 2...

Editor’s note: In 2011, for the fourth time in a row (and running), the Library Journal Index of Public Library Services, a public library rating system, designated Telluride’s Library a five-star institution. The Wilkinson Public Library ranks fifth in the nation among public libraries with...

"How about these numbers," exclaimed Mountainfilm in Telluride in its 2010 program. "Americans spent $165 billion on consumer electronics in 2010, and we bought more than 260,000 computers a day. E-waste is the fastest-growing stream of waste in the world (there are approximately 40 million...