Culture

Editor's note: Our Tall Tales contributor, Mark Stevens, is the author of “Antler Dust” and “Buried by the Roan.” “Buried by the Roan” is a finalist for the 2012 Colorado Book Award. Both books are on the shelves at Telluride’s own Between the Covers Bookstore,...

Saturday, June 9, after Heritage Fest wraps up, inner-city youth from Boys & Girls Clubs of America, in town for  the 21st annual Wild West Fest, head on over to the Sheridan Opera House for a back-to-back sneak-peak screening of the independent film “The Last...

How do you know the date of the first Thursday of the month? Yes, I know, there's always a calendar to tip you off. Or follow the crowds. The first Thursday of every month (in season) is Telluride Arts' Art Walk, a celebration of the...

Do you think technology has gotten the best of us? Miss the traditions and the ways of a simpler time? Some people may  call me old-fashioned, but so what? (Sticks and stones….) I freely confess nostalgia for the old days and ways, when the tick,...

Editor's Note: Donna Howell-Sickles' opening at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art is part of Telluride Arts' First Thursday Art Walk. For further information, go to www.telluridearts.org or call 970-728-8959. When I was a baby writer in town, having just launched my career with the brand...

Editor's note: Telluride and Tibet: two places linked by alliteration and mountain cultures. Tibet was recently celebrated through the work of photographer Phil Borges, whose penetrating portraits of the country were on display at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art during Mountainfilm in Telluride. Rigzin...

Editor's Note: Ivar Zeile of the PLUS Gallery, 2501 Larimer, is a close friend (and neighbor, when we are in our Denver home). Years ago, Ivar told about two promising young artists, advising us to collect the work of Riva Sweetrocket and Jenny Morgan. Jenny...

Editor's Note: In his doctoral dissertation, Reverend 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...

Festival season is upon us and we at the Ah Haa School for the Arts are excited to announce a related new offering this September. Ah Haa's Backstage Pass: Telluride Blues & Brews. Music and photography lovers can merge their twin passions and learn to capture...

Do you know what a "squibble" is? Don't try looking it up. "Squibble" is not in the dictionary. It's a made-up word Mark Fischer used to describe his rather esoteric (read: eccentric) brand of poetry that was a Rorschach for his Energizer Bunny kind of...