On a cold winter day in 2003, four electric cars sat on Telluride’s main street waiting to be driven. No one knew much about them, yet the town was excited. Telluride Town Councilman Chris Myers had started a movement to educate the community about the...
Everything's coming up Sasha. We are talking about the one and only Ms. Cucciniello, artistic director of the (relatively) newly formed Telluride Theatre. The nonprofit is the platform that will allow Sasha and partner Colin Sullivan, executive director, to enhance the region's dramatic landscape big time....
Editor's Note: TIO is excited to welcome poet Kierstin Bridger to our Poet's Corner family. Kierstin is the 2011 winner of the Mark Fischer Poetry Prize and the contest's 2012 judge. She splits her time between Telluride and Ridgway and is currently pursuing her MFA...
It has been a joy to discover there are still good, new musicals being produced that capture modern life. For musicals to work, they have to have both excellent narrative and strong, character-driven songs. "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" is just such a...
To delve into the music of Blitzen Trapper is to explore the sound of escape. Escape from the past, escape from a no-hope town, escape from whatever holds a soul down. It is some of the best music being made in America and is rooted...
A Green Rain The rain itself is not green but it falls for hours, soft and penetrating like a massage for sore earth muscles. I am not out in the yard but standing beside a window, hands deep in my pockets watching gray winter turn green, weeps in pools as pungent dirt cleaves, birds like notes on...
This Sunday, four women playing heavy, blues-based rock and roll will rock the Opera House. To many rock fans, wading into Led Zeppelin's well-loved catalogue is sacred territory. Lez Zeppelin, however, reigns over it like leather-clad goddesses. Led Zeppelin is arguably one of the most influential...
Saint Augustine wrote: “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” Words that eloquently marry books and travel. It’s that time of year, when we live vicariously through customer travel book purchases, watching them sway back and forth in front of...
Early shopping for FOL members and all sales volunteers takes place Thursday, March 15, 4:30 – 630 p.m. The Friends of the Library's Used Book Sale returns to the Program Room of Telluride's five-star Wilkinson Public Library on Friday, March 16 and Saturday, March 17, 10...
Editor's note: Ok, it's more like an Editor's Confession. We saw it. Sneaked into a tech rehearsal Sunday night (March 11) before leaving for Chile. (And turning over the day to day of Telluride Inside...
