Culture

Pentimento The pond will not decide if it’s solid or liquid. Some mornings a palette of ice stipples the sunrise. Some evenings the wind stirs the surface with brushstrokes. It’s a composition in flux, counterpointed by three ducks with their rumps sticking out the water....

The buzz surrounding Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit’s third trip to Telluride is palpable. The band, which will perform Saturday, January 7 at the Sheridan Opera House, has made profound inroads into the psyches of Telluride music scenesters who have now absorbed a pair...

When Lauren Bloemsma came to interview for the Executive Director position at the Telluride Historical Museum, she brought with her a PowerPoint presentation titled: Putting the Museum on the Map. That was seven years ago. Since Bloemsma was hired, the museum has seen a 60% growth in...

Welcome to a whole new year! If the January line up is any indication, 2012 is sure to be jam-packed and fun-filled with exciting events in the Denver cultural scene.  I’ve checked in with my sources, made notes in my calendar and I’m ready to...

Telluride Arts ongoing event begins its winter season on January 5, 5 - 8 p.m. Telluride Arts First Thursday Art Walk is a walk about town to celebrate the town's vibrant cultural scene, especially fine art venues. One dozen venues open their doors to art lovers,...

The Year in Preview Next year will be different: suicide bombers will be kinder, senseless shooters more considerate, the banks less greedy. Congress will get to work legislating America’s confidence and hangovers from drunken holidays will be covered by Medicare. European debt will melt like polar ice and dead movie stars will come back to...

Two down, one to go, so GO BIG. Telluride goes for broke on New Years Eve with special dinners at restaurants around town and in Mountain Village. And here's the really good news: it's quite possible to have your cake and rock it too. You might...

The end of the old year and the start of the new year has been celebrated around the globe for more than five millennia with pretty much the same idea: Purge the former and ensure good times in the latter. One example is a tradition...

"On The Road Again." Still. One of the best American blues-rock/boogie-rock band from the flower child era of the 1960s still generates plenty of heat. Canned Heat is scheduled to perform with the Fabulous Thunderbirds on New Year's Eve at the historic Sheridan Opera House. Doors...