A showcase of local arts and crafts for last-minute holiday treasures Christmas is bearing down upon us. 'Tis the season for loopy rounds of office parties, lots and lots of face time with family and friends, lots, and eggnog hangovers. And it's down to the 11th...
My father led me into the hills one Sunday in December more than 35 years ago. I carried the saw; he carried the axe. We trudged through the snow, hunting the wild Christmas tree. He checked each tree for fullness and height, trying to picture it...
Daniel Tucker is a gardener of sorts. The Telluride institution he founded 21 years ago, the Ah Haa School for the Arts, is a place where the seeds of creativity get planted and nurtured. Multi-media artist – printmaker, painter and sculpture, Barbara Gilhooly, puts an...
For all you trivia buffs, here's one. Or two. Thomas Edison once invented an electric golf ball to enable night play. And, Richard Nixon played golf alone every Wednesday at 10 a.m. wearing a business suit and tie. That image in itself is rib tickler, but...
It's unlikely you know the name of the songwriter (it's Felix Bernard) or the lyricist (he was Richard B. Smith), but their 1934 joint venture produced a song that became a holiday evergreen: "Winter Wonderland." In Bernard and Smith's fictive landscape, sleigh bells rang, snow...
Telluride local Bob Rubadeau is at it again. Well, not Rubadeau exactly. His on-page persona Wit Thorpe, up to his old tricks with a colorful assortment of victims dropping like stale jokes as the haunted private eye faces yet another classic who-dun-it caper exploding onto...
Could the latest matinee idol be tall, chestnut, and handsome, with soft, intelligent eyes, very buff and high strung with a jones for sugar ? Ads about the movie featuring the horse Joey shout: "Warhorse: The Greatest Journey Is The One That Leads You Home." Then,...
The first "Local Libations" program, a collaboration between The New Community Coalition and Telluride's Steaming Bean, takes place December 15, 2011 at 5:30 PM at the Bean. The "semi-regular" series will provide opportunities to gather, learn and discuss topics of the day. This first event...
In Telluride, Wade Davis is a rock star. The man regularly plays to packed venues filled with his "groupies" – I admit to being in the fold – every time he returns to Mountainfilm, generally annually. Wade is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society and...
Give the gift of creativity to yourself or a loved one this holiday season. The Ah Haa School for the Arts has a great lineup of workshops to get you in the holiday spirit. From making your own holiday cards (and giving a set as a...
