It's producer Travis Julia's annual stocking stuffer for the town. Thanks to Julia, Warren Miller's latest film is scheduled to be screened in its annual pre-Xmas slot, December 23, at the Sheridan Opera House. Show times are 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. It's a must-see event...
When Grammy Award-winning solo pianist George Winston first came to town in 1998, the idea was not simply to entertain in his grand style, but also to help Angel Baskets Food Bank. A lucky 13 years later, it's more of the same: Winston's upcoming concert...
New Year’s Eve, the Ah Haa School for the Arts is the place to be for one of the holiday season’s best bashes: a celebration of fine food, fine wine, and fine art, all at the historic Depot Building. This year the featured artist is...
Westword's "Best Bluegrass" band in Colorado 2010 & 2011 Planet Bluegrass outdid itself this year. With a megawatt line-up that included Mumford & Sons, Punch Brothers, Robert Plant, Bela Fleck, and Joe Pug, plus Darrell Scott & Friends for a glorious Gospel set, the 38th annual...
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...
