[caption id="attachment_41908" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Dan Sadowsky, Telluride, 2013Clint Viebrock photo[/caption] Now 41 years ago, as the story goes, Telluride musicians John “Picker” Herndon, Bruce Lites, J.B. Mateotti, Kooster McAllister and Fred Shellman, collectively known as “Fall Creek,” played during the town’s Fourth of July celebration. After...
“If you hold my hand we’ll chase your dream across the sky/For we can fly, we can fly” (Fifth Dimension’s “Up, Up and Away,” 1967) Icarus tried it, but he got too close to the sun and crashed. Peter Procopio has had lots more success flying. "When I lived...
Telluride Mountainfilm has been over for a week but its impact lingers on. For me, one of the most powerful experiences was last Monday’s free showing of the film, Mending the Line, followed by a Q & A with the film’s directors and central cast....
Passes and individual event tickets for the Telluride Wine Festival on sale as of Wednesday, May 28, 10:00 a.m. (MST) Tickets for the 33rd annual Telluride Wine Festival, Thursday, June 26- Sunday, June 29, 2014 just went on sale. [caption id="attachment_41306" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Elks Park tent, exterior[/caption] The Telluride Wine Festival, a...
«The world is my field of vision. From war to peace, from the unspeakable to moments of poetry, my images are testimonies of humankind.» [caption id="attachment_41113" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Reza, Photo by Tim Mantoani[/caption] What would you do and how would you live if your name in Farsi means...
Mountainfilm in Telluride proved to be a game-changer for Wade Davis, who joined the tribe in the mid-1990s. Now, on his more or less annual visits to town over Memorial Weekend, the man enjoys the status of a rock star, packing venues with his “groupies.”...
“Emptying the Skies,” Saturday, 8:30p.m. and Sunday, 11:45 a.m., The Nugget Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels: "Freedom," "The Corrections," "Strong Motion" and "The Twenty-Seventh City" – two collections of essays –"Farther Away," "How to Be Alone" – a personal history –"The Discomfort Zone"...
[caption id="attachment_40848" align="aligncenter" width="179"] Char Duran, behind the chutes[/caption] Hell Lady, I ain't no bull rider Don't walk funny, OK in the head But if I ever again get such a damn fool idea they might as well shoot me instead That's the last verse of a song I once...
“Vessel” screens at The Nugget twice: Saturday, May 24, 6 p.m. and Sunday, May 25, 8:45 p.m. Roe v. Wade is the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on the issue of abortion. The 1973 court ruled 7– 2 that a right to privacy under the due...
