[caption id="attachment_22308" align="alignright" width="294"] Marsha Bankston as Lizzy Knight[/caption] It's not often a woman ends up married to her son-in-law. But Lizzy Knight, the first pioneer woman of the Disappointment Valley, was no stranger to the strange. Wednesday and Thursday, August 22 and August 23, the Telluride...
Our money is riding on The Ride. KOTO's inaugural Ride Festival happens the weekend of the Denver finish of the Big Ride, the USA Pro Cycling event, Saturday, August 25 (starting at noon) – Sunday, August 26 (ending at 10 p.m.) (The Telluride leg –Stage #1– is...
You'd have to live in a box (not a box canyon) if you live in/have an interest in Telluride and don't know that the 2012 edition of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge begins on Monday, August 20 with a stage from Durango to Telluride. I...
There are lots of reasons to love the USA Pro Cycling Challenge -- the most prominent being that many of us won’t be able to work on Monday because of the road closures. My first day back to full-time work in five years was slated...
[caption id="attachment_22058" align="alignright" width="235"] Telluride BLues & Brews Fest 2012[/caption] Saturday Single Day tickets are now SOLD OUT, with limited quantities of 3-day passes, and Friday and Sunday Single Day passes available. Sunday tickets are $65 each, Friday tickets are $55 each and 3-day passes are...
"Being in nature is an opportunity to cultivate the child-eyes, the child-mind that neither knows nor presumes to know," Kathleen Harris The quote by Kathleen Harrison brings to mind something Picasso once said about the ideal state of an artist, which was returning to the vision...
Forget Russia. The final concert for the 39th annual Telluride Chamber Music Festival, a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. on August 19, hits a high note when mezzo-soprano Erin Neff sings a program entitled "From Spain with Love." Two years ago, when Neff performed at a...
Five more months and then? With over 20 years defining and debating the issues, John Major Jenkins is best known for his works as a researcher and author that theorize certain astronomical and esoteric connections of the calendar systems used by the Maya civilizations of pre-Columbian...
[caption id="attachment_21725" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Big Head Todd & The Monsters, C. Taylor Crothers"][/caption] Three words that instantly brighten up any dark associations with the Colorado town named "Columbine": Former Columbine locals, Big Head Todd. Over nearly three decades – college-town concerts in the 1980s to national...
In the context of the Telluride Shroomfest, the world wide web takes on a whole other meaning: we are talking about mycelium, the sentient cobweb-like web of cells, which, in just one magical phase of its life cycle, fruits mushrooms. Shroom evangelists and guests of...
