[caption id="attachment_26205" align="alignright" width="300"] Shawn Colvin[/caption] Telluride regular, contemporary folk artist, singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin is back to town to perform her annual Christmas show at the historic Sheridan Opera House. Her two concerts take place Saturday, December 28, 6:30 p.m.and 8:30 p.m., and are part of...
Launched in 1979, Mountainfilm in Telluride is one of America’s longest-running film festivals – although calling Mountainfilm a "film festival" is an understatement. Now celebrating its 35th year, the event includes, but is not limited to, films about mountain living, adventure, socio-cultural challenges, cultures under...
[caption id="attachment_26214" align="alignleft" width="300"] Emmylou Harris, TBF 2011[/caption] Forty years. In couple-speak, that means a ruby. Or a bouquet of Nasturtiums, the official flower of that anniversary. Speaking of anniversaries...
[caption id="attachment_26150" align="alignright" width="243"] Golden Dragon Acrobats[/caption] A man performs a headstand atop a very tall tower of chairs, and a woman balances a lamp as she twists upside down on a pedestal, her body bending like hot pizza dough, limbs merging. This is not Ripley’s “Believe...
[caption id="attachment_26107" align="alignright" width="199"] Peter Yarrow[/caption]Can't teach an old dog new tricks. In some special cases, so what? The old tricks are still good enough. Case in point: the line-up for the 12.12.12 benefit concert at the Garden for victims of Sandy, the British royal family - of...
Remember the moment in "Peter Pan" when Tinkerbell took the hit and swallowed the poison Captain Hook meant for Peter? A distraught Peter threw caution to the wind, broke the fourth wall, and begged the audience to clap hard to save his fairy friend's life. We...
[caption id="attachment_26030" align="alignleft" width="294"] Muppet and Dolly Parton (aka Cheavens and Berrier)[/caption] Everyone has a favorite Christmas story they like to revisit this enchanted time of year. Whether it’s Rudolph, the Magi, Clarence the Angel or the Grinch, there is a tale that resonates with us,...
[caption id="attachment_25867" align="alignleft" width="100"] Tyler Jansen[/caption] Editor's note: No matter when it happens – its regular schedule on the first Thursday of the month or this coming Saturday as a welcomed add-on to tinsel time in Telluride – Art Walk is a no-miss happening, a chance...
[caption id="attachment_25647" align="alignright" width="199"] Jerry Joseph[/caption] The Sheridan Arts Foundation presents a special evening of music, Saturday, December 8, 2012, 9 p.m., featuring rocker Jerry Joseph. Some songwriters just strike down to the heart of things, shaking us with words and wires and something inescapably human. Jerry...
[caption id="attachment_25586" align="alignright" width="224"] Alison Gannett, famed free skier & environmental activist[/caption] Climate change - are we paying attention yet? It does seem that the "general public" may be thinking a bit more about climate change and what it means to each of us as individuals...
