The holiday season in Telluride this year will miss baby ballerinas gracing the Palm stage in "The Nutcracker," generally speaking, a sine qua non at mistletoe time. (Although the Telluride Dance Academy is performing "Winter Wonderland" at The Palm.) And here's more good news: Main...
by Beth Roberts On Christmas Day, 1908, Harriet Fish Backus, later known as the "Tomboy Bride," awoke to a gift that would certainly turn the most modern San Juan citizen Christmas-colored with envy: “sparkling diamonds.” But these "diamonds" did not come in the usual small package...
To hear folks tell it, the holidays sounds like a segment of "Survivor." People use terms such as "endurance" and "survival" to describe the run-up to season, but not in Mountain Village, where the focus is where it should be, on family. Mountain Village is now...
Twinkling lights grace every store window, the crisp tang of fresh evergreen delights the senses, the worshipful glow of candles on the Menorah gather the faithful, and lifted voices in holiday choirs stir the heart. The holidays always dish up the fondest memories whether it's...
In August, anthropologist, cookbook author and celebrity chef Dr. Susanna Hoffman played to a packed house when she was featured in a special segment of Chef Bud's popular Books & Cooks series at Telluride's five-star Wilkinson Public Library. On the menu, were taste treats such...
The film rates an average 8 on a scale of 10 on Rotten Tomatoes. "Big Deal on Madonna Street," (1958, 106 minutes), is the pick by Telluride Film Festival's Gary Meyer for the next gathering of Cinematheque, a film club and collaboration between the Film...
There are great benefits to being this sort of friends. (Mind out of the gutter. Not that kind.) These are the Friends of the Library, a nonprofit established to assist San Miguel County Public Library District and specifically Telluride's five-star Wilkinson Public Library by promoting...
Golly gee whiz. You missed Black Friday. And you passed on Cyber Monday when, as reported in the Huffington Post, other more enterprising shoppers were able to score hot deals on red-soled Christina Louboutin fuchsia platform pumps for the low low price of only $1,199.99...
When at Clark's, think 0007 Please raise your hand if you have not received an appeal for funds in your mailbox. Thought so. In Telluride as in the rest of the world, 'tis the season for eggnog and philanthropy. But what if giving to your favorite...
Memorial service for J. Michael Brown Saturday afternoon, November 12, 2011, the Telluride community gathered, filled the Palm Theatre, to honor and say goodbye to our friend, J. Michael Brown, who died in late October. Listening to so many whose lives were touched by Michael's generosity, speaking...
