"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back," Maya Angelou [caption id="attachment_22734" align="alignright" width="238"] Kristin Holbrook of Two Skirts supports volunteers[/caption] When the global economic meltdown hit in 2008, trickle down...
Foundation Noted as Most Active Grant Maker Among Peers [caption id="attachment_22662" align="alignright" width="300"] Telluride Foundation sign by metal artist Lisa Issenberg[/caption] According to a 2011 Columbus Survey of 252 community foundations nationwide, the Telluride Foundation ranked as 4th most active grant maker as a percent of asset...
Editor's note: Only a limited number of 3-Day passes available for the 19th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival. Saturday Single Day tickets are completely sold out, with a limited number of Friday and Sunday Tickets available for purchase. 3-Day passes are $170 each, Sunday tickets...
[caption id="attachment_22673" align="alignleft" width="300"] Part-time Telluride local Laura Linney and Bill Murray: "Hyde Park on Hudson"[/caption] In a digital, real-time world, surprise is an endangered species. So, go ahead and try. Surprise me. So far, no surprises at the RNC. Same old pasteurized pap. It would surprise...
[caption id="attachment_22683" align="alignleft" width="300"] "Love, Marilyn"[/caption] The Telluride Film Festival, per Buck Henry, "Valhalla for film folk," is an equal opportunity venue, known for giving documentaries as much prominence as features. Ditto for special programs that often showcase films that don't quite make it by conventional...
[caption id="attachment_22689" align="alignleft" width="249"] Roger Corman wins an Oscar – and a TFF tribute[/caption] Every year since the event got off the ground in 1974, The Telluride Film Festival, known locally as The SHOW, pays tribute to artists whose contributions resonate throughout the medium and over...
[caption id="attachment_22615" align="alignleft" width="300"] Neil Armstrong[/caption] With the death of Neil Alden Armstrong on Saturday, August 25, 2012, Telluride lost a friend and our country, a true hero. Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. His words,...
[caption id="attachment_22516" align="alignright" width="225"] 39th annual Telluride Film festival poster, by Dave Eggers[/caption] "Nosferatu," (1922). "Dracula" (1931). "Cat People," (1942). "Horror of Dracula," (1958). "The Innocents," (1961). And more…. No, I have not let the cat out of the bag. Those are not the names of dark classics to be screened at...
Editor's Note: KOTOfm and Big Head Todd & The Monsters co-host Telluride's inaugural Ride Festival. The monster musical event takes place this weekend, Saturday, August 25 (around noon) – Sunday, August 26 (around 10 p.m.) and features Big Head Todd, Ben Harper, Los Lobos, JJ...
[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...
