Mountainfilm in Telluride is such an incredibly important event. It kicks off our very full summer season here in Telluride, but more than that, through its programs we get to experience intellectual and artistic stimulation that makes us realize how blessed we are. Blessed to...
Have you noticed that a lot of women, and more specifically moms, are entering weekend races? The moms I know seem to always be training for and planning excursions to participate in events ranging from relay runs, half marathons, bike races, triathlons, Cross Training competitions...
Editor's note: Reverend Pat Bailey of Telluride's Christ Presbyterian Church, has been claiming in his doctoral dissertation (and in this weekly column) the the need for a re-visioning of the Christian church’s theology and its understanding of mission, the need for a more natural, integrative...
In spite of a La Niña climate pattern this past year, which typically lowers global temperatures, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Climatic Data Center calculated that the national average temperature in the United States was the warmest year since that sort of record-keeping began back...
Editor's note: With Mountainfilm in Telluride fast approaching – the Festival takes place over Memorial Weekend – the preservation of the earth and all things endangered, species, cultures and ideas, becomes an even more compelling notion. Mountainfilm guests don't just pay lip service to the...
Editor's Note: Last week, our regular contributor and friend Jennie Franks (of the Telluride Playwrights Festival) wrote a wonderful tribute to Judge Sharon Shuteran, who died earlier this month while hiking in Mexico. Her untimely death left her family and her extended in Telluride and...
"Plastiki" screens Saturday, May 26, 9.pm. and Sunday, May 27, 12 p.m., Sheridan Opera House In a way, David de Rothschild's "Plastiki," the documentary, is a response to to a Sixties pop phenomenon, another film, "The Graduate." In "The Graduate," Benjamin Braddock, (Dustin Hoffman), a recent college...
Corporations and government do mix. But the result can be a toxic concoction. Quite literally, especially when transactions involve agricultural and food policy. While corporations do bring important information to the table and have a definite role to play in the regulatory process, when corporate representatives...
A few weeks ago, the subject of Fashion Friday was white jeans. We were bold. We overruled old-fashioned etiquette mavens, even grandma, when we gave the green light to sporting white denims before Memorial Weekend. Now with Memorial Day weekend just around the corner, we...
