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08 Oct Telluride: Homesickness for a Place You’ve Never Seen
“Telluride? Big mistake- you”ll never leave!” I had stayed for a few days with my friend Rico in Aspen, was headed for some solo camping in the Canyonlands, and got a noon-ish start because of a mid-fall snowstorm and a motorcycle with summer tires. Rico...
02 Oct Telluride Horror Show: Don’t Be Scared
Great films, like all great art forms, are those that affect you deeply—whether it’s the lyrics that you can’t get out of your head, the painting you can’t stop staring at, the characters that stay with you long after you’ve finished a novel, or the...
30 Sep Becoming Local: The Telluride Difference
When I ride the Gondola into town, it’s only a matter of time before I’m identified as a “local.” Usually, it happens by the second tower. Then, the inevitable two questions follow. “You live here? Do you know how lucky you are?” I always give...
28 Sep Telluride: What’s to love? Well, pretty much everything
Telluride, Colorado. Formidable mountains ring the valley and the aspens are beginning their stunning flame-out in the late September heat. The little town bustles even in so-called off-season, alive with locals with a little less to do now that the summer festival season has come...
21 Sep Telluride Medical Center: New Facility MV or Lawson
The Telluride Hospital District (THD) has taken another significant step in the long journey toward building a new regional medical center. The THD Board of Directors announced their decision in an open work session on Wednesday to move forward with site negotiations with both the...
21 Sep 2015 Top-Ranked Western Ski Resorts, Telluride
Guess who came in #4 overall. The following blurb by Rob Story was excerpted from Ski Magazine. We don’t want to take undue credit, but following years of elite rankings in SKI’s Resort Guide Scenery category—including No. 1 yet again this year—Telluride has circled back...
20 Sep Robin Williams– Home Town Boy
On EatDrinkFilms, Gary Meyer, senior curator of the Telluride Film Festival, wrote a moving story about Robin Williams. Though I met him casually at screenings or film gatherings here in San Francisco, I especially remember once at La Strada in LA in Mork and Mindy...
16 Sep Telluride Film Fest: Roger Ebert Honored
For many years, the iconic critic Roger Ebert was a regular at the Telluride Film Festival – and many other similar gatherings around the globe. After Ebert lost his battle with cancer in April of last year, the Telluride Film Fest‘s top two directors, Julie Huntsinger and Tom...