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07 Oct In Telluride’s Backyard: Exploring the Four Corners
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it, Edmund Burke. Here’s the dirt on dirt. Dirt (or soil) isn’t just a mix of clay, sand and humus that lies over bedrock. It isn’t simply dust, grime or filth either. For archaeologists Mark Varien...
04 Oct Outlaw Reflections: Looking Ahead at Telluride’s Raunchy Past
Editor’s note: I am reminded of the man every day. A talented sculptor, one of his mobiles sits on the coffee table in our living room. But I had not seen or heard from Oleh Lysiak for over 20 years. Ah, the wonders of social media. We rediscovered each...
01 Oct Second Chance: Meet Godric & Shadow
Hello humans, my name is Godric. If you’ve been to the Second Chance shelter recently you’ve probably seen me sleeping in my favorite bed. I sleep a lot in the afternoon because I spend mornings exploring the house and playing with my friends. I also...
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...
26 Sep FALL SUNDAY: Marijuana and Moms
A long time ago, when I was twenty-something and at the apex of my carefree partying lifestyle, I was shocked to learn that an older friend of mine—a mother of two—smoked pot. “But,...
20 Sep ALACAZEM 2014.09.18
September 18 to 25, 2014 Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter Evening: Mercury, Mars, Saturn This week we move from end-of-summer Virgo into beginning-of-fall Libra, as well as see the initiation of the year’s Libra lunar month. The Sun moves from virginal Virgo into lovely Libra on...
17 Sep Outlaw Reflections: Looking Ahead at Telluride’s Raunchy Past
Editor’s note: I am reminded of the man every day. A talented sculptor, one of his mobiles sits on the coffee table in our living room. But I had not seen or heard from Oleh Lysiak for over 20 years. Ah, the wonders of social media. We rediscovered each...