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27 Oct Fall Sunday: Slow Down and Breathe
I don’t watch TV much. I don’t really watch TV at all—we don’t have a cable or satellite account, so the only programs I see are on the iPad, the occasional series that was popular enough to replay on Netflix or YouTube snippets of Jon...
25 Oct Mountainfilm: Afghanistan
For much of the past decade, for Mountainfilm’s Moving Mountains Symposium, we’ve chosen environmental themes, issues we’ve felt were essential to the global conversation. This year, we’re changing directions and will focus on Afghanistan. Mountainfilm has not selected a theme directly tied to a country since 2006 (Mongolia), so...
25 Oct ALACAZEM 2014.10.23
October 23 to 30, 2014 Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter Evening: Mars, Saturn Yesterday I was overwhelmed by the amazing, awesome power and beauty of the Mother Earth. I had worked most of the day inside, well aware that Indian Summer was blazing outside. Days so...
17 Oct ALACAZEM 2014.10.16
October 16 to 23, 2014 Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter Evening: Mercury, Mars, Saturn The Moon wanes each night this week, growing progressively smaller and more delicate in the early morning predawn skies. Mental Mercury [now retrograde] and voluptuous Venus pair up in late degree Libra...
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...
03 Oct ALACAZEM 2014.10.02
October 2 to 9, 2014 Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter Evening: Mercury, Mars, Saturn Good news for Moon watchers and star gazers – in the early, predawn hours of Wednesday October 8th the Moon will pass into the Earth’s shadow and the western United States will...
30 Sep October Art Walk: Highlights
Watercolors by Woodward Payne. Oil paintings by Robert Weatherford, Mark English, Bernie Fuchs and Julee Hutchison. Pastels by Bruce Gomez. The work celebrates the golden hues of local fall landscapes. The magic realism of sculptor Julie McNair lends insight into the human condition with the passing of the seasons. Underlying all: the five...
27 Sep ALACAZEM 2014.09.25
September 25 to October 2, 2014 Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter Evening: Mercury, Mars, Saturn The first full week of autumn is upon us. Hello to awesome Indian Summer! I love this time of year. The pulling, poignant beauty of the season hits me deep –...