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17 Mar SNOW SUNDAY: WHEN SHOULD MY KID GET POLES?
If you have a child who is learning to ski, chances are you’ve been posed with the question, “When can I get poles?” To the kids, who gets poles seems rather arbitrary; it’s like losing a tooth. It eventually happens to all of them, but when...
16 Mar “THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE”
It has been a joy to discover there are still good, new musicals being produced that capture modern life. For musicals to work, they have to have both excellent narrative and strong, character-driven songs. “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” is just such a...
16 Mar SAN JUAN MOUNTAIN WEATHER: STORMY WEATHER ON THE WAY
Another very warm, sunny day (Friday) with variable high clouds and light backing SW winds. We’ll see a warm night with increasing SSW winds (30-40 MPH gusts) Saturday in advance of a large low pressure trough moving down the coast from the Pacific NW. The...
16 Mar ALACAZEM 2012.03.15
March 15 to 22, 2012 Visible Planets: Morning: Saturn Evening: Mars, Venus and Jupiter I’ve been writing the Alacazem astrology column now for 24 years. Sometimes it’s hard to believe that I’ve come up with Sun-sign forecasts and intros for that long – week after...
14 Mar INSIDE MOUNTAINFILM IN TELLURIDE: WALKING
Spring is in the air, and unmet New Year’s resolutions are nagging in the back of many of our minds. What better time to walk more? We’re not just talking about walking for the sake of exercise. No, we mean actually walking to get somewhere....
12 Mar BOOK IT!: ON THE ROAD AGAIN
Saint Augustine wrote: “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” Words that eloquently marry books and travel. It’s that time of year, when we live vicariously through customer travel book purchases, watching them sway back and forth...
12 Mar ANNUAL FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE THIS WEEKEND
Early shopping for FOL members and all sales volunteers takes place Thursday, March 15, 4:30 – 630 p.m. The Friends of the Library’s Used Book Sale returns to the Program Room of Telluride’s five-star Wilkinson Public Library on Friday, March 16 and Saturday, March 17,...
09 Mar EARTH MATTERS: BLUE GOLD FOR 21ST CENTURY
Editor’s note: This is the fourth story in a weekly series by the team of scholars/dynamic enviro-activists Anna Zivian and Billy Mason. Both have deep ties to Telluride, but have gone out into the world to make a difference. They are. Yesterday I grudgingly went...