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30 Jan Snow Sunday: Bullwheel Cowboys and Other Chairlift Fails
Twenty years ago, when I moved to Telluride, my first job on the ski area was as a lift operator, bumping chairs. I did it because the job came with a ski pass. I didn’t realize the real fringe benefit: Watching people get on and...
24 Jan Snow Sunday: Climbing Mountain Quail with Teenagers
To be honest, at the start, there wasn’t very much enthusiasm about hiking up Mountain Quail, a ski run perched at the outer edge of Telluride’s Black Iron Bowl. It sits at roughly 12,500 feet and is only reached after a 30 to 45 minute...
22 Jan TIO NYC: Telluride Playwright Festival, “Ayn/Sister”
Last summer, the Telluride Playwright Festival featured a new work by the nonprofit’s artistic director Jennie Franks. Jennie’s play,”Ayn/Sister,” is about the Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter Ayn Rand, whose sister pays her a surprise visit from the Soviet Union of the 1970s. The goal of the Telluride Playwrights...
19 Jan TIO in Hawaii: Whales, Turtles, & Surf, Oh My!
Not long after we finished our marathon run around America in early November, Sus and I decided we wanted to take a “warm break” this winter. Susan hasn’t done much downhill skiing the past few seasons, favoring x-country, so breaking up the winter seemed...
28 Dec RE:Treat, Off the Cuff: Healthy Ski Snacks
Chicago native Lucy Perutz grew up skiing in Telluride with her parents on family ski vacations. Having very quickly realized she was way more Telluride than Second City, after graduating college in Vermont two years ago, Lucy decided to make our box canyon her permanent home. Lucy, a passionate foodie,...
21 Dec New Year’s Eve, Wynonna & The Big Noise
Country music legend Wynonna Judd at the historic Sheridan Opera House, Tuesday, December 31. Doors, 9 p.m.; music, 10:30 p.m. Tickets are $100 general admission on the floor; $250 in the balcony. You’ve just emerged from that seething caldron of challenging behavior known as the holiday family gathering, congratulating...
10 Dec CNN’s Hero of the Year: Proving Second Chance Right
We simply could not overlook the coincidence. Timing is everything: this week’s Second Chance column is all about “Pet Parenting for More Meaningful Living” and talks about the profound, often life-changing, life-enhancing bond between humans and their pets. Between soldiers and strays formed during war? That’s the...
10 Dec Outlaw Reflections: Youngest of the Old Timers
Oleh Lysiak talked with old-time Telluride local Johnnie Stevens for a story originally published February 21, 1996 in The San Miguel Post. The interview is an eye-opener: there was a Telluride before there was a ski resort and pre-1972, there was a community of mixed ages, professions, religions, everyone...