“Skiing offers a good barometer of the trouble we’re in — and, as this book reminds us, one more good reason for wanting to face that trouble,” Bill McKibben, author of “Oil and Honey,” co-founder 350.org Do Eskimos really have lots of words for snow? Mental...
The sounds of banjo notes cascading like Ingram Falls in June and the steady chuck-chuck of a mandolin, overlaid with shimmering harmonies is the sound of summer in Telluride. The valley’s biggest Gathering of the Tarp People, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, has married bluegrass music...
Tickets for Michael Franti go on sale tomorrow, Wednesday, January 22, at noon (MST) at the Sheridan Opera House. Concert Sunday & Monday, March 23 & March 24 What: The Sheridan Arts Foundation presents Michael Franti & Friends live in concert at the historic Sheridan...
March Fourth Marching Band was born on Mardi Gras, which fell on the fourth day of March in 2003. And that’s how easy it was to name the band. M4, as its legions of devotees refer to the band, is a calamitous, happy mélange of...
After getting both of them dressed in long underwear, ski bibs, jackets, mittens and helmets, loading up their skis, driving 40 minutes to town, and getting them out of their car seats, the 2-year-old lay down on the asphalt of the parking lot....
In the run-up to the Big Event at The Peaks, a casting call on Wednesday, January 22, for inclusion in the third edition of Andrew Grant’s popular art book about dogs, “Rover” – see related story – I decided it was important to share this...
January 16 to 23, 2014 Visible Planets: Morning: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn Evening: Venus, Jupiter How about that magnificent full Moon? Wow! All over the world – on January 15th and 16th – people watched the rise and set of the New Year’s first full Moon....
Editor’s Note: On January 4, the New York Times published a major story about a bill to ban genetically engineered crops on the island of Hawaii. I asked scientist Billy Mason to comment. His response is below. In the past, the top-down distribution of news...
“In wilderness is the preservation of the world,” Henry David Thoreau In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Wilderness Act, establishing American wilderness as “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is...
Telluride Film Fest’s “Sunday at the Palm” presents “High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 (2013),” Plus Local Filmmaker TCTV Competition Winners The Telluride Film Festival’s Sunday at the Palm series is proud to present “HIGH AND HALLOWED: EVEREST 1963” (2013, 49 min.), produced and directed by David...