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11 Aug Telluride Chamber Music Festival 2015: Final Weekend
The 42nd anual Telluride Chamber Music Festival concludes this weekend, with concerts at Christ Church and a closing with a dinner following Sunday matinee on August 16. Details here. Concert tickets, $25, here. In the early 1970s, Telluride was just beginning to pulse thanks to a chap...
11 Aug Mountainfilm Regular Dan Buettner on Eating Well
As an ex-New Yorker – not really, if you were born there, you are never really “ex” – I remain addicted to the New York Times. On August 2, the Sunday Styles section featured an article by Jeff Gordinier about Telluride Mountainfilm regular Dan Buettner: “My Dinner with Longevity...
04 Aug Telluride Mushroom Festival 2015: Overview
The 35th annual Telluride Mushroom Festival – Thursday, August 13 – Sunday, August 16, 2015 – with pre-conference workshops, Wednesday, August 12. Festival celebrates multitude uses of all things fungi. This year, the event is being held at the historic Sheridan Opera House, so seats are limited. If you plan to attend lectures,...
17 Jul Telluride Goes [Mostly] Dark for Inaugural Dark Sky Event
Telluride Mountainfilm, town work together for one-of-a-kind program. Typically, the only souls who can be found roaming Telluride’s streets at 3 a.m. are bears and the occasional insomniacs. But on May 24, during Telluride Mountainfilm, roughly 80 people — photographers, astronomy fans and festival attendees among them...
30 Jun Telluride Arts: Art Walk
Back in the glitter and grit of the 1970s, artists such as Philip Pearlstein – a heavyweight painter who happens to be part of the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art’s illustrious stable (and the uncle of Telluride’s former mayor and county commissioner Elaine Fischer, also a painter) – converted from Abstract Expressionism...
29 Jun Telluride Yoga Festival: Cat McCarthy Returns
“Be the pose you want to see in the world,” yoga instructor Cat McCarthy Please scroll down to the bottom of the story to listen to an interview returning Yoga Fest presenter Cat McCarthy. Tickets/passes here. In their best-selling book, “Yoga Anatomy,” Leslie Kaminoff and...
20 Jun Telluride Wine Fest: Chef James Reaux & “Little Piggies”
Telluride Bluegrass has Festivarians. Mountainfilm has its tribe. Both have a laid-back come-to-the-neighborhood feel. And the Telluride Wine Festival? Is Wine Fest still all about a well-heeled fraternity of individuals who inhale audibly at the mere mention of Travaglini Gattinara Numerata Riserva 1996? Is it still...
18 Jun Telluride Wine Fest #34: Overview
“Wine is the only thing that makes us happy as adults for no reason,” cartoonist Saul Steinberg In vino, some split decisions about the veritas? Used to be if you knew wines you knew about the turf issue. The grape world seemed to be divided...