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26 Jan SHROOM- FEST OFFERS LOCALS’ DISCOUNT
The Telluride Mushroom Festival is offering discounted full-weekend pass tickets for its annual four-day event to San Miguel County residents through the month of January. “Having just received CCAASE funding for the festival this coming summer, we’d like to offer local residents a special discount...
26 Jan SAN JUAN MOUNTAIN WEATHER: OUR PRIVATE LITTLE STORM?
The latest storm to affect the San Juan Mountains is taking form in the Pacific NW this morning and has begun pushing clouds into northern Colorado. A fast moving shortwave impulse on NW flow will move across the Great Basin tonight and Friday with deepening...
25 Jan LLAMA LIVE: OAKHURST FRIDAY NITE
They are a progressive bluegrass quintet from Denver, Colorado with deep Appalachian roots and a genre-bending sound that fuses traditional bluegrass with indie rock and a citybilly swagger. On their Facebook page, the group calls its sound “Rocky Mountain Guerrilla Grass.” Oakhurst has played legendary...
24 Jan AH HAA MOMENT: PASTELS WITH BRUCE GOMEZ
Artist Bruce Gomez, an unapologetic sensualist, uses sandpaper on cold-pressed watercolor paper to create a signature shimmering velour effect on his canvases. The pastelist was one of the first artists Will and Hilary Thompson signed for their stable when they opened for business in 1985...
24 Jan TNCC STAFF: GIVING AND GETTING TRAINING
With funding from Just For Kids, our Telluride-based New Community Coalition is putting on a Renewable Energy for Educators training in Norwood this Friday. We’ve had lots of fun in the past bringing in the Science Explorers training in which teams of kids and teachers...
23 Jan SAN JUAN MOUNTAIN WEATHER: A LITTLE MORE SNOW
My last forecast posted 2 days go ended with the conundrum of three computer models lacking agreement in solution. Now with the clarity of the immediate future it looks like the last model that called for a split flow, combined with the first model which...
23 Jan BEFORE BLUEGRASS THERE WAS CELTIC FINGER STYLING
In the 1700s, Scottish and Irish settlers moved into the Appalachian Mountains, bringing their fiddles with them. The result, as Jerry Barlow suggests, was “old-time mountain music and from that, we got our bluegrass.” Thursday, January 26, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m., Barlow brings his unique...
23 Jan MASTERING SECURITY: MONITOR CARBON MONOXIDE
The pager went off awaking us from a late night winter’s sleep telling us to respond to a strange sounding call at a large home near Telluride. The caller had been talking to the on-call doctor at the medical clinic stating that he was not...