Wine and wafers. Standard fare at Sunday church services across the country, right? But croque madam? Sweet risotto? Craft cocktails? Not so much. Unless, of course, you happened to patronize Bar Marco, a relatively new (the place has been open about 1 1/2 years), increasingly popular eatery in Pittsburgh’s historic Strip District. The uber hip…
Training on Net Zero Homes comes to Telluride Friday, May 10 (and Durango Thursday, May 9) The Colorado Green Building Guild, a trade organization focused on advancing the craft of sustainable building in Colorado, announces a new partnership with the Department of Energy to provide dynamic content about the business, marketing, and technical strategies to…
Tuesday, April 30, 7 p.m., SPARKY Productions presents Alan Bennett’s new play “People” as part of the first NT LIVE program with Telluride’s Palm Theatre. NT LIVE is a simulcast, live broadcast of a National Theatre of Great Britain productions. “People” is currently running at the National Theatre in London to great acclaim. “Now, in…
“One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty,” Martin Luther King In a real-life game of monopoly (of the fossil fuel variety), he played his hand and got sent to jail (without passing “Go”). His conscience saw no alternative. Almost two years later, Tim…
Off season, when we leave Telluride on vacation, Gina the Dog does too. For the past 12 years (nearly her entire life), she has headed to the Cottonwood Ranch & Kennel in Crawford, where she became the loving pet she is today (albeit, still quirky) thanks to Ted Hoff’s gift as a trainer and his…
Katherine Wells’s obsession with petroglyphs (images pecked on stone) began in the 1960s. Three decades later, after careers as a teacher, a businessperson, and an artist in Southern California, Wells and Lloyd Dennis, her partner, purchased almost 200 acres near Española in northern New Mexico. The large boulders on the property contained many examples of…
On Sunday, April 14, 10:00 p.m. MST), PBS premieres an awe-inspiring film from Academy Award-nominated director Josh Aronson. Aronson’s latest documentary,“Orchestra of Exiles,” tells the dramatic story of Bronislaw Huberman, the celebrated Polish violinist who rescued some of the world’s greatest musicians from Nazi Germany, then created one of the world’s greatest orchestras, the Palestine…
Poetry began to spill out of Erika Moss Gordon when she was a young child. Today, the themes have changed, but the words are still spilling. “Of Eyes and Iris” is her first book and it charts her adult journeys into landscapes of the vastly unfamiliar and the everyday extraordinary. On Sunday, April 14, 3…
Born and raised in southwest Colorado, Dalen Stevens is an avid outdoorsman, backpacking, hiking, and backcountry skiing the mountains and desert country of the region, his work drawing inspiration from at profound connection to his surroundings. And Dalen is a virtuoso in more than one medium. He performs on trombone with a variety of local…
She practices what she preaches. “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali” constitute the foundational text of Raja (royal) Yoga. The teachings, which lay out a path for achieving physical, mental and emotional harmony, offer practices for daily life, among them, ahimsa. Ahimsa translates from the Sanskrit as non-violence or not causing pain, first to oneself, then…