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February 2009

[click the "Play" button to hear Susan's conversation with Lauren Fong]

Itsola on Telluride AIDS Benefit runway

Designer Lauren Fong is cut from a different sort of cloth.

Her career in fashion began improbably at USC Business School. A move to Tokyo for a career in banking sharpened her aesthetics perhaps more than her numbers skills.

Back home in the U.S., Lauren obeyed her muse. Good-bye suits, hello Itsola.

24 February, 2009 /

Steve's 2009 Publicity Shots 022 What has TV celebrity Steve Spitz cooked up for the Telluride AIDS Benefit? 

TV lifestyle celebrity Steve Spitz describes his upcoming new program, "Live with Steve Spitz" this way: "People don't need to find another lifestyle show. They need to find style in their own lives. My program helps them to do just that: find it, nurture it, get their freak on and party with it like Paris Hilton before celebrity rehab."

For a sneak peek at the party Steve has planned for the Telluride AIDS Benefit on Tuesday, February 24, 6 p.m. at a private home in town, check out the mouthwatering menu, then call 970-728-0869.



23 February, 2009 /

In writing about the 2008 Telluride Film Festival, TIO's Susan Viebrock (full disclosure: we've been married nearly 20 years) gave raves to "Slumdog", which premiered in Telluride. The article was written Sept 3, 2008, so it didn't come as a big surprise to us that...

22 February, 2009 /

Telluride's New Sheridan Hotel, Restaurant and Bar partners with Med Center's FEAST

She was the heart of the social scene back in the days Telluride's streets were paved with gold. About 117 years later, however, she was clearly overdue for some major "work."

Telluride's new plastic surgeon, Dr. Jeff Ptak – also the dermatologist at the Telluride Medical Center – had nothing to do with the New Sheridan Hotel, Bar & Restaurant's $7 million facelift. Credit for the handiwork goes to world famous interior designer Nina Campbell, who returned the grande dame of Main Street to her original Victorian splendor.

22 February, 2009 /

Among the elements that make Telluride "Telluride" are community involvement and the spirit of volunteerism. Nowhere are these more apparent than among our young citizens. Emma Gross and Brittany Altman were Rizzo and Sandy in the recent SAF Young People's Theatre revival of "Grease."...

22 February, 2009 /

[click the "Play" button to hear Clint's conversation with Jolana Vanek]The Wilkinson Public Library in Telluride is hosting an interactive event by Jolana Vanek on Monday, Feb 23, at 6:00 pm in the Library's program room. This is part...

21 February, 2009 /

Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino" at Telluride's Nugget Theatre this weekDirty Harry is back. In Clint Eastwood's new movie, he is Walt Kowalski, a grumpy, unhappy Korean War vet. When neighborhood youths try to steal Kowalski's prized possession, a '72 Ford Gran Torino, he gets involved...

21 February, 2009 /

[click "Play" button to hear Susan's interview with EFF's Melanie Robbins]

Telluride AIDS Benefit supports Ethiopian Family Fund

Edelawit Bright Eyes Masresha in uniform at school The young girls the Ethiopian Family Fund has rescued from a lifetime of sickness, poverty and monotonous labor indirectly have Mother Teresa to thank, and two girls in particular, the Telluride AIDS Benefit.

Melanie Robbins and Marla Hodes, EFF’s co-directors, took a trip to Africa several years ago to visit Marla’s brother Rick, a full-time doctor at Mother Teresa’s Mission in Addis Adaba, the capital of Ethiopia.

The original plan was to help Dr. Hodes, but it turned out his piggy bank was full and the Mission was in great shape. The boys there, many dropped on the doorsteps by desperate parents, were doing fine thank you. But where were the girls?

19 February, 2009 /

February 19 to 26, 2009

Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn    Evening: Venus

Albert Einstein, the quintessential Pisces

Einst_rad “The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal god and avoid dogma and theology. It should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity.” – Albert Einstein

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” -- Albert Einstein

"Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." -- Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in what was then known as Um, the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire. He died in Princeton, NJ on April 18, 1955. From Germany to Italy, Switzerland and finally America, Einstein shimmered his brilliance, humor and eccentric style upon all whom he encountered. As a quintessential Pisces, he tapped in to the cosmic consciousness and divined order in chaos, reconciled mechanics with electromagnetism and created elegant mathematical equations to explain time and space.  He is best known for his theory of relativity and the mass-energy equivalence equation E = mc2.

Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for the discovery of photoelectrons and the quantum nature of light. In 1999 Time magazine named him the “Person of the Century” and in wider culture today, the name “Einstein” has become synonymous with genius. As an eternal romantic, child at heart and epitome of the absent-minded, nutty professor, with a cluttered desk and a wild hairdo, Einstein pulled metaphysical magic out of his cerebral hat and captured the world’s imagination. His life and work continue to inspire and intrigue us, entertain and enlighten.  As a shining example of Piscean magnificence, here’s to Albert Einstein. May his creative, scientific legacy and legendary intuitive intelligence live on, forever and ever, in the numinous ethers of universal consciousness. Happy Birthday month to the Fish!

19 February, 2009 /