Habitat for Humanity is known worldwide for homes for low-income families built with volunteer labor. Now the nonprofit has upped its standards.
The first cluster of home projects out of the Telluride chapter of Habitat for Humanity, a three bedroom residence in Norwood, was put up in accordance with green residential guidelines by Energy Star.
[Editor's Note: In time for the 16th annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, this weekend, September 18– 20, anthropologist/cook book author Dr. Susanna Hoffman has come up with a recipe for elk (or other game meat) and brews.]
by Dr. Susanna Hoffman
Denver is Telluride's big sister city today, but back in the days of the wild, wooly West both were prosperous mining towns.
Young Denver was a rich gold-rush city, a way station for many wagon trains and cattle drives, and a merchant capitol where intrepid folks crossing the mountains could stock up on whatever goods they needed. Back then, Denver was relatively small, edging towards half million hardy souls, surrounded by open plains and, just up the road a piece, mountains teeming with game. In young Denver, it was easy to eat buffalo, elk, moose, and pronghorn. Any good butcher had the meats as did some of the finer eating establishments such as El Rancho, The Old Navarre, and the Wiltshire Country Club. I never lost my taste for the game morsels I acquired as a girl and mourned their disappearance from shops and restaurants as more and more people, along with mega-chain grocery stores, invaded my hometown.
The next few mornings of predawn skies gift early risers with the graceful, delicate pairing of a slender crescent Moon with the dazzling planet Venus - it’s a magnificent sight to see and one this dedicated stargazer looks forward to whenever Venus does her...
In this context, From Russia with Love is not the second film in the James Bond series. From Russia with Love describes a partnership between the Telluride Film Festival and CEC ArtsLink to co-host a group of emerging filmmakers from Russia for a residency that brought them first to Telluride over the long Labor Day festival weekend. Last year, the young Russian directors screened their films at the Telluride Film Festival. This year they came as observers. (New projects will be screened in Boulder, Colorado and New York.) Participants were selected for their cinematic accomplishments in a competitive nomination process.
Telluride's SquidShow Theatre, in support of Black Bear Awareness Week, presents an original play by Sasha Cucciniello and Colin Sullivan: "Bear It! – Bear Safety for the 21st Century." The FREE event is one night only,Tuesday, September 15, 8 p.m., Fly Me to the...
Anne Thompson, George
Gittoes, Nicholas Cage,
and Jason Reitman
at Labor Day seminar
The Telluride Film Festival invented downsizing: for 36 years, the directors of the event have selected just 20 – 30 movies from among the hundreds submitted to them each year, which explains why the celluloid celebration appeals to discriminating cinephiles. Elitist? Unapologetically. This year as every year, the Telluride Film Festival shunned the usual suspects, going out on a limb to inspire and educate.
The Telluride Film Festival is also about making connections. Over the long Labor Day weekend, the tail end of moviedom's so-called popcorn season (Memorial Day – Labor Day), actors, directors, cinematographers, producers, distributers, and buffs chat like long lost friends on Main Street, the Gondola, and in lines, about what gladdened, saddened and maddened.
Dateline Telluride: KOTO Guest DJ Day got Fall Fundraising '09 off to a fine start on Friday, September 11. The Mayors of Telluride and the Mt. Village were featured. Stu Fraser took 3rd place with $2,240. Coming in 2nd was Davis Fansler at $2,945....
I celebrated my 50th birthday in Chicago with friends and family before heading on a two week trek in France and Switzerland. I have been saving for this trip since 2002 and I can't believe I am really here in Chamonix staring at Mont Blanc. ...
"District 9" is this week's movie at Telluride's Nugget Theatre. The aliens came to Earth 30 years ago. As it turned out, they were survivors of a dying world, and brought neither the threat of interplanetary war nor wonderful technological advances, so they were consigned to a refugee camp in South Africa while the world decided what to do with them.
Impatience with this situation comes to a head as a multi-national company with no reason except profit to care about the creatures under its control, looks for ways to profit from the responsibility it has undertaken.
The movie is rated R for violience and language. Check the Nugget website for reviews and trailers. See below for movie times.
