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September 2009

September 10 to 17, 2009

Visible Planets: Morning: Venus and Mars   Evening: Jupiter

Revisit the Past and Prepare for the Future in the Present

Well, it’s Virgo time and time for me to do the Virgo thing – seriously! – clean and organize my messes and piles. “Stuff” that this Libra Sun, Gemini Rising, Cancer Moon moonchild has so lovingly and craftily collected over a lifetime. Right!

1 Columns and stories I’ve written over the years, magazines with amazing authors and articles, beautiful photographs and pieces of artwork, leather for making vests and chaps, fabrics for clothing, quilts and pillows, crystals, family memorabilia, cards to and from my Mother, wedding presents I’ve never used, shoes and sports gear…things like that.

Some people are better than others at cleansing and purging, discerning and discarding, prioritizing and criticizing. Not me! I hang on to things from Grandma and Grandpa, Mom and Dad, nieces and nephews, brothers and sisters, friends and lovers, etc. Sound like an emotionally attached Cancer Moon?

11 September, 2009 /

[click "Play" to hear Kristin Holbrook on ruffles] We are not talking about Frito Lay's attempt to revive its brand. Telluride Inside...

11 September, 2009 /

IMG_4336 Telluride's community radio station, KOTO, is holding it Fall fundraiser on Friday, September 11. The guest DJ theme is "Mayors." See schedule is listed below. The on-air  event is another fun Telluride tradition, another way Telluriders connect. In the interest of full disclosure, I was one of the guest DJs last Spring, and I can say first hand it is a great event. Call in and support your favorite guest DJ.

10 September, 2009 /

Art1 Some of us in Telluride heard that totally subversive speech by our President on Tuesday. You know the one: Obama actually urged kids to make the most of themselves. Take responsibility. "Just like Mao," said Fix News talking heads.

Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts must have gotten hold of an advanced copy of Obama's pep talk. Starting September 14, every Monday and Wednesday, ARTrageous After School Days, 3:15 – 5:30 p.m., offers a wide array of creative projects, from puppet-making to recycled creations. Wednesday is clay day. For two hours, young kids get to create critters that would make Wallace and Grommit proud. What's more, Ah Haa plays the willing chauffeur and plans to pick up students outside school on ARTrageous days.

09 September, 2009 /

IMG_5356 Director Todd Solondz, whose "Life During Wartime," had its North American premiere this past weekend at the Telluride Film Festival, is distinguished as an independent filmmaker who dares to go places others fear to tread. Solondz takes on universal themes – "Life During Wartime" is about forgiving and forgetting –  in character-driven stories whose denizens are quirky in the extreme. In high relief under bright lights, these eccentric individuals become Everyman, warts and all. The character actors in "Life During Wartime," both young and old, are fearless, giving flawless performances of very flawed individuals.

09 September, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Sunny Griffin speak with Susan about skin care]

Sunny at Spa.jpg The Himmel Spa at The Franz Klammer is located in Telluride's sister town, The Mountain Village, a short gondola ride up the mountain from our box canyon.

On Wednesday, the Klammer is hosting Sunny Griffin, founder/owner of Astara Skin Care. The event takes place 3 – 5 p.m. and is open to the general public. Aestheticians are on hand to do free mini- facials (about 20 minutes each). Massage therapists will do chair massage. There is food and Astara gifts.

08 September, 2009 /

Maribeth Clemente is host of Travel Fun, a talk show on Telluride's KOTO public radio. On September 8, 6:30 p.m., her special guest is documentarian and Telluride Film Festival board member Ken Burns, talking about his six-part series, “The National Parks:  America’s Best Idea,” which...

08 September, 2009 /

SheridanInteriorWidesmall_001 It is a little bit like learning Greek statues were originally brightly painted, not white. Photos discovered in 2002 illustrate the fact that Telluride's Sheridan Opera House was originally stenciled throughout the auditorium. Read on to learn how you can help restore the original decoration.

The original decorative painting of the Sheridan Opera House is significant because it is a rare example of the transitional period between the Art Nouveau style of the late 1800s and the Craftsman style of the 1920s. Because this transitional style is so rare and unusual, the discovery represents a “missing link” along the continuum of architectural styles in the United States.

During the early 20th century, other opera houses in the Rocky Mountains region were decorated in a classical, more traditional style, but true to form for Telluride, our Opera House’s bold stenciling is a more innovative, edgier kind of decoration for the period.

07 September, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Hannah Rothschild]

HBO contact sheet Jazz Baroness Hannah Rothschild's "The Jazz Baroness" hit a high note at the Telluride Film Festival, the documentary's North American premiere.

Like jazz itself, "The Jazz Baroness" is based on a melodic line – the leitmotif is Rothschild's great aunt,  Baronness Pannonica de Koenigwarter or "Nica, " an exotic beauty and mother of five, who left home in 1951 headed for New York in search of the man who wrote 'Round Midnight. Variations on the "melody,"  the improv, is provided by virtuosic friends, jazz musicians and historians – Sonny Rollins, Quincy Jones, Thelonius Monk junior, Roy Haynes, and Curtis Fuller among them – whose lives were touched by the exotic butterfly. The Duchess of Devonshire and other luminaries tell their side of the story too. Rothschild is the bandleader, deftly, sensitively defining the rhythm and pace of her ensemble cast, debunking myths, replacing scandal with fact.

07 September, 2009 /

The Telluride Choral Society announces its Fall concert, with the first rehearsal for adults, Wednesday, September 9. Rehearsals are every Wednesday from 5:45 to 7:15p.m., Christ Church, 434 W. Columbia. Artistic director David Lingle is preparing singers for a Mahler and Brahms concert with the...

07 September, 2009 /