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October 2009

Spook_tio In communities around the world like Telluride, 350.org day celebrations on October 24 represented a giant step in raising global and government awareness about the realities of climate change and the need to cap carbon emissions to 350 parts per million starting yesterday.

The Ah Haa School for the Arts played a major role locally that day by hosting two big events: the school's annual family day, Spooktacular was the first. Over 45 kids and parents showed up to make Halloween crafts like spooky spiders and trick-or-treat bags. Many of the craft projects involved repurposing and recycling and like magic, egg cartons and CDs turned into cool flying bats and jack o' lantern magnets.

At the end of the day, 350.org events culminated at the Ah Haa School for a community potluck, when around 30 people brought secret recipes to share, including many of the contenders for Town Council: Glider Bob, Chris Myers, Brian Werner, Lulu Hunt to name a few.
28 October, 2009 /
IMGP0683 Blue Lake Pass, on the south shoulder of the Telluride region's Mount Sneffels, is a narrow, sharp saddle between Gilpin Peak and Mount Sneffels, with rocky ridges extending off each mountain. The view to the West is into the Mount Sneffels Wilderness Area; to the northeast, to Teakettle Mountain and  little Coffeepot Mountain. East access is via wildflower-filled Yankee Boy Basin on this favorite local hike.

"Blue Lake Pass" is one of three large-scale environmental installations by part-time Telluride area local, artist/architect Maya Lin, selected from her recent traveling museum exhibition Systematic Landscapes.

Telluride Inside... and Out happened into the show on a visit to Chelsea last Thursday, October 22.
27 October, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Peter Meineck on Aquilla Theatre]

AYLIFinal-24 As we like it: the Palm Theatre in Telluride brings New York's Aquila Theatre Company to town with its production of Shakespeare's "As You Like It" on Thursday, October 29, 6:30 p.m. "As You Like It"  is one of the Bard's greatest and most discombobulating comedies. It takes a sailor to untie the knots that result from plot twists and turns.

Here's a road map to "As You Like It": Rosalind, daughter of a banished Duke, is forced to flee court and enter the Forest of Arden when her life is threatened by her power-hungry uncle and his henchmen. Accompanied by her cousin, Celia, Rosalind gets all tricked out as a man for safety's sake. The disguise proves handy as Rosalind tests the devotion of her noble suitor Orlando, also forced into hiding by a bloodthirsty sibling. In the guise of a man, Rosalind teaches Orlando the ways of the heart. Some of the Bard's most poetic language flows through a cycle of merry and melancholy misunderstandings, gender bending, and mistaken identities among the court exiles and forest natives. In the end, love conquers all and justice wins the day. "As You Like It" contains the famous monologue that begins: "All the World's a Stage..." comparing life to a play.

26 October, 2009 /
IMGP2094 Frances Barlow lives her life with an unbuttoned sense of joy, both in New York, where she runs the theatre she founded, Urban Stages, and in Telluride, where she lives part time with husband Ed Barlow. Telluride Inside...and Out always looks forward to spending time with Frances – and with Ed, whenever his feet touch the ground, which is almost never. The most recent invitation was during our recent trip to New York: lunch at The Coffee House at 20 West 44, where members dine at one long table, discussing anything but work. Here's the backstory based on a speech by Ben Hall at the club's Golden Anniversary Dinner in December, 1965.

Unrecorded in the annals of the Knickerbocker Club is an event which might be called the Great Coffee House Rebellion. One day in January, 1914, two mem­bers of the Knickerbocker—Frank Crowninshield and Rawlins L. Cottenet—met for lunch at a midtown hotel and agreed that they were fed up to the tops of their Arrow collars with the Knickerbocker and its brass-buttoned flunkies, silver duck-presses, and gold-plated table conversation. According to Crown­in­shield’s recollec­tions, they decided that “it would be agreeable and desirable to found a small dining club composed of such members of the Knickerbocker Club as had no sympathy with busi­ness or wealth or with such things that business and wealth produced or implied.”
25 October, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Erika Gordon on Halloween at the Palm]

100 This weekend in Telluride, "boo" does not signify displeasure. It is an exclamation tied to a holiday that is a very big deal in town. Because Telluride has a dirty little secret: denizens love any excuse to dress to kill. And that goes for the gnarliest of jocks to the littlest of kids. We are basically all pagans at heart.

Dress rehearsal for the weekend's derring-do – you won't want to miss KOTO's Halloween bash at the historic Sheridan Opera House – is Telluride Film Festival's Sunday at the Palm Halloween Celebration. The event takes place on October 25, 4 p.m., and features a phantasmagorical line-up of of children's short films based on the theme of Halloween and Autumn, when kids and kids-at-heart get to test drive their costumes. Here's a taste of the backstory.

24 October, 2009 /

Telluride showed up en masse for its portrait during Mountainfilm in May, 2009, when Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org was in town for the festival. Telluride is again helping the organization bring worldwide attention to the requirement to bring our carbon level back down...

24 October, 2009 /

DSC_2155 The Telluride region's Second Chance Humane Society is one of a number of no-kill facilities in the state that rescues hundreds of homeless pets each year, many of which have become beloved Telluride pets. But many of the dogs who are given a "Second Chance" have been badly abused and/or neglected. Once they are rescued, they need a leg-up (no, not that kind) to find their way back into society to become a cherished family member. Enter Telluride Inside... and Out's expert dog trainer Ted Hoff of Cottonwood Ranch & Kennel in Crawford, CO. This past week, Ted has been very busy training several groups of rescue dogs, new adoptions, including Lulu, from Second Chance.

"The moral of the story is these dogs are very resilient, very trainable and so glad to find a good, loving home," explains Ted. 

24 October, 2009 /

October 22 to 29, 2009

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

The Scorpio Zodiac Month of Magic, Mystery and Metaphysics

Gypsy This week we enter the realm of mysterious, magnetic Scorpio. The Sun enters the zodiac’s eighth sign on October 23rd at 12:44 a.m. MDT, and in so doing, opens the cosmic door to magical experience and metaphysical reality. While air-apparent Libra was social and mental, Scorpio is mystical and private. Libra loves sunlight, billowing clouds and shimmering rainbows, while Scorpio prefers moonlight, shadows and the intriguing possibilities of darkness.

As heavenly influences transform, check out inner clocks and internal dialogues. Do you feel yourself moving from a place of relative intellectual “lightness” to a position of deepening emotion, traveling from the intellectual realms of mind to the intuitive, psychic waters of the soul? Look for a shift from the frivolous to the focused, and direct attention toward deep desire. Examine motivation and intention as you do.
   

Witchy

 Scorpio is the sign most associated with the taboo, the hidden, the clandestine and the secret. It rules the private areas and most precious, intimate pieces of our lives.  It is where we become possessive, obsessive and passionate. The evolutionary intent of Scorpio is akin to the sacred science of alchemy, which describes the process of transmuting one’s own material, physical “darkness” into a purified product of spiritual gold.  So, as we creep our way through the first week of Scorpio and move ever closer to Halloween, check it out. Get out the brooms and candlesticks, wands and witch hats. Collect bones and gather herbs. It’s the season of ghosts and goblins, spirits and spells. Light the fire and prepare the potions!




23 October, 2009 /