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December 2009

2__#$!@%!#__unknown The Telluride AIDS Benefit starts selling tickets for its Gala Fashion Show Noel Night, tomorrow, December 2, 232 West Colorado Avenue, (TREC Offices), 5 – 8 p.m., just one day after World AIDS Day and 26 years after the the "virus" was announced in France.  Swine Flu may be the cause celebre du jour, but sadly, HIV/AIDS is still with us, even if the plague is no longer grabbing headlines. (The most recent AIDS-related headlines were around a new vaccine that proved to be a bust.)

World AIDS Day, which opened for business in December 1988, is about raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice, and improving education, which is more or less the mission of the Telluride AIDS Benefit, which specifically states their goal is "to fight HIV/AIDS by heightening global and local awareness, as well as generating financial support for educational programs and client care, particularly in Western Colorado."

01 December, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Amy Boebel]

PB293770 The holiday season in Telluride comes with all the traditional trimmings: chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose, folks around town dressed up like Eskimos, twinkling lights, eggnog, office parties, ho-ho-hoing. At the center of all the action is the Christmas tree, which takes over our living rooms like good old Uncle Joe and Aunt Sadie, likewise decorated.


Several years ago, some Long Islander had the bright idea to sell faux upside-down trees, which made a real wrinkle in the holiday's novelty sweepstakes that year. The idea: a person could put more presents under an upside down tree. Topsy-turvey trees take up less room, and more of your prized ornaments would be at eye level. That one, however, went out with Beanie Babies and Pet Rocks. But the idea of pre-decorated trees still has legs.
01 December, 2009 /