Often what happens in Telluride does not stay in Telluride. 
2009 Name that Tune winners
Telluride's KOTO Community Radio was populist way before populist became popular all over again, thanks to Tea Baggers bagging headlines and screaming for attention on behalf of The Man on the Street.
January full moon (plus 1 day) in Telluride. Jackie Greene was playing at the Opera House, but for many locals, the place to be was the Valley Floor for moonlight cross country skiing. To sweeten the deal there were stations for hot cider, soup,...
(photographer's note: Apologies to a few acts after intermission: my camera battery died halfway through the second part. Something about having shot nearly 600 frames. Sorry, it wasn't intentional.)
The highlight of Telluride's KOTO Community Radio's winter fun-raising campaign is always the annual Lip Sync contest. Rolling Stone red or slightly blue – as it often gets – the lips lived on Friday night, January 29 when KOTO radio hosted #25 at the Sheridan Opera House.
Ted Hoff of Cottonwood Ranch and Kennel tells a good story. Usually there is a training tip in there. His story about his son's remote controlled boat and a pair of English setters is no exception. In this case the main lesson is...
He's beginning to be a habit around these parts: Telluride Bluegrass Festival, 2005, again in 2007, and most recently, the 2009 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival. And that's a good thing. Multi-instrumentalist – voice, guitars, dobro, piano, harmonica, and percussion – Jackie Greene returns with his band to Telluride's historic Sheridan Opera House for an encore performance Saturday night, January 30.
[click "Play" to listen to Kristin Holbrook talk about shiny shoes] Could be a surrogate for the jewelry in lean times. They certainly sparkle and shine: metallics in clothes and accessories have been a strong seasonal trend, seen top...
January 28 to February 4, 2010
Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury and Saturn Evening: Mars and Jupiter
The Jan. 29th Leo/Aquarius full Moon takes place at 11:18 p.m. MST @ 10º14’ and brings to fruition the late degree Capricorn new Moon solar eclipse cycle of Jan. 15th. This promises us a powerful lunation filled with plenty of social interaction and charismatic attraction. Leo/Aquarius full Moons – one in summer and one in winter – are the year’s two most flamboyant “party” moons as the romantic, courageous heart of the Lion pairs up with the wild and crazy, inventive spirit of the revolutionary rebel, Aquarius.
This year, however, we are under the spell of a seductive Pluto/Saturn square that is forcing a shift in perspective via uncontrollable, inevitable natural forces. Governments, politics, economies - the powers that be - including the weather, i.e. global warming and climate change, are all raining and reigning down upon humanity as a whole. We are no longer alone in this, not as a country, class or individual. Therefore, expect this week’s parties to carry a more serious tone, a collective spirit that somehow winds us all together as “one world” and “one heart”.
Telluride's Between the Covers bookstore welcomes debut author Judith Michaels Safford to town for a book-signing on Saturday, January 30, 5 – 7 p.m. Her memoir, "Don't Sell Your Soul: Memoirs of a Guru Junkie," is a story about some hard lessons learned and a life reclaimed.
Something for everybody at Telluride's Nugget Theatre this week, Friday, January 29-Thursday, February 4. And those of you who are young or young at heart have two opportunities to see Alvin and company on Saturday.
In "Alvin and the Chipmunks: the Squeakquel" the furry ones go to high school and are pitted against a girl chipmunk trio in a music contest. Alvin and group hope to win the $25K first prize to support the school music program. Need more plot than that? It's rated PG.
Meryl Streep (Jane) and Alec Baldwin (Jake) are ten years divorced, and find themselves out of town together. This being Hollywood, they have an affair, though Jake is re-married and Jane has an incipient relationship. "It's Complicated" is rated R, for sexual situations and some drug content.
See below for showtimes, and see the Nugget website for trailers and reviews.
