[click "Play" to listen to Susan's conversation with Andy Konigsmark] Telluride local Andy Konigsmark performed stand up and improv comedy in Hollywood before moving to town. On Mondays, 6 – 8 p.m., January 11 – 25, Andy will be teaching Ah Haa students...
by Kris Holstrom
Editor's note: TNCC's Kris Holstrom took the adage about "out with the old" literally. The culmination of her holiday trifecta was a purge. ps: Kris says to tell you the picture isn't of her house.
Fresh face on old walls
The new year is a great time for a fresh start. At Tomtem Farm, we've been in our house for 20+ years and its age was showing. However, a bit of research, some time, a little money and helping hands are doing wonders to restore our little house on the mesa. 
Clint and Susan Viebrock of Telluride Inside... and Out, the Wilkinson Public Library, the Telluride Writers Guild, Between the Covers Bookstore, and Bob Rubadeau's Sirius Publications have joined forces to help local writers and visual artists develop the skills necessary to explore the brave new world of small house/self-publishing in order to mine worldwide markets/outlets for their works. The online vehicle for accomplishing the ambitious objective of bringing manuscripts to publication is a subdomain of Telluride Inside... and Out: Book Biz. The complementary interactive free seminars held monthly in the Program Room of the Wilkinson Public Library operates under the banner Community Publishing 101.
Telluride's Palm Theatre got the jump on everyone else. The venue's year-end fundraiser was a tribute to Elvis Presley, whose 75th birthday would have been January 8, 2010 – had The King not lost his head to drugs, sex and rock...
The Telluride AIDS Benefit Fashion Show is a glam slam with a mission: raise funds to support adults and children living with HIV/AIDS locally and throughout the state. The insider's Sneak Peek is Thursday, February 25, at the Telluride Conference Center. Tickets for the...
It snowed in Telluride the night of December 30, but New Year's Eve dawned under crystalline skies. Blue skies and new powder snow- does it get any better than that?
We took Gina the Dog for a snowshoe hike in the hills behind our house, had a quick breakfast, then I met a friend at Giuseppe's to take a few runs. By then it was time to head down the mountain to meet my student at the Telluride Adaptive Sports Program for an afternoon lesson.
Skiing over, time to rush home, clean up, dress "Telluride formal" and head out for the evening.
Ted Hoff of Cottonwood Ranch and Kennel had a birthday party a few weeks ago. While Ted's birthday was the reason for the get-together, Drake, the Hoffs' new yellow Labrador puppy, was the star of the evening. All the women there couldn't keep...
December 31, 2009 to January 7, 2010
Visible Planets: Morning: Mars and Saturn Evening: Mercury and Jupiter
This year, I’ll be watching the Full Moon rise over the Sea of Cortez, thinking about everyone back home in Colorado – the snow, the crystalline ice and the cold, cold air. Wishing you all the very, very best in this second decade of this New Age Millennium!
