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March 2010

[click "Play" to hear Scott Doser speaking with Susan]

Phenomenal Women's Week, an annual initiative of the San Miguel Resource Center, continues with a screening of "America the Beautiful" in the Program Room of the Wilkinson Public Library. The event takes place March 12, starting at 5 p.m. A panel discussion follows the controversial documentary.

According to an Economist  survey on beauty, medieval noblewomen swallowed arsenic and dabbed on the blood of bats to improve their complexions. Forget bleaching agents, women in 18th-century America coveted the urine of young boys to erase freckles. Cher was by far not the first: Victorian women removed ribs to give themselves waspish waistlines. The desire to be conventionally beautiful dates back to the dawn of civilization.
12 March, 2010 /

[click "Play" to listen to Susan's conversation with Richie Havens]

Unknown Richie Havens has been performing in Telluride since the 1970s. Everything old will be new again when the folk icon returns to town for a concert at the historic Sheridan Opera House on Saturday, March 13. Show time is 8 p.m. Box Office and Vaudeville Bar open 30 minutes prior.


August 15, 2009 marked the 40th anniversary of the momentous Woodstock Music & Art Fair, a festival billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music," held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York. Bethel, in Sullivan County, is 43 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York,  in adjoining Ulster County and it was where Richie Havens became an enduring star.
11 March, 2010 /
DSCN0068 It is a widely held belief that Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is one of the most phenomenal among legions of phenomenal women in the Telluride region: as talented as she is beautiful and as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside. Here is one of a number of original poems Rosemerry plans to read Thursday night at open mic and arts event at the Ah Haa School for the Arts, part of the San Miguel Resource Center's Phenomenal Woman's Week celebration.
11 March, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear a free-wheeling conversation with Jerry Joseph]

Stockholm_courtesy1_2-25_t620 Fair warning: We have it on good authority that around 7 p.m. on Friday, March 12, the Telluride region will be held hostage by an unruly band of men and worse, fall in love with their captors, thereby conforming to the psychological definition of the Stockholm Syndrome.

The band, the Stockholm Syndrome, takes the town by storm, performing in concert  at the Telluride Conference Center in the Mountain Village. Doors at 6:30 p.m. Show time at 7 p.m.
11 March, 2010 /

Aneducation_smallposter Crazyheart_smallposter Three movies on tap this week at Telluride's Nugget Theatre: "Valentine's Day"  (rated PG-13) also showed last week and features an large ensemble cast telling stories of people in love, people who want to be in love, people who are NOT in love, all in the 24 hours of Valentine's Day.

"Crazy Heart" (rated R) is the vehicle for Jeff Bridges' boozed up has-been of a country singer, for which he won Best Actor in the recent Academy Awards.

Speaking of the Oscars, Carry Mulligan was nominated for Best Actress for her role in "An Education" (rated PG-13) which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival last September. If you missed it last Fall, hie thee to the Nugget.

See below for showtimes and the Nugget website for trailers and reviews.

11 March, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Megan Rood]

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Megan Rood

Telluride's San Miguel Resource Center presents an Artists' Showcase & Open Mic Night, part of the continuing celebration of International Women's Day and Telluride's homegrown Phenomenal Woman's Week. The event takes place Thursday evening, March 11,  6– 8 p.m. at Tellurie's Ah Haa School for the Arts.


The suffragettes. Their names come back to us in waves, like way distant echoes. Even the name Betty Freidan, the woman who presided over the birth of modern feminism, resonates like some fire-breathing dragon of yore, which she was, in a way. Freidan's compatriots and love children, Gremaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, Wendy Shalit, Katie Roiphe, Naomi Wolf, and Susan Faludi all paved the way, but still, women continue to struggle to find the ideal mix between feminism and femininity. Except perhaps in Shangri-Las like Telluride, where no one has a problem with women having it both ways. In Telluride, we paint our nails and break them too. In Telluride, where women run companies and mountain trails, a poet is a mom, a singer, and helps run a family orchard; KOTO's musical director writes music herself and plays a flaming guitar;  and a gallery director moonlights as a lead singer in an all-women's rock and roll band (with the music director).
10 March, 2010 /


Jerry Garcia nicknamed him "Master of the Universe." The Hammond B-3 Organ is his weapon of choice; his wizardry on the instrument, the stuff of legend. This week Melvin Seals & Second to None are everywhere you want to be in the Telluride region. Musically speaking, the sky's the limit.

Thursday, March 11, 8 p.m., Seals performs in town at Telluride's historic Sheridan Opera House. Saturday, March 13, Second to None heads up the hill to the Telluride Conference Center in the Mountain Village, where the group is the entertainment for the Telluride Medical Center's annual F.E.A.S.T. (Fund for Expanding And Supporting Telluride’s Medical Center), a fundraiser, this year to help support the Telluride Medical Center Emergency room renovation.
09 March, 2010 /