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March 2010

[click "Play" to hear Rebecca Shambaugh's conversation with Susan]



Editor's note: Shortly after interview, in which we encouraged the community to attend, Telluride Inside...and Out learned from the management at Capella Telluride that the event is sold out. No room at the Inn. Period. With luck, that is not the end of the story. Perhaps Rebecca Shambaugh could be convinced to deliver a series of local talks on the subject of women and leadership. Stay tuned... 


The air in Telluride will be redolent of estrogen in the coming week.

Rshambaughweb Women's Ski Week, March 6 – March 11, coincides with International Women's Day, March 8, and the San Miguel Resource Center's Phenomenal Women's Week in Telluride, March 8 – March 15. Appropriately enough, on International Women's Day, Women's Ski Week welcomes keynote speaker, nationally known leadership strategist/author/CEO Rebecca Shambaugh, by all accounts a phenomenal woman.

Shambaugh is speaking on the topic of "Resilience: A Time for Reinvention." Her sold-out event starts at 8 p.m. in the Ballroom at Capella Telluride in the Mountain Village.
07 March, 2010 /

20100303095725767_0001 Local teens will be tuning in as Wilkinson Public Library celebrates the third annual Teen Tech Week March 8-12, 2010. WPL joins thousands of other libraries and schools across the country who are celebrating this year’s theme, "Learn Create Share @ Your Library.” Teen Tech Week is a national initiative of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA).  The purpose of the initiative is to ensure that teens are competent and ethical users of technologies, especially those that are offered through libraries. Teen Tech Week encourages teens to use libraries' non-print resources for education and recreation, and to recognize that librarians are qualified, trusted professionals in the field of information technology.

“Offering a variety of technologies and providing top notch education about these resources is of vital importance to the youth of our community,” says Sarah Lawton, Wilkinson Public Library’s Teen Librarian.  “We are fortunate to have a great group of kids here in Telluride.  They are smart, motivated and eager to engage.  By providing programs that speak to their interests, we can link teens with the world of information while introducing them to the strength of community.”

07 March, 2010 /

(editor's note: Somehow the post that was to accompany Ted's video went adrift. I am attempting to recreate the feeling of that post days later.) Ted Hoff of Cottonwood Ranch and Kennel is constantly working with his dogs and the dogs in...

06 March, 2010 /

by Shannon Mitchell

IMG_5495 Passes to the 37th Telluride Film Festival (September 3-6, 2010) are now available to the public.

The audience at the 36th annual Telluride Film Festival was the first in the world to view a number of Academy Award-nominated films including Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air,"  "Bright Star," "The White Ribbon" and "The Last Station."

Purchasing a pass allows the moviegoer complete flexibility throughout the four-day Festival. Pass-holders are able to move from theatre to theatre, event to event at their leisure while taking in the beauty of the Telluride surroundings.

06 March, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Julee Hutchison on her art]

The pearl Telluride local Julee Hutchison paints in oils on canvas with loose, open brushstrokes. Her focus is almost always the Big Picture, as she creates valentines to broad, open vistas and little corners of the world, although her landscapes are unmistakably American. Even in her portraits, the artist remains at one cool remove to take in and reflect the whole package, mining poetry from a smile or the tilt of a shoulder. Hutchison, however, is not strictly speaking a realist. She takes liberties with color to add punch or direct the eye of her viewer.


06 March, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's interview with host David Oyster]

DISCREET CHARM poster Cinematheque, the highly successful collaboration between the Telluride Film Festival and the Wilkinson Public Library, continues its "All About Food" series Monday, March 8. The pre-SHOW reception starts at 5:30 p.m. Curtain up at 6 p.m.


Created by Telluride Film Festival co-director Gary Meyer, “All About Food” began February with the Academy Award-winning "Babette's Feast." Lucky patrons stayed after the screening to enjoy the first ever “Wilkinson Feast,” a fine dining experience prepared by Chef Bud and served inside the library walls. 

06 March, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Caci Grinspan and Beau Staley]

Cd2 It was a stand-out moment at the Telluride AIDS Benefit fashion show and the epitome of throwaway chic: models in deconstructed tights and casual Ts flashing fabulous jewelry from Dolce, one of Telluride's luxury stores.


Some of that eye-popping bling was created by master jeweler Katey Brunini, whose pieces, all blockbusters, tend to be tributes in metal and gemstones to the beauty of the natural world, although her newest line of "body armor" celebrates strength. Brunini's creations have been featured on the red carpet at the Oscars and in numerous glossies, including Vogue, Town & Country and Modern Bride.
05 March, 2010 /

March 4 to 11, 2010

Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury and Saturn  Evening: Venus and Mars

Cocoon and Self-Nurture, Relax and Rejoice

Mudpaw Last week’s foot of snow is quickly vanishing here on Wrights Mesa. In its place are fields of matted grass and frozen dirt, which turn to mud when temperatures rise. Today the skies are clear and the wind is strong. I’m alone in the house with my three dogs, listening to the chimney whistle and the fire crack.

BlueEggs I’m aware that Spring is on its way. I’m comforted that we’re facing the seasons of lengthening days and warming nights. This morning I cleaned bluebird houses and prepared them for the returning pairs, with hopes I’d see them soon. Yesterday I drove to the West End and watched newborn calves frolic in the slanting afternoon sunlight, curious but close to their mothers and the rich milk upon which their lives depend.

The Pisces/Virgo Full Moon of Feb. 28th has come and gone, followed by the very recent [Mar. 3rd @ 9:06 p.m. MST] conjunction of Venus and Uranus, also in Pisces. Issues of camaraderie, inter-connectedness, chaos and creation were balanced with the need for order and organization, work and health. Romantic and financial relationships popped up in new shape and form, themes of freedom and variety ran rampant. We were awakened to the overall necessity for and collective paradigms of unity in diversity and liberty in responsibility.

05 March, 2010 /
[click "Play" to listen to Malcolm Liepke speaking about his art]


Will Thompson's Telluride Gallery of Fine Art features a higgledy-piggledy mix of artists with one theme in common: They march to their own drum.

Malcolm Liepke was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the unabridged honesty that comes with Midwestern roots shows up in his work. Liepke is an unapologetic realist, who paints with a smoking brush. His images, these freshly minted portraits of women, have evolved into a patented cocktail of sensuality and draftsmanly stylishness: definitely PG-13, as much for what comes through the surface as what's on the surface.

04 March, 2010 /