Calling all actors and would-be actors: the Telluride Repertory Theatre and the Telluride Playwrights Festival are doing a joint venture, producing a new play, "This Isn't What It Looks Like", to be performed at the Michael D. Palm Theatre in Telluride, July 15-18.Auditions are set...
The long and short of it is this: after a brief pause to refresh during the off-season, Kristin Holbrook of Two Skirts is back with Fashion Friday for the summer. Her subject: shorts.
Those addicted to the ground-based spheroid-impact phenomenon known as "golf" should get ready to rev up the motors on their carts. The greens are manicured and the tee boxes prepped. Telluride's 18-hole, par-70 golf course opened for business on May 28.
“The course is in great shape,” said Director of Golf, Sean Tannehill. “The crew has done a fantastic job, and we are looking forward to a full summer lineup of tournaments and events.”
The Pro Shop offers offers custom club fitting and the latest in equipment and apparel as well as lessons from PGA-certified professionals, Dan Smith and Carol Price.
Let's play a game of free association: I say "Telluride couture" and you say what?
Telluride locals most likely would answer with two names: Sue Hobby and Luci Reeve. Fabric confections created by these two talented ladies have shown up everywhere you've wanted to be over the years: in way too many local theatrical productions to name, as well as on the stage of the Telluride AIDS Benefit and at countless other nonprofit auctions. 
Here's a question for Telluride locals, guests too: What do a dead bird and elephants have in common? Give up? OK, here it is. Amy Jean Boebel of Sapsucker Studios named her gallery for a dead bird found outside her door at 299 South Spruce, where she is showing the latest in a series of elephants – The Elephants III – by local artist Ally Crilly. And it's a perfect fit: all summer long Sapsucker is featuring strong women artists who refuse to pull their punches. (More on that in the weeks to come.)
The Freelance Whales, appearing in concert at Telluride's historic Sheridan Opera House starting at 9 p.m., Friday night, June 4, plays everything from guitars, banjos, tambourines, harmonium, glockenspiels, and watering cans to the occasional keyboard and laptop assist. Besides instruments, the band favors ghosts and dream-logs. Their first release, Weathervanes, has lots to do with ghosts. And dreams.
Freelance Whales met via Craigslist, went on to play on street corners and in subways, where busy New Yorkers, wanting more of their indie sound, chose to miss their trains. Drilling down in to the sound, well, it ranges far and wide from electronic indie booty-shaking riffs to what one critic described as "overalls on a front porch." And another summed up this way:
After a busy Mountainfilm weekend, Telluride's Nugget Theatre is back on a regular schedule, with three movies on tap for the week of Friday, June 4 to Thursday, June 10.
"Ironman 2" continues its run this week. Rated PG-13, "Ironman" is a superhero with a secret, though it's not about his identity. He is known, and the government wants his power as a national asset. And of course there are bad guys to deal with. Sounds like standard superhero fare, but the cast is led by Robert Downey, jr.
"Babies" (rated PG) is a documentary about, you guessed it, babies. Babies of diferent colors, from different places, from rich places, babies from poor places, babies just being babies. Mostly there isn't a lot of voiceover, no explanation, babies doing what babies do.
This isn't "Robin Hood" with a band of merry men, and Maid Marion has become the Widow Marion; don't go expecting to see Robin having a jolly time with Friar Tuck. Things are rough in Sherwood Forest: Richard the Lionhearted has died, leaving the weak but venal John in charge, and the Sheriff of Notingham is still a baddie. "Robin Hood" is rated PG-13 for violence and sexual situations.
See below for movietimes, and the Nugget website for trailers and reviews.
The Telluride Yoga Center leads from strength, launching its summer season with an Ashtanga Yoga Intensive for all levels of practitioners led by certified instructor Annie Pace. The workshop takes place Friday, June 4 – Sunday, June 6.
Susie X. Billings is a well established mixed media artist, who shows her work locally at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art. A protean talent (has to do with change, not meat), Susie is intent on proving all life is art, daily to herself, and on magical occasions, to her students.
In the Program Room of Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library, The New Community Coalition continues it's popular ( and FREE) Green Business Roundtables series this Friday, June 4, 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. The speakers are Joanna and Daniel Kanow of EcoSpaces on the subject of "Green Building Solutions."
