August 2010

by Katie Singer

Due to their extraordinary community service through the years, Andrea Benda and  Dan & Green Garner have been selected as 2010 Outstanding Citizen.  The Telluride Foundation created its Outstanding Citizen award in 2003 to honor San Miguel County residents who make remarkable and unselfish contributions to the region.

“Andrea and Dan & Greer are exemplary citizens.  We simply could not choose between them," said Joanne Corzine-Brown, Co-Chairman of the Board of the Telluride Foundation. “Their years of great service to Telluride and Mountain Village have impacted so many lives.  We are proud to name them Outstanding Citizens."

IMG_5313 "This festival (the Telluride Film Festival) is characterized by its small size and friendly atmosphere. If there were a few key words to describe Telluride, they might include 'intimate' and 'down home,' just as easily as 'monumental' and 'important.'" (Elise Berlin, Boulder Daily Camera)

Even without a pass, the 37th annual Telluride Film Festival, 9/3 – 9/6, has something for almost everyone.

IMG_5328 The Telluride Film Festival opens with free films sponsored by Ralph and Ricky Lauren. The four film premieres, one each night starting Wednesday, September 1, just after dark, (and a day before the cat is let out of the bag with the official announcement about screenings on the long weekend to come), takes place in the Open Air Cinema or Elks Park, just across the street from the Courthouse. (Telluride Inside... and Out will be posting details about those films on or around September 1.)

[click "Play" to listen to Ashley Deppen about faux furs] She's into fabulous fakes. Ashley Deppen of Telluride's hot clothing emporium, Two Skirts, is taking about faux furs for fall/winter. (Nice alliteration, no?)It all began on the Chanel runway: models...

August 26 to September 2, 2010
Visible Planets: Morning: Jupiter  Evening: Venus, Mars and Saturn

Men and women, Mars and Venus, the masculine and feminine…


Acoma-Brave Life is all about balance and polarity. Night and day, dark and light, good and bad, boy and girl. We are individual human beings dancing a cosmic dance of action, attraction and interaction with invisible and visible forces; pursuing dreams and desires, chasing rainbows and running or hiding from what scares us. We need courage and strength to fight our battles and sweet love to nurture our souls and sustain our spirits. It’s a process of push and pull, give and take, come and go, here and there, holding on and letting go. The River of Life is ever-flowing, on and on, up and down, fast and slow, around and around. Riding the rapids of change or floating the calm waters of peace and contentment, we will forever be particles and waves, electromagnetic bodies repelling and attracting the negative and positive forces of the physical and metaphysical planes.

Human survival and evolution depend upon procreation, the union of opposites – male and female – the process of sexual interaction that reproduces life. And in order for that to take place, a man’s sperm and a woman’s ovum must come together – the classic act of Mars and Venus – bond with each other and stay together long enough to bear fruit. The miracle of birth – new life – is the ultimate expression of Mars/Venus, but there are plenty of Mars/Venus acts that don’t result in fruitful unions. In fact, billions of Mars/Venus acts go on in every second of every day of every year, and they’ve been going on for millennia! It’s the game of predator and prey, win and lose, king and queen.
[click "Play" for Susan's interview with Gary Lincoff]

2010HarvestAug14Hollinbeck The Telluride Mushroom Festival, Thursday, August 26  – Sunday, August 29, bills itself as the nation's "oldest mycological conference exploring all things fungal." Which is saying a tasty mouthful since fungi have been around for a very long time. A lot longer than people, perhaps 500 million years. (The earliest known picture of a mushroom was found on a wall painting in the ruins of Pompeii.)

Fungi used to be classified as part of the plant kingdom. They become a kingdom of their own because fungi differ in biochemistry and structure from plants and cannot synthesize their own food. The mushrooms people collect are just the fruiting bodies of mycelium, a sentient cobweb-like web of cells. These "fruits" are created in order to manufacture spores for reproduction. Because so much shroom activity occurs underground in the fungal version of the world wide web, mushrooms themselves appear to pop up quite suddenly over night.

Scottpilgrim_smallposter It's a short week at the Nugget Theatre in Telluride: the Nugget will be closed Tuesday, August 31-Thursday, September 2, to get ready for the Telluride Film Festival.

From Friday to Monday, the two movies are "Inception", held over, and "Scott Pilgrim".

"Inception" (PG13) stars Leonardo DiCaprio, who must plant ideas in someone's head as opposed to stealing someone else's ideas. And the target must believe the ideas to be his own. Lost yet?

"Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" (PG13) might be described as "life as video game" or possibly the opposite. Many foes must be vanquished in order to win the woman of his dreams. Could be fun.

See below for movie times and the Nugget website for trailers and reviews.

743521302_QQv5L-M The Telluride Ski Resort, host of the LG FIS Snowboard World Cup (December 15-18, 2010), has teamed up with Tschana Breslin, Senior Physiologist in the High Performance Dept. of the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association to offer tips and techniques to get in great shape for the upcoming winter season. Trainer to the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team, Breslin shares her workout plans and secrets that keep all our Olympic athletes in top competitive shape, yet are easy enough for all winter sports lovers to follow. 
 
1.  Increase Overall Aerobic Fitness
Both skiers and snowboarders benefit immensely from increasing overall aerobic activity to prepare for the season. Trail running and regular jogging, road and mountain biking, and cross training are favorites. Hiking up is a great activity, but hiking down is great for eccentric leg work, key for skiers and snowboarders.