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September 2010

IMG_5859 The Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, Friday, September 17 – Sunday, September 19, is synonymous with its founder, impresario Steve Gumble. His event is the first of its kind in the country, combining as it does micro-breweries with the best of blues music. Telluride Blues & Brews Festival was not always about music with a beer back. The event started out as the Telluride Brewers Festival.

The Telluride Brewers Festival opened for business 17 years ago in 1994 as the beer drinker's answer to the Telluride Wine Festival, which catered back then to the Prada (versus Chaco) brigade. Gumble had met many of the vendors who would return year after year back in the days he owned a liquor store. Year 1, the impresario expected 500 diehards and 1200 showed up. Profits were spread among several non-profits. A home run for sure. But not enough for Gumble.
12 September, 2010 /

IMG_7572 Two organizations founded and operated by fans of the rock band Phish, Phish Fans, charity announced today that they have raised and distributed a combined $1,000,000 for charity. The joint announcement was made by The Mimi Fishman Foundation, which raises funds through online auctions, and The Mockingbird Foundation, which publishes historical information about Phish in print and online. Both organizations are operated on an all-volunteer basis, with no salaries, paid staff, or offices.

12 September, 2010 /

The 2010 running of the Imogene Pass Run was today, Saturday, September 11. The annual footrace starts in Ouray, CO, at an elevation of 7810', continues over 13,114' Imogene Pass and down to Telluride at 8750'. The distance is 17.1 miles. I haven't done...

11 September, 2010 /

I didn't know anyone who died in the tragedies of September 11, 2001. Still, the events of that day touched my family and me in some strange ways.

Susan and I had flown from Seattle, where we had been visiting Kimm Viebrock (now known as TIO's Chief Geek), to Newark, NJ where our mission was to help her parents get settled into a new apartment in Hackensack. We arrived the night of September 10. The morning of September 11 was beautiful, and I was enjoying the early sunshine on the east facing terrace on the 9th floor with my father-in-law. Then the phone rang:"Turn on your TV!" Though we couldn't see the Twin Towers behind a high rise across the street, we watched the smoke and eventually the flames as the second airplane hit the tower.

11 September, 2010 /
September 9 to 16, 2010

Visible Planets: Morning: Jupiter  Evening: Venus, Mars and Saturn

End of Summer Beauty and Bounty, Labor and Love

Harvest leaves2 The Virgo zodiac month is all about the end of summer, days grow short and nights are cooler. A touch of impending autumn is in the air and we feel the pull of seasonal change. Virgo is a mutable earth sign, which means it’s an energy of mutation and metamorphosis, grounded in the here and now, manifested on the material plane via our physical senses and experiences. We can actually see, smell, hear, taste, touch and feel the transformational magic of the Mother Earth, the Father Sky and the Great Spirit as fruits ripen and meadows morph from green to gold. Harvest season is upon us, firewood is being cut and gathered, kitchens are busy with canning and cleaning as we instinctively prepare for winter.

Purple sunset The poignant beauty of September evokes wonder, gratitude, awe and a delicate sense of sorrow. I know that the blazing days of summer heat and evenings of warm, luscious turquoise twilight have past. I can look forward to those amazing, magnificent days of Indian Summer, but, in my heart, I feel the cooling breeze of seasonal change and know the wheel has turned.

May the blessings and grace of summer’s end be beautiful, bountiful and filled with the fruits of our Virgo labor and love. Happy Harvest!
10 September, 2010 /
[click "Play" to listen to Ashley Deppen on Fluxus]

Image002 It's back to the future as Telluride Inside...and Out's Ashley Deppen of Two Skirts focuses on Fluxus.

Fluxus, the movement, emerged in New York in the 1960s, with the cultural revolution in full swing. Fluxus, which comes from the Latin for "flow," encompassed a melange of Dada, Bauhaus and Zen, dance, painting, music and more. The movement centered on the actions and opinions of the artist, not his or her output, and presumed all artistic disciplines and media could be combined to create something greater (read edgier) than the sum of its parts.

Fluxus presaged avant-garde developments of the past 40 years. Yoko Ono was its best known artist. Fluxus has endured since the 1960s not so much as a movement, rather as a sensibility that fuses radical social attitudes with evolving aesthetic practices.
09 September, 2010 /

The Telluride Historical Museum informed TIO about this 4 wheel drive tour some time back. I apologize for just getting to it now. Rudy Davison, author, newspaper editor, historian, is leading what should be a very interesting three day 4-wheeling trip on September 10,...

09 September, 2010 /

Expendables_poster Eat-Pray-Love--Movie-Poster Wow, it was a wild weekend in Telluride. I thought it was a great lineup for Telluride Film Festival. We saw some great stuff, and put our feelings on TIO for all to see.

This week, September 10-16, the Nugget Theatre is back to normal, showing two movies: "Eat, Pray, Love" (PG13) and "The Expendables" (Rated R).

Julia Roberts, as Elizabeth Gilbert, in "Eat, Pray, Love" does the eating in Italy, the praying in India, and finds love in Bali. Hey, we  all have to find ourselves.

OK, it's a Sylvester Stallone movie, this time set in a corrupt Latin America country, with a ruthless band of mercenaries whose mission is to overthrow the dictator. Maybe not Shakespeare, but...

See below for movietimes, and the Nugget website for trailers and reviews.

08 September, 2010 /
[click "Play" for Katherine Stuart's view of TFF 37]

IMG_7960 The world may be schlepping around with a thundercloud over its head, but the 37th annual Telluride Film Festival shone with authority. This year, for a change, I add the voice of a close friend, Festival patron and screenwriter Katherine Stuart to my own, to sing praises, some qualified.


The tribe of cinephiles that makes an annual pilgrimage to Telluride for the Telluride Film Festival are not thrill seekers in the conventional sense of the words. They are not lusting after a testosterone-induced orgy of bang! zoom! pow! Unless, of course, the thrills and spills come packaged with complex characters and their battles with sex, money, social convulsion, and the vagaries of the human heart. (See "Carlos.")

This year, once again, almost every one of the 26 movies screened at the Telluride Film Festival found that elusive sweet spot where intelligent storytelling, top notch filmmaking, and yes, escapist entertainment meet to fuse into a phenomenon that sings hosannas to the art of the cinema. A number of these films – and I am including the shorts – are sure to become classics.

07 September, 2010 /