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January 2011

[click "Play", Susan speaks with Randy Cordero]

 

 

Surreal Neil Promotional Photo 2010 "Super Diamond, a Neil Diamond tribute band that tours nationally, have become enormously successful and have achieved pseudo-stardom in their own right," David Bernstein, New York Times

We're not talking De Beers. We're talking da beers, which will be flowing Friday night, January 14, when Telluride's historic Sheridan Opera House welcomes the band "Super Diamond: The Alternative Neil Diamond Experience" to town for an evening of glittering sequins, platform shoes, and bell-bottoms. In other words, a generation-spanning, uptempo walk down memory lane.

Doors and cash bar open at 8:30 p.m. Show time is 9 p.m.

12 January, 2011 /

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2009 BVLC students take a close look at the plants in learning identification skills

by Alessandra Jacobson

Telluride Institute is proud to announce the upcoming offering of a fourth year of Bridal Veil Living Classroom (BVLC) to the region’s sophomore and junior high school students!  This is a dual accredited intensive summer science program offered free of charge by the Telluride Institute, every-other summer.  BVLC representatives will be making appearances in Telluride, Norwood, and Nucla schools in the coming weeks to present this one-of-a-kind environmental education program to prospective students. 

The six-month long course kicks off this summer with two weeks of intensive fieldwork in the beautiful and ecologically rich headwaters of Bridal Veil Basin, and culminates with a fall component of writing scientific research papers about the work conducted and presenting results in a public presentation.  Topics covered in the field by intriguing regional experts include:  biodiversity, botany, forest ecology, aquatic insects, water quality, ornithology (birding), threats of climate change in the alpine ecosystem and art in nature.  Individual research projects are structured according to students’ realized interest in those subjects, and are carried out with meticulous mentor oversight in a low student-to-mentor ratio. 

Past students of Bridal Veil Living Classroom have often been inspired enough to seek out educational and career paths in the environmental sciences and conservation, and Bridal Veil Living Classroom has helped to open doors to their future.

12 January, 2011 /

Storeposter Littlefockers_smalltitle The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride has one movie on the bill for the week of January 14-20, with the addition of locally produced "Scrapple" showing one time at 8:30 pm on Thursday, January 20. "Scrapple" is presented by the Telluride Historical Museum.

"Little Fockers" (PG13) is next week's movie. It features the same cast from the earlier two movies, "Meet the Family" and "Meet the Fockers" with the addition of twins in the young family. Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller as father-in-law and son-in-law, and their fraught relationship, are still the primary focus, despite the title.

"Scrapple" is Telluride. Men's Journal said: "SCRAPPLE is the ski-bum's version of EASY RIDER."

For movietimes, see below. For trailers and reviews, see the Nugget website.

12 January, 2011 /

[click "Play", Drew Ludwig talks with Susan about the Iceland trip]

 

Iceland_tio Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts plans to stretch its wings and fly beyond the borders of our box canyon. An upcoming photography trek across Iceland next summer, departing July 21, is an example of another new direction.

The team leading the expedition includes Aaron Huey, a Seattle-based photographer, whose client base includes National Geographic magazines, The New Yorker, Smithsonian, The New York TImes and European rags. Heuy's current ongoing projects include the funerals of Afghan war vets, Sufism (mystic Islam), and a five-year documentary on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Huey's co-instructor is mountain guide Drew Ludwig, also a talented photographer.

12 January, 2011 /
[click "Play" to listen to Erika Gordon speak with Susan about "Steep"]

 

Steep poster-flyer Adrenaline junkie? Head for Telluride's Palm Theatre Sunday, January 16, 4 p.m., for a screening of the heart-pumping 2007 documentary "Steep," an event presented by The Telluride Film Festival, The Telluride Foundation and Telluride R1 School District.

The 19th-century British explorer Richard Burton famously said that the reason he tempted fate searching for the source of the Nile and penetrating darkest Arabia disguised as a Pathan was simple: "The devil drives."

Ditto for the cast  of "Steep."

 

 

11 January, 2011 /
[click "Play" to listen to Joe Tanner's conversation with Susan]

 

155944main_jsc2006e32109_med2 kicker: Fundraiser in support of Scholars in the School and other programs

Telluride's Pinhead Institute has its feet on the ground, but its eyes on the stars this one particular night.

Friday, January 14, 2011, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m., Pinhead hosts an "Astronomical Evening" of cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and conversation with NASA Astronaut Joe Tanner.

11 January, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Diane Dandeneau's conversation with Susan]

 

Invite-GBR #12 - Eco Action Being true to your nature takes on a whole other meaning in Telluride, when The New Community Coalition welcomes Diane Dandendeau to town to help launch the Telluride region's EcoAction Initiative. The event takes place at the first Green Business Roundtable of 2011 (#12 in the series), Friday, January 14, 12 – 2:30 p.m. in the Program Room of the the Wilkinson Public Library.

Dandendeau is chair of the Sustainable Future Commission for the Town of Lyons, CO, and director of the Green Heart Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to providing education, tools and resources to help individuals, groups, congregations, businesses, and entire communities understand the global impact of their choices, connect with their deepest values, and live more sustainably.

11 January, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Patty Greer discuss her movies and interests with Susan]

 

1-11 Film Screening On Tuesday, January 11, 6 p.m., Telluride's five-star Wilkinson Public Library screens an award-winning film by director Patty Greer. "2012-We're Already In It" won the 2009 EBE Award for Best Feature Film-UFO Or Related at the International UFO Congress Convention, and the Silver Sierra Award in Yosemite. The film also sold out at the 2010 Glastonbury Symposium in England.

"2012-We're Already In It" is a spicy, rich stew, including interpretations of the Mayan Prophecies regarding the transformative events that are meant to occur December 21, 2012, the end-date of a 5,123-year-long cycle in the Mayan Long Count calendar. New Age interpretation on the date posit positive physical and/or spiritual transformation and the beginning of a new era. Or the end of the world as we know it - but not in good sense– events such as a collision with another planet or black hole. NASA compare fears about 2012 to paranoia about the Y2K bug of the 1990s.

A lot of sound and fury signifying nothing? Or not.

09 January, 2011 /

Palmyra Peak, 1:8:11 Telluride offers air specials to kick off the new year

That’s right. Kids fly free. Free. Welcome 2011 with incredible travel deals from Telluride Central Reservations: kids fly free on select American Airlines flights. Pair with Telluride’s $89 Stay and Ski package and be the family hero.
 
Planning a trip without the kids? Save $100 per ticket booked on select American Airlines flights through April 2, 2011. That means airfare can start as low as $148 from Chicago (plus tax and fees) or $246 from New York City (via Chicago, plus tax and fees), making a Telluride getaway even more accessible and affordable this spring.

08 January, 2011 /