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January 2011

Ridgeway RR Museum The incline leading to the Telluride Historical Museum can be an intimidating haul, and not just for visitors from sea-level. Often, the museum located at the top of Fir St., is out of sight, out of mind.

But no longer!

Effective immediately, Galloping Goose buses, Telluride's free public transportation, will detour their route to choo-choo guests to the hospital turned museum upon request.

03 January, 2011 /

Think of Telluride in the winter and my bet is your first thoughts would be of vistas of nearby mountains from one of Telluride's beautiful ski runs. Or, perhaps, the joy of wind in your face arcing turns down those runs. All valid...

02 January, 2011 /
[click "Play", David Oyster talks about the series on Depression Era films]

 

1-3 TFF "The best things in life are..." You know the lyric. Ain't necessarily so except for the upcoming Telluride Film Festival Cinematheque at the five-star Wilkinson Public Library. Round #5 of the FREE Cinematheque series, which begins  Monday, January 3, focuses on "Films of the Great Depression."

Too close to home? Well, maybe. Historically relevant? For sure. These films selected by Telluride Film Festival co-director Gary Meyer explore the ways in which cinema provided a forum for social commentary as well as emotional release for its vast audiences.

Monday night is a double feature, opening with Charlie Chaplin's masterpiece "Modern Times," (1936, 87 minutes), followed by Busby Berkeley's "Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933, 97 min.)

01 January, 2011 /