[click "Play" to listen to Kristin's take on totes for Fall] Telluride Inside… and Out's Fashion Friday is all about trends, what's hot, what's not, and how the larger world of Fashion translates in our little box canyon. A short list of...
August 25 to September 1, 2011 Visible Planets: Morning: Mars and Jupiter Evening: Saturn
“This month’s New Moon shifts attention from the creative fires of Leo to the earthy pragmatism of Virgo. The last Full Moon urged us to follow our heart and soul; this New Moon calls us to use our head and hands.” Stephanie Austin, The Mountain Astrologer, Aug/Sep Issue
The Virgo dilemma: Perfection is an ideal, rather than a reality. And practice is a means of manifesting dreams, visions and ideals. Is perfection thus an attainable goal via practice?
Virgo is all about work and service, health and healing. Its function is to make the self and the world we live in better – moment-by-moment, day by day - by living a life of attention, sacrifice and humility. Order and organization, efficiency and productivity are avenues of progress in the Virgo journey; integrity, right action, virtue and purity are companions on the trail.
Mountainfilm in Telluride and Aspen's Wheeler Opera House announce their third annual joint production: MountainSummit: Mountainfilm in Telluride. The event bookends the Main Event, the annual of gathering of the tribe in Telluride, which happens over Memorial weekend and opens Telluride's summer festival season with a bang: lots of conversations about preserving and protecting endanger people, places and ideas.
MountainSummit takes place Thursday, August 25 – Sunday, August 28. Among the films to be screened are “Magic Trip,” about the 1960s travels of writer Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, Christopher Paine's “Revenge of the Electric Car,” a follow-up to Paine's 2006 documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?”, and “Happy,” a multicultural examination of the universal truths about happiness, produced by Tom Shadyac ("I Am"). The event closer and what a grand finale it is: "Shakespeare High."
By Dr Paul Hokemeyer
Dr. Hokemeyer is a nationally recognized expert on Eastern philosophies, relationships, and emotional healing. A Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, he holds a PhD in psychology, as well as a doctorate in the law. A part-time Telluride resident, Dr. Hokemeyer is based in the New York City office of the Caron Treatment Centers. He is also a weekly contributor to "The Dr. Oz Show," CNN’s "Headline News," and other media outlets, including "Good Morning America," "truTV," and "Oprah Radio." His new column, Shrink Rap, is scheduled to appear at least bi-monthly on Thursdays on Telluride Inside... and Out.
Albert Einstein gave us what has become the pop definition of insanity: "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." No place to point the finger but at yourself if you find yourself involved with the same type of person over and over again despite the fact these relationships always tank.
by Ryan Wilson
Editor's note: If you attended the graduation of Telluride's Class of 2011, you saw the notion of American exceptionalism in action: a group of young people who excelled in the classroom and on the mountain being rewarded for their achievements with scholarships to top colleges. True, we live in a small town, but that does not mean an absence of big opportunities. Telluride teens with aspirations have lots of places to turn for support. The following story by the Wilkinson Public Library's Ryan Wilson illustrates that point.
Ever wonder what teenagers today are thinking? On Saturday, August 27, 5:15 p.m., Program Room, Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library, a group of 11 Telluride teens open a window into their minds at the premiere of their short documentary film "Speak."
by Jim Bedford
The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride shows movies all year long and screens two films this coming week before the Telluride Film Festival takes over the Nugget and much of the town.
Friday through Tuesday, Aug 26-30, THE SMURFS (PG) are back and blue, very blue. With the talents of Neil Patrick Harris, Hank Azaria, Katy Perry, George Lopez and Paul Reubens. Serious family fun!
Also Friday through Tuesday, Aug 26-30, CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG13) brings together Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Marisa Tomei and Kevin Bacon, in a comedy about relationships.
The Telluride Film Festival takes over the Nugget from August 31 through September 8 so enjoy the SHOW! The Nugget will be back with movies every night again starting Friday, September 9.
See the Nugget website for trailers and reviews, and below for movie times.
BBQ at Telluride Historical Museum Thursday evening to honor Senior
Every year, the Telluride Foundation solicits nominations from the greater Telluride Community for its Outstanding Citizen of the Year, an award given in recognition of someone who has unselfishly contributed to our community’s quality of life. Among the winners selected by the Telluride Foundation Board of Directors since 2003: Terry Tice, Lissa Margetts, John Micetic, Bill Carstens, Jane Hickcox, John Pryor, Kathy Green, Marilyn Branch, Andrea Benda and Greer & Dan Garner. This year's winner is a guy who answers to the name "Senior."
Blame it on the Industrial Revolution, which jettisoned especially older workers from the job market, who were replaced by mechanization. Or even before, in the 18th century as more and more immigrants flooded our country, where the desire to become an American, to adapt to their adopted homeland, replaced tradition, including venerating elders. Or blame it on the glossies, magazines that celebrate the young and nubile and shun anything with wrinkles. But the rules on the books never applied to Billy "Senior" Mahoney, a trailblazer and highly revered local icon.
[click "Play" to hear Lauren Metzger's interview with John Sir Jesse] The fun and exciting 31st annual Telluride Shroomfest just ended, but when the subject is mycelium and their fabulous fruit, mushrooms, if you, like me, are one of the...
by Lisa Barlow
With the luster of Chez Panisse still casting its warm glow, San Franscisco has been a culinary beacon for the farm-to-table movement ever since Alice Waters opened the doors to her iconic restaurant exactly 40 years ago.
There is seriously delicious food to be eaten in this city. Much of it is influenced by Waters’ early recognition that good meals can only come from good ingredients. It is now more common to see the provenance of the string beans on your plate than it is to know the name of the chef cooking your food. But there is also another ingredient in ample supply here that is paramount to a good meal: technique.
by Emily Brendler Shoff
It’s easy to come up with reasons not to go to Shakespeare in the Telluride Town Park. You’re broke. You’re afraid of Town Park after dark. You’re afraid of Shakespeare.
But here are a few reasons why you should dig more deeply into your wallet and soul and go see this year’s Repertory production of As You Like It.
For starters…. Hockey talent in the summer. It’s not often that you see many killer hockey players that can also act. It’s rarer still to see killer hockey players perform Shakespeare. This year, the Rep has two such stars, and they’re as successful on the stage as they are on the ice. Buff Hooper is a surly and charming Jacques, one whose melancholy energizes the stage. Emily Koren is a playful and puckish Touchstone, a fool who reminds us at once to reflect and to laugh.
