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Mariela-in-the-Desert-main419.sflb Mariela's bummed, and Jose is in a major slump, but Telluride Inside... and Out is riding a wave that just won't quit on our whirlwind tour of Denver's rich cultural landscape.

Encouraged by Telluride Inside... and Out contributor and member of the Denver Center Company, Tracy Shaffer, on Wednesday night we attended a performance of Karen Zacarias' Award-winning play "Mariela in the Desert" at the Denver Center's Ricketson Theatre,  a tour de force of magical realism –  ghosts live and paint brushes are weapons –  that left us dumbstruck and moved to tears.
18 April, 2010 /
20100414144858896 There is absolutely positively nothing fishy about the collaboration between the Telluride Film Festival and the award-winning Wilkinson Public Library – except the stench from the derring-do portrayed in director Hubert Sauper's "Darwin's Nightmare."

The gripping documentary exposing the booming multinational industry of fish and weapons is part of the "All About Food" series, which continues Monday, April 19, with a pre-SHOW reception starting at 5:30 p.m.

Back in the days of the flower children and the Cold War, the Soviets dumped a non-native fish into Lake Victoria, Tanzania. The profoundly predatory Nile Perch went on a rampage, killing off most of the indigenous species. There was collateral damage too, on the human population, as farmers became fisherman to satisfy the Russian and European demand for fish. Filming undercover, gave Sauper access to a range of people affected, from businessmen and pilots to peasants, prostitutes, and EU politicos, his camera exploring the altogether devastating effects of globalization on one Tanzanian village.
18 April, 2010 /

[click "Play" to hear Kristin Holbrook talk about cashmere] In Telluride, it is the quiet before the storm of summer activities, the perfect time for Spring cleaning, which includes swapping sweaters for t-shirts, cashmere for cotton – or maybe...

16 April, 2010 /
IMGP1122 It's a long way from Telluride to TAG. Start by jumping into a rabbit hole.

If you are lucky enough to get in – the place is one of the hippest, read jammed, in Denver's oh so hip Larimer Square district –  expect the unexpected in this Wonderland of food, where, for example, onion soup winds up inside a dumpling. (Try it, you'll love it.)

Ignorance is bliss – or we have a guardian angel. We showed up without reservations with friends, former Telluride locals Jade and Ernie Graham, also TAG virgins, and managed to waltz right in. (With a little help from the charming young man at the front desk.) But it was a Monday night and TAG was merely full: pulsing, but not hyperventilating.

15 April, 2010 /
IMGP1119 "Opus." The word is Latin for work, but it was no work at all. The experience was, top to bottom, a pleasure.

Yesterday, Telluride Inside... and Out headed to the Curious Theatre Company for a Sunday matinee of Michael Hollinger's "Opus," a play about drugs (medicinal), sex (past and future and only insinuated), and chamber music, along with our friend and regular Denver writer, Tracy Shaffer. (Tracy, also a member of the Denver Center company and regular in the Denver theatre scene, just completed a run as Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate.")
14 April, 2010 /
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9D63565C-188B-3B72-2EE2529693A0530F Get anywhere near this human tornado and you will be blown away – this time to Mexico.

Telluride local and yoga instructor Annie Clark joins certified Pilates instructor Lauren Ferioli, founder of ReSource Pilates & Yoga Retreat. The restorative getaway takes place May 1 – May 8, 2010, in Maya Tulum Spa & Resort in Mexico, a gorgeous resort on the Caribbean Sea with pristine white sand beaches. Resource Retreats likes alliteration, suggesting its week-long immersions offer opportunities to reinvigorate, rejunvenate, recuperate, reconnect, realign, refresh, and relax.
13 April, 2010 /
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Brooke Young

The Telluride region's Autism Behavioral and Consultation Team (ABCT) received one of two model autism teams in the state just before Christmas.

The local team is headed by occupational therapist and yoga instructor Annie Ripper Clark. April is National Autism Month and in honor of the occasion, Clark's mentor at the State level, Brooke D. Young, Autism Specialist/Senior Consultant, Colorado Department of Education in Denver, pays a visit to the district – Telluride, Ouray, Ridgway, Norwood and the West End – the week of April 19.

Among the activities planned for Young's visit are a parent chat, and an assessment of basic language and learning skills (revised) training.

13 April, 2010 /

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It was time to stretch our wings, and so we sprung ourselves from the anodyne Spring of Telluride and headed for our second home: Denver.

Our loft is downtown, just on the edge of LoDo in Curtis Park, a neighborhood in the throes of a full-throated appeal for gentrification, but still a bit rough around the edges.

12 April, 2010 /

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Telluride's sister city, the Mountain Village is amending its business license ordinance to close lodging tax loopholes. Why all the fuss and bother? Dodgers – and we don't mean the baseball team. Nonpayment of sales taxes and business license fees creates an unfair advantage for property owners avoiding payment. Their malfeasance also affects the town’s ability to operate and support marketing efforts that benefit all Mountain Village taxpayers and business owners.

11 April, 2010 /
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The Telluride region's Autism and Behavioral Consultation Team, headed by Occupational Therapist and yoga instructor Annie Clark, is working hard to raise awareness about the new protocols for affected families during the month of April, National Autism Month. Clark's mentor at the State level is Brooke D. Young, Autism Specialist/Senior Consultant, Colorado Department of Education in Denver.

A funny thing happened with the dawning of the new millennium. The neuro-biological spectral disorders that fall under the banner of autism, a brown-bagged diagnosis until then, suddenly infiltrated pop culture. The trigger was the publication of a book in 2003 with an improbable title: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," by Mark Haddon.

09 April, 2010 /