Get TIO in your Inbox!

Author: Susan Viebrock

[To hear Adrienne Lent's conversation with Susan click "Play"]

Telluride's First Thursday Art Walk is a blast.

_MG_4657 The first Thursday of every month – April Fool's Day is the last of the winter season – the Telluride Council for the Arts & Humanities organizes a walkabout to showcase the town's fine art scene. Art venues and retail shops stay open late until 8 p.m.

A relatively new must-visit in the line of march, is Amy Boebel's Sapsucker Studios, 299 South Spruce.

In case you were wondering, Sapsuckers Studios got its name from a dead bird owner/artist Amy Boebel found stiffening outside the door of her studio space before she turned it into a gallery.

01 April, 2010 /
[click "Play" for an uplifting message from Bunzy Bunworth]

IMG_2273 Just when you thought it was safe to go back into Telluride's historic Sheridan Opera House...


On April Fool's Day, 7:30 p.m., watch sacred cows getting pounded into Whoppers, when the town's favorite actor, Jeb Berrier, along with friends – Buff Hooper, Doug Jones, Jen Julia, Leo McNamara and Bunzy Bunworth (yes, Bunzy, back in town from Down Under) – get together to perform  "Nothing is Sacred II: The Resurrection." The show is billed as a raucous blend of original sketches and live music by Sorbitol: broader than Broadway, more wild(e) than Oscar. Expect an evening that goes straight to The Dogs.
31 March, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Gareth Martins' conversation with Susan]


CIMG7288 Telluride's The New Community Coalition's Green Building Roundtable continues with the third talk in the series. "The Evolution of Sustainability in an Independent Outdoor Company" focuses on the story of Osprey – "Pack Your Passion and Go" – and the company's green team. The event takes place  Friday, April 2, 8:30 – 9: 30 a.m. upstairs at the award-winning Wilkinson Public Library. The speaker is Gareth Martins, Director of Marketing.

Last November, Telluride Inside... and Out sponsor/contributor Erik Dalton of Jagged Edge was all hopped up about a new ski/snowboard backpack for the winter season he believed to be the perfect travel companion on all sort of outdoor adventures: the Kode series from Osprey could do everything but walk your dog.
31 March, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Rachel Loomis Lee speak about Ah Haa's summer schedule]

Summer_10 All right. I hear you. Telluride is still high on powder since last Friday's mega dump, a rite of Spring in this part of the world, and we are talking summer?

  But Rachel Loomis Lee, executive director of the Ah Haa School for the Arts, is looking through her poles into the future. Her summer catalog now put to bed, Festival season is just around the corner.

Summer at Ah Haa means exciting exhibitions starting in June with shows for Jared David Paul and Bill Krutzmann.

31 March, 2010 /

(editor's note: The Melodians were originally scheduled to perform at the Opera House on January 2, 2010. That concert was canceled because of weather. Lucky us: The Melodians will now play Telluride Wednesday, March 31, 8:00 pm)It's strictly ballroom at Telluride's historic Sheridan...

30 March, 2010 /
[click "Play", Sasha tells us why to support the Squids]

No joke. But lots of fun.


AprilFoolsPoster Remember Jerry Lewis? In an over-the-top, no-holds-barred attempt to win the Telluride Foundation's Text-to-Give contest by a landslide, Telluride's SquidShow Theatre troupe hosts a "Squidstravanganza,"  a variety show/telethon modeled on the meastro's kitschey fundraising marathons.

Highlights of the evening include "Best of the "Squids": song, dance, burlesque, comedy. The event, hosted by Squid founder Sasha Cuciniello and partner in crime Colin Sullivan (who moonlights as the Ah Haa School for the Arts curriculum development director), takes place April Fool's Day, 9:30 p.m., at Telluride's The Llama (corner of Colorado & Pine).
30 March, 2010 /
[click "Play" to listen to Sherri Hubner about the event]

ExtraMoistBalm_pr Part time Telluride local, beauty expert/entrpreneur Bobbi Brown started a makeup revolution in 1991 with just a handful of lipsticks and a simple notion: “Women want to look and feel like themselves, only prettier and more confident.”

Bobbi told Telluride Inside... and Out years ago she thinks all women are beautiful, regardless of age, race, shape or size. Bobbi's product philosophy can be summed up in a few words: make-up that is super-wearable and easy to apply, and products that enhance a woman's God-given gifts.
30 March, 2010 /

On Monday, March 29, 7:15 p.m., the Telluride Elks Lodge hosts  Dr. Mark Hauswald and Dr. Nancy Kerr,  who worked tirelessly at Ground Zero in Haiti.

Only one month after a catastrophic earthquake rocked Haiti on February 13, these two Telluride locals found themselves on a flight to Port-au-Prince, a journey which made sense for this compassionate, courageous married duo. Over the course of two weeks, Kerr, an Ob/Gyn and Hauswald, an Emergency Medical specialist, worked with those in need, often outside their area of expertise.

“Unlike domestic disasters, there is no place to transfer someone to, no other hospital in the next city,” said Kerr.

29 March, 2010 /

The Town of Mountain Village, Telluride's sister city, does more than pay lip service to the notion of democracy. It puts words into action, money where its mouth is, in an annual survey. The results of  the 2010 survey, once tabulated, go straight to the bottom line: the findings are applied to the 2011 budget process, including general business and marketing decisions, and used to improve day-to-day operations.

Surveys, about 1,400 in all, were mailed on March 16. Questions were designed to probe the community’s perceptions and attitudes regarding a number of Town-related topics such as quality of life, town services, planning and economic development, and expenditure patterns.

29 March, 2010 /

A storm hit the San Juan Mountains Friday, bringing an incredible 22 inches of snow to the Telluride Ski area in the last 24 hours. Snow fell at a rate of 2-4 inches/hour throughout the region Friday night.Today, Saturday was mostly sunny and on...

28 March, 2010 /