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Author: Susan Viebrock

[click "Play" for Anders Beck's conversation with Susan]



What happens in Telluride does not stay in Telluride. Witness Greensky Bluegrass. Since winning the Telluride Bluegrass Festival's band concert in 2006 and returning in 2007 to sell-out Nightgrass, it's been blue skies everyday for Greensky Bluegrass. The band circles back to where it all began, performing this time at the historic Sheridan Opera House on January 14. Show time is 8 p.m.

12 January, 2010 /
Friends Poster Part-time Tellurider, painter Jane Taylor, and her husband, photographer Frederic Ohringer, join a group of Hudson Valley artists featured together in a group show in Germantown, New York. Ohringer curated the exhibit at the request of ArtSpace. The opening reception is January 16.

Taylor is no stranger to Telluride collectors. Her shows at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art and at the Scott White Gallery used to sell out. Taylor's subject matter evolved over the years from abstractions suggesting worlds coming apart to the bounty of the table and garden, summarizing the arc of the artist's life. Insider poop aside, by channeling her physical experiences of the outside world, each tour de force painting became about making the commonplace look uncommonly good. Something that straddled the border between memory and metaphor, reality and illusion. Something transcendent.
11 January, 2010 /

At Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library, program coordinator Scott Doser hits the ground running in the New Year.

Trying to come to terms with death and dying? Navel gazing is a start. Reading classic Yoga or Buddhist texts would definitely help. Or visit the Program Room of the Wilkinson Public Library, tonight, Monday, January 11, 6 p.m.

The Library is screening the cult classic about a very rich, very suicidal young man named Harold, age 20, who falls in love with a very poor, life-loving woman – she grieves for a small tree, suffocating in the city's pollution – named Maude, who is 79 3/4. "Harold and Maude" is the mommy of pop TV series such as "Six Feet Under" and all ensuring existential meditations, "Dexter" included, on the fragility of life and black humor that surrounds death.

11 January, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Aston "Family Man" Barrett]


The Sheridan Arts Foundation and the Telluride Tourism Board present the legendary Wailers with special guests, The Supervillains. The concert takes place Tuesday, January 12, 2010, at the Telluride Conference Center. Showtime is 8 p.m.


Say the name "The Wailers," and two cultural phenomena instantly pop to mind: Bob Marley and roots rock reggae, inspired in part by the Rastafarian religion. It was Marley who brought Jamaican music to the masses in the 1970s, just after the group was formed in 1969.
10 January, 2010 /

Come one. Come all.Many Telluriders/Mountain Villagers are feeling the pain of the economic downturn. Our governments are intimately aware of how dependent we have all become on real estate and retail sales. Some businesses are closing up shop; others have had to lay off long-time...

10 January, 2010 /

It may be too late for cucumbers on the eyes and/or a personal trainer. Auditions for the Telluride AIDS Benefit Fashion Show are scheduled for January 12, 13, and 14. For further information, contact Nina Tumbas at 970-708-0277 or email her at ninatumbas@gmail.com(photo courtesy of...

09 January, 2010 /
[click "Play" to listen to Kristin Holbrook talk about fingerless gloves]

FFH9-02 thumb-1 It's a look favored in Telluride by any poor sap who has just wrecked his wrist on the mountain - sort of. This week's topic for Fashion Friday from Telluride Inside... and Out's fashionista, Kristin Holbrook of Two Skirts, is fingerless gloves.

Ah yes, we remember it well: The 1980s, the happy decade sandwiched between go-get 'em social activism and self-loathing grunge. That was also the era when lots of young girls turned to the Material Girl for fashion inspiration. On "Like A Virgin," Madonna is wearing the quintessential 80s attire: a white wedding dress with white fingerless gloves.

Fast forward to the present, and another fashion icon (certainly in her own mind) Paris Hilton recently appeared on the "Ellen" show wearing a black and white ensemble that included Chanel fingerless gloves tricked out with rhinestones.

08 January, 2010 /


The Telluride Council for the Arts & Humanities kicks off the New Year with its First Thursday Art Walk this week, January 7, 5 – 8 p.m.

Holiday trifecta over and done, Amy Jean Boebel took the old adage about ringing in the new to heart. Art Walk celebrates the opening of her brand new gallery, Sapsucker Studios, 299 South Fir Street, and a show of her latest work, "Screen Scapes and Shapes." In future, Sapsucker will be dedicated to cutting edge regional art, including installations.
07 January, 2010 /
[click "Play" to listen to Amy Boebel speak about her art]

DSC_0146 Sponsored by the Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities, The First Thursday Art Walk is a day-long block party with a mission: to showcase Telluride's fine art scene, including galleries and studios, which stay open late until 8 p.m. The first Art Walk of the New Year is this Thursday, January 7, 5 – 8 p.m.


Last January, TCAH's Strong Studios featured the work of newly minted local Amy Jean Boebel, a recycler with massive creative chops. "Seventeen Scrolls of Screen" featured playfully elegant sculptures created entirely from rolls of wire screen. Exactly one year later, Boebel managed to open her own gallery: Sapsucker Studios, 299 South Fir Street, where the idea is to feature cutting-edge work produced by regional artists. Sapsucker's debut show this Thursday features her own "Screen Scapes and Shapes," illuminative aluminum screen wall hangings and sculpture in which shadows complete the picture in a play of movement and light.
06 January, 2010 /