[click "Play" to listen to Susan's conversation with Andy Konigsmark] Telluride local Andy Konigsmark performed stand up and improv comedy in Hollywood before moving to town. On Mondays, 6 – 8 p.m., January 11 – 25, Andy will be teaching Ah Haa students...
Clint and Susan Viebrock of Telluride Inside... and Out, the Wilkinson Public Library, the Telluride Writers Guild, Between the Covers Bookstore, and Bob Rubadeau's Sirius Publications have joined forces to help local writers and visual artists develop the skills necessary to explore the brave new world of small house/self-publishing in order to mine worldwide markets/outlets for their works. The online vehicle for accomplishing the ambitious objective of bringing manuscripts to publication is a subdomain of Telluride Inside... and Out: Book Biz. The complementary interactive free seminars held monthly in the Program Room of the Wilkinson Public Library operates under the banner Community Publishing 101.
Telluride's Palm Theatre got the jump on everyone else. The venue's year-end fundraiser was a tribute to Elvis Presley, whose 75th birthday would have been January 8, 2010 – had The King not lost his head to drugs, sex and rock...
The Telluride AIDS Benefit Fashion Show is a glam slam with a mission: raise funds to support adults and children living with HIV/AIDS locally and throughout the state. The insider's Sneak Peek is Thursday, February 25, at the Telluride Conference Center. Tickets for the...
Cornell Gunter's Coasters co-star with Marvelettes at Telluride's Opera House on New Year's Eve. The evening is a dance party that also includes light fare, a champagne toast at midnight, and party favors. Along the way, expect a few yucks.
[click "Play" to hear Kristen Holbrook's take on what to wear New Year's Eve] It's two down, one to go. Telluride Inside...
Bruce Gomez was the very first artist Will and Hilary Thompson, owners of the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, signed for their stable when they opened their new gallery on Main Street (130 East Colorado) in 1985. Will Thompson first saw Bruce's work in a Denver gallery, but the timing was not right to work with a pastel artist. Will was buying and selling original graphics exclusively, but he recalled thinking: "This kid really has something."
Everything old is new again New Year's Eve at Telluride's historic Sheridan Opera House. The gala celebration is a walk down memory lane – "50 years of Motown featuring The Marvelettes & Cornell Gunter Coasters" – plus small eats, champagne, and party favors.
In the white picket fence Eisenhower era, America had all the trappings of rama-lama-ding-dong innocence, but the headlines suggested otherwise: Communist witch hunts, polio, the hydrogen bomb, the Korean War, racial segregation, James Dean and "Rebel Without a Cause," Jack Kerouac's "On the Road." Oh, and Doris Day and Ed Sullivan.
Wednesday, December 30, 7 p.m., Telluride's Michael D. Palm Theatre holds its end-of-year fundraiser. Sharing the stage for the fun and games will be members of the Telluride Choral Society and Mark Galbo's Rock and Roll Academy, not to mention the star of the show, George Gray – rather, George's alter ego resplendent in a sequined jumpsuit, paying tribute to none other than The King.
1997 was a banner year for the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. The star-spangled line-up featured Guy Clark, Patty Griffin, David Crosby, Bela Fleck and The Flecktones, Leftover Salmon, Shawn Colvin and, the headliner, the Man in Black, Johnny Cash. It was Fort Knox backstage when Cash's caravan rolled in. It was New Year's Eve and the Fourth of July when the superstar hit the stage rocking.
