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Hat Fashion Friday is all Telluride's Two Skirts spotting trends and highlighting designers worth noting, then bringing it all down to a local level. This week fashionista Ashley Deppen focuses on Mischa Lampert.

Alright already. I don't want to wish away the summer either, but Lampert's chunky wool hats are special: hand knit wool head gear that act like winter armor, but also have great style. Her Sailor Fur number with its slightly conical shape makes you look like a character out of "Lord of the Rings." And I mean that in the very cute elfin sense. The earflaps on the Nolita model insulate you from the cold – and the world.

05 August, 2011 /

Gold pin Art Walk is a meet and greet for art lovers and friends and a chance for artists, galleries, studios, and nonconventional arts venues such as restaurants to showcase Telluride's fine arts scene. And some restaurants even feature Art Walk specials.

New this year is a Kids Walk, 4 – 6 p.m. including a self-guided map and hands on activities for families designed to teach basic principles of art through observation.

One venue on the Walk should appeal to both kids and adults. The Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, 130 East Colorado features a show,  “From Beasts to Babar: Ten Children’s Illustrators,” which opened July 28 and runs through the Telluride Film Fest weekend in early September. The exhibition of original drawings includes the work of Maurice Sendak, Etienne Delessert, Bernie Fuchs, Henrik Drescher, Laurent de Brunhoff, Peter Sis, Gennady Spirin, Peter McCarty, Tomie De Paola, and Jeanne de Sainte Marie.

(For interviews and videos with Delessert, Drescher, Sis, McCarty and de Sainte Marie, type their full names into Search on the Home page of www.tellurideinside.com.)

03 August, 2011 /

Joyce and Ron Allred The Telluride Foundation honors one its founders, Ron Allred, with a party Thursday evening at the historic Sheridan Opera House. The event begins at 5:OOish. Ron's presentation is at 6 p.m. The general public is welcome.

Now what's all the fuss about? In May, the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame announced its 2011 inductees, five in all, one of whom is Ron. Ron joins an elite fraternity of 184 Hall of Fame snow sports visionaries, each of whom has made significant contributions to the Colorado ski industry. For the record, the voting committee consists of 140 Hall of Fame members, museum/Hall of Fane board and advisors, and one executive from each of Colorado's 26 ski areas.

02 August, 2011 /

Elaine_email Telluride Arts' First Thursday Art Walk showcases the best of the best of the region's  fine arts and crafts scene at galleries, studios, even retail outlets, including restaurants. This month the event is scheduled for Thursday, August 4, 5  8 p.m., with a must-see stop at Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts, 300 South Townsend. On display in Ah Haa's Daniel Tucker Gallery is the latest work by county commissioner and painter, Elaine Fischer.

"Broken Ground," Elaine's images of uncensored landscape, appear to have been created in a seizure of inspiration, suggesting the evolution of an ever more adept artist who s expressing herself with a greater and greater sense of spontaneity and honesty.

02 August, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Emilio Castillo and Larry Braggs]

 

A_group_shot Telluride in the 1970s was dirt poor and tie dyed. The Idarado Mines were closing and derelicts were crashing at the historic Sheridan Opera House. In the larger world, some of the currents of the 1960s had become mainstream, women's lib and youth with a voice for two. Polyester became as ubiquitous as avocado and gold for in home decor. Yuck. "Taxi Driver" was one of the standout movies of the decade. And Tower of Power came on the scene. Amen.

Tower of Power appears in all its horny glory (and I mean that in the good sense) at the 35th annual Telluride Jazz Celebration, August 5 – August 7, 2011, a not-to-be-missed weekend of jazz, funk, blues, wine, even yoga, which features other enduring legends in addition to Tower of Power, among them, Guest of Honor Paquito d'Rivera, Rita Coolidge and Allen Toussaint.

01 August, 2011 /
[click "Play", Susan talks with Frank Cicero about Relative Strangers]

 

RelativeStrangers It was a slam dunk whenever part-time Telluride local Frank Cicero stood in front of a courtroom. A senior partner since the 1970s at the prestigious Chicago law firm of Kirkland & Ellis and a trial and an appellate lawyer, Cicero's list of wins in a wide variety of civil and criminal cases in courts at all levels all over the world is mighty impressive.

The reason for his history of legal triumphs becomes apparent when you read Cicero's very first book, Relative Strangers: Italian Protestants in the Catholic World (2011). The guy clearly does his homework and he knows how to spin a compelling yarn.

Frank Cicero is in town for a book signing of "Relative Strangers" at Telluride's Between the Covers. The very social,very casual book launch party takes place Saturday, August 6, 6:30 p.m. (Simple refreshments included.) On the bill with Frank is Mt. Evans, Colorado-based photographer Bill Hitz, breaking out his coffee table photography book showcasing the Four Corners, Roads Less Traveled. Its forward was written by General Schwarzkopf, who said "You're photos are like a spirit... They speak to me." (http://www.mtevansphotography.com/Home.php)

01 August, 2011 /

[click "Play" for Susanna's conversation with Susan]

 

Celebrity chef Susanna Hoffman, "Adventures in Greek Cooking"
 
Books&cooks_AUGUST Disasters in the kitchen? A regular happening in homes from coast to coast. But "disasters" and "kitchen" combine perfectly, with no muss or fuss, in the life of Telluride local anthropologist and cookbook author, Dr. Susanna Hoffman.
 
Susanna, a University of California (Berkeley) PhD, regularly consults worldwide on disaster issues. Her latest book on that subject is Catastrophe & Culture.
 
But on Tuesday, August 2, noon, Susanna trades her hard hat for her tocque for a special segment of Chefbud's Books & Cooks at Telluride's five-star Wilkinson Public Library. The menu: Grape leaf, Feta and Cream Cheese dip with Pita Chips, Mushroom and Retsina Wine Filo Pie and Yogurt Cake with Lemon Ouzo Syrup.
 

31 July, 2011 /



Tim DeChristopher, Mountainfilm
Tim at Telluride Mountainfilm

On July 28, Telluride Inside... and Out received the following note from Telluride local, filmmaker Beth Gage, who with husband George, is making a documentary, "Bidder 70," about environmental activist Tim DeChristopher. Tim, a Mountainfilm regular over the past three years, recently received his sentence for his act of nonviolent civil disobedience.

"Dear Susan,

You may have heard but Tim got a 2 year sentence and was whisked out of court and into a prison van in chains within minutes of his sentence.  I thought you might like to re-print Terry T Williams letter to the editor.

Hugs,
Beth"

30 July, 2011 /

Yes, it's true. Telluride Inside...and Out wholeheartedly supports the Telluride Adaptive Sports Program. With us it is strictly personal: my husband Clint has been an Adaptive instructor for 12 years and counting. For him the work is soul food. But helping others with special challenges is important work no matter where in the country it is going on.

In the state of Colorado, Steamboat Springs also has an active adaptive program, Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports, a chapter of Disabled Sports USA and a US Paralympic Sportclub.

30 July, 2011 /

Water, water everywhere – and I drank plenty.

3 Musketeers On Friday, Clint and I decided to take a half day off from Telluride Inside... and Out. He headed off to assist on a Telluride Adaptive Sports Program hike with a favorite client. My fact-finding mission was mostly play: What's all the fuss about the river sport du jour, Stand-Up Paddling?

Bettie Hastings picked me up bright and early in her Mini convertible and we headed to town to rendezvous with our friend Susan Dalton at Jagged Edge. In summer, Jagged Edge is central ops for the Telluride Kayak School, where we hooked up with our instructor Andy Bagnall. On a cloudy day, order up Andy. I mean the guy is sunshine incarnate. He radiates nothing but positive energy juju.

30 July, 2011 /