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By David Feela

David Feela (Telluride Inside... and Out met David Feela through Telluride Arts' Mark Fischer Poetry Award, which he judged. We judged the guy to be a shoo-in for Garrison Keillor's replacement as host of The Prairie Home Companion when Keillor throws in the towel in 2013. Feela is that smart. That funny. Who better to riff on the ruptured Rapture?

To double your pleasure, we decided to include two of David Feela's poems on the subject of Apocalypse Whenever, one funny, one serious, two reasons why we are glad to still be hanging out on the Big Blue Marble.

And expect more of the same from David Feela on Telluride Inside... and Out.)

21 May, 2011 /

Multimedia Site Lights the Way to 33rd Annual Weekend and Beyond

In the midst of preparing for its biggest-ever festival, Mountainfilm in Telluride completely re-made its website. Mountainfilm executive director Peter Kenworthy says the timing was just right.

“To be able to unveil our new site just as we announce this year’s film list is perfect,” says Kenworthy. “It will mean immediate exposure. Right away we will engage our audiences as never before in our world. We couldn’t be happier. It made this winter a little busy but a spring launch is ideal.”

20 May, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Jesse's interview with Jake Norton and Wende Valentine]

 

 

by J James McTigue

Jake Norton Jake Norton is an Eddie Bauer First Ascent athlete and world-renowned climber, photographer and guide. He has a list of accolades as tall as Everest, a mountain he has attempted six times and summitted three. His career has taken him to the top of the world’s highest mountains and on explorations across the globe. His newest endeavor is Challenge 21, a campaign to climb 21 peaks, raise 2.1 million dollars and get 2.1 million people involved in clean water initiatives around the world. 

He will be a guest judge for the Charlie Fowler Award at this year’s Mountainfilm in Telluride and a presenter at the Saturday morning coffee talks to discuss climbing the second highest peak in the world, K2. Norton speaks passionately of mountains, but more so of the impact they have had on him.

19 May, 2011 /

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Drew Ludwig, Valley Floor #1

Contest Dates:  May 19 – July 15, 2011
Exhibition:  July 30 – August 28, 2011
Location:  Ah Haa School Depot Gallery, Telluride, Colorado

The Telluride Institute is proud to announce the Atlas of the San Miguel Photo Competition, a first annual juried photo exhibition celebrating the San Miguel River Watershed. Amateur and professional photographers of all ages are encouraged to submit photographically generated works of art celebrating life in the watershed—in all of its many forms.

The photo competition is part of a larger exhibition at the Ah Haa School in August. The exhibition is divided into two components--an Invitational Exhibition featuring both local and nationally known artists and the Photo Exhibition featuring photos of the watershed.

19 May, 2011 /

by Jim Bedford

102409H1 Rio_angrybirdssmallposter The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride shows movies all year long and features three great films this week.

The brilliant, funny and colorful animation RIO (G), new from the makers of the ICE AGE movies, continues on the Nugget screen over the weekend, and FAST FIVE (PG-13), where Vin Diesel takes the whole gang to Rio de Janeiro, plays the whole week of Friday, May 20 through Thursday, May 26, 2011.

On Thursday, May 26 only, the Telluride Film Festival Presents film is WIN WIN (R), in which an attorney (Paul Giamatti) wrestles with his conscience and loses. (Please note that this schedule is accurate only if the world does not end on the afternoon of May 21.)

See the Nugget website for trailers and reviews, and below for movietimes.

18 May, 2011 /
When snow falls in Telluride in May, even the most rugged mountain souls dream of an escape. Luckily, for those of us who get to call Telluride home, there is a flipside to our paradise: road tripping over to Utah. Southeast Utah has all of the things that we lack right now—snow-free trails, electric green aspens, beautiful camping, and most importantly: warmth. Gathering Wild Flowers Chasing up a campsite on a Friday night in Moab, Utah, however, can be trickier than winning an evening plane flight with a young Robert Redford over Africa. Everyone wants in (or maybe that’s just me with that metaphor?)—Regardless, everyone wants in, and not everyone can have in. Utah residents have a joke about this Colorado infiltration that my husband, Andy, likes to tell everyone until they're nauseated: “You know how you know it’s spring in the desert? The license plates turn green.” Because of this Moab chaos, Andy and I have started heading south of Moab to camp out with our girls. On our most recent trip, we went back right back to a spot we’ve been to before: Indian Creek.
18 May, 2011 /

By Rob Schultheis

Rob (Rob Schultheis is the author of six books, including "The Hidden West" and "Fool's Gold," the latter about the changing face of his home town, Telluride, Colorado.

Since 1984, Rob has covered the wars in Afghanistan for Time magazine and other periodicals, also freelancing as cameraman for the networks. Over the years, he has written for "The Washington Post," "National Geographic Magazine," and "Outside" magazine. Rob is also an accomplished painter. A show of his images (along with work by his wife Nancy Craft) will be on display this summer at Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts. Telluride Inside... and Out is delighted to welcome Rob, a close friend and professional colleague, to our pages.

His poem is a cry of despair for a world that is now limping around, looking back at us all reproachfully for forgetting to remember. But it is also a love song for his friend. And in that love there is hope.)

The story behind my poem:

14 May, 2011 /

by Jim Bedford

Rio_angrybirdssmallposter Theconspirator_smallposter2 The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride shows movies all year long and features two great new films this week.

The brilliant, funny and colorful animation RIO, new from the makers of the ICE AGE movies, shares the Nugget screen with Robert Redford's Civil War drama that explores Mary Surratt's role in the Lincoln assassination, both films are playing the whole week of Friday, May 13 through Thursday, May 19, 2011.

See the Nugget website for trailers and reviews, and below for movietimes.

12 May, 2011 /

by J James McTigue

What is Boggy Draw?

It sounds like a place Kermit the Frog lives. And, perhaps he does; but we didn’t find him. We did find ponds with leeches, horny toads, miles of mellow single track, and a few cacti stuck in the sole of our shoe.

We also didn’t find facilities. You have to bring your own water, pack out your trash and for the other: dig a hole; hold it; or pack it out.

Boggy Draw is essentially an open park of San Juan National Forest, situated about four miles above Dolores. The development is minimal: a trailhead, single-track and a dirt road to access sheltered alcoves among the Ponderosa pines -- stellar for car camping.

 

12 May, 2011 /

By Art Goodtimes Art Goodtimes  



 

 

After


Sometimes
the raw data of doing
just doesn’t jell

until way late
in the canning or
cleaning

or whatever
comes
after

cling peaches
blushing apricots
whipped cream

 

POEM OF MINE … I’m going to start each month with a poem of my own. I think  this one was in response to a poem of Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer <www.wordwoman.com> – whose May Day and Mother's Day poems appeared here at Telluride Inside... and Out at the start of this month. She maintains a poem-a-day practice, and has done that for several years now …

09 May, 2011 /