Navajo Camp, hosted regionally for the first time this summer, is the product of a new partnership between the Telluride Institute, Diné College, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. Scheduled for July 9th through July 16th, 2011, Diné College will be bringing around 25 middle...
by Jim Bedford
In this post-Ides of March week, the Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride has three great movies on the bill for Friday, March 18 through Thursday, March 24.
THE BLACK SWAN (R), with Oscar winning Natalie Portman, continues through Wednesday and is surprising, stirring and unpredictable.
For families and the younger set, GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) adds to the Disney canon of great animations, and runs through Tuesday.
And on Wednesday and Thursday only, the Telluride Film Festival Presents 127 HOURS (R), a hit at last year's festival with James Franco being directed by Danny Boyle (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE).
Click here for the Nugget website for trailers and reviews, and below for movietimes.
by Lisa Barlow
My grandmother’s Irish heritage showed up in her hilariously salty sense of humor and in her cooking. As prolific as the jokes were, however, she could only cook one thing: a baked potato. But it was irresistibly delicious. Her secret was simple. She just added half a stick of butter to each potato and mashed it in its skin. Next to the overcooked meat patty and the canned wax beans, the potato shone like a pot of gold.
It wasn’t until I went to Ireland that I celebrated my own connection to the country. As a child growing up in Manhattan, St. Patrick’s Day was a little scary. We lived at the end of the parade route and the trip home from school was an obstacle course of drunken merrymakers, regurgitated green beer and invitations to “Kiss Me, I’m Irish.”
But after my honeymoon at Ashford Castle, where "The Quiet Man" was filmed, I was a committed holiday celebrant. We mark the holiday with pints of Guinness and Colcannon, a delicious mixture of cabbage, leeks and potatoes.
The Second Annual Compassion Festival—an “Ideas Festival” hosted by the Telluride Institute—is scheduled for July 8-10 at the Sheridan Opera House. This will be a unique event dedicated to exploring 'compassion for a world in crisis'. This enormously important and complex subject will be...
by Lisa Barlow
“Kale is the steak of vegetables!” my vegetarian friend would often exclaim. “Well, I‘d rather have the steak of meats” her carnivore husband would mutter. Blame it on dinner. The marriage didn’t last.
Here’s a kale salad recipe that just might have kept life happier for both of them, at least in the kitchen. The leafy green is massaged with salt and oil, reminding one of Kobe beef, and making it in my mind, indeed the steak of vegetables.
Terry Tempest Williams heads list of activists, artists and adventurers
The annual Mountainfilm in Telluride festival is always about much more than just powerful films. What really sets the event apart is the depth and breadth of its line-up of special guest presenters. The 33rd annual event, May 27 – 30, 2011, is no exception to the rule. Festival Director David Holbrooke feels that once again, the quality of the guests, plus the rare opportunity for audiences to engage and interact, will make the long weekend especially exciting and unique.
“Our theme this year is awareness into action,” Holbrooke said. “So we were particularly looking for special guests who can both motivate our audiences – engage and energize them – but also give them practical, hands-on help in actually becoming involved in critical issues. We want people to have much better tools for making a difference when they leave this year’s festival.”
Holbrooke is looking forward to welcoming Terry Tempest Williams back to Telluride.
by Jim Bedford
The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride has two great movies on the bill for the week of Friday, March 4 through Thursday, March 10, 2011.
How about THE KING'S SPEECH (R) winning all those Academy Awards last Sunday? And most of those guys were here in Telluride for the film festival last September!
Joining the KING this week at the Nugget will be JUST GO WITH IT (PG-13), with Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston and Nicole Kidman.
See the Nugget website for trailers and reviews, and below for movietimes.
by Jim Bedford
The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride has two great movies on the bill for the week of Friday, February 25 through Thursday, March 3, 2011.
Yes, it's a rarity at the Nugget, but both the brilliance of THE KING'S SPEECH (R) and the continuing popularity of TRUE GRIT (PG13) have convinced us to keep them around for another week. Look for two new films next week but here's your last chance to catch these great Oscar contenders in Telluride.
Don't forget the Academy Awards on Sunday, February 27 with Anne Hathaway and James Franco as MCs.
See the Nugget website for trailers and reviews, and below for movietimes.
Non-profits who apply to the Telluride Foundation listen up. This announcement will definitely have an impact on your institution or event.
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As philanthropic giving has decreased in the latest economic downturn, it has become necessary for nonprofit organizations to better demonstrate the impact of their work in order to be competitive for a smaller pool of funding. As such, the national news is full of examples of program evaluation, assessment and accountability. Whether it is teacher accountability through student testing, the requirement that American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (stimulus money) grant funded projects must track job creation, or the Disaster Accountability Project, which evaluates disaster relief and aid organizations’ response to natural disasters, there is a national trend toward measuring outcomes to determine the effectiveness of programs to bring about positive social change.
by Jim Bedford
The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride has two movies on the bill for the week of Friday, February 18 through Thursday, February 24, 2011. And there's more snow on the way!
Yes, it premiered last September at the Telluride Film Festival, and yes, it's going to get a bunch of Oscars on Feb 27, so we bring you the brilliant THE KING'S SPEECH to the Nugget on Friday.
TRUE GRIT (PG13), starring Jeff Bridges, continues through Wednesday this week. Nominated for a fistfull of Oscars as well, the Coen brothers do a brilliant re-make of the John Wayne classic.
See the Nugget website for trailers and reviews, and below for movietimes.
