After major remodeling and renovations at the Peaks Resort and Spa, the iconic Telluride hotel donated major surpluses of furniture, linens and appliances to the humanitarian organization Habitat for Humanity in Montrose, Colorado this week. Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit housing organization which builds simple,...
by Tracy Shaffer
It was a brainstorm marketing session seven years ago that launched Curious Theatre Company’s Girls Night Out, as a way to reach out to a broader audience and a niche market. Both have grown a lot since then. Seems a gal can find some thing to do any night of the week with her BFFs, as the girl’s night out concept has spread faster than a hot rumor. Most of these evenings involve a bar, a mani/pedi or a gabfest, and if there’s a bit of theatre involved it’s a fem-centric musical, an inside joke. The wave of “Chick-Plays” has crashed, save for Eve Ensler’s “The Good Body," leaving us to find our commonality solely within our humanity, thank god. This year’s Curious offering breaks from their usual provocative premiere productions and promises a “transformational” evening as Denver femmes cultivées gather to mix, mingle, and enjoy a performance of the hit show Circle Mirror Transformation.
by Lisa Barlow
It’s Valentine’s Day and while you may be content to buy your love a pretty box of chocolates, there are a host of other foods that can convey your message more effectively.
Since ancient times clever cooks have concocted seductive recipes to tempt their paramours and the list of edible aphrodisiacs they have come up with is long and varied. Some foods merely look suggestive. Others have been clinically proven to help get the job done.
In the first category, bananas top the list. Mae West’s famous query says it all: Is that a banana in your pocket …or are you happy to see me? Asparagus and carrots, like figs and cherries, also arouse some fertile imaginations. But then just about anything can excite some folks. In her book Aphrodite, A Memoir of the Senses, Author Isabel Allende says she tested her recipes on friends over 40 “since even a cup of chamomile turns on the young.”
by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
(Ed. note: Rosemerry often sends along her poetry for special events to Telluride Inside... and Out. Enjoy her Valentine's Day offering)
Yes I Will
After all this time, we are still
just beginning to fly. Though our hair
is more white, our wings
are still unfolding, still a little wet.
And there is so much sky
we haven’t seen. If I close
my eyes I can feel it, the wind,
how it gathers beneath us
and lifts. How terrifying, love,
to not know what comes next.
And how wondrous to know
we are not bound together
and choose anyway to leap
in unison so we might see, after all these
paths we’ve walked, what
wings and a new song can do.
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The team negotiates with the village of Jomsom in Nepal only to find thier world of oppurtunity getting smaller. Ben Clark devises a plan, unwilling to give up. Follow Clark and teammate Jon Miller as they share the experience reviewing the film footage and often...
Students from the 2010 Snowshoe Overnight brave the elements at 11,000 Ft. February 10, 2011 Telluride Institute's Watershed Education Program (WEP) is launching the first annual Nucla Middle School Snowshoe Overnight this week from February 10th to 11th! WEP will be conducting this program in...
by Jim Bedford
The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride has two movies on the bill for the week of Friday, February 11 through Thursday, February 17, 2011. And the snow is really, really good in Telluride, too!
TRUE GRIT (PG13), starring Jeff Bridges, continues all this week. Nominated for a fistfull of Oscars, the Coen brothers do a brilliant re-make of the John Wayne classic.
Also playing is the THE GREEN HORNET (PG13), directed by Michel Gondry, telling the story of Britt Reid (Seth Rogen), heir to his late father's fortune, who teams up with his late dad's assistant Kato to become masked crime fighters.
See the Nugget website for trailers and reviews, and below for movietimes.
by Tracy Shaffer
For the first time in its six year history, Denver Center Theatre Company has included a local theatre company in the upcoming Colorado New Play Summit. Buntport Theatre Company is a zany/brainy collaboration of theatrical inventors, who have consistently delivered Denver’s most original theatre for the past ten years. Taking on Hamlet, Kafka, Ovid and O’Neill, Buntport has proven itself a true mix of the ridiculous and the sublime.
[click "Play" to listen to Tracy Shaffer's conversation with Michele Lowe] by Tracy Shaffer Denver Center Theatre Company is a staunch supporter of new plays, most...
by Tracy Shaffer
It's that time of year again! Writers and artists, actors, directors, agents and theatre buffs from around the country will descend on Denver next week for the Colorado New Play Summit. Denver Center Theatre hosts it's sixth annual playwright lovefest, February 10-12, with staged readings of new works by commissioned playwrights and scripts submitted for inclusion. This year marks the return of two "rock star" writers, Octavio Solis and Michele Lowe, along with Lisa Loomer, Samuel D Hunter, Lloyd Suh and a commissioned piece by Denver's award-winning Buntport Theatre. The white hot Octavio Solis, who brought us the glorious "Lydia" in 2008, brings the much anticipated script, Cecilia Marie, to town for a staged reading and the equally scorching Michelle Lowe has her "Map of Heaven" on the Denver Center boards for its world premiere production. Ms. Lowe won the 2010 Francesca Primus Prize for her previous Denver debut, 2009's Inana.
