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[click "Play", Steve Gumble talks to Susan about the Taos Mountain Music Festival]

 

Taos Music poster Steve Gumble (and his SBG productions) is the force behind the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, now in its 18th year and a sold-out success annually. So what's a nice guy like that doing in a place like Taos? The short answer: Making a good thing better.

Friends and producers of the Taos event were not in the Festival producing business like Steve. Their day job was running the mountain. So, they approached their friend Steve to grow a musical event with loads of promise.

The third annual Taos Mountain Music Festival takes place this year on Saturday, August 20 and Sunday, August 21. Northern New Mexico's music event of the summer features headliners Matisyahu, Railroad Earth, Ozomatli, and Leftover Salmon. Additional festival performances include Donna the Buffalo, Jackie Greene Duo, Afroman, Orgone, Dangermuffin, Langhorne Slim, Shannon McNally and Hot Sauce, Ryan McGarvey and Mariachi Luz de Luna.

15 August, 2011 /

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The eighth annual Riverfront Park Fashion Show brings some of fashion’s best and brightest to Denver’s Riverfront neighborhood. The theme is “Classic” but don’t expect to see your mother’s flat knit and pearls strutting down the catwalk.  This year the “Crack Pack” is sure to have fashion addicts hooked on the edgy, youthful looks that define classic in a fresh new way.  

06 August, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Will Thompson's thoughts on the Christo project]

 

 

Christo_over_the_river4 The Telluride Gallery of Fine Art is the local representative of the world's most famous wrapper: Christo.

Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude (now deceased) became world famous for hiding familiar objects, buildings and views in plain sight by wrapping whatever struck their fantasies in what amounts to a second skin. The big idea: transform the quotidian into something transcendent, stimulate our imaginations and the joy of discovery, causing us to take a second look at that which we tend to take for granted.

06 August, 2011 /

Joe Kimm, my former father-in-law and a friend and mentor for over fifty years, will turn 100 years old on August 18, 2011. We learned yesterday that Joe's flying career, which spanned 42 years of Northwest Airlines early history, has earned him a place...

04 August, 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 /
[click "Play" to listen to the conversation with Doctors Kerr and Hauswald]

 

Kerr:Hauswald Telluride Inside... and Out is alerted to stories in a variety of ways. The most obvious is a heads up in the form of a press release from any one of the non-profits or special events in the region. But sometimes a person just calls with his or her hair on fire about something or someone, an upcoming adventure or noteworthy accomplishment. That is how this post came about.

Our friend Judy Thompson phoned out of the blue one day to brag on two of her friends: Dr. Nancy Kerr and husband, Dr. Mark Hauswald. Judy was super excited because the couple, Telluride locals, had just gotten word about receiving a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

29 July, 2011 /
It might seem strange to vacation in Crested Butte when you live in Telluride. Why leave one small mining-turned-ski town for another small mining-turned-ski town? Some may ask—why leave Telluride at all in the summer?

Ice Cream on CB's Main Street

 Yet, like many Telluridians, my husband, Andy, and I crave adventure. We crave travel. We crave escape. Indeed, the very cravings that pulled us into this valley are the same that push us out from time to time.

 We needed to get out of our house for a while. To get away from our same routines. And most importantly, we needed to re-explore a town we hadn’t been to in few years and see how it stacked up to our own.

 We’d heard the biking in Crested Butte was amazing. As relatively new addicts of the sport, we were eager to get our wheels muddy and test its trails. When we’d been to the town several years before, we’d gone to this astoundingly good coffee shop called Camp 4 Coffee. Would it be as good as we’d remembered?

 

25 July, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Eileen's interview with Lo Snyder]

 

By Eileen Burns

Rope, Boots and Hat Grab your cowboy hat and boots folks, The San Miguel Basin Fair and Rodeo is in town and promises to be jam packed full of events and competitions for everyone in the family.  From the adrenaline rush of a pro cowboy taking a wild and thrashing 8 second bull ride around the arena, to little Johnny next door, hanging on with sheer guts, as he tumbles through his first mutton busting competition, Norwood Colorado is the place to be this weekend.  The fair grounds are located just 40 minutes from downtown Telluride, on Wrights Mesa.  The CPRA Rodeos will take place both Friday and Saturday evenings starting at 7:00 pm.  Entry fee to Rodeo is only $9.00.  There will be plenty of vendor stands with food, pop and beer, including the kids' favorites: sno-cones and cotton candy.

20 July, 2011 /

Just a little reminder that the San Miguel Basin Fair and Rodeo is taking place right now down in Norwood. The festivities began at 6:00 pm on Friday, July 15th, @ the County Fairgrounds Outdoor Arena with a Greased Pig Contest - PRIZE...

19 July, 2011 /