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BEAR IT! Tuesday, September 10 & Wednesday, September 11 @ 8p.m. FREE @ The Fly Me To The Moon Saloon  In 2009 and 2010, "BEAR IT!" an original show created by Telluride Theatre, was played to SOLD OUT Telluride audiences...

[caption id="attachment_34514" align="alignleft" width="300"] Bruce Dern, Alexander Payne, Jason Reitman[/caption] It all started with a little red truck, the one Bruce Dern sent to director and Telluride favorite Alexander Payne after reading the script for the Everyman tale, "Nebraska." The truck came with a note: "I...

[caption id="attachment_34272" align="alignright" width="300"] Image by Barry Brecheisen[/caption] Can you capture sound through a lens? The electricity in the air? Getting award-winning candid shots is not easy given the variables of light and movement during a performance. But Rolling Stone regular Barry Brecheisen has the knack....

Editor’s note: Telluride Inside… and Out’s monthly (more or less) column, Tall Tales, is so named because contributor Mark Stevens is one long drink of water. He is also long on talent. Mark is the author of “Antler Dust” and “Buried by the Roan,” both on the shelves...

The Telluride Film Festival just ended, with the 40th year producing one of the most successful (read robust, no clunkers) weekends in the history of the event. What exactly do we mean? Our review will be up on Wednesday, but yes, there is already Oscar...

Editor’s note: Author/poet/recently retired teacher-writing instructor David Feela is a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. The man is, as you will see, quirky and funny. His latest book, “How Delicate These Arches: Footnotes from the Four Corners,” a collection of essays, is available at Between the Covers Bookstore. The...

Editor’s note: Kierstin Bridger, a winner of Telluride Arts’ Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, is a regular contributor  to Telluride Inside… and Out. She is nothing if not arch and, like painter Edward Hopper, a keen observer of our solitude, for better or for worse, always pregnant...

[caption id="attachment_34316" align="alignright" width="100"] Philip Kaufman[/caption] We love assembling a bunch of smartypants for a sidewalk event – especially around a wonderful celebration like Telluride Film Festival's 40th anniversary. This weekend, specifically Sunday, September 1,1:15 p.m., we’ll have the literary celebritati in town for the Big Event...

Werner Herzog and Telluride Film Fest's newest venue: Telluride Film Festival co-director Gary Meyer, who became a director seven years ago after #33 remembers when he first came to the annual celebration of film and filmmakers. "I sadly missed the first year of the Telluride Film Festival,...