By Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer (ed. note: Happy Mother's Day to you, Telluride and beyond. In these five beautiful poems, Rosemerry speaks of being a daughter and of being a mother. ) The Daughter’s New Clothes Dark blue velvet, the dress you stitched for me, with a white...
The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride shows movies all year long and features another great film this week.
Playing Friday, May 6 through Thursday, May 12, 2011, is ARTHUR (PG13), with the unique Russell Brand reprising the role that Dudley Moore made famous. With Helen Mirren, Jennifer Garner and Nick Nolte.
See the Nugget website for trailers and reviews, and below for movietimes.
by J James McTigue
Temple Grandin’s accomplishments are well known. Despite being diagnosed with autism at three, she earned a Ph.D. in animal science, holds a professorship at Colorado State University, authored multiple books and speaks about autism around the world. She is the subject of an Emmy Award-winning movie based on her life, aptly titled Temple Grandin, and she was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2010.
Yet, as I learned Monday night after hearing her speak in front of a packed house at the Palm Theater, if that is all you know about her, you’ve missed the best. You’ve missed her straightforwardness, her practical advice, her jokes, her determined energy and her no nonsense approach to working with autistic children. Essentially, you’ve missed her.
kicker: "Blues on the Rails" launches June 4
The name "Steve Gumble" rhymes with innovation.
Gumble's first party trick was to parlay the ownership of a liquor store into a world class festival: now in its 18th year, Telluride Blues & Brews is more robust than ever. Acts this year range from Willie Nelson (yes, the iconic country star also has a blues history), to The Flaming Lips, Big Head Todd and the Monster, Dweezil Zappa, Mavis Staples, Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band, and more.
Can you top that? Yes, Gumble has managed to pull another rabbit out of his hat – a big steel rabbit: The Telluride Blues & Brews Festival and The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad have joined forces to present the brand new Durango Blues Train. The inaugural ride for "Blues on the Rails" takes place June 4, 2011.
Ski The Himalayas 2 is now available on Comcast Xfinity VOD and Dish Network Pay per View. The 80 Minute documentary chronicles a team's adventurous ascent and ski descent of a Himalayan peak in the Annapurna region of Nepal.Aspiring Himalayan skiers Ben Clark and Jon...
This summer, Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts offers a series of immersions featuring talented artists from all over the country. The first of these in-depth workshops takes place June 9 – June 11, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at Ah Haa's Stone Building, 117 North Willow.
In "Texture, Color, Feeling," students get to explore a variety of materials, textures and surfaces to create a finished image on canvas. The emphasis is on process, rather than the finished product, an abstract image, meant to be a surprise. Using white papers and textured materials to layer and imbed, plus paints and inks, the end result should have a dynamic sculptural effect.
Your instructor is Jan Sitts, a Sedona-based art instructor and professional painter for 35+ years.
by Jon Lovekin
(Editor's note: One of the pleasures in publishing Telluride Inside... and Out is getting to know new [to us] writers. Susan and I independently ran across Jon Lovekin on Twitter. She took the next step, checked out his writing, liked what she saw and asked if he would be interested in contributing to TIO. Herewith, another article from Jon.)
Clouds built over the plains as they always do each day this time of year. The wind blew soft and hot keeping the gnats at bay. Mud was deep around the building we were working on after the record setting 6 inch rain over the weekend. The sun burned deep into the skin and I thought of that boy working on that ranch 29 years ago and only 30 miles away. I had thought of the Rancher now that I worked in La Junta again and looked up his name in the phone book.
I didn’t recognize him at first when I pulled up to the address in Fowler where the phone book said he lived. There was an old man in a jump suit sitting in a porch swing connected to an oxygen tank who was staring at me as I looked again at the house number. I got out, strode around the truck and said, “Hello, does Ken live here?”
“He used to” replied the man who I knew instantly was him.
by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
(ed. note: After a devastating April around the country and the world, May is a welcome change. Rosemerry has sent three poems to welcome Spring in Telluride and Western Colorado. May 1 is also Kjerstin Klein's birthday. Happy Birthday, kid.)
Preparing the Garden for Spring
We pull up the old iron slabs I had used
as stepping stones for my garden. By we,
I mean I pull them up. My son takes
to raking the shriveled brown cords of melons,
pumpkins and squash. His interest wanes
soon enough and he leaves me with my hands
in familiar gray dirt. In my lungs, dust rises
like long-forgotten prayers. And I am alone,
though not alone. There are several of me here.
One woman who dreams of kissing in rain. One woman
who plots where new seeds will go. One woman
plants herself in this bed. One woman kneels
in the morning’s gold shrine. And one woman lifts
old iron slabs. She blossoms one now at a time.
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Rev. Pat Bailey] kicker: Potluck luncheon features regional produce and meats Telluride's Christ Presbyterian Church is shouting "May Day." No, not a cry of distress. A cry of joy.Reverend Pat Bailey has...
The day that ended with a bang with Duo Jalal's gig at Drom, began with meeting yet another Telluride friend, Diana Conovitz, and a Wednesday matinee. Bottom line: Run, don't walk to see the play, "The Motherf**ker with the Hat" at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. (Unless strong language offends.)
Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis's newest play, his seventh, with the bleeping wonderful name is a no-holds-barred knock out: script, direction, performances, sets, lighting, the whole enchilada, terrific. Exhilarating. The story about life, love, despair, longing, a vague scent of hope and, well, a hat, is raw, in-your-face, intensely poignant and caustically funny.
"Motherf**ker" marks the Broadway debut of comedian Chris Rock as the health-juice-drinking, yoga-posing nihilist Ralph D. in what has to be one of the finest, five-person ensembles ever assembled by a director, in this case, the talented Anna D. Shapiro. Shapiro won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Direction for "August: Osage County" and might well dust off her shelves for a second statuette for this comedy-drama.
