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by Jim Bedford

Thekingsspeech_smallposter True-grit-poster-coen-brothers 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.

18 February, 2011 /
[click "Play", Jeremy Lurgio talks about his and Tony Rizzuto's aproaches to photographing people]

 

Lurgio_RedShedFlyShop Tony rizzuto Friday – Sunday, March 11 – March 13, Jeremy Lurgio and Tony Rizzuto are scheduled to lead a photography intensive at Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts. The subject matter: "The Photography of People."

Portrait photography like portrait painting raises any number of provocative questions. To what extend does or should a portrait function like a literary biography? What distinguishes a fine art photography portrait from the digitals you snap of your family to email to relatives? Does the answer have something to do with the extent to which the person doing the shooting manages to reveal his sitter's inner landscape. Irving Penn's spare, frank compositions shot in the natural light of his studio with rudimentary props helped define define the look of Vogue magazine in the 1940s. Penn's images, like those of Avedon later, produced intense engagement with his subject that made viewers feel like voyeurs.

15 February, 2011 /

Prince-beta-062-300x233 Esperanza Spalding's first Telluride appearance was 2007 for Winter Jazz. Those of us who know Telluride Jazz Celebration's impresario Paul Machado know the man has an eye for the ladies. His special gift is to catch rising stars before they have reached their zenith: violinist Regina Carter, guitarist Badi Assad, chanteuses Diana Krall, Jane Monheit, and Lizz Wright to name a few of Machado’s picks early in their careers.

The story of Esperanza Spalding is a rags-to-riches-tale, an American dream come true, because a smart single mom recognized she had  a gifted daughter who thought – and played – out of the box. Years later, the jazz bassist/singer has clearly earned the respect of her peers. And one of her major fans happens to be President Obama. Last night, Sunday, February 13, Esperanza took the Grammys by storm, winning Best Artist, trumping popsters Justin Bieber and Drake, plus bands Mumford & Sons (Telluride Bluegrass Festival, 2010) and Florence & The Machine.

14 February, 2011 /

by Tracy Shaffer

Medium worm 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.

14 February, 2011 /

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


Heart 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.



**

13 February, 2011 /
[click "Play" to listen to Rev. Doug Bottorff's conversation with Susan]

 

 

Rev J Douglas Bottorff Thanks to its Reverend, Pat Bailey, Telluride's Christ Church is becoming much more than a house of worship in the conventional sense of sheep gathering around a shepherd to pray and heal. Christ Church is becoming a change-maker in the Telluride community, from a place to study world religion to how to live a more sustainable life in concert with the environment. Next up: altering our internal landscape through meditation.

Thursday evening, February 17, 7:30 p.m., Reverend Doug Bottorff teaches a class on meditation. The evening is part of Christ Church's ongoing silent meditation program held every Thursday night.

13 February, 2011 /
[click "Play", Susan talks with Jeb Berrier about Comedy Fest]

 

Jeb, LipSync Love is no laughing matter, except in Telluride, where comedy follows the BIg Day for the kid in diapers with the quiver of arrows.

The 12th annual Telluride Comedy Fest begins at the Sheridan Opera House with a Locals' Night on Thursday, February 17 and continues through the weekend, closing Sunday, February 20. Shows, 8 p.m. nightly, are all hosted by Telluride actor/director/producer Jeb Berrier.

13 February, 2011 /
[click "Play", Sasha speaks with Susan about SquidShow]

 

Valentines Poster When is a "Squid" a Cupid? The answer has nothing to less to do with more arms to hold you and more to do with ties that bind.

Have you been married forever, but it feels like yesterday? Is your crush new and fresh or still hidden? Is your best friend down in the mouth and needing a quicker pick me up? Have Telluride's Squids deliver the perfect Valentine's Day tribute: a Squid Cupidgram. (The nonviolent troupe replaces arrows with wit.)

12 February, 2011 /