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Friends Poster Part-time Tellurider, painter Jane Taylor, and her husband, photographer Frederic Ohringer, join a group of Hudson Valley artists featured together in a group show in Germantown, New York. Ohringer curated the exhibit at the request of ArtSpace. The opening reception is January 16.

Taylor is no stranger to Telluride collectors. Her shows at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art and at the Scott White Gallery used to sell out. Taylor's subject matter evolved over the years from abstractions suggesting worlds coming apart to the bounty of the table and garden, summarizing the arc of the artist's life. Insider poop aside, by channeling her physical experiences of the outside world, each tour de force painting became about making the commonplace look uncommonly good. Something that straddled the border between memory and metaphor, reality and illusion. Something transcendent.
11 January, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Aston "Family Man" Barrett]


The Sheridan Arts Foundation and the Telluride Tourism Board present the legendary Wailers with special guests, The Supervillains. The concert takes place Tuesday, January 12, 2010, at the Telluride Conference Center. Showtime is 8 p.m.


Say the name "The Wailers," and two cultural phenomena instantly pop to mind: Bob Marley and roots rock reggae, inspired in part by the Rastafarian religion. It was Marley who brought Jamaican music to the masses in the 1970s, just after the group was formed in 1969.
10 January, 2010 /

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Scott Doser, Susan and Clint
Viebrock, Bob Rubadeau,
Amy Cannon

A new collaboration premiered Thursday evening at the Wilkinson Public Library in Telluride. Bob Rubadeau approached TIO early in December with the idea of having a self-publishing section within Telluride Inside... and Out.

Scott Doser, program director at the Library, Amy Cannon of the Telluride Writers Guild and Between the Covers Bookstore got on board. The first get-together brought out over thirty people interested in learning how to get published once they have something down on paper (or on their Mac).

08 January, 2010 /


The Telluride Council for the Arts & Humanities kicks off the New Year with its First Thursday Art Walk this week, January 7, 5 – 8 p.m.

Holiday trifecta over and done, Amy Jean Boebel took the old adage about ringing in the new to heart. Art Walk celebrates the opening of her brand new gallery, Sapsucker Studios, 299 South Fir Street, and a show of her latest work, "Screen Scapes and Shapes." In future, Sapsucker will be dedicated to cutting edge regional art, including installations.
07 January, 2010 /

Blindside Olddogs_smallposter Telluride's Nugget Theatre is showing "Old Dogs" this week (Jan 8-14) along with the repeat performance of "The Blind Side".

TIO talked about "The Blind Side" last week: the story is about a homeless kid in Memphis who is adopted by a well-off family, and becomes a football star. (PG-13)

"Old Dogs" is a comedy with John Travolta and Robin Williams, one a confirmed bachelor, the other a bachelor by way of divorce. They are on the verge of a big business deal with the Japanese, with the complication of having to take care of 7 year old twins. The critics mostly hated it; audiences seem to love it. You'll have to go and make up your own mind. (Rated PG)

Showtimes below, reviews and trailers on the Nugget website.

07 January, 2010 /
[click "Play" to listen to Amy Boebel speak about her art]

DSC_0146 Sponsored by the Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities, The First Thursday Art Walk is a day-long block party with a mission: to showcase Telluride's fine art scene, including galleries and studios, which stay open late until 8 p.m. The first Art Walk of the New Year is this Thursday, January 7, 5 – 8 p.m.


Last January, TCAH's Strong Studios featured the work of newly minted local Amy Jean Boebel, a recycler with massive creative chops. "Seventeen Scrolls of Screen" featured playfully elegant sculptures created entirely from rolls of wire screen. Exactly one year later, Boebel managed to open her own gallery: Sapsucker Studios, 299 South Fir Street, where the idea is to feature cutting-edge work produced by regional artists. Sapsucker's debut show this Thursday features her own "Screen Scapes and Shapes," illuminative aluminum screen wall hangings and sculpture in which shadows complete the picture in a play of movement and light.
06 January, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Bob Rubadeau speaking with Susan about online publishing]

Gatsby Cover draft w title Adobe high red Clint and Susan Viebrock of Telluride Inside... and Out, the Wilkinson Public Library, the Telluride Writers Guild, Between the Covers Bookstore, and Bob Rubadeau's Sirius Publications have joined forces to help local writers and visual artists develop the skills necessary to explore the brave new world of small house/self-publishing in order to mine worldwide markets/outlets for their works. The online vehicle for accomplishing the ambitious objective of bringing manuscripts to publication is a subdomain of Telluride Inside... and Out: Book Biz. The complementary interactive free seminars held monthly in the Program Room of the Wilkinson Public Library operates under the banner Community Publishing 101.


05 January, 2010 /

Telluride's Palm Theatre got the jump on everyone else. The venue's year-end fundraiser was a tribute to Elvis Presley, whose 75th birthday would have been January 8, 2010 – had The King not lost his head to drugs, sex and rock...

04 January, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's interview with Donald Pinkney]

Untitled-8 Cornell Gunter's Coasters co-star with Marvelettes at Telluride's Opera House on New Year's Eve. The evening is a dance party that also includes light fare, a champagne toast at midnight, and party favors. Along the way, expect a few yucks.


The original Coasters were an American r&b/rock and roll group which enjoyed a string of hits in the late-1950s. Beginning with the hits "Searchin'" and "Young Blood" their most memorable songs were written by the songwriting/producing team of Leiber and Stoller. Although the Coasters originated outside of mainstream doo-wop, their recordings were so frequently imitated, they became an important part of the doo-wop legacy through the 1960s.
31 December, 2009 /