A poem to honor Phenomenal Woman’s Week and event, 3/13, at Ah Haa

Fair warning: We have it on good authority that around 7 p.m. on Friday, March 12, the Telluride region will be held hostage by an unruly band of men and worse, fall in love with their captors, thereby conforming to the psychological definition of the Stockholm Syndrome.
Three movies on tap this week at Telluride's Nugget Theatre: "Valentine's Day" (rated PG-13) also showed last week and features an large ensemble cast telling stories of people in love, people who want to be in love, people who are NOT in love, all in the 24 hours of Valentine's Day.
"Crazy Heart" (rated R) is the vehicle for Jeff Bridges' boozed up has-been of a country singer, for which he won Best Actor in the recent Academy Awards.
Speaking of the Oscars, Carry Mulligan was nominated for Best Actress for her role in "An Education" (rated PG-13) which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival last September. If you missed it last Fall, hie thee to the Nugget.
See below for showtimes and the Nugget website for trailers and reviews.
Like it hot? On Thursday, March 11, 9 p.m., the Telluride Society for Jazz and The Llama present Calle 66, New Mexico's newest and hottest salsa band. Band members include "La Princesa de La Salsa," Jackie Zamora (lead vocals), Paul Gonzales and Dan Jonas...
It's a night at the museum - but not that town, not that actor, and not that movie. In 1895, Jim Clark,"the toughest man in Telluride," was murdered on Colorado Ave. Who offed him? What events led to Jim's dramatic demise? The...
by Shannon Mitchell
Passes to the 37th Telluride Film Festival (September 3-6, 2010) are now available to the public.
The audience at the 36th annual Telluride Film Festival was the first in the world to view a number of Academy Award-nominated films including Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air," "Bright Star," "The White Ribbon" and "The Last Station."
Purchasing a pass allows the moviegoer complete flexibility throughout the four-day Festival. Pass-holders are able to move from theatre to theatre, event to event at their leisure while taking in the beauty of the Telluride surroundings.
Telluride local Julee Hutchison paints in oils on canvas with loose, open brushstrokes. Her focus is almost always the Big Picture, as she creates valentines to broad, open vistas and little corners of the world, although her landscapes are unmistakably American. Even in her portraits, the artist remains at one cool remove to take in and reflect the whole package, mining poetry from a smile or the tilt of a shoulder. Hutchison, however, is not strictly speaking a realist. She takes liberties with color to add punch or direct the eye of her viewer.
Cinematheque, the highly successful collaboration between the Telluride Film Festival and the Wilkinson Public Library, continues its "All About Food" series Monday, March 8. The pre-SHOW reception starts at 5:30 p.m. Curtain up at 6 p.m.