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[click "Play" to listen to Susan's conversation with Barb Brattin]

4443549983_b7e8185973 Telluride is not just any town, and the town's Wilkinson Public Library is not just any library. Proof positive is the fact our Library just won a five-star rating for the second year in a row, placing it in the top one percent of public libraries in the entire country. And to think,the present-day 20,000-square-foot Library located at the corner of Pine & Pacific nearly wasn’t built. After a recount, the referendum to green-light the project passed by a margin of only two votes. The new building opened August 2000.

Five-star restaurants. Five-star hotels. We have seen them in the guide books, maybe been lucky enough to enjoy the luxury of a visit to such a place. But a five-star library. What's that all about? 
21 March, 2010 /

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Renee Wilson

The Library Journal's five-star award to Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library means the world to director Barb Brattin and her hardworking staff of 30 – and FREE events all week to the members of the extended Telluride community. Two of those events involve the abundantly talented (and extraordinarily beautiful) Renee Wilson, one of the stars of the Oscar-winning movie "Ray" about the life of Ray Charles. Wilson is a multi-talented entertainer-turned-filmmaker.

Monday, March 22, 6 p.m.: A screening of Renee Wilson's "Crepe Covered Sidewalks," with the filmmaker in attendance.

The documentary tells the larger story of post-Katrina New Orleans through the window of Wilson's family, chronicling the powerful forces shaping the city’s altered landscape. In the end, "Crepe Covered Sidewalks" is an intimate, moving story of love, loss, and rebirth as told by an insider.

Crepe Covered Sidewalks (CCS)Film: www.crepecoveredsidewalks.com.

21 March, 2010 /

Telluride is populated by winners from all walks of life: skiers, bikers, artists, writers. Now the town itself takes home the gold.

The Telluride Council for Arts and Humanities, Town of Telluride Mayor Stu Fraser and The Telluride Gallery of Fine Art invite the community to celebrate Telluride's Governor's Award. The event takes place on Saturday, March 20, 6 – 7 p.m. at The Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, with wine tastings by The Wine Mine and chocolate treats from Telluride Truffle, special performances, collages celebrating Telluride’s art organizations, and the presentation of The Governor’s Art Award.

The following is an excerpt from the State of Colorado's press release about the award.

19 March, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Megan Rood]

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Megan Rood

Telluride's San Miguel Resource Center presents an Artists' Showcase & Open Mic Night, part of the continuing celebration of International Women's Day and Telluride's homegrown Phenomenal Woman's Week. The event takes place Thursday evening, March 11,  6– 8 p.m. at Tellurie's Ah Haa School for the Arts.


The suffragettes. Their names come back to us in waves, like way distant echoes. Even the name Betty Freidan, the woman who presided over the birth of modern feminism, resonates like some fire-breathing dragon of yore, which she was, in a way. Freidan's compatriots and love children, Gremaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, Wendy Shalit, Katie Roiphe, Naomi Wolf, and Susan Faludi all paved the way, but still, women continue to struggle to find the ideal mix between feminism and femininity. Except perhaps in Shangri-Las like Telluride, where no one has a problem with women having it both ways. In Telluride, we paint our nails and break them too. In Telluride, where women run companies and mountain trails, a poet is a mom, a singer, and helps run a family orchard; KOTO's musical director writes music herself and plays a flaming guitar;  and a gallery director moonlights as a lead singer in an all-women's rock and roll band (with the music director).
10 March, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Rebecca Shambaugh's conversation with Susan]



Editor's note: Shortly after interview, in which we encouraged the community to attend, Telluride Inside...and Out learned from the management at Capella Telluride that the event is sold out. No room at the Inn. Period. With luck, that is not the end of the story. Perhaps Rebecca Shambaugh could be convinced to deliver a series of local talks on the subject of women and leadership. Stay tuned... 


The air in Telluride will be redolent of estrogen in the coming week.

Rshambaughweb Women's Ski Week, March 6 – March 11, coincides with International Women's Day, March 8, and the San Miguel Resource Center's Phenomenal Women's Week in Telluride, March 8 – March 15. Appropriately enough, on International Women's Day, Women's Ski Week welcomes keynote speaker, nationally known leadership strategist/author/CEO Rebecca Shambaugh, by all accounts a phenomenal woman.

Shambaugh is speaking on the topic of "Resilience: A Time for Reinvention." Her sold-out event starts at 8 p.m. in the Ballroom at Capella Telluride in the Mountain Village.
07 March, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Scott Grossman speak about his direction of the TAB Fashion Show]

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Scott Grossman

It's the pitch perfect tribute, Robert Presley to a "T": "Out of Your Comfort Zone/Step Out of the Box," director Scott Grossman's theme for the 2010 Telluride AIDS Benefit no-holds-barred fashion show. The annual event takes place at the Telluride Conference Center in the Mountain Village, Thursday, February 25 for the Sneak Peak and Saturday, February 27, for the super nova explosion. Doors, 7 p.m. Show time, 8 p.m.

Outrageous. In your face. Fearless. Talented, Funny. Smart. Generous. Those are just a few of the words Presley's friends used to describe the man who inspired the AIDS awareness event and major bash that manages to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for HIV/AIDS interventions and prevention education around the globe.

27 February, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Jake Spaulding's conversation with Susan]

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Jake Spaulding

Dateline: Shanghai. It's there and all over China, where it began. About 120 million of them on the road and counting.

Dateline: Telluride. It's coming.

We are talking about a great alternative to a car. We are talking electric bikes, increasingly the vehicle of choice from bike messengers in New York to postal workers in Germany and commuters all over the world. While sales were relatively modest in the American market last year (only 200,000 were sold) interest is picking up.

26 February, 2010 /