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[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 /

 It's tired but true to say Telluride is a unique corner of our Blue Marble. It follows that it's local institutions are just as unusual. The five-star Wilkinson Public Library acts as a community center and regularly shows documentary and feature films. The Telluride Historical Museum regularly produces special events, including theatrical, on-mountain (Monday morning's Ski Into History), and bar crawls. Christ Church, focuses on sustainability, world religion, and meditation. And now St. Patrick's Church is turning itself into a concert hall for a world-class operatic tenor/musical theatre performer and concert singer.

On Thursday, February 24, 6 p.m., cocktails, and 7 p.m.,concert, tenor Dennis McNeil returns to Telluride for an encore performance at St. Pat's. The evening is a fundraiser for the 115-year-old house of worship in need of restoration. The program includes Broadway tunes, spirituals, and Irish tunes.

12 February, 2011 /

[click "Play", Joni Gotthelf talks about amethysts]

 

Joni Amethyst A companion post to our weekly astrology column, Cynthia Zehm's Alacazem, Telluride Inside... and Out's monthly birthstone post from Telluride's Dolce Jewels. February's birthstone is amethyst.

Amethysts are the crown jewels of the quartz family, occurring naturally as crystals within rocks.

The purple gemstone owes its name to the ancient Greek: "a" equals "not" when affixed to a noun and the noun "methustos" means "to intoxicate." So amethysts, meaning "sober," are what to wear when bar crawling Friday nights. Back in the day gods hobnobbed with fellow Greeks, this gemstone was not too surprisingly associated with Dionysus, god of wine. It was common practice to serve the grape from goblets made of amethyst in the belief the container would prevent overindulgence. (We refer you to stories about Dionysian rituals to understand just how well that turned out. Not.)

10 February, 2011 /
[click "Play" to listen to Susan's conversation with Jeff Elliott]

 

 

122015_extralarge Minor White was a major American photographer. Just how good, how influential is evidenced in the work of one of his former students. Jeff Elliott's moving show, "Another Face of Islam," is on display in the Daniel Tucker Gallery at Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts.

In Minor White's perspective one does not photograph something simply for "what it is", but "for what else it is." In creating his series of images of the Islamic world, Telluride local Jeff Elliott claims to have abandoned any notions of photo-documentation, choosing instead to use his eye to capture the "depth and serenity of the Islamic faith." Not what Islam is, but all that it is in form, spirit, light and the influence of the Muslim world.

Put another way, like White's images, Elliott's photographs are not about record keeping. Not about a "Kodak moment." They are as interpretative, magical and powerful as any abstract painting. And just as capable of delivering a gut punch – albeit with a velvet glove.

08 February, 2011 /
[click "Play", Tracy speaks with Buntport's Erin Rollman]

 

 

by Tracy Shaffer

CNPS-web.sflb For the first time in its six year history, Denver Center Theatre Company has included a local theatre company in the upcoming Colorado New Play Summit. Buntport Theatre Company is a zany/brainy collaboration of theatrical inventors, who have consistently delivered Denver’s most original theatre for the past ten years. Taking on Hamlet, Kafka, Ovid and O’Neill, Buntport has proven itself a true mix of the ridiculous and the sublime.

08 February, 2011 /
[click "Play", Susan speaks with Marc and Christa]

MarcChristaSM.book_embed The world of dreams is as mysterious as it is fascinating, a place mundane rules of reality do not  apply. Hmm... Sounds a bit like Telluride, a decidedly dreamy place. Day and night, in winter in Telluride we dream of powder. But what other thoughts run through our subconscious minds when we turn off the lights? And what do our dreams mean?

Other individuals may share elements of our backgrounds, but their experiences are never exactly the same. No one else feels exactly as we feel or reacts as we react. Our dreams are connected to our unique reality, and have the power to unite body, mind, and spirit. But do my chase dreams mean the same thing as yours? What abut falling dreams? Flying dreams? Naked dreams? Dreams about murder and mayhem? What about recurring themes in dreams?

Like backcountry trails, these constellations of archetypal images trying to speak through us are best explored with a guide.

07 February, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Tracy speaking with Bruce K Sevy]

 

 

by Tracy Shaffer

CNPS-web.sflb It's that time of year again! Writers and artists, actors, directors, agents and theatre buffs from around the country will descend on Denver next week for the Colorado New Play Summit. Denver Center Theatre hosts it's sixth annual playwright lovefest, February 10-12, with staged readings of new works by commissioned playwrights and scripts submitted for inclusion. This year marks the return of two "rock star" writers, Octavio Solis and Michele Lowe, along with Lisa Loomer, Samuel D Hunter, Lloyd Suh and a commissioned piece by Denver's award-winning Buntport Theatre. The white hot Octavio Solis, who brought us the glorious "Lydia" in 2008, brings the much anticipated script, Cecilia Marie, to town for a staged reading and the equally scorching Michelle Lowe has her "Map of Heaven" on the Denver Center boards for its world premiere production. Ms. Lowe won the 2010 Francesca Primus Prize for her previous Denver debut, 2009's Inana.

06 February, 2011 /
[click "Play" to listen to Seth Berg's discussion of two "Depression Era" films]

 

2-7 TFF Telluride Inside... and Out goes out on a limb with a prediction: the five-star Wilkinson Public Library should attract its biggest audience ever for the upcoming installment of the Telluride Film Festival Cinematheque's  "Films of the Great Depression."  The momentous event takes place Monday, February 7, 5:30 p.m. for pre-SHOW snacks.

Telluriders are no exception: Americans love anti-heros to death. Indiana Jones, Dirty Harry, Michael Corleone, Tony Soprano, select members of the cast of "Broadway Empire," Bill the Vampire in "True Blood," Dexter of Showtime fame, and the countless no-counts who inhabit the world of reality TV are just a few examples.

05 February, 2011 /
[click "Play", Susan talks with Meehan Fee about the "Fling"]

 

DSC_5621 Telluride's San Miguel Resource Center's Chocolate Lovers Fling, the non-profit's only major public fundraiser, takes place Saturday, February 5, 7:30 – 11:30 p.m., at the Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village. This year's theme: "Heroes and Villains."

Interesting challenge.

The paradigm of hero versus villain dates back to the split between God and the Devil, when the villain came to be defined as everything the hero is not, a model that is fast fading into the mists of time. Viewed through the lens of pop culture today, who is good and who is bad is about as clear as mud.

When James Bond first appeared on the silver screen in 1962 in "Dr. No," his license to kill gave him a kind of hip immorality, endowing the character with a cold-blooded ruthlessness quite antithetical to the Knight In Shining Armor do-gooder from days of yore. Think Dexter (now) versus Superman (then). Or the cast of reality TV's "Lost?" What we find on "Lost"  are very messed up would-be heroes, who mostly need to be saved from themselves.

03 February, 2011 /