[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Kristin Holbrook] Bells are ringing at Telluride's Two Skirts for Bell. It's the sound of the cash register in response to a line of custom blouses Kristin Holbrook has carried in her store for over seven...
[click "Play", Ashley Deppen talks about dressing for New Year's Eve] New Year's in Telluride? Despite a domestic economy that is still wheezing and coughing after an extended flu, despite sabre rattling on some foreign fronts and real wars with no end on...
For sure, not some cliched Christmas sweater, with reindeer dancing across your chest. Especially not in Telluride, where cliches go to die.
And fagettabout the low cut red velvet number trimmed in faux fuh. There already is a Mrs. Santa.
Some je ne suis quoi in red and green? Nope, your holiday tree has that color combo cornered.
[click "Play" to listen to Ashley Berman's conversation with Susan] During the holiday season, big, gaudy and gorgeous, strung on houses and trees, lights shine like the queen's jewels. It's glass with attitude. Telluride itself is all blinged out.Inside, shops respond to...
Telluride's Dolce Jewels is riding the wave opening a trunk show featuring accessories by the uber hot designer, Chan Luu. The event begins December 17, exactly one week before Xmas Eve.
If you've been living in a cave, you may not know the name Chan Luu. But you know her signature bracelets. Women all over the globe are wearing the designer's gemstone and leather or metal on leather creations that wrap neatly around the wrist to form an edgy cuff.
[click "Play", Ashley Deppen talks about stocking stuffers] Google "gift giving advice" and over 7 million sites pop up. 'Tis the season in Telluride and everywhere else on the planet. And we are down to the, well, the 10th hour anyway, with Christmas...
Hats for winter? In Telluride, that's a giant DUH.
But we are not talking the knitted or shearling numbers that help you retain body heat for winter warmth. This is Fashion Friday and the subject is millinery by Susan Carrolan.
Carrolan's hats crown the heads of the crowned heads of society and the word of entertainment: in her last Vegas revu, Bette Midler wore a hat Carrolan built with a team, and the swells at the Kentucky Derby and Ascot wear original Carrolans. In other words, a Carrolan is a top hat. We mean that in the best of the best sense, not the magician's variety. Though Susan Carrolan is something of a millinery magician.
This is your month, Telluride's Sagittarii and Capricorns. And your birthstone, December babies, is turquoise – also blue topaz and Tanzanite. (Guess December is big on alliteration.)
But turquoise is the most popular and the oldest of December birthstones, found on artifacts dating back 5000 years in ancient Egypt (the tomb of Tutankhamen was filled with turquoise bling and Cleopatra used the ground up stone in her eye paint), Sumeria and Mesopotamia. Turquoise" means "Turkish Stone," in French and France is where the first deposits were found in the ancient world, before the first mines in Egypt. Turkey is the route the gemstone took when first introduced into Europe.
[click "Play" for Ashley Deppen's conversation about blue...
A Three Mile Island in Colorado?
Probably nothing that Hollywood – or lethal.
Well, maybe not.
The infamous accident took place March 28, 1979, a partial core meltdown in a unit of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania. Three Mile Island crystallized anti-nuclear safety concerns and resulted in new regulations for the nuclear industry. According to Dr. Douglas M. Brugge, the nuclear release at Three Mile Island may explain why there is "public and policy interest in the high-technology, highly visible end of the nuclear cycle."
At the same time, he continues: "The environmental and health consequences of the early steps in the cycle – mining, milling, and processing of uranium ore – may be less appreciated."
