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by Lisa Barlow

Bean Chili use Hey Super Bowl fans, what are you planning to eat during the Big Game? Mac ‘n Cheese Jalapeno Poppers? Mile High Nachos? Grilled BBQ Potato Skins? Smokin’ Hot Buffalo Wings?

Football and food seem to go together so inextricably that even a fair weather fan like myself knows that I need get my game on in the kitchen this Sunday. And there is plenty of inspiration out there to help me plan my menu. Every celebrity chef with a TV show seems to have weighed in with his or her variation of a classic gridiron favorite. 

The statisticians are busy thinking about Super Bowl fare as well. But their numbers have often been a little wonky. It is probably closer to 8 million pounds of avocados used to make guacamole this weekend than the 80 million that is often reported. That’s still an awful lot of chip dip.

05 February, 2011 /
[click "Play", Pip talks about what to wear to the "Fling"]

 

IMG_0820 Fashion Friday is a regular weekly column identifying fashion trends and translating them into Telluride style with help from our fabulous fashionistas at Two Skirts. This week, however, is an exception.

Two Skirts owner, Kristin Holbrook, is a longtime supporter of the San Miguel Resource Center, the Telluride's region's only nonprofit working with victims of the the grave challenges of interpersonal violence. On Saturday, February 5, Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village, 7:30 – 11:30 p.m.. the Resource Center hosts its only major public fundraiser. The 2011 theme is "Heroes and Villains," and there are prizes for best costume.

In support of the event, one of the best parties of the winter season, Kristin and Ashley Deppen have turned over their regular Fashion Friday interview to our town's vintage/costume queen, Pip Kenworthy of Pip's Fine & Funky Consignments,100 West Colorado (downstairs from Overland).

03 February, 2011 /

Just an FYI: If you are skiing in Telluride this week, be alert for the "Wild Bunch"- wheelchair athletes, people with vision impairment, skiers missing a limb or two. You'll find them on Chair 9, dropping in on La Rosa, any bump run. They...

30 January, 2011 /

[click "Play" to hear Ashley Deppen talk about Cynthia Vincent's designs] Last week it was cashmere queen Minnie Rose. This week for Fashion Friday, Telluride's Two Skirts is focusing on accessories by Los Angeles designer Cynthia Vincent: her 2011 line of Spring shoes...

27 January, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Sylvie Fadrhonc's conversation with Clint]

 

Sylvie Forget your old ideas about wheelchair-bound people: Telluride Adaptive Sports Program's education and development manager, Sylvie Fadrhonc gets around in her chair and on the mountain in her monoski, and you will run to keep up with her. Seriously.

Besides her work with Telluride Adaptive Sports and her budding career as a monoski racer, Sylvie is now a published author, having the cover story in the January issue of Sports 'n Spokes.

Telluride Adaptive Sports Program (TASP) continues to serve regional school kids, locals and visiting folks with disabilities. However, the level has been kicked up a notch or two, pushing the boundaries of what is possible for higher level athletes who just happen to have disabilities. Under the guidance of TASP program director Tim McGough, participants in the Expand Your Horizons Ski Camp (this year January 30- February 4) can experience the hike-to terrain at Telluride, and even ski with Helitrax, Telluride's helicopter skiing service.

24 January, 2011 /

[click "Play" to hear Ashley Deppen talk about Minnie Rose]   According to our fashionistas at Telluride's Two Skirts, a Rose by any other name – would not be a style leader in cashmere. For this week's Fashion Friday, Ashley Deppen is talking about...

20 January, 2011 /

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Telluride Mountain Club will hold a “Free Bear Creek” rally, slideshow and membership drive Jan. 19 at the Last Dollar Saloon from 6:30-11 p.m.

The “Free Bear Creek” movement was born on a spring day back in 1998, after forest rangers arrested two local skiers as they exited the Bear Creek trail. The skiers, Himay Palmer and Matt Lewis, had just finished a classic backcountry tour from Ophir to Telluride; they had not, in fact, poached the closed Forest Service terrain off Telluride Ski Resort, which empties skiers and boarders onto the same trail. Palmer balked and was maced, and the two long-haired telemark skiers in handcuffs became emblematic of the struggle to keep public lands open to the public.

18 January, 2011 /

by Lisa Barlow

Melting potatoes I’ve been getting a lot of diet advice lately. Who hasn’t? It’s January and if you turn on the television, pick up a magazine in a doctor’s room, click open your email or drive past a billboard, you’re a target.  “Hey Fatty” one publication taunts, “those Iced Oreo Balls we told you to make for your office party last month, now you’re wearing them!” There’s penance to pay for holiday fun and everyone from Britney to Dr. Oz want to tell us how to reclaim our inner Skinny Bitches so we can fit into our new pajama jean britches.

Thus prompted by the media, this year I have begun my own reformation with the same dedication and rigor with which I begin every new year.  Each morning I drink a slimming protein shake laden with green powder, flax seeds and a series of unpronounceable berry extracts that are cultivated in the Himalayas, the Hunzu Valley of Pakistan and the Costa Rican rainforest. And I feel great!

18 January, 2011 /

Wayne, booth MOUNTAIN VILLAGE, CO, January 7, 2011 -- The Telluride Mountain Village Owners Association (TMVOA), sponsors and organizers of the Telluride Festival of the Arts (TFA) announced today the dates for 2011, which will take place Friday, Aug. 12 through Sunday, Aug. 14. The TFA celebrates the visual and culinary arts and will play host to over 5,000 local, regional and national visitors. Highlights of the event include nationally juried professional visual artists and the signature “Grand Tasting” event showcasing renowned culinary establishments, spirits and wineries.

Visual artists are invited to go online now and apply to be one of the exhibitors at the 2011 TFA. Prospectus and application are available at http://www.Zapplication.org, where artists create an online artist profile, prepare and upload images, and complete the online application. The deadline for application is midnight (MST) on Tuesday, February 22, 2011. The Cherry Creek Arts Festival, one of the nation’s most respected and competitive juried arts festivals, produces the show. The exhibition experience for the visual artists is like none other and includes breathtaking mountain views in a European-style resort town with a year-round population of second and third homeowners that embrace the visual arts. The artists' success and exhibition experience are the core values and measurements of success for the Telluride Festival of the Arts.

15 January, 2011 /