One thing Telluride people love to do is dress up (or cross): witness Halloween, 4th of July parade, Chocolate Lovers' Fling, etc. The In-Drag Race is an annual tribute to TAB's muse, the late Robert Presley. This year's event, another good example, was held on...
The Telluride Adaptive Sports Program holds its annual "Goin' Cowboy at the Opera" Friday evening, March 6, 6:00 pm until 11:00 pm. Music is by the great Anders Brothers Band, and there will be a live and a silent auction. Check out the TASP website...
Dr. Jeff Ptak wears two hats in the Telluride community: he is a board certified plastic surgeon with a private practice and the dermatologist at the Telluride Medical Center. In both contexts, however, he regularly confronts the vicissitudes of altitude and aging on skin and finds solutions.
Dr. Ptak first visited the Telluride region 40 years ago. Since then, he has watched the community grow and change, and the town's small "clinic" grow into a Medical Center now bursting at the seams, just as the demand to deliver more and better state-of-the-art services is growing.
The Telluride AIDS Benefit is Robert Presley’s legacy. It now reaches out in many ways to many different places/institutions: locally, through its education initiative; regionally to the Denver Children’s Hospital Immunodeficiency Program (CHIP) and Brother Jeff’s Health Initiative; internationally, through The Telluride Project in Manzini, Swaziland, Sub-Saharan Africa and Ethiopia; and to neighbors on the Western Slope through TAB’s primary beneficiary, the Western Colorado AIDS Project or WestCAP.
In 1994, WestCAP was still a very small nonprofit operating out of Grand Junction under the direction of a small board of directors and administered part-time by a nurse, Shelley Nielsen. Nielsen did great work with the Mesa County Health Department and as part-time executive director/case manager for WestCAP. Clients being served lived primarily in Mesa County, until Presley worked his magic.
by Dr. Susannah Smith
Hypnosis is a natural, normal state of consciousness, characterized by the focus of attention on one concept to the exclusion of others. We experience hypnotic states all the time: when we are reading a book and don't hear someone who is calling our name; when we drive to work and are lost in thought, not really focusing on each turn and location; when we are listening to an "entrancing" story; or when we are in the mystical state drifting on and off into sleep.
I took my first course in hypnosis because I was fascinated. I did not think anyone could snap their fingers and make me bark like a dog! What I discovered was a profoundly helpful understanding of hypnosis in general, and what we clinicians call "therapeutic hypnosis." For most purposes, a light trance state produces the beneficial results we are seeking. For those who want to experience the deep states of hypnosis, practice is required. We can learn to put ourselves into a hypnotic state and to choose our areas of focus.
Why would anyone want to practice hypnosis? The benefits are infinite. Athletes use hypnosis to focus on the game and to exclude the anxiety of the crowd and noise. We cleanse ourselves when we go into hypnotic states, feeling refreshed and rejuvenated. We can teach ourselves how to use hypnotic states to help overcome phobias and anxiety attacks. In a deep trance state, surgery without anesthesia can be performed.
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Itsola on Telluride AIDS Benefit runway
Designer Lauren Fong is cut from a different sort of cloth.
Her career in fashion began improbably at USC Business School. A move to Tokyo for a career in banking sharpened her aesthetics perhaps more than her numbers skills.
Back home in the U.S., Lauren obeyed her muse. Good-bye suits, hello Itsola.
What has TV celebrity Steve Spitz cooked up for the Telluride AIDS Benefit?
TV lifestyle celebrity Steve Spitz describes his upcoming new program, "Live with Steve Spitz" this way: "People don't need to find another lifestyle show. They need to find style in their own lives. My program helps them to do just that: find it, nurture it, get their freak on and party with it like Paris Hilton before celebrity rehab."
For a sneak peek at the party Steve has planned for the Telluride AIDS Benefit on Tuesday, February 24, 6 p.m. at a private home in town, check out the mouthwatering menu, then call 970-728-0869.
[click the "Play" button to hear Clint's interview with Dr. Kim Hewson]Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library hosts Dr. Kim Hewson on Wednesday, February 25, 6:00 pm, in the program room of the Library. Hewson's subject will be biomechanics as it...
Telluride's New Sheridan Hotel, Restaurant and Bar partners with Med Center's FEAST
She was the heart of the social scene back in the days Telluride's streets were paved with gold. About 117 years later, however, she was clearly overdue for some major "work."
Telluride's new plastic surgeon, Dr. Jeff Ptak – also the dermatologist at the Telluride Medical Center – had nothing to do with the New Sheridan Hotel, Bar & Restaurant's $7 million facelift. Credit for the handiwork goes to world famous interior designer Nina Campbell, who returned the grande dame of Main Street to her original Victorian splendor.
Among the elements that make Telluride "Telluride" are community involvement and the spirit of volunteerism. Nowhere are these more apparent than among our young citizens. Emma Gross and Brittany Altman were Rizzo and Sandy in the recent SAF Young People's Theatre revival of "Grease."...
