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[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 /

Big doings in March uptown in Telluride's sister city, the Mountain Village: for starters the annual Telluride Medical Center Operation F.E.A.S.T. and the Telluride Rotary Red Ball Express fundraiser. The Telluride Ski Resort's operational hours change as we spring forward: starting March 14 through the end of the ski season, ski lifts will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday, March 9:

  Open Space & Recreation Advisory Board Meeting Mountain Village Town Hall; 5 p.m.  Meeting Agenda.

09 March, 2010 /

20100303095725767_0001 Local teens will be tuning in as Wilkinson Public Library celebrates the third annual Teen Tech Week March 8-12, 2010. WPL joins thousands of other libraries and schools across the country who are celebrating this year’s theme, "Learn Create Share @ Your Library.” Teen Tech Week is a national initiative of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA).  The purpose of the initiative is to ensure that teens are competent and ethical users of technologies, especially those that are offered through libraries. Teen Tech Week encourages teens to use libraries' non-print resources for education and recreation, and to recognize that librarians are qualified, trusted professionals in the field of information technology.

“Offering a variety of technologies and providing top notch education about these resources is of vital importance to the youth of our community,” says Sarah Lawton, Wilkinson Public Library’s Teen Librarian.  “We are fortunate to have a great group of kids here in Telluride.  They are smart, motivated and eager to engage.  By providing programs that speak to their interests, we can link teens with the world of information while introducing them to the strength of community.”

07 March, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Julee Hutchison on her art]

The pearl Telluride local Julee Hutchison paints in oils on canvas with loose, open brushstrokes. Her focus is almost always the Big Picture, as she creates valentines to broad, open vistas and little corners of the world, although her landscapes are unmistakably American. Even in her portraits, the artist remains at one cool remove to take in and reflect the whole package, mining poetry from a smile or the tilt of a shoulder. Hutchison, however, is not strictly speaking a realist. She takes liberties with color to add punch or direct the eye of her viewer.


06 March, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Caci Grinspan and Beau Staley]

Cd2 It was a stand-out moment at the Telluride AIDS Benefit fashion show and the epitome of throwaway chic: models in deconstructed tights and casual Ts flashing fabulous jewelry from Dolce, one of Telluride's luxury stores.


Some of that eye-popping bling was created by master jeweler Katey Brunini, whose pieces, all blockbusters, tend to be tributes in metal and gemstones to the beauty of the natural world, although her newest line of "body armor" celebrates strength. Brunini's creations have been featured on the red carpet at the Oscars and in numerous glossies, including Vogue, Town & Country and Modern Bride.
05 March, 2010 /

TNCC_logo Sponsored by Telluride's The New Community Coalition, the Wilkinson Public Library and the Telluride Foundation, the second in a series of Green Business Roundtables is scheduled for Friday, March 5, 8:30 a.m. in the Library's Program Room.

“How to Make Your Business Energy Efficient ” focuses the basics such as how to reduce your business's energy use by eliminating energy hogs. Take away a list of simple, cost-effective recommended improvements you can implement yourself, and learn how to recognize when it's time to call in professional assistance.

03 March, 2010 /
TNCC_logo Telluride's The New Community Coalition , in partnership with the Governor's Energy Office, brings Todd Gamboa to town to present "Selling Energy Star, Selling Confidence," a seminar that targets realtors, mortgage brokers, appraisers, designers, architects builders, and other home sales professionals. The event takes place in the Program Room of the Wilkinson Public Library, 100 W. Pacific Ave, Thursday, March 4, 8 a.m. – noon.

During this course, a fast-paced four hours of interactive Powerpoint presentation, lecture, Q&A, and exam, attendees are exposed to the following topics:
02 March, 2010 /