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by Scott Doser

Monday,  March 1st at 6 pm

Composting 101

Tuesday, March 2nd at Noon
Books & Cooks with Host Chef Bud
 
Chef Bud Hosts Bar-be-que Chef  Bryce Freeman who will teach us how to prepare his favorite South Carolina Bar-be-que Sauce.  Live Demonstration.  Audience participants get to sample the sauce.
 
Wednesday, March 3rd beginning at 6 pm
Back-to-Back Literary Events
Thanks to a Collaboration among: Between the Covers Bookstore, The Telluride Writers Guild, the Wilkinson Public Library and Telluride Inside... and Out, Wednesday is back-to-back literary events.
01 March, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Martha Gelnaw speak about "pitching to win"]

Major league baseball or big league business. The uniforms may be different, but pitching to win is always the goal of the game.

The Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities welcomes executive coach/consultant Martha Gelnaw to town for a FREE seminar on how to plan, prepare, and deliver a great presentation whether the challenge is selling a new business idea or obtaining grant money. The event is Tuesday, March 2, 5 p.m. in the program room of the Wilkinson Public Library.

01 March, 2010 /



It all worked out a whole lot better than "The BIg Chill," when this group of three friends, all Bennington College alums, got together for a reunion of sorts.

 Sasha Cuciniello is the tireless, resourceful founder/director/principal actor of Telluride's popular grassroots theatre troupe, SquidShow, a woman who throws herself into her work body and soul, and expects – and gets – the same from her fellow thespians. Sasha's friend, Kristina Smith, is now a New York-based director who appears to give her actors a lot of rope and an affectionate pat on the butt before sending them out on a tightrope without a safety net, a good thing in a community that thrives on risk-taking. The third musketeer is Alexei Kaleina, a videographer, with a sharp eye and wit to match. His special effects added a whole other dimension to the group project – with a wink to "Miss Saigon."  Sasha, Krissy, and Alexei conspired to adapt Charles L. Mee's "Big Love," and the result was a theatrical free-for-all and tour de force of physical theatre that felt at once spontaneous, urgent, and unmistakably hip. Monday night was about as much fun as anyone could have with clothes on – and what clothes. Costumes, including fabulous deconstructed wedding gowns, were created by the extravagantly talented Sue Hobby.
28 February, 2010 /
Nav_ialc_logo The Inn at Lost Creek in the Mountain Village takes the hassle out of packing for a ski trip. In March, guests of the hotel get a free Premium Ski Rental package for every night of accommodation booked.
 
The package provided by Christy's Sports, located on the ground level of the hotel, is designed for beginner to intermediate skiers. The deal includes boots, skis, and poles or snowboard and boots, and guests get to choose from brands such as the 2010 Volkl AC Unlimited, K2 Sweet Love, or Ride Control. 
 

28 February, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Scott Grossman speak about his direction of the TAB Fashion Show]

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Scott Grossman

It's the pitch perfect tribute, Robert Presley to a "T": "Out of Your Comfort Zone/Step Out of the Box," director Scott Grossman's theme for the 2010 Telluride AIDS Benefit no-holds-barred fashion show. The annual event takes place at the Telluride Conference Center in the Mountain Village, Thursday, February 25 for the Sneak Peak and Saturday, February 27, for the super nova explosion. Doors, 7 p.m. Show time, 8 p.m.

Outrageous. In your face. Fearless. Talented, Funny. Smart. Generous. Those are just a few of the words Presley's friends used to describe the man who inspired the AIDS awareness event and major bash that manages to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for HIV/AIDS interventions and prevention education around the globe.

27 February, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Jake Spaulding's conversation with Susan]

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Jake Spaulding

Dateline: Shanghai. It's there and all over China, where it began. About 120 million of them on the road and counting.

Dateline: Telluride. It's coming.

We are talking about a great alternative to a car. We are talking electric bikes, increasingly the vehicle of choice from bike messengers in New York to postal workers in Germany and commuters all over the world. While sales were relatively modest in the American market last year (only 200,000 were sold) interest is picking up.

26 February, 2010 /
Unknown The Telluride AIDS Benefit has grown every year since its grassrootsy beginning in 1994. And since that first year, the Western Colorado AIDS Project has been the event's primary recipient, because the Benefit's muse, Robert Presley, determined to keep WestCAP, his medical provider in time of need, healthy. TAB's generosity, however, extends way beyond WestCAP all the way to Africa, with stops along the way on the Front Range, home to the Denver Children's Hospital Immunodeficiency Program or CHIP.

CHIP began providing specialized care for HIV+ children in the Rocky Mountain region in 1991. CHIP remains the only entity in the region providing comprehensive, coordinated, family-centered services to infants, children, youth (13-24), pregnant women, and parents of HIV-infected children.
25 February, 2010 /
["click "Play" to hear Brother Jeff speak about his partnership with TAB]

IMG_0098 The relationship between the Telluride AIDS Benefit and Brother Jeff is a prime example of the whole being greater than the sums of its parts.


The Telluride AIDS Benefit casts a long, wide shadow that extends all the way from the Western Slope to Africa. One of TAB's success stories on the Front Range is Brother Jeff's Health Initiative, a nonprofit dedicated to enhancing the quality of life of African Americans living with HIV/AIDS regardless of age, faith, background or sexual orientation. With the help of TAB, the Initiative now reaches thousands of people each year through HIV conferences, summits, workshops, presentations at high schools, universities, and at various health-related institutions.
24 February, 2010 /

[click "Play" to listen to Yvette Henson on the composting course] Telluride's The New Community Coalition is all about turning trash into treasure of the soil variety. On March 1, the Coalition in a joint venture with the Telluride Ecology Commission,...

24 February, 2010 /

March into March with a firm conviction to tap into your inner artist. Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts kicks off the month with two great options.Finish Your Unfinished Jewelry Projects with master jeweler Jennifer Dewey, Tuesdays, March 2 – March 23, 5...

24 February, 2010 /