Kimm Viebrock describes posts like this as "pebbles" or "sand". Telluride's summer rainbows have to be seen to be believed. I looked up from my computer long enough to see this double rainbow, grab the camera and shoot from our bedroom window. The photo can't...
What's the point of hibernating, when the enemy is out there year 'round? The Telluride AIDS Benefit is no longer limiting its fundraising efforts to the end of February/early March. (TAB 2011 is scheduled for February 28 – March 5.) On August 13,...
Telluride local, actor-director Jeb Berrier is wrapped up like a Christo monument these days - figuratively and literally.Berrier's most immediate concern is the upcoming Telluride Repertory Theatre's production of "The Merchant of Venice," his debut as a Shakespearian director. Shakespeare in the Park opens Saturday, August 22.
But when we meet Jeb the Actor in "Bag It," he is covered from head to toe in plastic bags. Directed by Telluride local Suzan Beraza, "Bag It" begs the question, How worried should we be about everyday chemicals? The answer: big time. Jeb, "Bag It's" Everyman, takes the viewer on a tragi-comic journey that explains why.
Tour Operators From Around the Globe Visit August 16-19The Ski Tour Operators Association, also known as SkiTops arrives next week in Telluride August 16-19. For the first time, the largest gathering of tour operators and sales agents has chosen Telluride for their annual summer meeting...
Telluride is small and isolated. So, is growing up here limiting? Not for Samantha Hilbert, who, along with her NBC Sports team won an Emmy last September for coverage of the Beijing Olympics as an associate producer for Sportdesk. Recently Samantha won...
A few smart Telluride non-profits seem to have gotten the message when New York Times columnist Tom Friedman entreated President Obama to make 2010 "the year of innovation" (NYT January 23 Op Ed). Events such as the San Miguel Research Center's/Two Skirts' "Clutch for the Cause," The Telluride AIDS Benefit's "Intoxicating Cuisine," the Telluride Historical Museum's Muleskinners' Ball are all examples of what happens when the tough get going.
by D. Dion
It wasn’t anything like seeing Phish or a jam band back in the 90s. For one thing, I was 9 months pregnant and sitting in the back, stone cold sober, and too exhausted to join my one-year-old daughter in her feverish spinning dance on the tarp in front of me. For another thing, I can’t remember ever sitting down at a concert like Phish, or even bringing a chair to such a show. My friend, also 9 months pregnant, was sitting in the back with me. She leaned over and confessed, “I really wish I could have a hit of nitrous. I don’t really miss drinking, and I’ve never been much of a pothead or anything, but I have always loved nitrous.”
The whole night was like that, one long reminiscence. Seeing people twitching with that front-row frenzy, their internal speakers set to “11,” was like looking at myself ten years ago. And the songs evoked long forgotten memories. How long has it been since I sang “Would you please, please drive me to Firenze?” or “When you’re here, I sleep lengthwise, and when you’re gone, I sleep diagonal in my bed,” or since I stayed up all night literally bouncing around the room? There was something familiar and comfortable about the music, the lyrics and the way the mountains cradled the sound, which was, by the way, about twice as loud as any band I’ve ever seen play Telluride Town Park.
by David Byars
(editor's note: Telluride Inside... and Out has published a lot of content about the Phish concert in Telluride. At the risk of seeming redundant we felt that two younger voices after the fact would be appropriate. Given the amount of hype surrounding the Phish event, and considering the level of apprehension in some parts of our community, TIO has decided to publish this account by David Byers and one by TIO regular, Deb Dion to follow.)
Phish has come and gone. I’m feeling what a lot of residents are feeling right now. A little hungover, slightly confused, and struck by the unreality of the whole thing.
In the months and weeks before Phish arrived, feelings of excitement mingled with moments of apprehension. Would Phish turn our picturesque mountain burg into a steaming cauldron of psychedelically enhanced burn outs with the associated flotsam and jetsam of empty PBR cans and wayward cigarette butts? Or would the fans behave themselves and bring with them a much needed injection of income into a town in desperate need of out-of-towners’ vacation funds?
Telluride's sister city, the Mountain Village, is hopping this weekend with two big events: the Telluride Festival of the Arts and the Telluride Conference Center's Pig & Whiskey.
In this week's video, Ted Hoff of Cottonwood Ranch and Kennel shows us an obedience training session with Drake, his young Yellow Labrador Retriever. At seven months old, Drake is expected to make some mistakes. Repetition to teach the right response, patience when...
