The Telluride weather forecast looked good when I went to bed Friday night, so I woke at 0530. The clear, windless sky was all the encouragement I needed to leave my comfortable bed, get dressed and ride my bike to town to watch the Telluride Balloon Festival launch. By the time I got to the Telluride Town Park, most of the hot-air balloons were filling with warm air from their gas burners.
Paulie Distefano
The Telluride Dance Academy presents its annual recital on Sunday, June 6, 3 p.m. on the stage of the Michael D. Palm Theatre. The theme, "Fresh Twists," suggests a program that reflects new ways of looking at dusty notions about dance and what dance academies teach: students who participated in the Academy's spring session, ages 3 – 18, are scheduled to perform dance forms ranging from classical ballet to hip hop, with all the stops in between.One of those students is the handsome young man in charge of all heavy lifting: Paulie Distefano. And "Fresh Twists" is great way of summarizing exactly what's happening in his life.
After dancing only six months under the tutelage of the Academy's artistic director/former prima ballerina Valerie Madonia, Paulie, who was born and raised in Telluride, was accepted on full scholarship in to the Joffrey School of Ballet's summer intensive. He leaves just days after his performance. That's the kind of magic even Paulie, a trained magician, could not have conjured.
Here's a question for Telluride locals, guests too: What do a dead bird and elephants have in common? Give up? OK, here it is. Amy Jean Boebel of Sapsucker Studios named her gallery for a dead bird found outside her door at 299 South Spruce, where she is showing the latest in a series of elephants – The Elephants III – by local artist Ally Crilly. And it's a perfect fit: all summer long Sapsucker is featuring strong women artists who refuse to pull their punches. (More on that in the weeks to come.)
Susie X. Billings is a well established mixed media artist, who shows her work locally at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art. A protean talent (has to do with change, not meat), Susie is intent on proving all life is art, daily to herself, and on magical occasions, to her students.
In the Program Room of Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library, The New Community Coalition continues it's popular ( and FREE) Green Business Roundtables series this Friday, June 4, 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. The speakers are Joanna and Daniel Kanow of EcoSpaces on the subject of "Green Building Solutions."
"Sam Bush Tuesday" continues this week on Telluride Inside...
by Art Goodtimes
BOULDER PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC
Okay, so I’d never seen a Tesla showroom before. But I saw one in Boulder -- where I went (after my political duties last month) to visit some old friends, who balance Imago counseling with commercial construction and have a cozy condo duplex unit in a carefully manicured residential greenbelt.
Boulder is such a trip. It seems every spot of lawn has a dog baggie dispenser box, and even the street people carry REI sleeping bags.
Scott Doser, makin' smoke
We did not make up the lyric. It's Rodgers and Hammerstein from "Carousel." But it is no less for Telluride's 5-star Wilkinson Public Library. The action heats up on the grill, Tuesday, June 1, @ noon, when Books & Cooks host Chef Bud reveals the secrets of grilling.
On Friday, June 4, starting at 8:30 a.m., Telluride-based The New Community Coalition is back with Green Business Roundtable #5: “What Even You Can Do to Green Your Space.”
When we head down from Telluride to take Gina the Dog to stay with Ted Hoff at Cottonwood Ranch and Kennel, somewhere between Delta and Hotchkiss she will start getting excited, and by the time we turn into the ranch entrance, Gina can...
