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[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 /
[click "Play", Amy Kimberly speaks about the history and impact of the Telluride AIDS Benefit]

The Telluride Historical Museum is hosting another of its popular Fireside Chats, this one at Capella Telluride in the Mountain Village: The True Telluride Story – Telluride AIDS Benefit. Kandee Degraw and Daiva Chesonis reveal the backstory of the Telluride AIDS Benefit. The event takes place at 5 p.m., February 24.

The Telluride AIDS Benefit began life as a Free Box-style grassroots initiative.

Robert Presley was a fabric artist and enfant terrible, beloved throughout the Telluride community. His costly battle with HIV/AIDS – made worse by the fact he was living in rural Colorado and had to commute to get medical help –  mobilized a group of his buddies.
23 February, 2010 /

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Kevin Rucker

Denver is Telluride Inside... and Out's home away from home, so last weekend we decided to get an up close and personal look at the oldest part of the city.

LoDo is the handle Denverites assigned to the Lower Downtown Historic District, located just northwest of Downtown Denver near the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River. LoDo, the original settlement of the city, is now a mixed-used neighborhood known for its vibrant nightlife with 70+ bars and restaurants – and at least as many ghosts. More later.

College history instructor Kevin Rucker is a descendant of Puritan settlers. His grandma, a hardcore genealogist, hooked him into an exploration of the past. Dressed in uniform, a paisley vest and bowler hat, the man cuts as colorful a figure as the miscreants and madams he describes on his spirited walking tour. (We are talking the liquid and supernatural variety.)

23 February, 2010 /
[click "Play" to listen to Judy Shepard's conversation with Susan]

10521 It's been a long trip over bumpy roads for the woman who was once a stay-at-home mom and sometimes substitute teacher who enjoyed a game of card with friends. Today her presence in Telluride brings greater urgency to the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell and hope to the gay nation.


International spokesperson, activist and executive director of the non-profit that bears her son's name, Judy Shepard is everywhere you want to be during Gay Ski Week in Telluride.

22 February, 2010 /
[click "Play" for Steve Fassbinder's interview with Susan]

Doomsday He's known as Dr. Doom, an interesting coincidence for anyone participating in the Telluride AIDS Benefit, an organization whose mission is to turn the tables on doom through Awareness, Respect, and Esteem. A.R.E. You Safe? is the theme of the non-profit's 2010 fundraising, outreach and education campaign which culminates in the gala fashion show, Saturday night, February 27, where Dr. Doom will be a featured designer for the third year in a row.


Dr. Doom is Steve Fassbinder's alter ego, a name from Burning Man that stuck to his skin like the desert heat. Fassbinder is, to pull out a well worn but nonetheless true cliche, a Renaissance man: the former bike messenger and three-time Single Speed World 24-hour Solo Champ and inductee into the 24-Hour Solo Mountain Bike Racer Hall of Fame is also an artist who refuses to be pigeon-holed.
22 February, 2010 /

The Valentines keep coming from Telluride's Wilkinson Public LIbrary. Here's what happening during the rest of February in the words of Program Coordinator Scott Doser:

Monday, February 22nd at 6 p.m.

The Telluride Music Lover’s Film Club presents:
 
“The Dream’s On Me”
The Story of Johnny Mercer
 
This is an excellent look at the career of the greatest lyricist of all time - Johnny Mercer. His songs are so much a part of American life from "Hooray for Hollywood," "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby," "Jeepers Creepers," "One for My Baby and One for the Road," "Laura," "Autumn Leaves", "Glow Worm," "Moon River," and "Days of Wine and Roses" - to name just a few. He had a way with words no other lyricist has been able to match. The documentary contains numerous clips of Mercer - who had a great voice - along with other greats such as Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and so many others. You get a good look at Mercer's career. Directed by Clint Eastwood
21 February, 2010 /