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[double click to view in larger format]When Telluride lost Jack Carey this past summer, we lost a friend, a cultural icon, a good man. On Friday. September 25, the Telluride Ski and Golf Company dedicated and re-named the familiar "Locals' Glade" the "Captain Jack" run.About...

29 September, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Clint's interview with Kevin Gurney]

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Telluride's The New Community Coalition, The Telluride Institute and the Wilkinson Public Library joined forces to present a workshop, keynoted by Dr. Kevin Gurney. The subject: "Forest Health and the Community Carbon Connection." The event takes place Wednesday, September 30, 6 p.m., at the Library.

The context in digestible sound bytes: Marcel Theroux's new book "Hot Ice," is a  novel about what happens to the world post collapse. (Hint: Civilization is largely reduced to preindustrial levels and cities have gone the way of "The Road.") If the Arctic is the proverbial canary in the coal mine in terms of global warming, many scientists agree the bird has already chirped its last. Ever since Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change  shared The Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, climate change and the constellation of horrors surrounding the real possibility – inevitability? – of a total meltdown is the new normal, and carbon dioxide emissions, the new Darth Vader.  It will take lots more than good will, driving a Prius, riding a bike, turning down thermostats, replacing light bulbs, and solar panels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It will take a village, and then some.

28 September, 2009 /

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Last June, the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art gave painter/illustrator Bernie Fuchs a 50-year retrospective exhibition to honor a great artist who owner Will Thompson felt was "sorely undervalued and overlooked." But when Bernie Fuchs passed away last Thursday, September 17, of cancer, both The New York Times and The Washington Post paid homage to the man whose work was familiar to nearly everyone in America through reproduction alone.

Over the years, Fuchs worked regularly and steadily for all the major automobile companies, publications from Sports Illustrated (25 years) to The New Yorker, McCall’s, Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, and TV Guide, as well for advertising agencies and large corporations from Rolex to Citigroup. He also illustrated dozens of children’s books. Fuchs' illustrious clients have included political titans – JFK, Queen Elizabeth, Lyndon Johnson, the Reagans – and celebrities, among them: Frank Sinatra, Katherine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Sean Connery, and Pablo Cassals.
27 September, 2009 /

I couldn't resist taking this photograph. The view is out of my office window, and explains why I sometimes have to quit working, and just go outside.  Not that this late afternoon light is a rarity here in Telluride, but I never...

24 September, 2009 /
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Telluride is one place where going to the dogs is a good thing. (Young Russian directors in town for the Telluride Film Festival remarked in their interview about "dog heaven," saying pets here look like their people.) Second Chance Humane Society rescues hundreds of homeless pets each year, many of which have become beloved Telluride pets.

To show their deep appreciation to the residents of Ouray and San Miguel counties for 15 years of undying support, Second Chance is throwing a party – actually two parties. The first big event is in Telluride, Saturday, September 26, in Elks Park. The second hoorah is Sunday, September 27, in Ridgway's Town Park, home to Second Chance's shelter. Both celebrations take place 3 – 5 p.m.

24 September, 2009 /
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On Friday, September 25, 8:30 – 5 p.m.,  at Telluride's Rebekah Hall, The New Community Coalition along with the  San Juan Citizens Alliance, San Miguel Whitewater Association, Telluride Institute, and the Water Information Program co-sponsor an all-day seminar, "Water 101." Representatives from the federal, state and local water agencies are on hand to outline the basics. The keynote speaker, Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs, tackles the big question of the day: Is water the new oil? 


No doubt about it, the Colorado River, the life vein of the Southwestern U.S., is, well, in hot water.

23 September, 2009 /
(editor's note: Telluride local, David Allen, was the driving force behind the CAST Challenge, a six month long contest to see which mountain town could do the most to reduce one-use plastic bags. TIO was happy to publish weekly articles about the efforts of ski communities to meet the challenge. Thanks, David, for your activism. And thanks to the businesses that sponsored the contest. Following is the press release summing up the Challenge.)

September 22, 2009

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The town of Basalt, CO wins the Colorado Association of Ski Towns (CAST) Reusable Bag Challenge, which came to end September 1. Collectively, participating towns eliminated the consumption of an estimated 5.3-million single-use disposable bags.  “It’s been a great success,” says David Allen, the program’s creator.  “The results are better then I projected, and the project has received some impressive attention.  Media outlets have covered the CAST Challenge as far away as Italy!”

The CAST Reusable Bag Challenge was a competition between 31 mountain towns in the Western United States to encourage the use of reusable shopping bags and raise awareness of the economic, environmental, and social impacts of single-use shopping bags. The Challenge began on March 1st 2009 and the prize to the winning town is a solar panel installation on their public school.  Alpine Bank and PCL Construction sponsored the voluntary program to the tune of $10,000 toward the solar panel installation.
22 September, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Sophia Tolstoy Penkrat]


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Over Labor Day weekend, Michael Hoffman's "The Last Station" enjoyed an auspicious world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival.

At the heart of the soaring biopic is a conundrum: author Leo Tolstoy's (Christopher Plummer) struggle in the last years of his life to balance fame and fortune with a commitment to a life devoid of material possessions. Weighing in for privilege is Tolstoy's wife of 48 years (and 13 children) Sofya (Helen Mirren). Her opponent in the debate is proto-Communist Vladimir Chertkov (Paul Giamatti), head of the Tolstoyan movement, a quasi political cult, which advocates pacifism, social equality, vegetarianism, and celibacy. The referee in the pitched battle is Tolstoy's secretary, Valentin Bulgakov, (James McAvoy).

21 September, 2009 /
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Let's begin this week's dog training chapter on Telluride Inside... and Out with some basic definitions.

Golden: An adjective defining anything made of the precious mineral, or slang for a great something or other, as in "a golden opportunity."

19 September, 2009 /