Telluride's Nugget Theatre is showing two movies for the week of May 1 – 7: "State of Play" and "Monsters vs. Aliens." "Monsters" is an animated film from Dreamworks, pitting Earth-based monsters, mostly freaks of science, against invading aliens from Space. It's a fun way to spend an hour and a half. "State of…
After a brief stop at home in Telluride after our visits to West Coast family, Sus and I left on the next phase of our Spring travels on Friday, 17 April. For those of you who were watching Colorado weather during that time, you know it probably wasn't the most auspicious departure date. But, ever…
(editor's note: Quiet offseason in Telluride? Let's shake things a bit with Dr. Susannah Smith's next installment of Shrink Rap: Sex and Marriage.) by Dr. Susannah Smith Most comedy routines eventually target marriage and sex. The joke usually goes like this: if you want a good sexual relationship, don’t get married. The bare naked truth is…
April 23 to 30, 2009 Visible Planets: Morning: Jupiter, Venus and Mars Evening: Mercury and Saturn Yesterday morning I got up at 5:05 am and headed downstairs to see if Venus and the Moon had risen. It was the day of the occultation, and I didn’t want to miss it. I looked out our big…
Trio Solisti is the founding ensemble of the Telluride Musicfest, this year June 25 – July 5, and featuring world renowned composer Philip Glass as Composer-in-Residence. "Telluride Inside…and Out" was privileged to attend a concert on April 24 at New York's Judson Church, which underlined why The New Yorker (April 27) described the ensemble as…
Telluride's Nugget Theatre will show "Coraline" and "Fast and Furious" for the week of April 24-April 30. "Coraline" is a 3D animated movie about a young girl who turns to a fantasy world to compensate for loving, benign neglect by her parents. "Fast and Furious" involves revenge, Mexican drug cartels, chase scenes, exotic automobiles and…
This morning I rose to watch the "morning star" planets: Venus, Mars and Jupiter. Venus, of course, was easy to see and identify as it is the bright, bright point of light directly east above the horizon. Jupiter was also bright – though much less so – and to the south a bit, just past…
[click the "play" button to listen to Telluride Film Festival's education coordinator/local liaison Erika Gordon talk about her next Sunday at the Palm screening] One child was left behind, orphaned by an earthquake. Watch the bloom return to the cheeks of a sad, sickly young Mary Lennox in Agnieszka Holland's magical "The Secret Garden" (1993)….
If you get up before sunrise and have a clear view of the eastern horizon, be sure to check the morning predawn skies on April 19th through 23rd. Jupiter and Venus are brilliant morning stars – they stand out as super-bright points of light and are not only easy to identify, but impossible to miss…
[click "Play" button to hear Susan's conversation with Kent Tompkins] Tompkins uses words/images to go "Beyond Shamanic Visions" April 22 at Wilkinson Library in Telluride Telluriders may be exceptions to the rule. We tend to march to our own drum. However, in this Piscean Age, the rest of the world has made like sheep, relying…