Monthly Archives: September 2009

TNCC: Slow Money gaining momentum


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by Kris Holstrom (editor's note: Kris Holstrom of Telluride's The New Community Coalition was privileged to attend an Inaugural meeting of the Slow Money group in Santa Fe recently. What in the world is Slow Money? Holstrom defines the idea in her own words.) Slow Money? Think Slow Food for local economies. Slow Food asks…

Your Ah Haa Moment: New work by Meredith Nemirov

[click "Play" to hear Meredith speak about her art] [double click to view in larger format] A show of new work by artist Meredith Nemirov opens October 1 at Telluride’s Ah Haa School for the Arts. “Leaps and Turns” is a departure for the artist, known for her impressionistic, representational paintings drawn from nature. These…

Telluride to Albuquerque: Hastings Mesa


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"If Ever I Would Leave You." The song from the musical "Camelot" about how no time is a good time… sums up our feelings whenever we have to head out of Telluride. Hastings Mesa, with pristine vistas that go on forever, is breathtakingly beautiful any time of year, but in Fall, the gilded spectacle stops…

Telluride: “Captain Jack” Carey run dedicated

[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 60 people, Telski employees and interested locals, worked…

Telluride environment: forest health


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[click "Play" to hear Clint's interview with Kevin Gurney] 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…

WOW!: Telluride designers triumph in New Zealand


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In Telluride, around the globe, who doesn't like a feel-good story about the triumph of the underdog, especially in times like these, when underdogs are really under the weather – and almost everybody is an underdog. That's why movies like "Breaking Away," "Rocky" and "Strictly Ballroom" get standing ovations even from the most jaundiced audience….

Academy Awards and the Telluride Film Festival


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Jason Reitman There is a lot of conversation about how much effect the Telluride Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival have on the Oscar nominating procedure. I don't pretend to have inside information on this subject, but TIO had the opportunity not only to view some great films at Telluride, but to witness…

Telluride Gallery of Fine Art: good bye to Bernie Fuchs


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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…

Alacazem 2009.09.24


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September 24 to October 1, 2009 Visible Planets: Morning: Venus, Mars and Mercury   Evening: Jupiter Autumn and Telluride's Magical, Metaphysically Magnetic Mountains The first full week of Autumn delivers the characteristic Colorado weather we know and love this time of year. Cool, cool evenings and brisk mornings awaken us to the season of changing colors,…

Telluride Film Festival Cinematique at Library September 28


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[click "Play" to hear Seth Cagin speak about film noir] Telluride Film Festival Cinematique, a collaboration between the Wilkinson Public Library and the Telluride Film Festival, is a film club catering to local cineastes, who want After-the-Festival to last year ’round. Each of the four-film series develops a theme. Last season’s hot button was the…