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Telluride Feeling the Love

Here at Telluride Inside… and Out, one of our primary goals is to show off the twin jewels of Telluride and Mountain Village at their sparkling finest. If you ever ask anyone outside the region about Telluride, though, you're probably used to hearing "Tellu-what?" as often as you hear, "I totally love Telluride!" – with a…

Golden Globe Nominations Include TIO Telluride Film Festival Favorites

The Golden Globe Award nominations were announced this morning and Telluride Film Festival organizers get to feel very smart about their picks. Film Fest attendees get to feel privileged and TIO founders Susan and Clint Viebrock get to feel both smart and privileged because so many of the nominations are for films that premiered this fall in Telluride. 

TFF and TIFF Overlap

Gotta love the internet. If you're curious about films showing in Telluride Film Festival and in Toronto International Film Festival, all it takes is a little digging, a skill with which I have some facility. I can't promise this is exact, but after reviewing the TFF schedule and the Toronto schedule, here are the films…

Film Fest Page

Have you checked out our new horizontal navigation bar? Slick, isn't it? Have you seen it lately? Just in time for the 2009 Telluride Film Festival, we've put up a link to a new page collecting all the best stories from TFF, both past and current.  Be sure to check it out and let us…

Nothing to See…

Just a little maintenance. Honestly, it’s not something you’d care about. But hey, feel free to use this post to comment on the site, make requests, that sort of thing!

Richard Sink Discusses Social Media As Business Tool

[Click the Play button to hear interview with IT Business Consultant, Richard Sink] The tightly knit, yet widespread community of people and businesses associated with Telluride are uniquely poised to take full advantage of the powerful capabilities of social media such as LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. Even in the current economic climate, there are still…

Great Skiing, Bad Hair

That April, 22 years ago, I hadn't yet moved away from Seattle. In fact, having taken a year between transitioning from flight school to University of Washington to work as a flight instructor, I wasn't quite finished with my degree in Atmospheric Sciences and I was desperate for the 'break' part of spring break. In…

End of Ski Season ca. 1987

As promised a photo of Ralph Dinosaur performing at Telluride end of ski season festivities from 22 years ago. It's just a teaser – the daffodils are calling for a bicycle tour around the Skagit Valley. Incriminating photos to follow. In the meantime, can you pick anyone you know out of the crowd?

End of Ski Season Parties Past

Just as everyone has a "coming to Telluride" story, a lot of people have "end of ski season" stories in Telluride too.  Ralph Dinosaur and his crew performing at Gorrono Lodge were a prominent feature of "Kimm's 'coming to Telluride' story", introducing me to the notion that end of ski season could be something more…

TIO Commenting Just Got Even Better

Just in time for festival season in Telluride, the provider of our commenting tool has announced the availability of Intense Debate Plugins – new features that make blog discussions even better.  Here at Telluride Inside… and Out, we believe that a passionate, vocal community is part of what makes Telluride special so we're all for…