Category Archives: Books+

BOOK IT!: MOUNTAIN FILM’S READING FRENZY

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Editor’s note: Mountainfilm‘s Reading Frenzy, themed, “Conversations through Lenses and Pens,” takes place Sunday, May 27, 2 – 4 p.m., at the Between the Covers Bookstore “annex,” the Telluride High School Cafeteria. It’s that time of year: stacks and stacks of boxes show up on our door step thanks to UPS Greg. After barely using…

WORKSHOP: TURNING CONFLICT INTO CONSENSUS

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Editor’s note: The timing is perfect. A 3-part workshop about achieving goals with civility – an inflated version of  the theme of the carrot, not the stick idea – with Mountainfilm in Telluride just around  the corner. Mountainfilm is known to shine a spotlight on global conflicts and challenges, opening the door to resolution. When…

POETS’ CORNER: BRIDGER ON THE “SILVER SCREEN”

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Editor’s note: Kierstin Bridger is the 2011 winner of Telluride Arts’ Mark Fischer Poetry Prize and a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out She joins our family of wonderful writers/poets, among them, Word Woman Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, “Feelosophy” major David Feela, and Denver-based writer Mark Stevens. Silver Screen Flick of cigarette the theatre is…

BARB BRATTIN’S “FIVE STARS”: TRIBAL LEADERSHIP

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Editor’s note: In 2011, for the fourth time in a row (and running), the Library Journal Index of Public Library Services, a public library rating system, designated Telluride’s Library a five-star institution. The Wilkinson Public Library ranked fifth in the nation among public libraries with annual budgets of $1 – 5 million, hence the name…

POETS’ CORNER: MOTHERS’ DAY

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Editor’s note: Happy Mothers’ Day. Poet/author David Feela sums up with the following tribute. His point: It is not necessarily about having it all. It is about doing it all, seamlessly and without fanfare. A mother’s gallery of quotidian moments is rich with fine art. The Road Near Two Grey Hills A Navajo woman knows…

TELLURIDE AUTHOR WINS INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

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The Independent Publishers Association awarded Telluride-based author R.J. (Bob) Rubadeau the Bronze Medal for Fiction in the Mountain West Region of the United States for his recently published (Beacon Hill, 2012) “The Fat Man: A Telluride Murder Mystery.” The prestigious international competition celebrates the Best Fiction and Best Non-Fiction books submitted by independent publishers from…

FIVE STARS: RESTORING CIVILITY AT WILKINSON LIBRARY

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Editor’s note: In 2011, for the fourth time in a row (and running), the Library Journal Index of Public Library Services, a public library rating system, designated Telluride’s Library a five-star institution. With an overall score of 2,471 based on patron use per capita in four service categories, – library visits, circulation, program attendance, and…

POETS’ CORNER: SHIFTING GEARS

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Editor’s note: Author/poet/recently retired teacher-writing instructor David Feela is a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. His latest book, “How Delicate These Arches: Footnotes from the Four Corners,” a collection of essays, is available at Between the Covers Bookstore and is up for a Colorado Book Award. After riding for 25 years atop my…

HOME GROWN: APRIL IN PARADISE

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Ahh yes, off season is here. One of the nicest possible times of the year in Telluride occurs every April when at least half the town disappears to Mexico, Costa Rica, the Bahamas and pretty much every place in between. The school shuts down not for one, but two weeks forcing all but the most…

CHICAGO MUSICIAN AT WILKINSON CAFE

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The fedora. The hat is one of the calling cards of lovable cads such as Indiana Jones. Michael Jackson also wore a signature fedora, which he used as a prop. Matt Campbell just likes them and all things past. The folk musician will sport a straw fedora when he makes an appearance at the Wilkinson…