Art & Culture Colorado Telluride Telluride Festivals: Art & Culture Colorado Telluride Telluride Festivals
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Telluride Film Festival: A Moviegoer’s Lovefest
Alpenglow Over Telluride During Filmfest
We have one little movie theatre here in Telluride, a one-screen wonder called The Nugget. It’s a rare gem housed in an historic building of the same name and it keeps Telluride moviegoers content year-round. (The Nugget Building once boasted a bank, the very place where Butch Cassidy pulled off his first heist.)
For one long weekend of the year, however, we become Cinephile Central. This has been occurring every Labor Day Weekend for the past thirty-five years. This is when the Telluride Film Festival takes over our mountain town and transforms it into a center for the appreciation of the motion picture arts. More than six hundred people—volunteers and paid staff—work before, during and after the festival to make Telluride the film capital of the world this first weekend of September. Nine very different movie screening venues are created so that film lovers from Sweden to West Africa to Hollywood can come and watch movies for over three days in optimal conditions—that’s to say in spaces where the sound and picture are nothing less than fantastic.
Beauty Colorado Hotels & Lodging Spas Telluride: Beauty Colorado Hotels & Lodging Spas Telluride
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Spray Tanning: Bronzage in a Bottle
The Peaks Resort & Spa
The days were ticking by in Telluride before I was to leave for a month of travels. As with every pre-trip departure, I had a ton to do. But I was prioritizing my chores and a last-minute beauty treatment had made it to the top of my list.
My mountain pallor wasn’t going to cut it back east where I knew I’d be sporting all kinds of summery attire including a bathing suit. Although it can be delightfully warm—even downright hot—in Telluride in the summer, we do typically have a good amount of rain and cool weather, so it can be a challenge to build up much color, especially if you spend a lot of time at your desk. (The little tan I had was truly a hiker’s tan, so clearly I needed some quick evening out.)
I set up an appointment for a spray tanning, one of the newest services added to the many treatments offered at the Golden Door Spa at The Peaks, Telluride’s landmark resort. I had already seen one girl that had been spray tanned this spring and I was truly amazed by the results.
Colorado Paris Pot Pourri Shopping Telluride: Colorado Paris Shopping Telluride
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A More Frenchie Me on the Main Street of Telluride
Well, I’ve done it. Or at least it’s the beginning. A totally non-tech savvy person such as myself managed to get a blog up and running. I’ve been hungry to share with you the many discoveries I make throughout my travels and at home here in Telluride, Colorado. I’m constantly finding a shop, hotel, restaurant, spa, product or other attraction (including people!) that I want to report on.
I also wanted to be able to reveal to you a little bit more of moi since so many people seem to be curious about how I came to live in Paris, France for over a decade, then traded it out for a totally different lifestyle in the Rocky Mountains. Actually there are many similarities between Paris and Telluride: both are amazingly beautiful, culturally rich, sophisticated places. Most of the people you find living in Paris and Telluride tend to be open-minded and rather nonconformist. And visitors to these world-renowned destinations often stand awestruck by the beauty and grandeur of these locales, whether it be manmade or natural.
