“Scrooge? I have to redeem old Scrooge? The one man I knew who was worse than I was? Impossible!”
So begins The Hudson Reed Ensemble’s production of “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol”, the “real story” behind Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
Continue Reading Add comment November 26th, 2006
So you're sitting there with you Net Flix list and you are drawing a blank. Welcome to the real world of unlimited opportunity, where there's no accounting for the shortfall of righteous information at the moment of truth.
But we've got a good one for you, a flick that stars a graduate of Aspen High School now starring in one of the top shows on television. Starring Felicity Huffman and executive produced by her husband, William H. Macy, "Transamerica" renders America transparent to the sexual hypocrisy that a free society can't live without.
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Hello from Washington D.C...yep I am in D.C. here to train as a member of the National Team for the American Red Cross Volunteer Disaster Reserve Team. I left Aspen as it was snowing this morning and arrived in D.C. where it was near 60 degrees.My observations of the day include the enjoyment of people watching at D.I.A.-where everyone looks unique and not like a picture from an advertisement in Aspen Magazine...another observation there is some quiet enjoyment knowing that no one knows me here...while being a radio personality is not huge on the celebrity scale-it is nice to be perhaps as unique as a D.I.A. passenger...my last observation of the day is to realize of all the people I have encountered here since I arrived I find that I am the minority...this is truly a multi-cultural city and well educated. While having coffee at the Caribou Cafe I was surrounded by GW University students studying and I found myself engrossed in the Washington Post where residents wrote their distaste of a photo the paper ran of our President smiling in front of a bust of Ho Chi Minh. The photo is bad and I'm sure it is one of those things the President will cringe about for the rest of his life. Anyway more to come from 5 blocks from the White House.
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Megan Vanzandt: My best friend is Lula Mae Chapman. I’ve known her since sixth grade. I went to drop her off and was intrigued by the place—it was surrounded by beauty. I guess it’s the farming, too. We’re drawn to it but we’re so far removed from it. I’m just a girl from the city, from Denver.
MC: What’s it like on the farm?
MV: The location in Woody Creek is absolutely picturesque. When you think of a farm, it’s that. The red barn, open views, mountains. Jennifer Craig and her mother Carol Craig own it.
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ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)--From all evidence, supermodels make superbabies.
At least that's the way it seams to Seal, now the proud father of a second child with supermodel Heidi Klum, host of Bravo's Project Runway.Seal and Heidi Klum, now regular visitors to Aspen, announced the news on the home page of Seal's web site.
Continue Reading Add comment November 24th, 2006
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)--U.S. Representative Jim Kolbe sure does get around, and his lame-duck status as a retiring Congressman has sent his travels around the world into overdrive, courtesy of the Aspen Institute and other organizations
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SAAS FEE, SWITZERLAND (Post Time News)—Olympic silver medalist Gretchen Bleiler of Aspen is looking better than ever.
The evidence is her win here Thanksgiving Day victory in the World Cup halfpipe over Soko Yamaoka of Japan. Manuela Laura Pesko of Switzerland took third.
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ASPEN HIGHLANDS, COLORADO (Post Time News)--Does the "Z" in ZG stand for Zubrod?
That's a reasonable question considering former Ritz-Carlton Aspen Highlands chef Matt Zubrod, a James Beard nominee, has now planted the flag in his third location around town, at ZG Grill in Aspen Highlands. Zubrod, to be featured on "Iron Chef" on the Food Network in winter 2007, opened DishAspen in Downtown Aspen with Mitchell Sher and Crust Restaurant, a Highlands pizza place with Graham Frandson.
Frandson is also the owner of ZG Grill, where Zubrod's joint will replace Iguana's Bar & Grill, the Mexican place famous for Highlands apres-ski. ZG Grill puts Zubrod a short huck from his former outpost at the Ritz Highlands, at the base of the Aspen Highlands ski area owned by Aspen Skiing Company.
Continue Reading 1 comment November 23rd, 2006
The misadventures of Pitkin County Deputy Sheriff Joe DiSalvo have taken on new meaning with the rumor--now confirmed--that the #2 person in the department will be pushed out as of the last day of 2006 to make room for DiSalvo as the successor to Sheriff Bob Braudis.
Undersheriff Lorrie White is gonzo, to coin a particularly apt phrase, thereby putting to rest the open secret whispered on the fringes of the 2006 election campaign that the no-show Sheriff was merely holding the seat for his pal DiSalvo to step in as acting Sheriff after a Braudis resignation mid-term. Such a move would make DiSalvo the incumbent in a 2010 race and make it that much more difficult for a reformer to knock off DiSalvo.
Continue Reading Add comment November 22nd, 2006
Culture boy-toy Bill O'Reilly and the ejaculatory pundits of the right have identified the obliteration of Christmas in a secular world as the #1 real problem we should be worried about. Not poverty, drugs, corruption, immigration, or Iraq--the Tighty Righties say the fate of Christmas is far more important to the survival of the greatest country in the world.
Preach your children well, as Cat Stevens might say if he weren't a Muslim.
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