ASPEN – Having sold out three performances in Aspen and Carbondale, the all-local standup comedy of Laugh Your Aspen Off returns to Carbondale Saturday, January 6th at the Thunder River Theater Company’s 200-seat Black Box Theater.
More than 80 were turned away in Carbondale Dec. 9th as the 65-seat Steve’s Guitars showroom hosted its largest crowd – musical or otherwise – in more than 500 shows.
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I'm crying tears of pain.
I'm crying tears of joy.
They run down my face into a river that winds its way near a park.
Welcome little one to this place of grass and chalk.
Welcome little one, all blue-eyed and innocent.
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It’s the holiday season in Aspen, a time when the rich and famous flock to our glamorous mountain like the swallows of Capistrano.
All over town people are talking about the celebrities they have seen, and those that are rumored to be around.
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Our world moves in hyper-speed. We always have too much to do and not enough time to do it. If you’re not careful, weeks, months, even years can pass you by before you realize you’ve been running the race and ignoring that which makes life enjoyable.
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Condesceding and judgemental? I realized that communication is an exercise, and you need to stretch alot.
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This emotionally acute examination of the cracks in middle-class American family life comes from Academy Award-nominated director Todd Field (In the Bedroom). Adapted from the novel by Tom Perrotta, this sharply written story of unfulfilled longing and disappointing choices focuses on Sarah (Kate Winslet) and Brad (Patrick Wilson), two stay-at-home parents of toddlers, who eventually begin an affair after meeting at the local playground.
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In Kevin Macdonald's gripping first feature, Forest Whitaker doesn't so much play Idi Amin as slip into his skin. He incites dread even as he radiates charm. Against Whitaker's volcanic performance, talented newcomer James McAvoy (The Chronicles of Narnia, Starter for Ten) holds his own as a callow young Scottish doctor who becomes Amin's physician and confidant, seduced by a glittering lifestyle and proximity to power.
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As you age, you come to realize that your time with some of your childhood friends is limited to a few short moments over the span of many years. You move away from home. You begin a career. Start a family. Life becomes complicated, and as your days pass you find that quality time with these friends comes around all to infrequently.
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Director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Ocean's Eleven) delivers this post-WWII thriller filled with intrigue, corruption and betrayal. The story takes place amid the ruins of Berlin, where U.S. Army war correspondent Jake Geismar (George Clooney) seeks out Lena Brant (Cate Blanchett), a former lover whose missing husband is being pursued by American and Russian intelligence forces.
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We are seven days and nine films into AspenFilm's Academy Screening 2006. The momentum seems to be just picking up now. OK, we've had a few factors to consider like "The Blizzard of 2006", that wasn't such astounding news locally weather-wise, but has had an impact on Aspen because holiday travelers have not been able to make all of their connections to even get here. Of course we are ever grateful for snow in abundant quantities to enhance our wintry image, Christmassy-look, and stellar Four-Mountain venue, but we really didn't get THAT much snow locally. So much about the snow, what about the movies? My favorite film thus far is, "The Illusionist". I know that this was released nationwide months ago, but I didn't get to see it because I was blogging the twenty-one films in September at AspenFilm's FilmFest and it had left town by the end of the fest. "Good things come to those who wait", my father used to say, and indeed my patience was meet with reward. Edward Norton who plays Eisenheim, the unusually gifted magician with seemingly supernatural powers, happens to be one of my most respected contemporary male actors.
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