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Archive for December, 2009
Jim Laurence News
Wednesday December 30, 2009
Fresh snow means great skiing, but greater dangers in the backcountry---the avalanche danger is rated at high---for areas in the central mountains….the greatest threat on south facing slopes.
Arapahoe Basin is getting a new lift----operators announced that the long time in use Exhibition triple chair will be replaced by next season with a new high speed quad------------that will be welcome news for those braving the cold ride-----most of A-Basin’s runs lie above tree line and it is Summit County’s highest ski area, with the summit at just over 13 thousand feet.
Take the bus, or designate a driver for New Year ’s Eve if you’re headed out on the town-----local law enforcement, along with stepped up service by the Colorado State Patrol----is intended to keep drivers from getting behind the wheel if you’ve been drinking. Be responsible----be safe---for the New Year’s celebration. If you fail that blood alcohol test----you’ll be arrested.
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Add comment December 30th, 2009
Jim Laurence News
Tuesday December 29, 2009
Aspen police have released the recording of the nine-one-one call made by Brook Sheen, wife of actor Charlie Sheen, on Christmas Day. Sheen, 44, whose legal name is Carlos Irwin Estevez, allegedly used a knife to threaten his spouse after she asked for a divorce.
The couple was renting a home at 320 West Hallam Street last Friday, Christmas morning, when the call came in to dispatch at about 8:30 a.m.
Police arrested Sheen on charges of Second Degree Assault.
Sheen did not resist arrest and spent the holiday in jail. He’s been released and is scheduled to return to Aspen on February 8th for a court appearance. Sheen will face charges of Second Degree Assault, menacing and criminal mischief.
Two Time overall world cup champion Lindsey Vonn, starting 15th in Austria, badly bruised a bone in her left wrist after crashing on the opening run of a Giant Slalom course on Monday.
Vonn---an Olympic favorite---was doing well after a successful weekend in Val D’lsere, France----Doctors say it’s not an actual break---but the painful swelling is something the racer will have to deal with for the next six weeks, it’s estimated.
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Add comment December 29th, 2009
Peace in the New Year
It’s been one year since Israel attacked Gaza, killing over fourteen hundred people, wounding thousands, displacing 60,800 civilians and damaging 17,000 homes, resulting in Jewish South African judge Richard Goldstone finding Israel guilty of war crimes and human rights violations. In the last year, Israel has prevented the Palestinian people from rebuilding their homes, businesses, and infrastructure, causing a humanitarian crisis the likes of which the world has never seen.
Continue Reading 6 comments December 28th, 2009
Public Enemy Makes Friends At Belly Up Aspen
Aspen Sojourner Managing Editor Michael Miracle blogs:
Aspen saw an absolutely unforgettable performance last night at Belly Up by one of the most influential, important and legendary groups of all time: Public Enemy.
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Jim Laurence News
Monday December 28, 2009
Temperatures, especially overnight readings this week, will drop precipitously---we urge you to take the extra time to make sure you’re prepared for the cold while partying at night----we want your New Year’s Eve----and New Year’s week-----to be safe.
Actor Charlie Sheen is due back in Aspen on February 8th---he quickly posted the 8500 dollar bail to be released from the Pitkin County Jail---after spending Christmas behind bars for allegedly attacking his wife. The couple was staying at a rented west end home------more details will be released this week.
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Add comment December 28th, 2009
CON GAMES: Bury My Avatar At Wounded Knee
Darwin’s restaurant was packed, so we went next door the day after Christmas for the next form of evolution: James Cameron’s “Avatar,” albeit in 2-D, the standard stuff that fills screens to bursting and the stadium seating to capacity. Instead of plush, lush 3-D, we ended up in one of the end-of-civilization screens the Bow-Tie Cinemas keep alive at the frontier outpost of El Jebel, Colorado.
All in all, in other words, the worst possible set-up for a movie set up to break the glass ceiling of film with three-dimensional computer-generated movie-making. Even so, with the deck stacked against it, “Avatar” was much better than good: Cameron—he of “Terminator,” “Aliens,” and “Titanic” fame—has now set the bar so high that Stephen Spielberg and George Lucas will spend the rest of their careers trying to reach the planet Pandora, home to foxy and fierce nine-foot, blue-skinned babes with tails who know how to mate, bro.
Continue Reading Add comment December 27th, 2009
Charlie Sheen, Aspen Jailbird
Well, fellow locals, we have not seen the last of Charlie Sheen, 44, last seen playing one of the full-blown men on my favorite CBS sitcom, "Two And A Half Men." Unfortunately for everybody, Sheen was last seen in Aspen in a Pitkin County Jail cell Christmas Day, after his arrest for menacing and variegated felony malfeasance, a state of wedded dis-bliss that followed a rocky Christmas morning in a house on East Hallam Avenue near the Aspen downtown core.
Continue Reading Add comment December 26th, 2009
Aspen Film's Academy Screenings Arrives
Showing Wednesday is “Nine,” director Rob Marshall's musical take on the cinema classic “8 1/2,” Federico Fellini's 1961 meditation on the creative process. The film is up for four Golden Globes — including nominations for best musical, best actor (Daniel Day-Lewis), best actress (Marion Cotillard) and best supporting actress (Penélope Cruz) — and Marshall has a track record with musicals. His 2002 film “Chicago” took the best picture Oscar.
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Jim Laurence News
Wednesday December 23, 2009
A photo released by police of the suspect who robbed the Basalt Seven Eleven store last weekend, shows a man (age not specified) about five and one half feet tall---130 pounds ---a beard and, according to the store clerk----the robber spoke both English and Spanish. The store was robbed just after midnight last Friday…..police ask that you call 927-4316 if you can offer additional information about the suspect.
The popular ski Train from Denver to Winter Park was to have started up service again this Sunday, but hundreds of skiers may be disappointed.
Amtrak announced on Tuesday, that no firm agreement has been signed with Iowa Pacific Holdings to help with the cost of running the operation.
Iowa Pacific operates a number of summer excursion trains in Colorado—and has been bidding to take over the operation from the Anschutz Company.
A big issue to be resolved before the train can go to Winter Park: staffing; labor costs could nix the deal.
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