Zele Community Table is the place where you can find out about some of the most intelresting people in Aspen--like Josh Landis of the Altitude Body Performance Center. "Self-actualization means—you could equate it to having the discipline to go deep into any practice," he says. "You can get to deeper levels of understanding of things.... You learn about your center and your breath and how to maximize your movement. From a mental standpoint—the ability to have extreme focus to stick through things when they’re difficult.... I would like to make it more of a blend of East-West than it is. The Eastern part of things requires an openness of minds to get to the deep levels of understanding."
Post blogger Marilyn Marks has a full-time job trying to get the right information out of the City of Aspen--and the local newspapers. "Yes," she blogs in comment #1, "after my considerable nagging of the city staff, the Aspen Daily News did print a story on Saturday attempting to correct the City ad which purportedly attempted to correct a city-fabricated rumor. Problem was that they STILL got it wrong. The City understated the cost by $1.3 million in their correction story. I went back to nagging, and on Sunday, if you read the fine print, the Daily News corrected the correction of the correction."
The City of Aspen has identified yours truly as the source of the half-a-billion dollar Burlingame "rumor." In a story by the always power-friendly Carolyn Sackariasan, she spells my name right on the front page in a lead story and gets everything else wrong. Nor did she bother to even try to contact me to set the record straight.
Never would she let the facts get in the way of a good story if that story advances the Burlingate coverup.
The Chris Klug Foundation will be honoring Nancy Dick at the Tuesdays with Michael event on Tuesday July 22nd. Nancy E. Dick was the 42nd Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, serving from 1979 to 1987 under Richard Lamm. She was Colorado's first female Lt. Governor. Nancy was very instrumental in the development of Colorado's donor program.
First the Aspen City Council, knowingly or not, published a brochure wih gargantuan errors that helped convince unsuspecting voters to vote for the Burlingate affordable housing project.
Then Mayor Mick Ireland and Aspen City Council--for reasons no Kremlinologist could ever fathom--fought tooth and nail to squelch any investigation, most recently the suggestion of an independent prosecutor.
Now it gets personal. In a newspaper advertising campaign paid for with taxpayer dollars, the City is misquoting something I said so as to present further misinformation about Burlingate, so as to pass the infamous $75 million bond in November. Without the bond to paper over their mistakes, Burlingate Phases II and III could fade into memory. No wonder they continue to mislead the public.
Thank you to everyone that came out last night (Monday) in support of the Aspen Club. At 11:15pm last night the Aspen City Council voted 4-1 in favor of the conceptual approval of the Aspen Club Living project. We really appreciate everyone sticking around until 9pm for public comment and to have their chance to speak to the City Council about the project.
Michael Fox and the project team will now begin the process of creating the final version of the project to go back to P&Z then back to City Council for final approval. This will take some time as there are numerous engineering reports that need to be completed before final approval can be given.
We all would like to thank City Council, P&Z, Jessica and the planning department. A lot of hard work went into this process and a lot more is still to come.
“Good math skills” was Andrew Kole’s campaign platform claim during his 2005 City Council bid. Back then, who knew how badly the City needed math (actually arithmetic) skills?
[J]ournalists presume a mantle of authority based on an intellectual decorum they think most people would rather not bother with… Case in point, the Killian documents, submitted on 60 Minutes Wednesday (September 4, 2004) by then-host Dan Rather to impugn President Bush’s National Service Record. Blogger Charles Foster Johnson took a look at documents and realized that the typographical qualities—the leading, kerning, and superscripting—of the documents could not have been accomplished by any typewriter contemporaneous with Bush’s military service, c. 1973. Johnson created an animated .gif that plotted the scanned image of the Killian document over a Microsoft Word generated copy. The result? Don’t think for a moment that having a journalism degree makes you implicitly more diligent or thoughtful than the rest of humanity. I’d implore you to ask Dan Rather about this, but I’m fairly certain his answer would be a stalwart defense Killian document validity. Consider instead Mr. Rather’s relevance today.
I recently stepped into church, knelt down, and began to pray. You can imagine my surprise when someone responded. The one-act play below is a transcription of the conversation that followed. I must inform the reader, my memory is infallibly photographic. Therefore, the dialogue’s authenticity is guaranteed. Not a single word has been changed.
In the interests of full disclosure I first have to say Theatre Aspen is a sponsor of my "Con Games" radio show and so I am predisposed to like what I see. But I should also point out that no one bemoaned the loss of former artistic director David McClendon any more than me--he was both a friend also a person who I believe lifted the company out of the primordial ooze. Loving Theatre Aspen without my good friend around has been a monumental task: this town has not been the same for me since he left.
With disclosure in the books and off my chest, I can also say--based on performances of "Little Shop of Horrors" and the premier of "Rounding Third" Thursday night under the tent in Rio Grande Park--that Theatre Aspen is on the way to something special under artistic director Paige Price in the continuing evolution of what used to be an off-the-beaten-track venue for community theatre in the valley.
The Con Man welcomes legendary sitcom director Jay Sandrich to talk about his stage directorial debut at Theatre Aspen, and also talks with Kevin Stapleton, one of the leads. In the second hour, he re-plays an interview about the strange powers of the mind with Sandra Blakeslee of The New York Times, then chats with some Aspen Youth Experience graduates and executive director David Wiedinmyer.
I read with interest in local papers last week about the city’s efforts to “take responsibility” for the debacle now commonly referred to as Burling-gate. Not surprisingly it didn’t take long for the usual suspects, namely City Manager Steve Barwick and Aspen Mayor Mick Ireland, to go from offensive to defensive.
Speaking before Directors of the Aspen Chamber Resort Association last week, Barwick continued to offer the same weak explanations and excuses and basically admitted the massive debacle was the result of too many people, making too many decisions, over too much time, about a project none were properly qualified to understand or oversee. When both were recent guests of KNFO-FM radio host Michael Conniff on Con Games last week, Ireland was asked if he cared to expand on his recent assertion (conspiracy theory) that he is the subject of an illegal “smear campaign” by unknown operatives. He refused to do so or provide any specifics or retract his accusation. Meanwhile, Councilman Jack Johnson continues to behave like a five year-old saying he “can’t apologize” to Marilyn Marks after publicly chastising her in council chambers after she paid a local camera crew to record a recent work session at her expense (after telling the council she intended to do so and numerous request to have the council tape itself for the public good). Perhaps Johnson needs a hug from one of his teddy bears?
