In comment #1, Adam_R responds to the question; “What’s going on with gas prices.” He writes, “If everyone paid attention and kept conserving fuel, demand would stay low and so would prices. However, I'm not convinced Joe Consumer recognizes this, and the 'vicious cycle' will continue.” Here’s your opportunity to answer this short questionnaire as Adam_R did, and let us know your opinion.
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"From the Marriott in Cherry Creek," writes Post blogger Michael Conniff, "you don’t have to go far to find anything, including food. There’s a bunch of great places in the building and on the block—including a hip and happening spot called North—but we ventured a few blocks away to Elway’s, the steak place named after you-know-who. Without aforethought, it turned out our experience at Elway’s was in keeping with the shopping theme of the weekend. With a piano bar and plentiful drinks, the restaurant was the epicenter of baby boomers shopping for company, with the up close and personal costumes to match. A couple of drinks and my guess is that a couple of the couples got lucky that night."
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Is it just me, or did something permanent and irrefutable exit the political process in Aspen when the Lift 1A moneybags decided to work with City poobahs on a master plan? The decision, needless to say, is a gross capitulation to a City Council that had already cut off the developers at the knees, no matter how hard they tried to please the powers that be.
The decision means the developers have decided to drink the City's Kool-Aid for the obvious reason that no other potion is potable. If the City Council is nice enough to include the developers in the master plan, then the developers can always hope against hope they too will be included in a future that has yet to unfold.
Continue Reading February 7th, 2008
Aspen's Culinary Critic Goes To The Market Looking For Love
And Ends Up With Lettuce
While the hungry hoards mobbed the infamous Tent and attended the smorgasbord of seminars at this Weekend’s Food and Wine Festival, I opted out Saturday, preferring a long leisurely stroll through one of Aspen’s premier culinary venues, the Saturday Farmer’s Market. This was the first of the season – and what a way to welcome summer. National supermarket chains, superstores and uber-grocers have ripped us away from the land with cold cavernous constructs that have no sense of season, place, or time. While they may very well offer advantages of convenience and pricing power, the true market elements they lack are essentially priceless: community, connectivity, and cultural context. They are way-stations in which one loads up and leaves.
That is not the origin purpose of a market.
The local outdoor market serves up a sweetly sublime mix of dazzling visuals, vibrant people, gorgeous produce, and artisanal works. It is a place to linger and mingle, gossip and chat. Going to The Market is a timeless tradition practiced, perfected, nurtured, and revered in Europe. For far too long going to the market in America has meant metal carts, packaged foods, and bar code scanners.
Continue Reading June 16th, 2007
TS: The city has too many dollars and not enough sense. Another part of the Isis deal granted a lease—AspenFilm will own it free and clear. Why give that to a nonprofit? Grant a multimillion asset to a nonprofit? Give a $130,000 up front and lease payment substantially under market? Your point is actually very well-taken. I’m a liberal, too, but it takes a little wisdom.
MC: Should the city stay out of those deals?
TS: Absolutely and completely. The government is excluding buyers. Bill Stirling puts the Explore Bookstore on the market and lo and behold a philanthropist shows up. Double Diamond is now incredible as the Belly Up because a philanthropist bought it. Philanthropists wanted to buy the Isis. Philanthropists have offered an ice rink. The city’s anti-capitalist stance is self-defeating. If Walter Paepcke showed up today, people would call him a big money guy from Chicago and he’d be run out of town in five seconds. If the city just worked with the assets we have we’d be fine.
Continue Reading April 2nd, 2007
Maybe it was none of my business—maybe not—but something happened this week in the Aspen core that disturbed me to the core, something that had little or nothing to do with me or even you, but everything to do with this hot dog burg we all call home.
It was one of those beautiful baby bluebird not-a-cloud days, when everyone feels just a little warmer after all those splotches of cold. I was walking down the street within sight of the gondola, just up a block from Zele, when I heard to shouting come from inside one of the stores.
Shouting doesn’t quite say it—screaming is closer to the truth, or maybe even shrieking, though maybe not.
Continue Reading March 15th, 2007
