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‘How to seder,’ drive-through Easter Egg pick up, among local pandemic-inspired activities in and around Aspen
Après Ski Cocktail Classic organizers looking to reschedule in early December
Emily VanAmburgh tosses a pizza into size Friday afternoon at New York Pizza in downtown Aspen. Despite the city grinding to a halt in many ways, Friday night still brings a hankering for a long-standing tradition in many households: fresh, hot pizza. New York Pizza is open for pickup and de…
Pitkin County working to establish temporary 24/7 shelter
Summer fundraiser raised $2.3M for nonprofit in 2019
Colorado Senator Bennet discusses the state's response to the pandemic, CARES Act, healthcare and education. "I have no doubt if we continue to do what we’re doing, not only will we come out on the other side of this, we will look back and say Pitkin County, Aspen and Colorado led the way wh…
Arts organizations move programming online
Après is Dead?
Art has always been a reflection of its time, highlighting the most urgent concerns of society and having the power to provoke social change. In the current climate crisis, where skepticism and avoidance are still in play, art holds the power to be a tool, a bridge, and a vehicle and a mediu…
Carolyn Leonhart loves harmony. She doesn’t think it’s in short supply in today’s musical landscape and will tell you succinctly why, if you ask. In jazz, there’s plenty to go around, as Leonhart’s performances tonight and tomorrow downstairs at The Little Nell will demonstrate.
I’ve retired from planning hut trips. That is to say, the kind planned months in advance with a group email chain longer than the approach to the hut; the trip that requires filling and refilling spots, adjusting Venmo requests, assigning ingredients and answering questions about slippers an…
Editor's note: The Après Ski Cocktail Classic has been postponed due to the spread of the coronavirus.
When Christy Mahon moved to Aspen in her early 20s, the concept of using skins, summiting a 14,000-foot-peak or skiing in the backcountry were all foreign to her. But by 2015 at the age of 39, Mahon was the first woman and part of the first crew to climb and ski the 100 highest peaks in Colo…
The news hit me like a sack of ski boots. “Après is dead,” an unknown gravelly voice said, before an ominous silence overtook the line. It was still summer, but the words sucked the wind out of me like a midwinter knuckle landing. Could it be true? Was après in Aspen really a thing of the pa…
In the late fall of 1947, two broke 20-somethings embarked on a road trip from Sun Valley to Los Angeles in a beat-up Ford Business Coupe with a pair of wild ducks dangling from the car. The two slept in the trunk of the coupe, paid a cleaning lady at a motel along the way one dollar to let …
Katie Kiernan needed a wall.
Aspen has served as a creative hub for artists ever since Walter and Elizabeth Paepcke envisioned a community built upon the idea of stimulating the mind, body and spirit. There is a special energy in the Roaring Fork Valley that has attracted and inspired countless artists of all types. Whe…
John Wilcox
Brent Miller
John Bucksbaum
Pitkin County real estate transactions
Pitkin County real estate transactions recorded March 15 - March 21, 2020
The impact of the coronavirus outbreak is being felt across the country, around the globe and in the Aspen-Snowmass community. Our local economy and real estate market has entered into uncharted territory. Never in modern history have we witnessed a lockdown of the global economy to the degr…
It took the coronavirus to finally get me skinning again. Things are that bad. My day skinning usually begins with me accidentally punching myself in the face as I ham-fistedly pull my skins apart. The first time out after the lifts were shuttered, I made it as far as the bottom of the Cloud…
March 9, 1926 — February 17, 2020
1924-2020
Marie L. Gardiner
This week: There will soon be two ways community members can get tested for COVID-19, one through a private medical practice - for a fee - the other is a free test through the Public Health Department but it is not known yet who will be eligible. Also, a look at life’s big moments during t…
