Weekly 2.25.10 by Crested Butte Weekly

February 25 - March 3, 2010

Alternatives: Art Worth Looking At page 4 Prepare your thighs for the Banana page 5 Great American Taxi at the Center page 8 Volume 12, Number 8 Crested Butte, Colorado WWW.CBWEEKLY.COM

The EDITOR’S Stump What are our alternatives? What are our alternatives to submissively suffering through a bad economy and bitching about our money woes? What are our alternatives to being dependent on tourism? On real estate? On any one thing, for that matter? What else can we possibly do? At The Weekly we’ve had to trim down. When businesses and organizations don’t have money to promote their product, advertising suffers. As a result, our page count diminishes. We have less room to talk about all of the colorful, entertaining and informative events that are happening in this valley. This could be viewed as a problem, or it could be viewed as an opportunity. We have had to be creative in how we design and construct this paper. We began with clarifying our identity – we are “Art, Entertainment and Culture for Crested Butte and Gunnison.” We focused our material to revolve around this moniker. We have searched for and chosen a new font that allows us to print more material yet remains readable. We have changed the way we look at everything – from picture size to organization of material to the tiniest of graphic design elements. Every week we have to take a good, hard look at what we are putting in this paper. Every. Inch. Counts. Nothing can be wasted. I could lament at not having the room to really stretch my legs throughout 40 pages. We have folders of ideas, they are pasted on the wall, peppering our work stations. They are a constant source of conversation. Yet, some of these (what we think are) brilliant columns of energizing content will just have to wait. And so,

we are learning patience here. What this reality has ultimately forced those of us who comprise The Weekly to do is to be creative. We have had to evaluate our values, and what we want to put forth in this paper. With our new and spectacular graphic designer, Jessy Moreland, we are modernizing our look while maintaining our funky feel. We are redesigning our covers to draw you, the reader, in with more intensity. We are reformatting to make the paper easier to navigate. Rather than doing the same old, same old, we have had to look at alternatives. County-wide I see this happening with business owners putting their all into updating their own looks, providing enticing specials, reevaluating just how they do business. This, all in all, is a good thing. In the end, what we end up with is a better product in the long run. These very same principles apply in our community as a whole. This week is the second installment of the new column Alternatives. In the first installment in the January 28 issue, we looked at medicinal marijuana dispensaries and the potential sales tax revenue that could be generated through such endeavors. With this issue, we are taking a peek at solidifying the Gunnison Valley as an arts destination. In this article are some very real figures of just what the arts can and do generate for our local economy. Alternatives, then, is a place where we as a community can explore our ideas,

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to indeed think outside of the box into the vast range of possibilities in this world. Here we will explore how we might strengthen our economy, our community, our culture and our environmental sustainability. Articles will aim to be well researched, investigative in nature, casual and entertaining in tone. It is a place to look beyond the news that is in front of us and dig deeper into a topic. It is solution, rather than problem, based. We will look at positive examples from communities around the world and how they have tackled similar issues that we face. If San Francisco has curbside composting how can we? What local food sources are available to us right here in Gunnison County? What would a community greenhouse look like? How can we become the ultimate outdoor adventure destination? A destination for

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eco-travelers? What other kinds of industry might thrive here that would co-exist with our current lifestyle? What would happen if we eliminated plastic bags? Ran our heating from methane from the waste water treatment plant. What if… The forum is open, meaning we welcome submissions from any author. The sky is the limit on topics. We dream of a place in this paper, every week, where we can come together to share ideas. This is the place where we can envision ridding ourselves of unnecessary waste, a place where everything counts, where we shoot for quality – not quantity. This is the place of innovation. Please submit your ideas and questions to editor@cbweekly.com. Positive, inspiring, educational, alternative, community-oriented news – come get you some…

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Tracks On 3rd December 1961 Henri Matisse’s painting Le Bateau was put the right way up after hanging upside-down for 46 days without anyone noticing at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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In ancient times, it was believed that certain colours could combat the evil spirits that lingered over nurseries. Because blue was associated with the heavenly spirits, boys were clothed in that colour, boys then being considered the most valuable resource to parents. Although baby girls did not have a colour associated with them, they were mostly clothed in black. It was only in the Middle Ages when pink became associated with baby girls. When Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1912, 6 replicas were sold as the original, each at a huge price, in the three years before the original was recovered. On 3rd Dec 1961 Grandma Moses, the renowned American primitive painter, died at the age of 101 English artist Andy Brown, created a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II of Britain by stitching together 1,000 used tea bags. During his entire life, artist Vincent Van Gogh sold just one painting; Red Vineyard at Arles Mental illness may be profoundly responsible for the creation and enduring popularity of Expressionism. Van Gogh’s well-documented mental instability, and Edvard Munch’s traumatic childhood and enduring neuroses helped to churn out some of the Expressionists’ most important works. Munch accepted that his mental illness was part of his genius, “I would not cast off my illness, for there is much in my art that I owe to it.” The large canvases Jackson Pollock used for his Abstract Expressionist action paintings were usually laid flat on the floor while he painted. Pollock was a chain smoker and would frequently paint with a cigarette hanging from his lips. This led to the intriguing incorporation of cigarette ashes into the surface of some of his greatest works. When Auguste Rodin exhibited his first important work, The Bronze Period, in 1878 it was so realistic that people thought he had sacrificed a live model inside the cast. Leonardo Da Vinci invented high heels.

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Table of Contents 4 ON THE COVER “Alternatives” is the column where we can explore our ideas, to indeed think outside of the box into the vast range of possibilities in this world. This week, take a look at how marketing the Gunnison Valley as an arts destination can not only strengthen our economy but our community as well.

5 Events Get those thighs ready for the new 7 Hours of the Banana – because this event is finally here! Ladies, curl your biceps – it’s time to see who the next champion of KBUT’s Arm Wrasslin’ competition will be. And, if you’re into scandalous theatre rife with naughty notions – Closer is coming to tantalize you at the Lobar.

6 The Arts The Arts section this week kicks off with the February Artwalk – take a gander at the talent this valley has to offer. Mark your calendars for the ever engaging and riveting Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. Deadlines are coming up in Eye on the Arts. Make sure you hit the mark for Arts Festival applications and grants, the Crested Butte Magazine photo contest, Alpenglow Gallery submissions and the rights to paint a Mountain Express bus.

8 Music The swinging concoction of swampy blues, progressive bluegrass, funky New Orleans strut, Southern boogie, honky tonk country, gospel, and good ol’ fashioned rock ’n’ roll of Great American Taxi is coming to the Center. In the Set List – see DJ Logic, Swollen Members, a Led Zepplin tribute band, a host of hip hoppin DJ’s, local blues and a whole lot more.

10 Entertainment Calendar Participate in a women’s book discussion, find church services, discover special yoga classes, sophisticate your palate in wine tasting and play some indoor ultimate Frisbee. The Entertainment Calendar is your go to resource for all the events in the most happenin’ valley in country. Come here, go there.

13 Sports Are you finding all the clues to tell you how strong the avalanche danger is? The Guide’s Corner let’s you know what to look for. Plus, gear up for the Winter Rando Series and get your training on for other endurance events. In Nordic News learn to skate ski for free, sign up for the last Nordic Brunch and start getting your head in the game for the upcoming Super Tour.

14 Community In the Community Bulletin Board - the clock is ticking for you to cast your vote on how you want the Friends of the Library to spend $2,000 – express your opinion soon…Joanne Reynolds is offering a caregiving class with her new book and Shelly Higgins has a special cooking class for diabetes. There’s also sculpture and archaeology for the kids at the Trailhead. And, one of our most knowledgeable community members, Duane Vandenbusche, is presenting a slideshow on the rowdy adventures of the Black Canyon at the museum.

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15 Grapevine Grapevine is the place where you can find out who to send your healing wishes, birthday wishes and happy trails wishes to. Find out whose home, whose away and who to “good luck” on upcoming comps. Grapevine – it’s everything you ever needed to know about your neighbors, well, almost…

16 Dining Sit back and relax and let the Dining Guide walk you through all the best eateries in town. From French to Italian, sushi to pizza, casual to fancy – we’ve got it all. You can take out, eat in or have it delivered. In the Delicious Dish, delve into the newest deli in town for heaping piles of fresh sliced meat and home made bread. Mmmm…

18 Alternative Health Experience the power of healing touch in reiki, revitalize those old joints and muscles in active isolated stretching and find unconditional love in a discussion workshop. Then, in YogaMoon Rhythms, Monica Mesa guides us through the full moon in Virgo to help us find our intuitive side…

19 Local Writers’ Page The Local Writer’s Page is an open forum for all writers in the Gunnison Valley. We welcome submissions of poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, theatre, creative nonfiction and any other form of the written arts. To submit please send your piece to editor@cbweekly.com. This week, Polly Oberosler spins us a tale of how anyone can find their refuge, in the most unlikely of places, with just a little bit of care…

19 Local Resources This section of the paper will be your constant back page resource for the Mountain Express and RTA bus schedules so you can get to the hill, Gunnison, Denver, or your condo in Mt. Crested Butte and there’s information on where to park your car so it doesn’t get towed.

20 Faces & Places The U.S. Extreme Freeskiing Championships, the Prater Cup, Mardi Gras, music about town, the Vagina Monologues – man, we got it on last week. Check out the smiling mugs in our most colorful “reportive” column of the paper…

Writers: Dawne Belloise, Bonnie Chlipala, Sandra Cortner, Corinne Cram, Crested Butte Mountain Guides, Josephine Kellet, Grant McFarren, Luke Mehall, Monica Mesa, Molly Murfee, Polly Oberosler, Laura Puckett, Sales: Laura Silva / Diane Markowitz, sales@cbweekly.com Kristen VanHoesen, Kate Vogel, Maya Silver, Marcie Telander, Peter Bridges, Kate Vogel. Copy Editor: Bonnie Chlipala, info@cbweekly.com Photographers: Dawne Belloise, Dusty Demerson, Paul Gallaher, Ralph Kristopher, Molly Murfee. Contact: 970-349-1710; info@cbweekly.com; P.O. Box 1609, Crested Butte, CO 81224. Our offices are located Graphics: Jessy Moreland, ads@cbweekly.com at 427 Bellview Ave. in Crested Butte. We publish in the high seasons: November-April and May-September. Production: Molly Murfee / Bonnie Chlipala / Scott Tyree Editor: Molly Murfee, editor@cbweekly.com

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Art Worth Looking At By Molly Murfee Crested Butte is a well-known entity in the world of adventure sports. We lay claim to being the nest that re-birthed telemark skiing from its near extinction. Along with Marin County in California, Crested Butte is also the birthplace of mountain biking as well as the mountain bike itself. We have the oldest mountain biking event in the entire world – the Pearl Pass Tour. The same is true of telemark skiing with the Al Johnson Uphill Downhill Telemark Ski Race. We held the first national extreme freeskiing competition in the country, and still the U.S. Extreme Freeskiing Championships are the prized granddaddy of all the freeskiing events on the circuit. There are pieces of Crested Butte that are legendary – our Extreme Limits, our world-class mountain biking trails, our wildflowers. In the early 70’s there was also energy behind making Crested Butte an artists’ community. Blacksmiths, sculptors, jewelry makers, wood carvers and others

flocked to the town. The free spirited and no holds barred persona fostered their artistic dreams. The valley now boasts a healthy and burgeoning population of painters, metal artists, ceramicists, stain glass fusers, writers, photographers, jewelers, blacksmiths, woodworkers, book binders and even a letterpress printer. It is a place that draws the imaginative and wild soul, a place that offers a wealth of inspiration – from the scenery that surrounds it, to the open-mindedness of the community that says you can be just as different, just as weird, just as “you” as you need to be. That’s a good place for an artist. The Americans for the Arts conducted a study on the “Social and Economic Impacts of Gunnison County Arts and Cultural Organizations” and the results are enough to raise some eyebrows and start some thinking. Of all of the attendees of art events in the past years, 60% were residents of the valley, 40%

were non-residents. The ages of these art aficionados ran the full gamut. They earned anywhere from $40,000 and below (30% of the residents) to over $80,000 (46% of the non-residents). These people, regardless of their age or income, created a $5.2 million impact in Gunnison County last year. Simply supporting the arts creates 136 local jobs that total over two million in local wages. The arts generate $230,000 in tax revenues. Each visiting art enthusiast spends an average of $83.17 on admissions, meals, lodging, transportation and souvenirs. When local arts organizations spend $20,000 the county earns $5.2 million. By anybody’s math – that’s a good investment. On a national level, according to Americans for the Arts, America’s nonprofit arts and culture industry generates $166.2 billion in economic activity every year. That’s billion. But the arts aren’t just good for our pocketbooks, they’re also good for our psyche. A study supported by the National Endowment for the Arts found that youth exposed to the creative arts demonstrate more self-esteem and confidence. Those learning to play a musical instrument more easily see success and exude an ability in overcoming fears. Visual arts students show increased critical skills. They all resolve conflict better, strengthen their cognitive and social skills, and become more motivated to learn in all subjects, including math, reading and writing, and the sciences. Active engagement in the arts therefore has a broadened effect in multifarious realms of the students. A study conducted by the Rand Corporation concluded that it was beneficial for governments to fund culture because 70% of Americans find it personally enriching and a way to spark imagination. In a study executed by a team of ethnographers from the Chicago Center for Arts Policy, researchers found that the presence of informal arts in a community (from participating in a community play production and taking an art class to artists meeting informally in homes and on the street) tapped into people’s creative potential; served as an important reservoir of social capital; was significant for life long learning; built civic engagement; strengthened communities; crossed social boundaries of age, gender and occupation; and created community members who were more accomplished with tolerance, trust, consensus building, collaboration, innovation, the ability to solve problems and had the capacity to not only imagine change but also had a willingness to work for it. Wow. The vision the dreamers of the 1970s had has slowly been coming to fruition. Like any dream, however, it needs to be nourished and watered and given plenty of sunshine to grow.

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The Crested Butte Arts Alliance is trying to do just that. Currently comprised of Artists of the West Elks, Center for the Arts, Crested Butte Mountain Theatre, Crested Butte Music Festival, Crested Butte School of Dance, Trailhead Discovery Museum and the Crested Butte Arts Festival (and open to other participants as well), the Arts Alliance is aware of the billions of dollars generated by the arts and their psychological benefits. Their vision is to establish the “Upper East River Valley as an internationally recognized destination for the arts. The Arts Alliance serves as a vital, unified and visible resource that fosters unique opportunities and supports world-class facilities for all artists. Similarly, the Arts Alliance expands cultural experiences for the local community as well as adds greater value to the economy of the region.” Their goals are many: from increasing visibility and education to becoming a collective voice from the arts. They want to assure that the performing and visual arts are “diverse, affordable and accessible to all.” They want to actively support the growth and ongoing development of arts programs and facilities in the community. They are looking for ways to promote the arts available here to the greater world. They recognize that the community needs expanded and enhanced performing arts facilities with more seating, better acoustics and better production for orchestras as well as meeting space, rehearsal space and storage space. They see the need for more classrooms and gallery space. The mountains that inspire our sports also inspire our arts. We find freedom in our hills. Our unique and open culture offers us a grand palette of freedom of expression. Marketing ourselves as an arts destination, in addition to an adventure sports destination, is a great big step in the right direction of economic sustainability and diversification as well as an effective way to strengthen and enhance our community. The Arts Alliance is lacing up their boots for the trek. Laying the foundation is creating a place where local artists are supported, celebrated and encouraged. It is providing open and affordable opportunities for the entire community to exercise their creativity and ingenuity. It is also having the facilities to hold world-class events as well as inspiring classes for residents and visitors. The end result is not only a reinforced pocketbook for the entire community, but a place where our citizens are better problem solvers and collaborators. Now that’s art worth looking at. Molly Murfee is a full-time freelance and copy writer, in addition to being the Editor of the Crested Butte Weekly. Her over 500 articles are featured in the likes of Powder Magazine, Telemark Skier, Backcountry Magazine, the Mountain Gazette, Cross Country Skier Magazine, Solar Today and Patagonia-Japan as well as local publications. Her passion lies in penning creative non-fiction and poetry, which focuses on wild places with their inherent metaphor and the extraordinary commonality of the human experience. Molly can be reached at editor@cbweekly.com.

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KBUT’s 2nd Annual Female Arm Wrestling Tournament will take place on Saturday, February 27 at the Talk of the Town in downtown Crested Butte. There will be 64 coveted spaces available in this open class female arm wrestling tournament. This is a single elimination open division tournament. Cost is $5 to register. Early registration will begin on Monday, February 22 at the KBUT studios located at 508 Maroon Ave. Prizes will be awarded for best nickname, best costume, and best cheering section. Doors open at 8 p.m. and the competition begins at 9 p.m. All proceeds benefit KBUT Community Radio. Come out and see if ANNaconda can defend her title. Call Josh at 970-349-5225 for additional information.

7 Hours of the Banana and the Tropical Obstacle are This Weekend A new extreme endurance downhill event on one of Crested Butte Mountain Resort’s (CBMR) most challenging runs, the Banana, and a family-friendly challenge course event on Buckley (accessed from the West Wall) are slated to take place on Saturday, February 27, 2010. The two events, “7 Hours of the Banana” and “The Tropical Obstacle,” are being hosted by two local non-profit organizations, the Crested Butte Ski Club (CBSC) and the Adaptive Sports Center (ASC). 7 Hours of the Banana The Banana, a steep and narrow extreme run on the front side of Mt. Crested Butte, serves as the venue for this new endurance event. Flaunt your most creative banana-themed costume and turn your legs to mush by skiing/riding the Banana for all 7 hours, or put together a team of any size/any age. Any number of team members may ski/ride the Banana at any time. Participants may stop and rest as often as necessary, with laps being counted each time racers pass through the timing tent at the base area, located to skier’s left of the Silver Queen chair lift. Event participants are encouraged to collect pledges to benefit the ASC and the CBSC. Prizes will be awarded in various categories, including the most money raised by a team/individual, and the most laps completed. The Tropical Obstacle This just-for-fun challenge/obstacle ski course will be open from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Buckley (accessed from the West Wall lift). Children and families will enjoy navigating rollers, ski gates, banked turns, and more on the Tropical Obstacle. Participants are encouraged to collect pledges and complete laps on the course. No timing equipment will be used; this is the fun division (don a tropical-themed costume!). Registration & Pledging Pre-registration for 7 Hours of the Banana and the Tropical Obstacle is required by Friday, February

Schedule of Events

Friday, February 26, 2010

4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Pre-party & mandatory packet pick up/last chance registration at the Brick Oven Pizzeria. Participants using their own season pass for the event must present it at packet pick-up. Participants are invited to enjoy free beer courtesy of Avery Brewing Company! 6:30 p.m. Mandatory athlete meeting at the Brick Oven

Saturday, February 27, 2010

8:30 a.m. 7 Hours of the Banana starting skiers must

26, 2010 (no day-of registration), and may be done by visiting www.adaptivesports.org or calling the Crested Butte Ski Club at 970-275-2554. Entry is $35 per person; $70 includes a lift ticket. Kids pay their age. Last chance registration is Friday, February 26 at the Brick Oven Pizzeria from 4 p.m. – 6 p.m., and there is a mandatory athlete meeting at 6:30 p.m. Pledge forms are available online, and individuals may pledge participants through a “Donate Now” link on the ASC’s homepage. The CBSC and the ASC will share proceeds from the event. The Adaptive Sports Center The Adaptive Sports Center’s mission is to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities through outdoor adventure activities. The programs we offer are inclusive to families and friends, empower our participants in their daily lives and have an enduring impact on their health, self-confidence and well-being. The Center is going into its 23rd year of providing life-enhancing outdoor programming to individuals with physical and cognitive disabilities. For more information about the ASC, visit www. adaptivesports.org. The Crested Butte Ski Club The Crested Butte Ski Club provides scholarships for children of the Gunnison Valley and neighboring areas to participate in Crested Butte Mountain Sports Team programs. CBSC is committed to helping any athlete with a passion for mountain sports—regardless of financial status—to participate in a high-quality competitive winter sports program. For more information about the Crested Butte Ski Club, visit www.cbskiclub.org.

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In the event that 7 Hours of the Banana cannot occur on February 27, 2010 due to snow conditions/safety reasons, the event will be rescheduled. Thank you to our generous sponsors: Crested Butte Builders, Crested Butte Mountain Resort, Rocky Mountain Sports & Orthopedic Clinic – Dr. Thomas Moore, Bank of America – Mia Ericsson, Colorado Freeskier, Benson Sotheby’s International Realty – Karen Redden, Rossignol, Meridian Design Land Surveying and Brick Oven Pizzeria.

have placed their skis at designated area above starting line. 8:45 a.m. Participants must be at starting line to the left of Red Lady chair lift. 8:50 a.m. Le Mans START, 7 Hours of the Banana (short run uphill to skis, around to the Silver Queen chair lift). 10 a.m. START, Tropical Obstacle on West Wall. 2 p.m. END, Tropical Obstacle on West Wall. 3:50 p.m. END, 7 Hours of the Banana 4 p.m. The Banana Bash at the Butte 66 Roadhouse and BBQ: awards and after-party!

Theater at The Lobar The explicit British drama, Closer, will have three performances the evenings of Saturday, March 6 through Monday, March 8 here in Crested Butte. Written and originally produced for London’s Royal National Theatre in 1997, Closer had a healthy run in the West End and then landed on Broadway for 172 performances in 1999. The upcoming shows mark the return of Flying Petito Sisters Productions to the local stage. Written by Patrick Marber, this look at love, lust, and all-around nasty behavior will be performed for three nights at the Lobar on Elk Avenue in Crested Butte, Saturday through Monday, March 6-8. All three shows will be at 9:30 p.m. with an asking admission donation of $10, $5 for students. This is an adult show with very adult themes and language.

Closer is acted by local favorites Perry Lewis, Nichole Reycraft, Brent Laney and Ali Keagle. Directed by the ensemble cast, with help from local theater veteran Lynda Jackson Petito, it is the story of four characters in search of love and perhaps even some truth - along with what those things might imply. It is a contemporary piece with just a passing nod to the actual time frames between scenes. Boy meets girl, boy meets another girl, girls meet, boys meet, partners are exchanged. Along the way physical and mental games get played...and played...and played. For an evening of misbehavior, shock, and just plain dirty goings-on, come by the Lobar on March 6, 7, or 8, Saturday through Monday. For more information call Perry Lewis at 970-209-6467.

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Come see us during the Artwalk! Featured Artists

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elections for the Gunnison-Crested Butte tourism association will be conducted via an electronic ballot. the ballot will be e-mailed by the Chambers on Feb. 23. Ballots must be returned by March 12 at 5 p.m. If you have questions or do not have e-mail and would like to vote, please call Maggie Dethloff at 641-7992.

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To enroll your business in 1% for Open Space, call 349-1775 for more information. Participation costs nothing. It is worth everything.

Artwalk

Artwalk is a self-guided tour of participating local galleries on Thursday, February 25. This vibrant evening is sponsored by Artists of the West Elks, a local non-profit organization that aspires to unify, enrich and educate novice, emerging and professional artists and art lovers by encouraging and challenging them to develop to their full potential. Artwalk begins at 5 p.m. and lasts until 8 p.m. with light refreshments and opportunities to meet local artists at each stop.

GO WEST: A Locals’ Mercantile Shop of Western Homemade Artwork Goods Mel has been an artist most of all of her life. After serving as a guest artist at Paragon Gallery, she quickly moved into being a permanent artist member in 2007 with her intricate pen n’ ink black & white and color illustrations of local mountains and landscapes. Currently Mel is evolving to more whimsical drawings as well. In her excursions jeeping into the backcountry she has collected various items from old mines and barns, such as bottles, tins and barnwood. Now she honors that piece of Colorado history by bringing it back to life through decorating the recyclable goods. Her shop holds treasures from coat racks to flower vases; with ten other artists represented with jewelry, rugs, photographs, acrylic paintings, raku pottery, knit hats, soaps, candles, and even pickled food. It’s recycled art with a backstory. She’ll be servin’ up food and goodies during Artwalk. Stop on by Mel’s at 327 Elk Avenue from high noon to sunset with some evening hours. Contact 970275-5181 or gowestmountainmel@ yahoo.com for more information. ICEHOUSE ART Icehouse Art will be hosting artists Anette Akselsen and Kyle Fleener with their Wire wrapped gems and jewelry along with Faith Markell with her Upcyled Funky Fashions. In addition to these wearable tidbits, Becca Bober will be serving up delectable teas and a wee Teaducation from “Your Cup,” her incredibly cute and quaint new Teahouse located inside “Hearth and Soul,” next to the Library! Kate Seeley might be able to squeeze in a few cup drawings and paintings too. Icehouse Art (Working studio of Artist, Kate Seeley) is the stone, historic building, located on Second Street across the street from the Old Town Hall bus stop. For more information call 720-273-9155 or 970-349-1212. OH BE JOYFUL GALLERY Opening its doors in the summer of 2008, the Oh Be Joyful Gallery began featuring the work of owners Shaun Horne and Dawn Cohen, the two plein air painters we all see painting in the streets and countryside around the area. Focused entirely on realist landscapes in oil with a strong emphasis on plein air painting, the gallery has grown in a very short time to include the works of some of the top painters in the state. OBJ has been selected to host the 2010 Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters week-long event which will bring 60 top artists to town for the week of July 18th to paint, show and

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Painting by Susan Marron

sell their work. OBJ will be featuring new works by artists John Lintott from Grand Junction and Stacey Peterson from Granby, CO. Both are Realist landscape painters in oil and are well known to Crested Butte art buyers. We will also be offering for sale OBJ’s first Shaun Horne Art Poster as advertised in the Weekly. As always, catering is by Maxwells. The Oh Be Joyful Gallery is located at 409 Third Street across the alley from Marchitelli’s. Contact us at 970-3495936 or ohbejoyfulgallery@mac.com for more information. PARAGON GALLERY The Paragon Gallery has been in operation for over 30 years, as a cooperative store for local artists offering local art goods. Presently there are 14 regular members and 2 guest artists each month. The Paragon also participates in the yearly Artwalks, sponsors the People’s Fair, gives donations to the local public Crested Butte Community School, and sells CBCS students’ cards to help fund their art program. Located at the bus stop at the old Town Hall at Elk and 2nd Street. Call 970-349-6484. PIPER GALLERY On display at the Piper gallery, February 9 thru March 2, a collection of original oil paintings and fine art Giclee prints by Adam Freed. The show is titled, “Intuitive Realism.” Freed, originally from Poughkeepsie, New York, has been a resident of Crested Butte for the past 16 years. His style of painting, known as intuitive realism, implements the confluence of realistic representation and subjective impressions in an attempt to express a truth that is both universal and personal. Says Freed, “I have the greatest admiration for artwork that is singular in expression. The highest compliment anyone can pay to me as an artist is to say that they’ve never seen anything like that before. The fundamentals of drawing and painting are important. However, my ambitions reside somewhere beyond the scope of line, form and color. My journey stretches inward to a place within the core of who I am as an individual.” The Piper Gallery is located in the Crested Butte Center for the Arts on 6th Avenue. Call 970-349-7487 or visit www. crestedbuttearts.org. RIJKS FAMILY GALLERY Rijks Family Gallery specializes in Rocky Mountain art including photography, paintings, pottery, and aspen wood. At the Art Walk this month meet photographer Dusty Demerson and energy artist Carol Connor. Dusty has captured

Crested Butte and the surrounding area since 1987. His landscape photographs have won a First Place in the Banff Mountain Film Festival as well as three Special Mentions. Carol Connor’s art depicts the relationships between aspects of the natural world and inner realms, where the physical and spiritual interface, where insights begin and in the wisdom that emerges. She works in mixed media: acrylic on paper and canvas, and found object assemblages. Creating artwork in the area for thirty years, Carol lives on a working ranch near Jack’s Cabin. Located at 310 Second Street. Call 970-349-5289 for more information or visit www.rijksgallery. com SUSAN ANDERTON FINE ART Susan has been drawing and painting Crested Butte for 40 years, and is well known for her historic pen and ink series of the old buildings in town, as well as her versatility in media and subject matter. She recently opened a new studio/ gallery “Susan Anderton Fine Art” at Third and Elk. The gallery features her own work in painting, drawing and printmaking. Open Thursday February 25 till 9 p.m. Regular hours are 12 noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday thru Saturday, or by appointment. For more information contact 970349-8908, 970-349-1202 or www. susanandertonstudio@aol.com JOHN INGHAM GALLERY John Ingham has been an oil painter for over 35 years. He specializes in Native American portraits as well as landscapes from Colorado and the Southwest. John regularly updates his inventory in the gallery so stop by! His work can be seen at www.inghamart.com. Susan Marrion began painting about five years ago with no prior painting experience, although she’s been writing about nature and her beauty, moods and color for years. She is a “Rolfer” by trade, and one day John Ingham happened upon her door for bodywork. He took her in as a painting student and she has been learning to paint the way she feels outdoors ever since. Raynor Czerwinski displays photographs from around the globe as well as local landscapes. Currently, his passion lies in capturing the rare and fleeting light found only in stormy weather. He has framed and matted prints available in many sizes starting at $30. www.lucidlandscape.com. Located at 403 3rd Street. Open from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. Call 970-3495174 for more information.

Local Artist Leanne Canty presents Nude Paintings Local artist Leanne Canty will be exhibiting “Body Language,” her series of subtle, sensual nude paintings at the Dogwood Cocktail Cabin. The show will run February 25-29 with an opening reception corresponding with Artwalk Evening, February 25 from 5-8 pm, at the Dogwood, 309 3rd Street. Of the series, Canty says, “As an artist the human figure is my first love. Body language is so expressive, especially when it is full of unintended emotion. This series of nude figures painted on canvas in acrylic convey the feelings of strength, sensuality, naïveté and more. The use of a simple color palette and off centered, crowded figures lends to portraying complicated unspoken body language.”

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Crested Butte Magazine cover photo contest ends March 1 All photographers are invited to enter the Crested Butte Magazine Cover Photo Contest. “We’re looking for unique, vivid, vertical-format photos that capture the fun and magnificence of summer in Crested Butte,” said Sandy Fails, editor of the Crested Butte Magazine. “The content could be anything Crested Butte; surprise us!” The winning photo will be used on the cover of the summer 2010 Crested Butte Magazine, with a payment of $500. The photographer will be featured in the magazine and online. The deadline is March 1. Deliver or send a disk with no more than ten highresolution cover candidates to the Crested Butte Magazine office, 325 Belleview, P.O. Box 1030, Crested Butte, CO 81224. For details, see the blog at crestedbuttemagazine. com. Crested Butte Arts Festival Application for Artist Deadline The Crested Butte Arts Festival (CBAF) will celebrate 38 years of art and culture on July 31 and August 1st with 185 juried artists lining Elk Avenue. Visual artists are encouraged to apply via www. zapplication.org prior to the March 1 deadline. Visual artists must submit applications digitally with 4 images of their current work and 1 image of their booth. The jury panel will convene on March 11 & 12 to determine which artists will receive an invitation and notifications will be sent out no later than April 1. Volunteers and committee chairs are needed for all aspects of the festival. Please fill out a volunteer application through our website if you are interested in helping with the festival. Grants Available through the Crested Butte Arts Festival The Crested Butte Arts Festival is currently accepting grant applications from artists and arts organizations in the Upper East River Valley. All grant applications must be emailed or postmarked no later than March 12th to be eligible for consideration of funds. Full grant applications are available on our website at www. crestedbutteartsfestival.com. This is a fairly simple grant application and the CBAF has nearly $10,000

allotted from last summer’s festival to give back to the community through these art grants. Don’t miss your opportunity to receive funds for your arts organization or project. Crested Butte Arts Festival introduces culinary arts in 2010 Well known as a signature cultural event in Crested Butte, the CBAF will celebrate not only the visual and performing arts but will add a special culinary component to the festival this summer. Beginning with a gourmet kick-off dinner with celebrated chefs from the Front Range, the festival will feature a full outdoor kitchen complete with Viking equipment, free chef demonstrations and tastings throughout the festival, as well as special “Festival After Hour” events in Mt. Crested Butte. Keep an eye on the website www. crestedbutteartsfestival.com or become a fan on Facebook for up to the minute updates and this exciting new element. Alpenglow Gallery seeks submissions Attention Gunnison Valley Artists, Alpenglow Gallery is currently seeking submissions for the new installation: Nouvelle Saison; the new season. All wall-art is welcome. Deadline for submissions is March 3, 2010. Email the gallery at alpenglowgallerycb@gmail.com for an application. For more information, call Brooke 970-214-2917. Calling All Photographers The Crested Butte Land Trust is now accepting submissions for the 2011 Calendar. The deadline for submissions is February 26, 2009. Photographers may submit up to 20 photographs, are to be focused on all four seasons and should be of CBLT properties as well as the Crested Butte area. Photos should be submitted in 30-350 dpi with the image size as large as possible, on a disk. Photographers can choose to donate or receive compensation for photos used for the calendar. Drop off disks at 308 3rd Street or mail them to P.O. Box 2224, Crested Butte, CO 81224. For more information contact Liz at 970-3491206 or events@cblandtrust.org. Artists needed to paint buses Mountain Express is looking for

local artists to paint the two (2) new buses we received in December. The selected artists must be able to paint the buses during the spring off-season. Mountain Express will supply all materials and a stipend of $1,000 per bus will be paid upon completion of the project. The board of directors will choose a concept from those submitted at their meeting on March 15, 2010. In order to assist the board in their decision, applicants are encouraged to submit samples (or photos of samples) of their artwork along with a sketch and/or narrative of their ideas to Chris Larsen at 803 Butte Ave. on or before March 11, 2010. Call 349-5616 for details. Get in the Artist Guide Calling all Artists and Art Dealers! Artists of the West Elks is preparing their 2010-2011 Artists Guide. This year we will be opening up the guide to all Artists and Art dealers residing in the West Elks region, as well as all current AWE members. Whether you create art or sell local art, this guide is a great way to get your name, or your business, out to the public. Guides will be located in many prominent locations including: galleries, shops, and chambers of commerce. Reserve your space in the guide today! For more information on being a part of the guide, or becoming a member of AWE, please contact Elise at whereseslise@aol.com, or visit our website at www.awearts.org. Deadline for saving a space is March 15th, 2010. Dance performance coming to Center for the Arts The Crested Butte Dance Collective is putting on a dance performance on Saturday March 6 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 7 at 4:30 p.m. at the CB Center for the Arts. This event will showcase local talent through a variety of genres of dance. African, Hip-Hop, Modern, Aerial Dance, Salsa, and many more styles will be performed. As there will be one dance piece with a more mature theme, there will be an early intermission option for children and families. Tickets are $15/adults and $5/kids. For more info call 970209-4302 or look for the Crested Butte Dance Collective on Facebook soon.

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greeting cards, pen n’ ink drawings decorated mattes barn wood frames, photographs recycled antique items; tins, bottles and mason jars w/ tole decorations wood and mining nail coat racks wall decorations leather goods baskets

• candles • children items • xmas tree ornaments • local rocks and gems with petrified wood and coral • decorated plates, wine glasses, tile and trivets, and mirrors • letters and numbers (for address or names) • custom orders

There are also works from other artists such as handwoven rugs by Janet Birch and jewelry w/ nature by Elise Meier and JC Leacock’s Cowboy photography.

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Aspen Santa Fe Ballet

Tuesday, March 9th and Wednesday, March 10th • 7:30 p.m. Adults $40 Kids $20

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Adam Freed

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Great American Taxi at the Center

n the past five years, Great American Taxi has become one of the best-known headliners on the jam band circuit. Their uninhibited sound is a swinging concoction of swampy blues, progressive bluegrass, funky New Orleans strut, Southern boogie, honky tonk country, gospel, and good ol’ fashioned rock ’n’ roll. Great American Taxi was born when singer, guitarist, and mandolin player Vince Herman of Leftover Salmon joined keyboard player and singer Chad Staehly for a superstar jam to benefit the Rainforest Action Group in Boulder, in March of 2005. “We put together a dream band of the best local musicians for a one-off gig,” Herman recalls. “It worked so well we had to do it again, and again, and again.” Great American Taxi quickly evolved into one of the best country, rock, and bluegrass influenced jam bands in the land, masterfully blending acoustic and electric instruments into music they call “Americana Without Borders.” Tickets are $18 in advance and on sale now. If you miss the advance sales, they will be $20 on the day of performance. A huge round of applause to our Winter Season sponsors including gold sponsor Crested Butte Lodging and Property Management, Eagle Resort Development, Starr & Associates, Bank of America, the Princess Wine Bar and Western Design and Red Lady Realty. Tuesday, March 2 at Center for the Arts 8 p.m. - $18 advance, $20 day of; 606 6th Street in Crested Butte, 970-349-7487, ext. 3, www.crestedbuttearts.org

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Local Musicians Night Local musicians night in the midst of a busy season? Why not!? We entertain you year-round at the Center, so we decided to bring our famed and fabulous local musicians night to you in the middle of winter. Come support your favorite local musicians and cheer on some new ones. Admission is a suggested $5 donation at the door to cover the cost of Dead Head Ed’s expert sound technique. If you’d like to perform, please contact Jamie Booth at 970349-7487 x4. Center for the Arts 8 p.m. - $5 donation; 606 6th Street in Crested Butte, 970-349-7487, ext. 3, www. crestedbuttearts.org

Butte, 970-349-0210 Evelyn Roper and Friends Evelyn may growl out Johnny Cash then lilt Emmy Lou or throw in a surf, blues or rock song just for spite and spontaneity. She writes of old-fashioned love and in your face truths, but also points to the positivity of looking to the sky AND keeping a foot on the ground. Her lyrics have been described as “a

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Zepparella Zepparella is not a tribute. No wigs, no backing tracks. It is a celebration of Led Zepplin (creators of some of the greatest music ever written) by women who love their music as musicians and as fans. We want to celebrate it with you, fellow appreciators. Opening band is local Slim Pickins. The Eldo 10 p.m. – $10 advance, $12 day of; Karaoke 215 Elk Avenue in Crested Every Thursday night, Butte; 970-349-6125, www. karaoke features a 10,000+ eldobrewpub.com song playlist, 6 flat screen Selecta D-RO monitors, and Hi-Fi sound Selecta D-RO is a local DJ system. Free SAKE while who hosts the Ital show on you’re singing! The Lobar 10 KBUT. The music revolves p.m.; Downstairs at 3rd and around Dubstep, Dance, Elk in Crested Butte; 970-349Glitch electronics with Legendary DJ Logic joins Lubriphonic’s and 0480, www.thelobar.com influences ranging from explosive rock at the Eldo March 3 EOTO to Pretty Lights. It Beau et la Bête will be a night full of heavy Lila is part tumbleweed, part painting, a poem and a song” all beats and dub mixology, one not starfish. She saw the cracks that in one. Evelyn has a fierce local to be missed! The Lobar 10 p.m.; let the light in and started singing following and can be heard in venues Downstairs at 3rd and Elk in Crested through them. They widened. Chris up and down the Western Slope. The Butte; 970-349-0480, www.thelobar. is the snowman who came to life, Flying Burritos Bar 9 p.m. – Free; 107 com heard Ray Brown, and started S. Main St. in Gunnison, 970-641emanating the low sounds that are Bill Dowell 5777, www.flyingburritosbar.com the spine of everything. When you One of Crested Butte’s local hear them, you will shake softly in a Fireman’s Concert: Host Night Gala favorites. Bill plays classic acoustic deep place. The Princess Wine Bar Concert rock and roll with a little country and 8:30 p.m.; 218 Elk Avenue in Crested The Western State College Symphony some original tunes thrown in for

You Gave Us the Gold Medal!! KBUT-FM reached our goal of $39,000 for the 2010 Winter Pledge Drive on Friday, February 19th at 1:56pm. Thank you to all the businesses who donated items for the Pledge Drive, our DJ’s and volunteers that put in all those long hours, and especially to everyone who pledged their support. You are the GREATEST! Elk Mountain Lodge Escape Flying Burritos Flying Petito Sisters Video Forest Queen Four Eighteen Garlic Mike’s Gas Café GG’s Catering Ginger Café Go To Guide Go West Gunnison Arts Center The Gym Hearth and Sol Heather Biery Acupuncture Henrietta Raines

Band and Ensembles will perform at a fundraiser for the Gunnison Valley Fire Department. Taylor Auditorium 7 p.m. – Admission by donation; Western State College in Gunnison; 970-943-3054, http://www.western. edu/academics/music

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Bleu Gravy An acoustic blend of musical genres, Bleu Gravy has a uniquely captivating sound and feel. From the songwriting duo of Aaron Oliveira-guitar, and singer/guitarist, Dylan Cowles, comes a heartfelt, yet whimsical style sure to stimulate the ears and mind. Bleu Gravy’s recipe: add dashes of folk, rock, blues, jazz, and world music.

Beau et la Bête See Thursday for description. Rumor’s Coffee and Tea House 7:30 p.m.; 414 Elk Avenue in Crested Butte, 970-349-0504

Reid Templeton Reid’s music has filled the Gunnison Valley for over 10 years. Experiences from the road are the basis for his original tunes influenced by the songwriting of Jeff Tweedy, George Lowell, Robert Hunter and Bob Dylan. Reid on guitars, vocals, and harmonicas, is joined by the T-Tones, an amalgamation of local musicians, Bob Trombley on percussion and Billy Rankin on guitar. The Princess Wine Bar 8:30 p.m.; 218 Elk Avenue in Crested Butte, 970-349-0210

Chris Webb Band The Chris Webb Band writes songs for the soundtrack of life. This funky outfit plays Roots Rock, fusing rhythms Open Mic Night and styles from folk, rock, The Forest Queen 7 p.m.; latin, and funk to weave an 129 Elk Avenue in Crested intricate tapestry of sound Butte, 970-349-5299 without abandoning their Swollen members will fill the house with Sol Driven Train pop sensibility. Founded in 2006, the Chris Webb Band Sol Driven Train is a band hip hop at the Lobar March 3 has quickly risen through in motion. Perpetually the ranks of the Colorado piling on and off the bus, Heat steadily, while stirring at music scene, showcasing their the momentum of their hard work alternating speeds, ladle generously eclectic style to good time folks with and heart-felt music propels the into the ears. The Lobar 10 p.m; a desire to get down and have great group upward. Blending AllmanDownstairs at 3rd and Elk in Crested music rock their souls. The Flying esque Southern rock, world-beat, and Butte; 970-349-0480, www.thelobar. Burritos Bar 10 p.m. – Free; 107 S. swamp funk into their energetic live com Main St. in Gunnison, 970-641-5777, performances, Sol Driven Train are www.flyingburritosbar.com attracting fans devoted to witnessing Lee McClain their musical progression. Gunnison The Princess Wine Bar 8:30 p.m.; SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Brewery 9 p.m.; 138 N. Main St., 218 Elk Avenue in Crested Butte, Just How Gunnison, 970-641-2739 970-349-0210 Local musician Just How presents a Chris Coady’s 18 Mile Radius night of live looping and electronics. Student Recital New Happy Hour show every The Eldo 10 p.m. – No Cover; 215 Elk Quigley Recital Hall 12:30 p.m. – Wednesday at 6pm with singerAvenue in Crested Butte; 970-349No Cover; Western State College in songwriter Chris Coady and fiddle 6125, www.eldobrewpub.com Gunnison; 970-943-3054, http:// player Mark Fonken. Chris has www.western.edu/academics/music Tyler Hansen been performing his original blend Tyler Hansen’s skillful guitar playing of “Blues, Country, Folk Rock, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3 and soaring voice make him a Americana, Singer/Songwriter” at Lubriphonic w/ DJ Logic unique talent that has been a local and regional venues since the Lubriphonic greases your ears, fixture of the Crested Butte music mid 1990’s. Coady’s musical style moves your hips, and leaves you scene for the past seven years. has been shaped by various genres reeling in sweaty bliss. Simmering Whether he is experimenting with and influences including John Hiatt, and intense, with chops to spare, multi-layered looping, reinterpreting Robert Earle Keen, Johnny Cash, Lubriphonic’s live fusion of roots a well-known cover or performing Townes Van Zandt, Neil Young, music, explosive rock, and sensuous one of his originals, his style wins The Eagles, Jackson Browne, John old-school dance music creates a over new fans at every show. Prine and Bob Dylan. The Flying spicy dish that is guaranteed to cure His playing is a mix of Bob Dylan Burritos Bar 6 p.m. 107 S. Main St. what ails you. Special guest DJ Logic meeting Michael Jackson in a back in Gunnison, 970-641-5777, www. will perform a set of his legendary alley fight with Eric Clapton trying flyingburritosbar.com turntable dynamics, as well as to break it up. The Princess Wine provide scratching for Lubriphonic. The Set List is sponsored by KBUT, a community Bar 8:30 p.m.; 218 Elk Avenue in The Eldo 10 p.m. – $15; 215 Elk radio station serving Gunnison County, Crested Butte, 970-349-0210 Colorado since 1986. Over 80 volunteer DJ’s Avenue in Crested Butte; 970-349program a diverse mix of music including jazz, 6125, www.eldobrewpub.com Fireman’s Concert blues, rock and bluegrass. KBUT broadcasts The Western State All-Colorado 24 hours a day, seven days a week and can be Swollen Members heard at 90.3 FM in Crested Butte, 89.9 FM in Honor Band and the Western State The critically acclaimed Canadian hip- Gunnison and 94.9 FM in Almont. Visit them at Colorado Brass Band perform at a hop group Swollen Members invades www.kbut.org or call 970-349-5225 for more fundraiser for the Gunnison Valley information. the Lobar for one night only! Swollen Fire Department. Taylor Auditorium 2:00 p.m. – Admission by donation; Western State College in Gunnison; 970-943-3054, http://www.western. edu/academics/music

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Big Mine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.5. . . . . . . . . . Yes Electric Loop. . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5 . . . . . . . . . Yes Upper/Lower Red Lady . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . Yes Bench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.5 . . . . . . . . . Yes Peanut Lake Trail. . . . . . . . . 2.5 . . . . . . . . . Yes Riverbend Connector . . . . . .2.5. . . . . . . . . Yes Beaver Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5 . . . . . . . . . Yes Magic Meadows . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . . . Yes Inner Magic Meadows . . . . 1.75. . . . . . . . . Yes Pooches Paradise . . . . . . . . 4.5 . . . . . . . . . Yes Town Ranch - Big Wag . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . . . Yes Skyland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . . . . Yes The Maze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.75. . . . . . . . . Yes Mt. CB Rec Path . . . . . . . . . 3.25 . . . . . . . . Yes Paradise Park. . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . . . . Yes With the exception of the Town Ranch Trail and Mt./CB Rec. Path, the above trails require a “Trails Pass” Available at the Crested Butte Nordic Center located at 2nd & Whiterock.

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 Singer-Songwriter Night Bring your instrument and a song! Rumor’s Coffee and Tea House 7 p.m.; 414 Elk Avenue in Crested Butte, 970-349-0504 MONDAY, MARCH 1 Dobro Dave Come experience Dobro Dave’s acoustic blues and jam sound. Playing mostly on the square neck dobro and acoustic guitar, Dave’s mostly original set includes stylized covers from artists like Neil Young and Ben Harper. Utilizing a free form approach, his ability to noodle in between songs and expand the music allows each show to become a distinct emotional ride. The Princess Wine Bar 8:30 p.m.; 218 Elk Avenue in Crested Butte, 970-349-0210

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Members consists principally of Mad Child and Prevail, who have been lauded as “two of the most innovative people in hip-hop.” Long known as one of the premier groups in underground hip-hop, Swollen Members are touring in support of their 6th studio album, “Armed to the Teeth.” Presale tickets are highly encouraged and are available now at The Lobar. The Lobar 10 p.m; Downstairs at 3rd and Elk in Crested Butte; 970-349-0480, www.thelobar. com

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Steve Snyder Steve Snyder has been playing for 21 years in Crested Butte. Heralding from musical roots in West Virginia, Steve belts it out with a vast array from folk, country and classic rock. You’ll hear your favorites of Johnny Cash, The Band and Waylon Jennings. Talk of the Town “When he’s damn good and ready” (or around 6:30 p.m.); 230 Elk Avenue in Crested Butte, 970-3496809

TUESDAY, MARCH 2 Great American Taxi See description above. Center for the Arts 8 p.m. - $18 advance, $20 day of; 606 6th Street in Crested Butte, 970-349-7487, ext. 3, www. crestedbuttearts.org

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good measure. He is often joined by his wife Patti Gast on vocals and Steve Farley on guitar. The Princess is a great after dinner venue for a place to relax and enjoy a drink or dessert after a night on the town. The Princess Wine Bar 8:30 p.m.; 218 Elk Avenue in Crested Butte, 970-349-0210

Live Music on Elk Avenue FRI

2.26.10

Zepparella

SAT

Just How

WED

Lubriphonic

2.27.10 3.3.10

FRI

3.5.10

with Slim Pickins

Free Show

with DJ Logic / $2 Wells & $1 PBR

Michael Rose

of Black Uhuru

w/ The Dubtonic Kru & Selecta D-Ro

The home of Crested Butte’s original Nordic Ski School.

Enjoy your vacation. Come back and stay with us.

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8 a.m. Drop in Meditation at Union Congregational Church. For more information call 970-3496464. 8:30 a.m. Women’s Book Discussion group at UCC. Call 970-349-6405. 12 Noon All Saints in the Mountains Episcopal Church Community Healing Service every Thursday at Queen of All Saints Catholic Church, 4th & Sopris. 970-349-9371 or the website at allsaintsinthemountains.org. 11 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Crested Butte (Big Mine) Ice Rink. Public Skate. For Ice Rink events today call the Rink Hotline at 970-349-0974. 1 p.m. Last Chance to Learn to Skate Ski for FREE. Nordic Center. Space is limited. 970-349-1707. 3 – 5 p.m. Master Reiki Teachers will be available to give sample Energy Sessions at the Well Being Studio, 303 Belleview, Suite 3C. 970-349-6464.

4 p.m. Gypsy Jazz Social Club at django’s restaurant & wine bar, Mountaineer Square, Mt. Crested Butte. 970-349-7574. www.djangos.us 4 p.m. Winter Rando Series registration at Thin Air Sports in Mountaineer Square 6 p.m. The History of Crested Butte Ski Area by Dick Eflin Lodge at Mountaineer Square 7 p.m. Host Night Gala with WSC Symphony Band and Jazz Ensemble. Taylor Auditorium, WSC. Donation to Gunnison Volunteer Fire Dept. suggested admission. 970-943-3093. 8 p.m. Local Musicians’ Night at the Center for the Arts, CB. Pay-what-you-can and cash bar. Contact Jamie at 970-349-7487 ext. 4 if you are interested in performing or have questions. 8:30 p.m. Beau et la Bête at The Princess Wine Bar. 970-349-0210. 9 p.m. Evelyn Roper and Friends at The Flying Burritos Bar; No cover. 107 S. Main St. in Gunnison, 970-641-5777, 10 p.m. Karaoke at The Lobar. 970-349-0480.

7 – 8 a.m. Yoga and the Grand Traverse Class thru March 19. Yoga for the Peaceful. 114 Elk Ave. $12 per class. Call Casey at 970-349-0302. 10 a.m. Trailhead Discovery Museum. Sculptures! Join Kelly in sculpting your very own clay masterpiece. Let’s make artifacts too, for Saturday’s archeology dig. All ages welcome. Downstairs in the Treasury Center at Ski Area. Call 970-349-7160. 10:30 a.m. Story Time @ Your Library, ages 3 and up, at the CB Old Rock Library, 507 Maroon, 970-3496535. 11 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Crested Butte (Big Mine) Ice Rink. Public Skate. For Ice Rink events today call the Rink Hotline at 970-349-0974. 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Local author Joanne Reynolds at Blue Moon Books, 414 Elk Ave. Brief information sessions for caregivers. 970-349-0368.

4 - 6 p.m. 7 Hrs of Banana registration at the Brick Oven. Last chance. 970-275-2554 for more information 6 p.m. – Stations of the Cross at Queen of All Saints Catholic Church at 4th and Sopris Avenue. 970-6410808. 6:30 p.m. 7 Hrs of Banana mandatory meeting at the Brick Oven 6:30 p.m. (around) Steve Snyder at the Talk of the Town. 970-349-6809. 7:30 p.m. Beau et la Bête at Rumors Coffee and Tea House. 970-349-7545. 8:30 p.m. Bill Dowell at the Princess Wine Bar. 970-349-0210. 10 p.m. Chris Webb Band at The Flying Burritos Bar; No Cover. 107 S. Main St. in Gunnison, 970-6415777, 10 p.m. – Live DJ and dancing with Selecta D-RO at the Lobar. Call 970-349-0480. 10 p.m. – Zepparella at The Eldo. $10 advance. $12 at the door. 970-349-6125.

8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Focus on Marriage Simulcast. Webster Hall, 117 N. Iowa, Gunnison. $10/single $20/couple. Includes childcare, lunch, snacks. For more info call Fae at

whole world of amazing science and artifacts! Fun science for children of all ages. Downstairs in the Treasury Center at Ski Area. Call 970-349-7160. 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Crested Butte (Big Mine) Ice Rink. Public Skate or Games To Be Announced. For Ice Rink events today call the Rink Hotline at 970-349-0974. 2 p.m. All-Colorado Honor Band and WSC-Colorado Brass Band Concert at Taylor Auditorium, WSC. Donation to Gunnison Volunteer Fire Dept. suggested admission. 970-943-3093. 4 p.m. Banana Bash 7 Hrs of the Banana Awards Party at Butte 66 5 p.m. Dobro Dave plays live at Rumors Coffee and Tea House. 970-349-7545. 8 p.m. KBUT’s 2nd Annual Female Arm Wrestling Tournament at the Talk of the Town. $5 to register. Call Josh 970-349-5225 for more info about registration. 8:30 p.m. Tyler Hansen at the Princess Wine Bar. 970-349-0210. 10 p.m. Local Musician Just How at The Eldo. No Cover. 970-349-6125.

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Oh-Be-Joyful 970-349-6237. 8:50 a.m. Start of “7 Hours of the Banana” ski event at Ski Area to benefit Adaptive Sports and CB Ski Club. 970-275-2554 for details. 9 a.m. Red Lady Saturdays! Slip on your Sassiest Flashiest Red every Saturday on the Ski Slopes to express your support for the preservation of the Red Lady/Mt. Emmons. For more info call Dickie 970-5963675. 10 a.m. Start of “Tropical Obstacle” ski event at Ski Area to benefit Adaptive Sports and CB Ski Club. 970275-2554 for details. 10 a.m. Trailhead Discovery Museum. Join Special Guest Rocky Mountain Biological Lab and discover a

7:30 a.m. Oh-Be-Joyful Church Intercessory Prayer. 970-349-6237. 8 a.m. Oh-Be-Joyful Bible Study. 970-3496237. 8:30 a.m. Catholic Mass at Queen of All Saints Catholic Church, 4th & Sopris Avenue. 9 a.m. Union Congregational Church service and Sunday School. 970-349-6405.

9 a.m. Oh-Be-Joyful Church Service. 970-349-6237. 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Crested Butte (Big Mine) Ice Rink. Public Skate or Games To Be Announced. For Ice Rink events today call the Rink Hotline at 970-349-0974. 5 p.m. All Saints in the Mountains Episcopal Church Eucharist Services at Queen of All Saints Catholic Church, 402 Sopris. Contact 970-349-9371 or the website at www.llsaintsinthemountains.org. 7 p.m. Singer-songwriter night at Rumors Coffee & Tea House. 970-349-7545

10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Vital Roots Yoga. Yoga for the Peaceful Studio, 114 Elk Avenue. Call Trish at 970349-0302 for background information. 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Crested Butte (Big Mine) Ice Rink. Public Skate. For Ice Rink events today call the Rink Hotline at 970-349-0974. 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. Chair massage by donation with Escape Bodywork Boutique at Rumors Coffee and Tea House. 970-349-7545.

5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Timberline Wine Tastings, every Monday. $10 for wine knowledge and 4 glasses of wine. Timberline Restaurant 970-349-9831. 5:30 p.m. Communion Service at Queen Of All Saints Catholic Church, 4th & Sopris. 6:30 p.m. Choosing Unconditional Love Workshop at the CB Chamber, 601 Elk Ave. Call Barb Pachla 970209-5773 for more info. 7:30 – 10 p.m. Pick-Up Ultimate Frisbee in Jerry’s Gym at Town Hall. 970-349-7197 8:30 p.m. Dobro Dave performs at The Princess Wine Bar. 970-349-0210.

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349-5210. 10:30 Story Time @ Your Library (Baby & Toddler Age 0-3). CB Old Rock Library, 507 Maroon, 970-3496535. 11 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Crested Butte (Big Mine) Ice Rink. Public Skate. For Ice Rink events today call the

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8 a.m. Active Isolated Stretching Class at Union Congregational Church. Use side entrance. Donation. Call Bill Smith for more info 970-349-2766. 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Crested Butte (Big Mine) Ice Rink. Public Skate. For Ice Rink events today call the Rink Hotline at 970-349-0974. 5 p.m. till midnight – Ladies Night (drink specials) at the Dogwood Cocktail Cabin, on 3rd Street between Elk and Maroon on the alley. Call 970-349-6338 or online at the dogwoodcocktailcabin.com.

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Rink Hotline at 970-349-0974. 12:30 p.m. WSC Student Recital at Quigley Hall. No cover. 970-943-3054. 5:30 – 7 p.m. Lenten Discussion at Union Congregational Church. 403 Maroon Ave. Soup supper as well as childcare provided. 970-349-6405. 5:30 p.m. – Catholic Mass at Queen Of All Saints Catholic Church in Crested Butte, 4th and Sopris. 8 p.m. Great American Taxi at the Center for the Arts. $18 Advance. $20 day-of. 970-349-7487 x3. 8:30 p.m. Lee McClain performs at the Princess Wine Bar. 970-349-0210. 10 p.m. Bleu Gravy at the Lobar 970-349-0480.

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Keep in mind Friday, March 5 Classical Pianist Alpin Hong at the Center Unconventional classical pianist Alpin Hong executes his repertoire from Bach, to Rachmaninoff, to Gershwin, like a rock star. His youthful vivacity and boundless energy coalesces all ages, experiences and backgrounds, collectively transporting everyone through undulating waves of experiences. Alpin Hong will be performing at the Center for the Arts in Crested Butte Friday, March 5 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students under 18. Tickets are available at the Center Box Office by calling 970349-7487 ext.3 or online at www. crestedbuttearts.org. Saturday, March 6 Get Ready for the Red Lady Ball High Country Citizens’ Alliance (HCCA) is excited to announce that the 33rd Annual Red Lady Salvation will take place on Saturday, March 6th at The Eldo featuring Grayson Capps and the Stumpknockers. The Red Lady Ball is HCCA’s annual fundraiser and membership drive to support protection of the natural world that surrounds us. The evening is highlighted by the coronation of the Red Lady, a tradition of this

long-time community event. If you are available and would like to volunteer please RSVP with Dana Bradley at perennialent@aol.com or 970-349-5956. Tuesday, March 9 Aspen Santa Fe Ballet at the Center For the past eight years, the Center for the Arts and the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet have been turning even the most unlikely candidates into ballet enthusiasts. ASFB returns to the stage at the Center for the Arts on Tuesday, March 9 and Wednesday, March 10 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $40 and $20 for children under 12. A special discount is also offered to local dancers and students. Purchase tickets by calling the box office at 970-349-7487, x3, online at www.crestedbuttearts.org, or by stopping by the Center for the Arts between 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. MondayFriday.

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Positively Temporary

The World of Mikey Shorts by Dawne Belloise • Photos by Dusty Demerson

PROFILE

From his vantage point perched high on somebody’s snowy roof Mikey Shorts draws on his years of experiences to conclude that simple is good and life is fabulous. Tossing another shovel full of white gold over the edge of his world he says, “It’s beautiful. It’s great.” Born Mikey Oluich he was tagged with the moniker of “Shorts” a decade ago. “Because I wore shorts for twenty years. I skied in shorts. I lived in shorts,” he says and then laughs an almost challenge to the other local king of shorts, “I don’t think Tony Borland skied in shorts...” Although Mikey was born in Cleveland he spent most of his formative years in Binghamton, N.Y. – which explains a lot when you consider that it was also the home of Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone. Mikey chose the other vortex of fringe, Crested Butte, when browsing for a higher education in 1980. “I looked at a college catalog, a real paper one, and it said WSC was only twenty-eight miles from Crested Butte ... why else would you come here? This was the closest college to a decent ski area.” So he packed up and headed west with visions of deep and steep. “That was the year it didn’t snow, it was the second least snow ever recorded in the world,” he jests, although for him, Crested Butte was the world. “Kebler and Cottonwood Passes were open and they didn’t even have to plow!” Mikey wasn’t one for staying indoors much. “I had a dorm room in Chipeta Hall but I never went there,” he says with his trademark larger-than-life smile. “I just stayed in CB and worked and played. I lived on the deck of a house up on Whetstone Road on the mountain, in a hammock sleeping bag all winter. Disenchanted with college life he left with a friend for the front range in 1981. “We had a 77 Toyota Land Cruiser with no windshield or roof and Michigan tags that had expired two years previously, and it rained or snowed the whole way to Boulder,” he recalls with his child-like sense of adventure. He was off in the world “to seek fame and fortune,” he says. “I ended up doing door to door sales in Kodak film, traveling throughout forty states – in shorts,” he booms. “Short, tight, white shorts with a perfect tan. Sales were

good!” Mikey paints a perfect image. “If you couldn’t sell to them,” he says of his potential clients, “you could hire them to sell for you, or date them!” He continued on the path of sales throughout most of the 80s. “The most money I ever made in a year was $42k but my living expenses were $60k and that was a lot of money in 1984,” Mikey admits. But things were changing in the world of consumer photography, which altered Mikey’s path again. “The film industry was going downhill so I decided to get out and move, hitch hiking to Colorado Springs in 1990 to be a construction worker,” he said of his continuing journey, until 1994 when he played tourist in Crested Butte. “It was the only time I’ve ever been a tourist anywhere,” he chuckles. “It was snowing hard. I almost died on Monarch Pass drivin’ a two wheel drive Dodge van coming up from the Springs!” he laughed in the face of death as he finally pulled into town and grabbed a condo room. “I skied into town from the Outrun condos up on the mountain, in a whiteout at night – drunk – ‘cause it was a lot safer than driving into town since I had been drinking all day,” Mikey laughs... a lot. “I walked into the Idle Spur and slammed my fist down on the bar and said, ‘If somebody doesn’t buy me a drink I’m leaving!’” His comedic antics earned him bar clout, a group of new friends and he proudly retells, “... six people bought me a drink! I went out drinking for six hours on only $2. I decided right then to move back here,” he says of his return. He signed himself back into WSC from 1994 through 96 where he took pertinent classes that contributed to his lifestyle, “I majored in rafting and skiing,” Mikey says of his choice to live the life of an outdoor enthusiast. “I worked for Wilderness Pursuits and led ski and raft trips for two years every weekend.” He started river guiding on the Arkansas River in 92, based out of Colorado Springs and has been doing it ever since. He starts rafting every year in April for fun and in May he starts

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doing it for employment. He confesses, “I love to raft. I shovel snow so I can raft.” Getting paid to do something you love to do is an ideal way to live life and Mikey feels, “It allows me to live the way I want to live.” Up on the roof is where you’ll see Mikey most of the time... since we’re in winter more than any other season. He’s worked for property management companies but has had his own business shoveling solo as his own boss for six years now. Mikey figures that half his business is paid for by bartering, “Trading for anything... food, beer, tools. I would trade for sex too...” he teases... sort of. “One hundred percent of my customers are my friends and on a first name basis that I see every day as opposed to second home owners or absentee owners,” he speaks with adoration of his clan. An avid and active musician around town he got into music when he was still new to the universe – as a one-year old. He was influenced by “Going to church, Christmas carols, classic rock, and the radio was on all the time – no internet, no iPod, no schwag music ever,” he determined. “Every song was good on every station all the time. There were no bad songs,” he echoes the generational lament that music has changed and will perhaps never be as good as our own fondly remembered era. He adds that within all of us is a musician waiting to emerge, “We’ve been musical for eighty thousand years. We had music before we had speech or stone tools. Everyone’s just forgotten. I’ve been playing guitar hard for seven years. It doesn’t mean I’m any good. I just like to play,” he muses. And he has a formula for the masses, “You can learn rock ‘n roll in five minutes on the guitar – anybody, even if you don’t speak English. I learned rock when I was fourteen from my mom’s gay hairdresser. He kept an electric guitar in the salon and he taught me chords in five minutes. You can play most rock, country, or folk from just three chords – D, C and G,” he recites

learned rock when I was “ Ifourteen from my mom’s gay hairdresser.”

what most musicians refer to as the money chords – the sounds that allow you to learn songs quickly enough to get paying gigs. Mikey seems to have had a revelation about life early in his own and has accomplished what most have merely aspired to – a simple life of joy and gratitude. “Life is easy, people make it hard. I’ve simplified my life since I was three – that was when I took my first ride in a police car, ” he says seriously until he can no longer contain the laughter. “I was lost. I couldn’t see well since I had cataracts from birth,” he peers out from milk bottle thick glasses. “These two lesbians rescued me, took me to their house and gave me M&Ms. I was so hoping that I wouldn’t find my house and I got to grow up with them but they called the cops and we found my home about a block away.” He fantasizes what life might have been like being raised in a different household, “I could have grown up with the lesbians but I had to go back to my beautiful European parents,” says the wisecracker. “It made me realize that it’s all temporary.” Mikey’s philosophy of community is perfectly simple, “Everybody needs to take care of everybody else... and we do.” Events, restaurants, businesses – he feels you have to support them all locally. “All that money comes back to you. I never buy anything on the internet. If I need something, I go to a store here. I’m buying it from my neighbor,” he says of the reciprocity. What keeps that huge smile on his face? “I’ve never had a bad day, because it’s all in how you perceive it. No time for a bad day,” he says like a zen master and then affectionately adds, “I live here because the backcountry is spectacular – but more than that it’s the town.” Mikey is one of the true spirits who color this town unique. Dawne Belloise is a freelance writer, photographer, traveler and musician living with a large cat in a tiny cottage on an alley at the end of the road in Crested Butte’s paradise. Her writing and photography is published in various mags and rags. Contact dbelloise@gmail.com, website rubysroad.com. Dusty Demerson has been photographing Crested Butte since 1987. His award-winning landscapes can frequently be found at the Banff Mountain Photography Competition but can always be seen at the Rijks Family Gallery or online at www.color-west.com.

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After a storm cycle and the avalanche danger is high, it’s important to be able to recognize the signs of instability in the snowpack. You can develop a knack for noticing signs right from the trailhead. Clue gathering and making key observations will help you with your decision making, route selection and travel techniques on an ‘avalanches are probable’ day. Always start off your morning right by checking the forecasts and observations from the CBAC or CAIC. Depending on how ‘techie’ you are, you can also check weather station sites for data such as total precipitation and winds. With a good grasp for what to expect, it’s time to put on your detective hat and start searching for signs of instability. Are there signs of recent avalanches? Do you notice any whumpfing or cracking? Take the opportunity to get a feel for the snow using your poles or probe to feel for weak layers and/or slabs and frequently check if the snowpack is consistent across terrain features. Get off the track often to gather clues and get a feel for the snowpack. Do hand shear tests along the way or on breaks. More often than not, early on into your tour, you will pass small terrain features such as a short but steep convex roll. This is a perfect chance to get valuable information by testing the slope for instability with a ski cut or extra stress. Always pay attention to aspect, slope angle, wind direction and speed and take note of any changes in weather

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Nordic News By Laura Puckett, CBNC Assistant Manager

The Crested Butte Nordic Center is a full-service cross-country ski center providing professional lessons and complete rental packages for skate and classical skiing, as well as ice skating, snowshoeing, and sledding. The Nordic Center maintains approximately 50 kilometers of groomed trails via four trailheads, around the scenic outskirts of Crested Butte.

Learn To Skate For Free Next Thursday The groomed trails are still in great condition so whether you’re ready to try skate skiing for the first time or need a few pointers, come out for our last free skate skiing clinic of the year on Thursday, March 4, at 1 p.m. Space is limited, so sign up now! Super Tour Next Week Starting at 8 a.m., March 6, the Tour is a 22.5 kilometer journey out to Gothic, up trail 403 and over the “top of the world,” then back down to the warm soup waiting for you at the Washington Gulch trailhead. Race fee is $35. This is a backcountry

race including 2000 feet of climbing. In true Nordic Center fashion - every good race should be followed by a good party. Festivities will begin at 4 p.m. Last Brunch of The Season Sunday, March 14 is your last chance to ski or snowshoe out to the yurt where you’ll find a fine brunch catered by Maxwell’s waiting for you. Cost is $20 for adults, $10 for children, and trail passes are required. Reservations are required at least 48 hours in advance and be sure to mention whether you’d like the 11 or the noon seating. For more information contact 970-349-1707 or visit www.cbnordic.org

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You’re Invited to the Think Local First Community Round Table When: Tuesday, March 2nd. 8-10 a.m. Where: Timberline Restaurant The TLF Committee invites you to participate in a working breakfast discussion. We’ll discuss ways that other communities are weathering the economic storm by providing tax breaks and incentives to locally owned businesses. We’ll talk about how we can encourage the sourcing of local bids and employment of local people. And we’ll explore how to keep Crested Butte unique by highlighting local businesses, products and services.

Breakfast pastries and delicious bakery items from Timberline’s new bakery will be provided! Call Kristen at the Chamber with questions, 349-6438.

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Flyfishing during the winter months? You bet!! Excellent sections of the Gunnison, Taylor and East rivers are opening daily as productive fly-fishing soon follows. 2010 will be our 28th year of guiding fly fishermen in the valley and the late-winter, early spring months have proven to be an exciting time to nymph fish for larger trout. Our professional guide staff has been successful guiding at this time of year for many years. Join us for a very peaceful day challenging the beautiful rainbow, brown and cutthroat trout found in the Gunnison drainage. Call 970-349-1228 for more information or visit www.dragonflyanglers.com

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Don’t sit in line on a guided tour! Create your own spectacular day on a snowmobile. Experience the best snowmobile trails in Colorado from high alpine tundra to aspen and fir forests. Colorado Adventure Rentals offers two and four stroke 2009 Polaris Snowmobiles for self guided tours in the Crested Butte and Taylor Park areas. Single, half day and multiday rentals available, including insurance. Trailers and snowmobiles can be delivered. Call 877-641-3525 or visit www.coloradoadventurerentals.com.

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Nothing lightens community more than a good ole fashioned snowball fight. Git ‘im Sami! – Photo by Dusty Demerson

Joanne Reynolds Presents Caregiving Book at Blue Moon Local caregivers are invited to a lunch and learn event with local author Joanne Reynolds at Blue Moon Books in Crested Butte on Friday, Feb. 26 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Ms. Reynolds will offer brief information sessions for caregivers to present her new caregiving book, Search for Light: 10 Crucial Lessons for Caregivers. Ms. Reynolds has led workshops and taught classes for caregivers in a variety of settings including Hospice and Palliative Care of Gunnison County, the Gunnison County Office of Senior Resources, and churches, Alzheimer’s Association chapters, and hospitalbased cancer centers across the country. Blue Moon Books is located at 414 Elk Ave. Continuing Diabetic Classes: Cooking Quick Meals

Are you or a loved one diabetic, and you struggle with what to make for dinner? Gunnison Valley Hospital’s ongoing diabetic education classes will be highlighting Cooking Quick Meals with Shelly Higgins, RN on Tuesday, March 9th at noon in the Hospital Conference Room. This free class will give you tips on easy meals for diabetics. Although classes are FREE, we ask that you please register, so we know how many to expect. For more information, please email Shelly Higgins at gvhdiabeticinfo@yahoo.com or call 642-8420 to leave a message. Last Week to Vote for Books Next Thursday, March 4, is the last day for the people of Crested Butte to vote on books and other items to be purchased for the Old Rock Library. The Crested Butte Friends of the Library (CBFOL) has allocated $2,000 to be spent

on books, videos, audio books, technology and other resources, based on the citizens’ requests. Community Grant ballot boxes are posted at the library and around town. People can request specific titles or authors or ask that certain categories be emphasized. Requests can be e-mailed to cbpl@marmot.org with “Community Grant” in the subject line. The CBFOL has dedicated an additional $500 for the Crested Butte Community School library, and votes are being collected from the students through March 4 as well. Create with Kelly at The Trailhead Discovery Museum! Clay Sculptures! Friday, February 26, beginning at 10 a.m. Join Kelly in sculpting your very own clay masterpiece. Let’s make artifacts too, for Saturday’s archeology dig. All ages welcome. Located downstairs in the Treasury Center at the base of the ski area in Mt. CB. Call 970-349-7160 for more info. Archeology and Dig Art at The Trailhead Discovery Museum! Join Special Guest Rocky Mountain Biological Lab. Let’s get to the bottom of things and discover a whole world of amazing science and artifacts! Saturday, February 27, beginning at 10:00 a.m. Fun science for children of all ages. Located downstairs in the Treasury Center at the base of the ski area in Mt. CB. Call 970-3497160 for more info.

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Occasionally history outshines fiction, as in the perilous 1901 expedition into the then-untamed Black Canyon of the Gunnison. The heroic struggle of explorers Abraham Lincoln Fellows and William Torrence recalls Indiana Jones’ wilder escapades. “It was one of the great adventures of the American West,” said Duane Vandenbusche, noted historian and storyteller of the Gunnison Valley. Vandenbusche will share photos and tales from the Torrence-Fellows expedition at a free public presentation at Crested Butte’s Old Rock Library at 7 p.m. next Thursday, March 4. Fellows, a hydrographer, and young, athletic William Torrence of Montrose left in August of 1901 to navigate the Black Canyon, whose sheer walls rose half a mile high on both sides of the ferocious Gunnison River. Their ultimate goal: to determine the feasibility of digging a tunnel to divert water to irrigate the arid Uncompahgre Valley. Their immediate goal: to survive, in a mysterious canyon that no one had successfully traveled before. According to Vandenbusche’s book The Gunnison Country, the two set off carrying a small rubber raft, two 600-foot silk lifelines, rubber bags for food and hunting knives. They walked narrow ledges above the water when possible and swam or used

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the raft when the rock walls The era of river exploration: Ellsworth and Emery, crowded contemporaries of Torrence and Fellows, in the Grand them Canyon – Photo courtesy of Duane Vandenbusche into the roaring Fellows slid off the rock into the water. whirlpool of water. Torrence At one point the Gunnison saw him turned over as soon River thundered down through as he struck the water and as a narrow gorge; the explorers he shot under the archway all could see only the mist of falling that could be seen was one of water and the tops of trees on his feet whirling around in the both sides of the gorge in front mad torrent. Torrence didn’t of them. With no choice, they expect to ever meet him alive, slammed down the rapids, being and for a long time sat there battered against rocks as they before he could decide to court tumbled down the falls. what seemed to be the certain Bruised, exhausted and fate of his companion. At last, it starving, they eventually faced a being the only alternative that crisis. Ahead of them, buildingpresented a single hope for life, sized boulders, polished he, too, plunged in.” (Source: unclimbably smooth by water, The Uncompahgre Valley and blocked the canyon. On both the Gunnison Tunnel, by Barton sides of the river, vertical rock Marsh.) walls rose hundreds of feet. What happened next will be Behind them, the wall-to-wall revealed by the master storyteller pounding river cut off any at his March 4 presentation. thought of retreat. Their only The evening is co-sponsored by avenue appeared to be the the Crested Butte Friends of the churning water that funneled into Library and the Crested Butte a sort of cavern formed by the Mountain Heritage Museum, fallen boulders. They had no idea which will provide refreshments what happened when the water unlike anything imagined by disappeared into the frothing Torrence and Fellows in the depths; they saw only darkness depths of the Black Canyon. there. At the program, people The two “decided to attempt can purchase and/or have to go with the boiling waters Vandenbusche sign their copies into the unknown depths of his new book, The Black of the foam-flecked cavern. Canyon of the Gunnison.

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You say it’s your birthday… February 25 sees Jessie Dean dancin’ the b-day jig. February 26 is the special day for Tiffany Deutsch, Bob Gionnone, and Sophie Hall. On February 27 wish Ben Vulich and Madeline Derusseau a HB. Carol Kastning and John Spencer share February 28. In like a lion out like a lamb March 1 brings the party dance to Kerry Young, Pete McCurrach, Wayn-o Koncan, Don Cook and OMG… ME! Jim Lohr eats his cake alone on March 2 while on while on March 3 Rob Fessendon, John Collins, and Cindy Hempel all celebrate. Happy birthday to all of us Fish Brothers and Sisters of Piscean Persuasion! Home again home again... Last week I meant to welcome home Kimberly Metsch. It’s so great to see you out and about, back in the Shire and looking fine. Here and gone... Scott Truex breezed into town for the week, just in time for all the good skiing, before he bolted back to the tropics of Costa Rica where his family is still surfing. Nice work if you can get it, dude. Running still... Former resident and retired postal worker Mike Erhedt was in town visiting for a couple of days last week as he prepares for his cross country, coast to coast Project America Run (projectamericarun.com). You may be living in Idaho now but you’ll always be Buttian. Linda Carr (one of our friendly cashiers at Clark’s) called in to report on her son, David “Davey” Adams. David had a horrific ski crash on February 10th off of High Life. Linda wanted to let everyone who helped David – patrollers, ambulance drivers, the

clinic – know how much they appreciate all of their help. While David crushed his left side, and now is sporting enough metal in his body to make the airport officials go nuts, he is okay. “It will be a long road to recovery,” she admits, but David is making his way through rehabilitation. Let’s all send David our best healing wishes. Cards and care packages can be sent to: VA Medical Center, CLC; 2121 North Avenue; Grand Junction, CO 81501. Bird is the word... And did anyone notice how after every event, especially Mardi Gras, the town looks like a funky chicken on psychedelics ran wildly up and down every street, molted, then up and disappeared? Speaking of Mardi Gras – our very own food critic for the Delicious Dish Josephine Kellett won 3rd place in the Gumbo Cook-Off. Ever versatile, now she’s off with the Chiquita Banana team to compete in the 7 Hours of the Banana this weekend. Go Josephine Go! Got some tiger balm for your thighs? They’re gonna need it…We’ll buy you a Poinsettia at the bottom! Meanwhile, back on the beach... J.C. Leacock and Kristi Lyon checked in just to say, “I think everyone in CB ought to thank us for going to Mexico so it could start dumping...” Gee, thanks you guys. The couple has somehow escaped to San Miguel de Allende. J.C. says, “Amazing, amazing place. A photographer’s dream with an unbelievable vibe. Make some turns for me, but I ain’t missin’ it...” We’re missing you though... Another favorite local photographer, Rebecca Weil is in Costa Rica doing her photo-thang on the beach.

Caloric catastrophe... There’s not a day that someone isn’t peddling something in front of the post office, whether it’s a petition, a cameo quote or raffle tickets. I’m pretty good at getting by most of the obstacles to get to the mail – but chocolate? Not fair. Like a moth to a flame, I became a zombie for those much awaited Girl Scout cookies, scarfing up three boxes of Thin Mints... No, I’m not sharing so get your own. Rippin’ Chix... I know we have powder and there’s much more on the way but believe it or not it’s time to start planning ahead to greener pastures. Alison Gannett says book soon because her Rippin Chix Mountain Bike Skills Camps in June is selling out fast. The clinic coincides with Fat Tire Bike Week here in the Butte. More info at alisongannett.com. Pow Pow Pow... There was much chatter in the air, about the recent dumpage and here’s what the roving ear picked up: Jenn Abrams almost lost her camper to the snow. Maggie Donahue Dethloff felt she was “ALIVE again... what one great powder day won’t do for the soul!” Chad Reich’s plan was to ski, shovel, repeat. Andrew Bettinger thinks it’s just “otherworld” while Stephanie Prater says she’s feeling lucky to be alive right now, ”5 1/2 hours to Denver – I don’t recommend leaving CB.” Ralph Kristopher said, “My shovel got buried, best just ski!” Wise choice. Rock on... In a discussion as to why the mountain is called Crested Butte, and what was the difference between a butte and a mesa anyway, it was determined that none of us had any inkling of a clue. So we called upon our most accessible local expert, The Rockman Denis Hall who enlightened us, “Without taking time to look it up, I’m pretty sure the difference is a matter of size. (*Isn’t it always? asks the Grapevine Girl*) Both are made of sedimentary rock; mesa is bigger than butte. BTW, Crested Butte is misnamed as it is NOT a butte.

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CB Mountain is igneous rock. One of the first maps of the area showed Crested Butte as Lone Peak.” I think we should have a Rename The Mountain contest. Denis thinks a good possibility could be Stoney Peak. Works for me. Can we bring the smoke shacks back now? On High...Facebook has gotten so popular that God even has his own page now and you can get a daily message from him delivered to your wall. It’s always prefaced with “On this day God wants you to know...” and then your own personalized inspirational directive of tidbits and such. I guess it’s an easier way for him to keep tabs on all of us. Holy moly... be careful what you declare in your status updates. Am not, am not, am not!... Yes, we classic hippies used to think that thirty was senior citizen – but then we never really expected to live that long anyway. After all, you couldn’t trust anyone over thirty. Birthdays are peculiar for me since I love to celebrate them but dread them just as much. If you’re going to have them, then you may as well party... for the month. As my dad used to say in his thick Bronx accent, “Hey kiddo, it’s beats da alternative...” I think everyone should get their birthday off with pay – would someone please inform my supervisor of the new policy? Overheard on bus: “Snow is everything.” Amen. Remember what happens in the Butte stays in the Butte… and probably Facebook. So unless you’re in the Witness Protection Program, I expect to hear from you… got gossip, events, births, travels, healings, alien abductions… rumors? Email the Weekly’s Girl About Town at dbelloise@gmail. com. I’m waiting…

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ETHNIC BACCHANALE Delicious Homemade Northern Italian cuisine, in our new and casual setting. From veal to vegetarian, to pastas and seafood. Fine wines and cocktails available. DONITA’S CANTINA See our menu, COUPON SPECIALS and NEW “CantinaCam” online at www.donitascantina.com. For thirty years, Donita’s Cantina has been Crested Butte’s favorite eatery. The Cantina’s Mexican Food is madefrom-scratch with natural ingredients. Donitas has a down-to-earth atmosphere being located in the historic Elk Mountain House (check out the original pressed tin ceilings). We strive for top-notch service and we are KID friendly! Our tasty entrees include fajitas, enchiladas, chimichangas and our gourmet nightly dinner specials topped with delicious Mexican chiles. Our chunky salsa is the best in the West. We serve many varieties of fresh lime juice, agave nectar, top-shelf MARGARITAS. Rated one of the top twelve Colorado “Hot Spots” according to the Denver Post. Dinner served nightly. Large groups are always welcome and reservations are accepted for groups of 10 or more. Take out available! For current hours/info call 349-6674. 330 Elk Avenue, Downtown Crested Butte.

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AVALANCHE BAR & GRILL Located at the ski area in Mt. Crested Butte, the Avalanche features breakfast, lunch and dinner daily with huge sandwiches, colossal salads, homemade soups, pizza, a great kids’ menu, delectable desserts and all your favorite comfort foods. Don’t miss the nightly dinner specials…Monday’s lasagna for $8.95, Tuesday’s pound of king crab for $20.95, Wednesday’s chicken fried steak for $8.95, Thursday’s allyou-can-eat BBQ ribs for $14.95, Friday’s all-you-can-eat fish & chips for $8.95. Saturday’s prime rib for $15.95 or Sunday’s 4- ingredient large pizza for $15.95. We celebrate happy hour from 3-6 daily with cheap drinks & marvelous munchies. Dine in or take out. Open every day at 7:30am. 349-7195. MCGILL’S AT CRESTED BUTTE Located downtown in Historic Crested Butte. Serving fantastic breakfasts and excellent lunches with a creative twist. Come in and try the best malts, shakes and floats in town from our soda fountain. Open early and serving breakfast all day! Offering daily breakfast, lunch and dessert specials. Dine-in or take-out. All major credit cards accepted. 228 Elk Avenue (970) 349-5240.

MARCHITELLI’S GOURMET NOODLE We proudly feature generations of special family recipes. Enjoy unique Italian sauce and pasta combinations as well as our specialty entrees with veal, elk, chicken and seafood. Newly remodeled. Come check us out. Reservations helpful. Serving dinner from 5 p.m. nightly. Located at 411 3rd Street in Crested Butte. 349-7401.

PARADISE CAFÉ A Crested Butte tradition for more than 23 years with a casual atmosphere and excellent food. Specializing in your favorite breakfast burritos, skillets, pancakes, french toast, huevos rancheros, fresh fruit and traditional breakfast. Plus cheese steaks, salads, soups, deli sandwiches, burgers and full vegetarian fare for lunch. Full children’s menu. Located in the Company Store, 3rd and Elk in beautiful Midtown Crested Butte. 349-6233.

RUBEN’S NEW MEXICAN CUISINE Located in the old Cement Creek Tavern in Crested Butte South. Ruben’s offers authentic New Mexican cuisine featuring all natural beef and chicken, using fresh ingredients and homemade salsa, locally roasted chiles, a full bar with fresh juice margaritas, a full kid’s menu and happy hour specials from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Kitchen for dinner opens at 5 p.m. daily/Serving Sunday Brunch. Come try the newest restaurant in CB South. Located at 207 Elcho Avenue, Crested Butte South (970) 349-5003.

SLOGAR Serves delicious grilled steaks and simply spectacular skillet-fried chicken dinners, using a recipe famous for great flavor since 1915. Hospitality at the historic Slogar includes family-style service in comfortable and unique Victorian surroundings. Enjoy the generous portions and the modest price of the Slogar’s sensational skillet-fried chicken with all the trimmings. Serving dinner daily 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Full drink menu and wine list plus a selection of specialty beers on tap such as Spaten and Fat Tire Ale. Reservations recommended. Located on the corner of Second & Whiterock, Crested Butte. 349-5765. SMOKIN’ J’S BBQ Smokin’ J’s BBQ, at the Eldo Brewery & Tap Room. Located at 215 Elk Avenue in downtown Crested Butte, upstairs, next to the Post Office. Featuring Pulled Pork, Sliced Beef Brisket, Pulled Chicken, Beef Burnt Ends, Bacon Explosions, BBQ Chicken, St. Louis Ribs, Fried Okra, Sweet Potato Fries, Smoked Baked Beans, Xmas Slaw, Potato Wedges, Caesar Salads, & Funnel Cake Fries. Try one of our Family Combo Meals, or a Mo’ BBQ Sundae for a Low-Carb Treat. Join us at The Eldo because “Once A Day Is Never Enough” for Smokin’ J’s BBQ. Open Daily at 3PM. Also offering Take Out and Delivery call 970-349-6125.

TALK OF THE TOWN A good time anytime. The Talk offers foosball, pinball, video games, good music and pool tables. Open daily at 3 p.m. Attitude Adjustment Hour from 3 to 8 p.m. Bar snacks, cheap drinks and beer our specialty. Located at 230 Elk Avenue, in the liver of downtown Crested Butte. 349-6809. WHY COOK? Located next to Le Bosquet at Sixth and Belleview in the Majestic Plaza. At last… a great new reason not to cook (as if you needed one)! Delicious, healthy items ready to take-out — for an evening of entertaining or a quiet night at home. Mouth watering main dish items, fresh baked bread, salads, pates and cheeses, hummus and tapenade spreads, sandwiches, fresh and frozen soups, desserts and much, much more. Now featuring all natural and organic deli meats. Check out our meat and fish market. Catering services available. Call us for special orders. 349-5858. WOODEN NICKEL Known for the best steaks in town since 1981, the Wooden Nickel specializes in tender Filet Mignon, USDA Prime Graded NY Strip and Rib Eye steaks, succulent, world famous Prime Rib, Elk Tenderloin, Rack of Elk, Alaskan King Crab, BBQ Pork Ribs, PorkChops, Colorado Rack of Lamb, New Zealand Rack of Lamb, Venison, fresh grilled Seafood and fresh Garden Salads. Also serving Burgers, Chicken Fried Steak and Buffalo Burgers. Giant Lobster Tails and a variety of Surf and Turf combinations available nightly. We feature a selection of martinis and great wines at attractive prices to complement your meal. Join us for your special evening at Crested Butte’s oldest bar and best steak house. Bar opens at 4 p.m. with Happy Hour until 6 p.m., daily. Dinner nightly until 10 p.m. 222 Elk Avenue.--Downtown Crested Butte--Open year-round. Nightly Specials. MAXWELLS Join us at the new steak house in town for hand cut prime quality steaks, pastas, fish, lamp chops, elk, pork chops, fresh garden salads, buffalo burgers, sandwiches and much more. A great buckaroos menu for the kids including a make your own icecream sundae. Wines from around the world and vast array of import and domestic beers. A great front patio for people watching in the heart of Crested Butte. Fabulous martinis or just a cold beer. Whatever you desire just cuddle up and enjoy. The perfect place to watch all sporting events in HD. One of the largest venues in Crested Butte, ideal for large parties. Serving dinner nightly. Offering take-out. 226 Elk Avenue. 349-1221

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TEOCALLI TAMALE Tasty fresh lime margaritas, handmade tamales, a huge selection of burritos and tacos, affordable prices and lightning-fast service… what more could you ask for? Our fresh salsas include mild tomato, salsa verde, roasted chile corn and a hot smoky chipolte. Burritos and tacos feature slow-cooked shredded beef, marinated and grilled steak or chicken, gourmet veggies and blackened mahi-mahi. Try one of our unique creations - a chile pesto or spicy Thai burrito with peanut sauce. Dine in and enjoy one of our large selection of Mexican beers, or take it to go. Located at 311 1/2 Elk Avenue. A fresh and healthy alternative, the Tamale is open every day for lunch and dinner. 3492005. Late night Bar and Food Thurs-Sat 9-12ish.

GOURMET DJANGO’S RESTAURANT & WINE BAR Our globally-inspired small plates are perfect for sharing and pairing with wines by the flight, quartino or bottle. django’s unique dining environment offers a new experience every visit: whether you’re enjoying a quick bite at the dining bar, a long romantic dinner with a date, or just hanging out with friends. Come enjoy a pitcher of sangria on our patio! django’s is located in the courtyard of Mountaineer Square, where the bus stops at the base of the ski village. Reservations are encouraged, but certainly not required. Send an email to reservations@djangos.us or call (970) 349-7574.

THE DOGWOOD COCKTAIL CABIN Nestled into one of Crested Buttes funkiest historic remodles, this miners shack turned “cocktail cabin” offers house-infused artisan cocktails and tasty plates both sweet and savory. From its nibbles and sips to atmosphere, The Dogwood Cocktail Cabin is anything but ordinary. Step outside the box and into the cabin for a habenero and pineapple infused vodka martini, lamb sliders and chocolate fondue with homemade bacon brittle! Now Open Tuesday-Sunday 5-12 (cabin fever 5-7 everyday: $4 off all Dogwood martinis). Tuesday: “game night” Wednesday: “ladies night”. 970+349.6338 309 Third Street downtown Crested Butte, Co 21+ www.thedogwoodcocktailcabin.com EASTSIDE BISTRO EastSide Bistro is an upscale-casual neighborhood bistro. Our menu evolves seasonally and represents the eclectic, creative and sophisticated visions of our passion for food, created with locally fresh ingredients and prepared in an innovative and contemporary style. Our atmosphere is warm, intimate and welcoming with spectacular views of majestic Mt. Crested Butte. We present seasonally changing gourmet cuisine with entrée selections featuring the finest cuts of Beef, Duck, Lamb, Game, the freshest Seafood, and outstanding Chicken, Pork, and Vegetarian Entrees along with exciting nightly specials. We showcase an extensive well rounded wine list and wonderful specialty martinis. Dinner served Tuesday through Sunday from 5-10 p.m. Closed Mondays until Dec. 14. Also serving a wonderful Saturday and Sunday Brunch from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Reservations appreciated. We are located at 435 Sixth St., next to the Alpineer. 349-9699. Visit us at www.eastsidebistro.com for our most current menu. LE BOSQUET RESTAURANT Since 1976…and just getting better. Breathtaking views and mouth watering food. Enjoy standards such as rack of lamb in a red wine garlic sauce, hazelnut chicken, beef shortribs in a madeira sauce, and elk tenderloin with jumbo scallops as well as vegetarian entrees, crisp salads, great soups, a variety of appetizers and break-your-diet desserts. Now offering fondue and a full small plate menu! Quality, consistency and friendliness — our trademarks. A full bar and Wine Spectator award winning wine list will round out an evening to remember. Twilight menu and children’s options available. Catering and private chef services available. Open nightly at 5:30 p.m. Reserva tions helpful. 349-5808.

FEATURE | EVENTS | ARTS | MUSIC | CALENDAR | PROFILE | SPORTS | COMMUNITY | DINING | HEALTH | MARKETPLACE | LOCAL WRITERS | RESOURCES | CBWEEKLY.COM THE SECRET STASH LUNCH + DINNER - The Secret Stash - not so much of a secret anymore! Voted best pizza every year since we opened in 2002. We are now serving continuously starting at 11:30 AM, until late! Come in for lunch or for an early dinner to avoid the crowds. It’s winter time again, and now that we are open for lunch, that means no more waiting in the cold!! Come in for an award winning margaritas, grilled asian style wings, or legendary pizza. The Stash is not to be missed – the owners have decorated this 100 year old miner’s cabin with treasures from their travels around the world. The Stash has been recognized by Ski, Powder, Outdoor, and Travel + Leisure magazines, The New York Times, Foders travel guide, and many others as the place not to miss on your visit to Crested Butte! Just take a stroll to the top of Elk Avenue. NO MORE WAITING for Stash pizza, we are now serving the ONLY TAKE & BAKE PIZZA in downtown CB. Take out and delivery are available, and The Stash is open late. (970) 349-6245 or www. thesecretstash.com. Don’t miss the one stash the locals WILL tell you about! (Visit our sister restaurant The Lobar)

SOUPÇON Soupçon is a romantic petite bistro located just off Elk Avenue on Second Street behind Kochevar’s bar.We feature traditional French technique using local ingredients married with the finest cuisine from around the world. Place a reservation Monday through Saturday for an unforgettable experience in one of the most picturesque settings in the country. Seating times are 6pm and 8:15pm. Online at: www.soupconbistro.net • 349-5448. TIMBERLINE RESTAURANT Come in to the Timberline and let us make you feel special! We’re located on the corner of 2nd and Elk in Downtown Crested Butte. Our upscale western style bar offers specials in a fun lively atmosphere. Dine in the casual elegance of the downtown dining room, in the intimacy of our upstairs formal dining room, or the celebrated wine cellar room for a memorable occasion. We always use the finest and freshest products available. We consistently produce creative and simple favorites as well as daily specials. Our wine list features mostly California offerings plus an interesting selection of Old World and New World wines. Reservations recommended. Call for current hours 349-9831.

SUSHI LOBAR One of the most FUN places to go in CB. Ask any local. Locals + tourists alike have been raving about LOBAR since opening in 2004. Follow the locals... and enjoy the freshest Sushi in CB, flown in daily from around the world. For NON sushi eaters + children we have alternative selections such as our Killer baja fish tacos, our new (BEEF) turf roll, grilled BEEF, CHICKEN, FISH options, our famous crack fries + a CHILDRENS MENU. Lobar is “the place” for large parties, come in and see why! small parties and couples enjoy our intimate seating options. LOBAR has been recommended by the New York Times, SKI, Skiing, and many more as a place NOT to miss. On weekends, LOBAR transforms into CB’s only nightclub with live music, (THURSDAY night - karaoke) DJ’s + more. 303 Elk Ave. Reservations accepted. 970/349.0480. Open EVERY evening at 5:00 PM. (Don’t miss the best happy hour in town! EVERYDAY 5-6) www.thelobar.com (Visit our sister restaurant the Secret Stash)

SOUP & SANDWICH THE LAST STEEP An affordable, cozy eatery in Crested Butte, The Last Steep features Cajun Chicken Pasta, Artichoke Cheddar Soup in a Bread bowl, BBQ Philly Sandwich, Cilantro Chicken Salad and more. We also offer a great kids’ menu. Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday open ‘til midnight. 208 Elk Avenue. 349-7007.

PIZZA BRICK OVEN PIZZERIA & PUB Best patio in town. Featuring pizza-by-the-slice, deep dish & thin crust specialty pizzas. Freshly made subs, fried appetizers, delicious big juicy burgers, a kids menu and the best salad bar in town with over 30 fresh items to choose from. Enjoy our 24 craft beers on tap, along with high end tequila, spirits and wine. Bring the family and watch your favorite sports on one of our large HDTVs. Lunch and dinner served everyday from 11 a.m. ‘til 10 p.m. Dine in, take out and, as always, FREE DELIVERY on all menu items, 349-5044. Come visit us at 223 elk ave., The locals hang-out for over 17 years. brickovencb.com.

LIL’S SUSHI BAR AND GRILL Step up to our Sushi Bar or Bar for our nightly Happy Hour from 5:30-6:30!! We are proud to serve our customers the freshest fish in town, flown in 6 days a week from Hawaii and on our doorstep within 24 hours from the docks…does it get any fresher than that in the Rockies- don’t think so! Although we are known for our sushi, our exceptional kitchen menu will satisfy all taste buds. With an array of seafood dishes and meat options, we promise you will leave remembering it all! Lil’s is a friendly and casual environment that offers exceptional service with high standards for what a dining experience should entail. Open 7 nights a week. Reservations Recommended 349-5457. Located in the Historic District of CB- 321 Elk Ave. (across the street from Donita’s)

MIKEY’S TAKEOUT AND DELIVERY VOTED BEST PIZZA OF 2009, everybody loves Mikey’s Pizza! We offer pizza by the slice, specialty pies, pasta, oven baked sandwiches, fresh salads and a variety of appetizers. We also serve a late riser breakfast all day with fatty breakfast burritos and egg sandwiches. Located across from the sled hill and nordic center you can come pick it up or let us deliver to you. We are open 7 days a week, Tuesday - Friday 11am - 9 pm and Saturday, Sunday and Monday 3 - 9pm. Delivery every night at 5pm. Mikey’s pizza slices are also sold at True Value. A full menu can be viewed on our website at www.mikeyspizza.net. Call it in for quicker pick up. 970-349-1110. Need help with a dinner party? We also cater.

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DISH DESCRIPTION: Freshies hand prepared a huge deli-style sandwich for this week’s Delicious Dish, generous in portion. The sandwich was piled high with fresh sliced and roasted turkey, thick apple wood bacon, luscious avocado, mild cheddar cheese and spinach. A zippy chipotle mayo really brought this sandwich alive with a snappy taste sensation making it no ordinary sandwich. No wonder this is one of Freshies’ bestsellers. What sets this sandwich apart from others is the

fresh baked hearty and healthy multi-grain bread. This meal will keep you going all day at work or play. Try a side of the pasta salad with your meal mixed with tangy olives, smooth feta cheese, fragrant basil, flavorful red onion, peppers and refreshing tomato all tossed in light balsamic vinaigrette. These wellblended flavors are good for you too and offer a vibrant alternative to the typical potato chip side. GENERAL FARE: The newest deli on the Mountain features fresh deli style food. Freshies offers hot and cold breakfast items as well as lunch and dinner specials that rotate nightly keeping it, as their name states, fresh. Start with a simple assorted pastry or have a hot morning meal made to order. Salads are plentiful and incorporate tons of creative worldly components for your enjoyment. Sandwiches and wraps are prepared on their homemade bread or a fresh tortilla, all meats and cheeses are sliced in house for maximum flavor. Fresh soups, like vegetarian chili or corn chowder, are prepared daily. Deli platters are custom made - take home a great cheese plate that incorporates your particular palette

with incredible selections of baby Gouda, Camembert, Purple Haze, garlic herb Boursin, baked Brie and in house made three cheese roasted pepper dip. The platters can be served with assorted crackers, fruits and vegetables. This is a great choice for your personal après ski. Avoid the hassle of the restaurant scene and get a pre made, heat and serve dinner. Nightly specials are freshly made each day and include vegetarian, meat and international selections, call for today’s menu. Of course don’t forget about hot cookies, brownies, fresh pies, mousses, ice-cream and plenty of cold drinks. ATMOSPHERE: Enter Freshies through the Three Seasons terrarium-like lobby, and enjoy the feel of a tropical oasis right here in the mountains. Freshies is bright and open, showcasing local art, jewelry, and tie-died clothing. Large, clean and organized deli cases store your food selections, friendly servers are there to help to make the food fresh to order. Relax and eat in their dining room or call ahead to grab and go. PRICE RANGE: Start your day with a bowl of hot oatmeal and fruit for $3.50. Breakfast burritos, egg and ham croissants, pancakes, biscuits and gravy range from $3.50 - $5. Hot and hearty homemade soups are made fresh daily for $5. Crispy salads are packed full of fun lively ingredients and range from $5- $8.5 and include Caprese, Greek, Caesar, and Antipasto and are all served

with homemade dressings. The healthy side dishes are priced per pound; choose from bean, potato, pasta, egg, and tuna salads or dirty rice. The prepared dinners vary in nightly selections and prices. Just call ahead to get today’s specials. VEGETARIAN / VEGAN OPTIONS: The menu is prepared to order, so it is easy to create the meal of your choice. Enjoy hot oatmeal with fruit, buttermilk pancakes or breakfast burrito for the start of the day. Great vegetarian soups made daily will keep you coming back. A veggie delight sandwich has herb cream cheese, roasted red bell peppers, cucumber, tomato, basil and lettuce. Side dishes are prepared vegan and others with some with some cheese, which can be added to most meals. Vegetarian burritos and lasagna are great options as well as fresh stir fried meals. STATS: Located in the Three Seasons building, 701 Gothic Rd., Mt. Crested Butte; 970-306-5264; www. anywaygourmet.com Want to show off your delicious dish? Call the Weekly at 970-349-1710. Reviewer Josephine Kellett owns and operates Creative Catering in Crested Butte. A graduate of the California Culinary Academy, Josephine has been a professional in the food industry most of her life. She has lived in Crested Butte for almost 20 years. You can find out more of the epicurean travels and offerings of Josephine at www. crestedbuttecatering.com

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YogaMoon Rhythms: Full Moon Inspired Visions The full and new moons give us the chance to contemplate on where we have been and where we might go in the future. This full moon in Virgo inspires us to use our intuition to see what we need to address for our future happiness and success. It might seem a little crazy, but the influence of the moon and the planets are there to assist us, so take advantage of these energies and let the light of the full moon illuminate your vision to see what is missing, or needs your attention. You may need to take that first small step, or follow your gut that could lead you to some inspired revelations. Our intuition is one of the greatest gifts we have been given to guide us through complex times, obstacles, and situations. Listen, take note,

Spirit, Mind & Body This week the Spirit, Mind & Body 2010 Winter Series features Reiki Demonstrations, an Unconditional Love Workshop and Vital Roots Yoga, Pilates for Skiers and Active Isolated Stretching for Well Being at Any Age classes. Reiki Demonstrations From 3 to 5 p.m. at the Well Being Studio, 303 Belleview, Suite 3C, on Thursday, February 25, Master Reiki Teachers will be available to give sample Energy Sessions. Our leading medical research institutions including Harvard, Duke and Scripps now use stress-reducing techniques in their health care programs. Therapeutic Touch, Healing Touch, Reiki and other forms of energy work have been documented to lessen pain and hasten healing because of their relaxing affect. Reiki is an ancient Japanese form of “energy medicine.” As the practitioner holds the vision of well being and applies a traditional series of light touches to the crown, heart, solar plexus and limbs, the client is soothed into a resistant free state allowing the body and psyche to do its own healing. Dr. Emmet Oz of Oprah fame has said that energy medicine is the medicine of the future.

Come experience the delight and therapeutic affects of a session. For more information call 970-349-6464. Vital Roots Yoga Monday, March 1 from 10:30 am to 11:45 a.m. at the Yoga for the Peaceful Studio, 114 Elk Avenue is a Vital Roots Yoga Class. This yoga is a set series of postures for those who wish to focus on alignment and core structure in a warm room that is inspired by the Bikram style of yoga. Call Trish at 970-349-0302 for background information. Choosing Unconditional Love: A Self Empowerment Workshop Monday night, March 1, 6:30 p.m. upstairs at the Chamber, 601 Elk Avenue, is the Choosing Unconditional Love Workshop. Most of us live lives of conditional love, loving when the behavior or condition suits us. To love no matter the outer conditions is a spiritual practice. The practice does not mean liking or condoning what you do not like or feel is inappropriate. It is a practice that observes what is, acknowledges your feelings, and then bit by bit, thought by resonating thought, you move yourself on an emotional journey from disempowerment to empowerment, fear to trust, conditioned love to unconditioned love. Your emotions tell you when you are in harmony with your core essence of love and joy. Besides discussion there will be a short meditation, a video clip from a Law of Attraction workshop and handouts of techniques to experience unconditional love. For more information, call Barb Pachla at 970-209-5773.

and then take action. Unlimited resources may appear to help you make your inspired vision a reality! Sarah Darval is pictured in a simple seated position used for meditation. Meditation is a practice that crosses all religions, cultures, and boundaries. It can include a prayer practice or a myriad of meditation techniques that vary depending on your own individuality. For some, this seated position might require a bolster, sitting against a wall to keep the spine straight, or slight shifting or movement to be able to endure it for more that a few minutes. If you cannot SIT without discomfort, it’s a good indicator that you could spend some time focusing on how you can develop the strength, flexibility,

Pilates for Skiers Class Come on Tuesday, March 2, at 8:45 a.m. to learn stretching and losing techniques for ham strings and tight upper back muscles in Kenny Marks’ Plitates for Skiers class. “Pilates is one of the most well-balanced forms of exercise because it combines flexibility training with the benefits of weight lifting,” says Paula Newby-Fraser winner off 23 Triathlons. Ninety years ago Joseph Pilates developed a system of exercises that tap into the power of the mind-body connection. This workout regime features mat work and specially developed apparatus to build core strength and total body flexibility. Simple but elegant floor exercises and Pilates’ machine work encourage your core muscles to lengthen and strengthen, lending grace and power to all your movements. The class will be held at the Western Pilates Studio, 214 6th Street (Ore Bucket Building). Call Kenny at 970-5961714 for more details. Enhance Well Being at Any Age with Active Isolated Stretching By following the Active Isolated Stretching protocol, flexibility is restored, adhesions between muscles break down, muscle spasms are reduced and the lymph system circulation is improved. “Limitations that I’d attributed to the inevitable effects of aging simply disappeared when practicing Active Isolated Stretching,” writes Ben Benjamin PhD author of “Listen to Your Pain.” “It’s so true - declines in flexibility are not inevitable because of aging. You can indeed feel younger again,” states Bill Smith, Certified

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and openness to be able to do so. Yoga, meditation, dance, or many other movement possibilities exist that can help address these issues. The important thing to do is to take the time to quiet thinking mind and LISTEN. Trust the voice from within and know that this inner voice is always there to guide you to reaching your highest good. Meditation is offered on a donation basis at YOGA FOR THE PEACEFUL with Sarah on Thursdays at 7 p.m., and with Paul Kirincic on Sundays at 8 a.m., until March 12. Monica Mesa is the owner of Yoga for the Peaceful, is a master teacher and assistant for Shiva Rea, is featured daily on CBtv’s Yoga Mountain High, has three amazing sons, and is devoted to bringing the blessings of yoga to all who she comes across. She may be contacted through www.yogaforthepeaceful.org

Neuromuscular Therapist, and ACE Certified Personal Trainer. Come experience how at the Wednesday, March 3, 8 a.m. AIS class at the Union Congregational Church, 403 Maroon Avenue. Please use the 4th St. entrance and bring a mat and a blanket to this by donation class. Attention will be given to full body stretching to help tone the whole body. Call Bill at 970-349-2766 for more info. Chanting Performance and Workshop Coming This Weekend The Mike Cohen Kirtan Band will play Friday, March 5, 7:30 p.m. at the Pump Room (above the Fire Station) in Crested Butte. Kirtan is a group participatory experience of sacred call and response chanting that will calm your mind, open your heart and build a deep connection to yourself, others and the divine. Tickets are $12 in advance/$15 at the door. Advance tickets available at the studio. A portion of the evening’s proceeds will benefit Haiti relief efforts. On Saturday, March 6 from 9 – 11:30 a.m. you can deepen your chanting practice in a fun and informative experiential workshop where you will not only chant, but will also learn about Deities, mantras, Sanskrit, Bhakti, Shakti and the Dattatreya Approach to Kirtan. Lots of chanting, learning, fun, community and sharing! Tickets are $27 in advance, $35 day of the event. Pre-registration is required! Advance tickets available at the studio. A portion of the proceeds from this event benefits Haiti relief efforts. For more information visit www.yogaforthepeaceful.org or call 970-349-0302.

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My Corner: One Woman’s Oasis in a Man’s World by Polly Oberosler My hubby and I recycle just about everything these days, much like our ancestral beginnings where our families, as Depression Americans, reused and made do with what they had. In their day money was tight and credit cards had not been invented so if something broke they fixed it or went without. If there was an item that they no longer used they gave it away or bartered it, nothing went to waste. That is the philosophy that my Hubby and I take to heart. Recycling things usually takes less money and energy in the long run than producing or importing new so we store up scrap steel, foil and wire until we go out of town where it can be recycled at larger recycle centers. The items usually pay for our gas as well so we are not out of pocket for our diligence. One such trip took us to Montrose where we dropped off scrap welding steel and a few small bags of saved up foil at the local junkyard that we knew recycled such things. Then we went inside to redeem our weight ticket for cash. It was a busy day there so my Hubby was stuck at the counter for quite a while as the drone of forklifts and loaders carried on outside. I waited for an opportune time to ask the lady at the counter if by any chance they had a restroom I could use. I often do errands in places like this and expected to be sent to a closet with a toilet that may or may not have been cleaned in the last month and a centerfold pin-up on the back of the door. She stopped what she was doing and politely gave me directions to the “ladies room.” “You go through those doors, go straight and through the next door. Then you turn left and go up the stairs and through another door and the restroom will be straight ahead.” She ended with a curious smile and went back to her bookwork. Turning on my heels I hoped that I could remember all the directions and began to walk. It seemed I was in the depths of some large ship as my boot heels clicked loudly on the concrete and tile floor along a dim, cold and endless concrete hall, then up the bare concrete stairs that, upon arriving at the top of I was not sure what she had told me my next move was. I was confronted with intersecting badly lit halls from which to choose. I was kind of pondering my next move when a man in grimecovered coveralls headed my direction. I really did not want to look lost, as my apprehension had kicked in, so I surged forward. My steps faltered as I came to another door but through it I went, and there before me another ten steps

away was a sky-blue door with a brass knob and a sign that in the desert. I had been to her quiet corner of a very loud read: “Ladies Only Absolutely NO Men!” Beside the door world. was a little end table with fresh flowers that seemed to beckon me inside. I had to grin at the whole thing; the sign Polly Oberosler grew up in Almont, Colorado where her mother’s family homesteaded and her dad was a cowboy and ranch hand. Both on the door and the flowers but what I found inside would were great storytellers and they passed that on to her. Polly has written astound me. for The Weekly nearly since its inception. She is also a contributor to local I pushed open the door and was enveloped in warmth. Crested Butte Magazine, Gunnison Country Times Summer Guide, and The Gunnison Country Magazine, as well the national publications of Not just the heat itself, but bright vibrant colors that Rangelands Magazine and Range Magazine. She is now settled into semiwarmed the heart. To tell you the truth I felt like Alice retirement with her husband on their small ranch in Doyleville where in Wonderland after leaving the grim and the screeching she strives to be the storyteller of her kin and a historian for the small noise of the junkyard. There before me was a nice sofa details of the area. covered with a warm beige fabric and in front of it a The Local Writer’s Page is an open forum for all writers in the Gunnison coffee table topped with a lace runner. On the table were Valley. We welcome submissions of poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, theatre, magazines such as Vogue, Smithsonian and Better Homes creative non-fiction and any other form of the written arts. To submit and Gardens and again fresh flowers. A small bookshelf please send your piece to editor@cbweekly.com. against one wall held classic books and was topped by scented, unlit candles. There was nothing spared when it came to this room and its attempt to block out a world primarily made up of men. The faucets of the sink were polished brass, the flowers were beautiful and the soaps in a basket were imported and ringed by few bottles of lotions. The toilet lid was down and the fittings were all brass. There were real towels to wipe your hands at the sink and rich carpet on the floor. The walls were tastefully decorated with artwork and the backlit mirrors polished. This was something I would expect to see in San Francisco at a fine restaurant, not at a junkyard on the edge of a rural town in Colorado. I had to chuckle. As I made my way back to the front desk along those cold dim halls I could hardly contain my smile as I thought of the oasis I Monday, Wednesday & Friday Evenings had just left. The statement it made was not one presented by a weak girl - a confident woman spoke it loudly. Nearing the front office I pushed open the Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday Evenings door hurling me back into the muffled noise • “NORTH” is toward Gothic Mountain of loud machinery outside and a room full of men waiting quietly and orderly for their • “EAST” is toward Crested Butte Mountain Which way tickets to be redeemed by the lone woman at does the sun • “SOUTH” is toward Gunnison the counter. As I approached, grin on my face rise and set? • “WEST” is toward Kebler Pass she looked up from her work with a broad smile knowing I had been stunned at her oasis

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MOUNTAIN EXPRESS

winter schedule 2009-2010 Town Shuttle Runs between the towns of Crested Butte and Mt. Crested Butte.

From Crested Butte Stop

Old Town Hall 6th & Belleview 4 Way Stop

Times

:10, :25, :40, :55 :00, :15, :30, :45 :01, :16, :31, :46

From Mt. Crested Butte

First Bus

7:10 a.m. 7:15 a.m. 7:16 a.m.

Mountaineer Square :00, :15, :30, :45 7:30 a.m. After 10 p.m. the bus runs every half hour

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Town of Crested Butte a REGULATIONS WINTER PARKING

WHERE CAN I PARK TONIGHT? You may park on NORTH & EAST sides on:

You may park on SOUTH & WEST sides on:

Regulations vary in the core business area. Please read signs.

RTA FREE BUS Schedule Winter, 2009-10 November 25, 2009 – April 4, 2010

The bus runs a loop through the City of Gunnison before heading north on Hwy 135 to Crested Butte and Mt. Crested Butte. The bus leaves the following stops no earlier than the times listed. There may be delays due to weather.

11:40 p.m. 11:45 p.m. 11:46 p.m. 12 midnight

Three Seasons - Chateaux

Serves Three Seasons, Outrun, Ski Jump, Mt. Sunrise, Chateaux, and Marcellina Apartments Stop Times First Bus Last Bus

Mountaineer Square :00, :15, :30, :45 8:00 a.m. 9:45 p.m. At 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30 and Midnight the bus will serve any route in Mt. Crested Butte. Tell your driver where you are going.

Columbine - Paradise Road - Eagles Nest

Serves Whetstone Road, Columbine Condominiums, Gothic Road near Mt. Crested Butte Town Offices, Paradise Road and Eagles Nest. Stop Times First Bus Last Bus

Mountaineer Square :25, :55 7:55 a.m. 9:25 p.m. At 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30 and Midnight the bus will serve any route in Mt. Crested Butte. Tell your driver where you are going.

Crystal - Castle - Paradise Condos

Serves Pitchfork, Crystal Road, Castle Road, Hunter Hill Road, Snowmass Road. Stop Times First Bus

Last Bus

Mountaineer Square :10, :40 8:10 a.m. 9:40 p.m. At 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30 and Midnight the bus will serve any route in Mt. Crested Butte. Tell your driver where you are going. For more information, go to www.mtnexp.org or call (970) 349-7318. For ADA transportation, please call (970) 349-5616.

All buses are wheelchair accessible. For more information, please call Mountain Express at 349-5616.

STATEMENT OF RIGHTS In accordance with the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Civil Rights Act of 1964, The RTA does not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender. For more information about these statutes, or to file a complaint, contact the RTA designated Disability Rights and Title VI coordinator, Scott Truex, Executive Director, PO Box 39, Crested Butte, CO. 81224. (970) 275-0111. For Telecommunication Relay Service, call 1-800659-2656 (hearing impaired). Individuals will be permitted to uses service animals, as defined within ADA guidelines, if necessary.

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Week in Review

faces&places Photos by Nathan Bilow

THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS is a non-profit organization. Our mission is to offer engaging opportunities and educational experiences to enrich and expand the life of our community. We don’t present shows to make money; in fact the budgets for most of our shows are slated to just break even. Often, if we do not reach our audience goal we lose money. The Center raises money through donations, fundraising events and sponsorship of our shows. We make up the losses through the passion of our committed donors and businesses. It is through the generosity of these people that we are able to offer ticket prices that range from FREE to $75. The ticket prices at the Center are set so that we can cover the basic expenses of the shows. When performances are booked, a budget is developed with consideration of costs such as advertising, hospitality, technical staff and fees for additional equipment. The entertainer fees are always the largest expense we incur at each performance. The costs associated with staff and the facility are not included in the budgets used to set ticket prices. We work hard to offer a wide variety of shows year round that appeal to the interests and pocketbooks of many community members and tourists.

606 6th St. • P.O. Box 1819 • Crested Butte, CO ph (970) 349–7487 • fax (970) 349–5626 • www.crestedbuttearts.org PAGE 20 | February 25. 2010 | THEWEEKLY