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DEPARTMENTS

General manager Samantha Johnston Editor Jeanne McGovern

04 THE WEEKLY CONVERSATION

Subscriptions Dottie Wolcott

10 LEGENDS & LEGACIES 13

UNTUCKED

Circulation Maria Wimmer

14 WINEINK 16 FOOD MATTERS 18

LIBATIONS

32 MOUNTAIN MAYHEM 35

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

36 LOCAL CALENDAR 42 CROSSWORD 43 CLOSING ENCOUNTERS

Art Director Afton Pospíšilová Publication Designers Madelyn LyBarger Production Manager Evan Gibbard Arts editor Andrew Travers Contributing Writers Amiee White Beazley Amanda Rae Busch John Colson Kelly J. Hayes Barbara Platts Stephen Regenold May Selby Tim Willoughby High Country News Aspen Historical Society Sales Ashton Hewitt Amy Laha David Laughren Max Vadnais Louise Walker Tim Kurnos

24 COVER STORY For this week’s cover story, Aspen Untucked columnist Barbara Platts went behind the scenes

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THE WEEKLY CONVERSATION

by JEANNE MCGOVERN

LITURATURE A DYNAMIC DUO with a

local twist takes the stage for the second event of the 2016 Winter Words’ season when Alison Bechdel and Beth Malone come together for a lively conversation on Wednesday, Jan. 27.

Cartoonist Bechdel, creator of the long-running comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For,” also has published two graphic memoirs including “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomi,” which is about her childhood in an artistic family and her relationship with her father.

The local twist: “Fun Home” was developed into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical starring Snowmass Village’s Malone.

Malone was part of “Fun Home” through most of its formative stages and was nominated for the 2015 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Alison Bechdel.

“This is the high point of my career, absolutely, right this second,” Malone told The Aspen Times after learning of the Tony nomination.

Bechdel and Malone speak on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 6 p.m. at Paepcke Auditorium. Tickets are $20 and available at aspenshowtix.com. Read more in an upcoming edition of The Aspen Times.

Winter Words continues on Feb. 13 with Adam Johnson, author of “The Orphan Master’s Son,” and most recently, a collection of short stories titled “Fortune Smiles,” winner of the 2015 National Book Award for Fiction. The final two Winter Words events features Geraldine Brooks and Tony Horwitz on March 15 and Sandra Cisneros on April 5.

Cartoonist Alison Bechdel, pictured here, will appear in a Winter Words event with local actress Beth Malone on Wednesday, Jan. 27 at Paepcke Auditorium.

CURRENTEVENTS MUSIC “Line Across the Sky” is features on Jan. 25 in the Monday Docs sereis at the Wheeler Opera House.

“Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack Show” takes the Wheeler stage on Saturday, Jan. 23.

OTHERS MAY TRY TO IMITATE THE RAT PACK, but Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack Show is the closest thing you’ll find to the real deal — and it’s at the Wheeler Opera House on Saturday, Jan. 23.

Having a personal connection to these iconic legends has allowed the producers to tell this story like no one else can. Sandy Hackett’s father, legendary comedian Buddy Hackett, was great friends with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Joey Bishop — and together, they all made history.

Sandy Hackett was Joey Bishop’s (“Uncle Joey’s”) only choice to portray him in any production involving the legendary Rat Pack. Only “Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack” can bring to life that magical moment in time that everyone wanted (and continues to want) access to. Producer Lisa Dawn Miller has her own personal connection to the Rat Pack. Her father, legendary songwriter Ron Miller, wrote “For Once In My Life” (recorded by every member of the Rat Pack) and many other huge hits.

Together, Hackett and Miller have created a truly authentic, avant garde theatrical production based on the musical and comedic legacy of the Rat Pack, capturing the relationship, respect, love and timeless laughter of that once-in-a-lifetime moment in history.

Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack Show is Saturday, Jan. 23 at 8 p.m. at the Wheeler Opera House. Tickets are $65 and available at the Wheeler Box Office or aspenshowtix.com. Read more in the Jan. 22 Weekend section of The Aspen Times.

FILM THE ALWAYS POPULAR MONDAY DOCS series at the Wheeler Opera House continues Monday, Jan. 25, with an evening of adventure films featuring “Line Across the Sky.” The “line” refers to the Fitz Roy Massif, the mother of all climbing traverses. “A Line Across the Sky” is a work in progress that follows Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold on their five-day push to complete the epic route during a rare window of good weather in February 2014.

Showtime is 7:30 p.m. and tickets are available at the Wheeler Box Office or at www.aspenshowtix.com. Also on sale is an $111 pass that includes a ticket to each screening and a nightly free drink from the newly renovated Wheeler Bar. The 11-week film festival features a documentary film each Monday through March 28.

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THE WEEKLY CONVERSATION

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THE WEEKLY CONVERSATION

with JOHN COLSON

Is it deja vu when it’s really happening again?

HOLY FINANCIAL corruption, Batman — can it be true? Are the same kinds of Wall Street shenanigans that caused the 2008 financial crisis still going on?

Yes, Robin, it’s true. Just ask Hollywood.

That’s pretty much the message that played over and over again in my brain as I walked from a theater recently after viewing the Adam McKay film “The Big Short.”

Based on Michael Lewis’ 2010 book with the same title, which lasers in on the causes of the financial crisis, “The Big Short” is a tough film to watch and an even tougher film to fully comprehend.

That’s because the underlying financial schemes that brought the world briefly to its fiscal knees are labyrinthine and nearly impenetrable to most of us.

In fact, even the fiscal maniacs who used them to get rich while they despoiled the American dream for millions of people probably never fully understood these toxic financial devices.

But, hey, what else is new?

If you’ve ever sat down and talked with a so-called financial whiz kid, you understand fully that they are not from the same world that you inhabit. Their vision is radically short-term, their hearing ability seems nearly nonexistent beyond the sounds of their own voice and the “ka-ching” of their rising personal wealth, and their sense of compassion for the little guys and gals of the world either never fully developed during childhood or atrophied as soon as they figured out that screwing the “other guy” could make them rich.

So the fact that most of them probably never really understood the very devices they were using, beyond the basic understanding that they were making obscene amounts of money, should not be that surprising.

Anyway, regardless of the difficulties encountered by moviegoers, “The Big Short” (either the book or the film) is now on the required-reading or -viewing list for anyone who wants to know more about our recent international meltdown.

Granted, before walking into the theater, you first must be willing to pay close attention to what’s going on up on the screen; to compare the on-screen action to your own memory of events leading up to, during and after the financial crisis; and to apply your best analytical skills to unraveling some of the more complex points made by the film — not the sorts of demands normally made of a movie audience.

The reward, however, is worth the effort, as it leaves you with renewed feelings of outrage that of the hundreds of financial experts and executives who should have

gone to jail for their fiscal crimes, only two have actually served time, and both of them were low-level traders who came here from other countries.

And the much-ballyhooed “billions” in penalties paid out by such institutions as JPMorgan Chase or Goldman Sachs, two of the worst offenders in the crisis?

Well, as was pointed out a year ago by writer R.J. Eskow on the HuffPost Politics blog, both have made back those billions many times over despite having been guilty of “investor fraud, consumer fraud, perjury, forgery, bribery, violations of sanctions laws against countries like Iran and Sudan, illegal foreclosures on active-duty service members and their families … The list goes on.”

And what’s worse, the devils who did it to us before are doing it all over again.

At the end of “The Big Short,” viewers are warned that there is a new investment vehicle out there, known as the “bespoke tranche opportunity,” which is nothing less than “collateralized debt obligations” — the product at the heart of the financial crisis — dressed up a bit and with a new name.

Financial reporter Stephen Matteo Miller, on the U.S. News website, noted that these same financial tricks also failed back around 2001, when the tech bubble burst, and even as far back as 1994-95, in the so-called Tequila crisis that began in Mexico.

So, these collateralized debt obligations and their fiscal cousins already were old news and well-known fiscal booby traps by 2005, when Wall Street started climbing on the bandwagon that rolled the world over a financial cliff three years later.

But Washington wasn’t paying close attention, the financial watchdogs at the Securities and Exchange Commission had seen their budgets cut so badly they were essentially playing table tennis in the dark with our nation’s fiscal well-being, and Congress had long been bought out in terms of posing any kind of regulatory threat to the financiers who bankrolled the members’ campaigns.

Are we poised at the brink of another financial crisis?

No one seems to know, but many are afraid.

And at the same time that all this is going on, our corporations are scrambling to get out from under U.S. regulatory and tax laws by engaging in something called “tax inversion” — merging with, say, a European firm that acts as a tax shelter for the putative American company’s earnings.

What do you think they know that the rest of us don’t?

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LEGENDS & LEGACIES

FROM the VAULT

by TIM WILLOUGHBY

Lowell Thomas in Arabia, 1918.

CELEBRITY LOWELL THOMAS — ASPEN’S FRIEND Author, world traveler and radio and television

commentator Lowell Thomas was tied personally to Aspen and helped to develop the city.

Best known for his daily radio broadcasts from 1930 to 1976, Thomas also pioneered as a television news commentator. In addition to two series — “High Adventure” travelogues for CBS and “Lowell Thomas Remembers” for PBS — he penned dozens of popular books. President Gerald Ford awarded Thomas the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Many remember Thomas as a celebrity, but few know how he began his career. At the beginning of World War I, Thomas was filming travel adventures to promote the Alaska railroad when President Woodrow Wilson asked him to go to Europe.

There he produced material that would boost support for America’s involvement in the war.

When Thomas reported about the British in Jerusalem, T.E. Lawrence captivated him.

While he traveled with

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Lawrence through Arabia, Thomas gathered film footage, photographs and stories. He organized these materials into a formal presentation that he delivered multiple times for months, mostly in London.

His presentations and book “With Lawrence in Arabia” built Lawrence’s fame. Through the same effort, his own name became synonymous with adventure.

Thomas’ ties to Aspen were indirect, personal and vitally important. During his youth, he had moved to Victor, Colorado, where he attended school and became a classmate friend of Maude Twining’s. Twining’s father and uncle owned and operated mineral-sampling works in Victor and Aspen, and she went back and forth between towns. Twining became an Aspen English teacher and after ending teaching became the school secretary.

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Fran, Thomas’ wife, formed a second connection to Aspen.

She and John Herron of Aspen had been classmates together at Colorado College just before World War I. While the Highland Bavarian partners developed their Aspen ski area during the 1930s, they sought funding. Banks were reluctant to get involved because they had no experience with loans to build gondolas. The partners turned to the Colorado Legislature to issue Depression-era businessstimulus bonds. The partners knew Thomas as a passionate skier who extolled the sport’s excitement in his broadcasts and attempted to entice him to invest in their enterprise.

Highland Bavarian partner Ed Flynn lobbied the Legislature.

Herron was the president of the Aspen Chamber of Commerce at the time and lobbied Thomas.

Thomas agreed to promote the loan to the Legislature, lending his celebrity status to the cause.

With unfortunate timing, the Legislature approved the measure just weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

That undertaking was not the end of Thomas’ involvement with Aspen. He enjoyed traveling more than just as a way to make a living. The adventurer skied with gusto, loved to fly and often combined work with play. On several occasions, he broadcast his daily radio shows from Aspen.

Throughout an entire week, he would perform for enthusiastic Aspen audiences at the Wheeler Opera House. He skied, worked and dined with Twining, Herron and mutual friends.

A world traveler and ski enthusiast who broadcast on national radio from Aspen represented a windfall of free publicity. Thomas boosted Aspen to fame even before the town attracted Hollywood celebrities.

Tim Willoughby’s family story parallels Aspen’s. He began sharing folklore while teaching for Aspen Country Day School and Colorado Mountain College. Now a tourist in his native town, he views it with historical perspective. Reach him at redmtn@schat.net.

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LEGENDS & LEGACIES

FROM the VAULT

compiled by THE ASPEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

OUT IN ASPEN

1977 ASPEN

“ASPEN’S GAYS ARE OUT OF THE CLOSET,” declared a headline in The Aspen Times on June 23, 1977. According to the newspaper, the Aspen gay community was reacting to anti-gay sentiments prevalent in the country at the time: “‘We’re not going to have a gay pride march down the streets of Aspen,’ says gay leader Ralph Brendes, ‘but we’re not going back in hiding, either. I was there 18 years and I’m through with it.’ A year ago, some of Aspen’s gays allowed themselves to be interviewed by The Aspen Times, but the Times chose not to use real names or run a photograph. This week, leaders of the group called the Aspen Gay Community sat openly on the deck outside of Brendes’ office for a second interview. They used their names and they posed for photographs. They called it a milestone in their progress toward full civil rights in Aspen. Their purpose, according to the group, is the support and inspiration of all gay men and women in the Roaring Fork Valley.”

The photo above is the image that ran in the newspaper with this article in 1977.

This photo and more can be found in the Aspen Historical Society archives at www.aspenhistory.org.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ASPEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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Daisy with her 10 adorable, adoptable, 4-week-old Hound mix puppies. All different colors and spots of beige, darker reddish brown and white. Pups will be available for adoption at 8 weeks of age and Daisy will also then be ready for her new home. Daisy is very mellow and sweet. In the meantime, come visit them all!

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Famous climber Conrad Anker worked with SmartWool to develop the merino-based PhD Outdoor Mountaineer Socks, which are made on 200-needle-count machines that allow knitting the “lightest possible socks with the finest yarn,” SmartWool states. The resulting fabric is a light but durable material with a bulk-free instep, mesh zones for venting and an overall tight, high-performance fit. I tested them climbing a 14,000-foot peak in Colorado last week and can acknowledge the socks’ ascending prowess.

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ASPEN UNTUCKED

by BARBARA PLATTS

Four straight girls and an otter hit the first après event of Gay Ski Week on Sunday.

WHAT AM I?

SELF DISCOVERY DURING GAY SKI WEEK ACCORDING TO some highly scientific tests I took online this week, I fall under the category of a “sports dyke.” By definition, I’m the type of girl whose hair has been in a ponytail for weeks (which may be partially true), I don’t see the point in wearing makeup (I only do for special occasions) and I’m often considered one of the boys to my BARBARA guy friends (that’s PLATTS happened maybe once or twice).

I’m not sure what algorithm was used to analyze my answers in this multiple-choice, eight question exam which calculated that I was a “sports dyke.”

Perhaps it was because I chose Bend it Like Beckham as my favorite “lesbian movie” out of a list of eight or maybe it was the fact that I prefer high top Nike sneakers on my feet to stilettos.

The exact breakdown of the test doesn’t actually matter. Frankly,

the result doesn’t either, but I found myself stumbling upon a lot of these sites as I researched the cover story in this issue on Gay Ski Week. There’s a name for everyone out there these days ,and while I found it enjoyable to read a lot of different characterizations (I even shared some of them in a sidebar in the main story), I found it odd that we had such a need to categorize everyone.

To set the record straight (no pun intended), I’m not homosexual, however I have several best friends and relatives that identify with that word.

I’ve always admired all of them so much for their courage in facing prejudices and adversity in a world that is not always fair to people considered to be “different.”

Over the past few days, I’ve talked with many Gay Ski Week attendees about why they love this event. All the conversations have been very insightful, but the one that was the most

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gripping was when I spoke with Karen Kurt, a board member of AspenOut, the nonprofit beneficiary of Gay Ski Week.

She said that many straight people don’t realize how lucky they are because they’ve never been questioned or ridiculed about their sexual preference.

“Being straight is easy” is what she said. And although I had never considered it before, I completely agreed with her.

I write all of this not as a defense, but as a way to explain myself before you turn to the cover story. My agenda for this piece was to immerse myself fully in something new, and I’ve been able to do that over the past few days at Gay Ski Week.

During this time, I’ve learned a few things: First off, stereotypes are almost always wrong.

Secondly, when we think we have an event, a story or an individual figured out, we are probably barely skimming the surface.

And, lastly, that one shouldn’t start drinking too early in the

day if they want to party all night for Gay Ski Week. That last one should have been common sense for me by now, but I still forget it from time to time.

So please read on about my Gay Ski Week adventures, but more importantly, get out and experience some of them for yourself. Whether you’re a sporty lesbian (like I am, apparently), a bear or otter, a lipstick lesbian, some version of heterosexual or none of the above, it’s well worth it to join in the fun. Just make sure you wear the right shoes.

Barbara Platts has a nice mixture of denim, leather and suede outfits prepared for this week’s festivities, but she still isn’t stilettos anywhere near her feet. She can be reached at bplatts.000@ gmail.com.

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WINEINK

TIME FOR A WINE TRIP? IT’S STILL EARLY WINTER here in the Northern Hemisphere.

The vines are fallow, rain is falling on Northern California (thankfully), and there is snow on some of the high vineyards in Washington state.

With Earth tilting to the south, January is not the ideal time for a wine sojourn on the upper half of the globe. Ah, but if KELLY J. HAYES you could use a hint of heat, long to see some green and would love to take a walk among the vines, there is another world just below the equator that is in the middle of its summer season.

In the early 1990s, Australian and New Zealand winemakers realized something that ski instructors already knew. The end of a season in one place on Earth means the beginning of another season in another place on Earth. These Aussies boarded jet planes and headed to France, where they could work a second vintage in a calendar year. They became known as the “Flying Winemakers.” And not only did they double their experience in their craft, but they also brought back skills and techniques that changed the Australian wine industry forever.

Today there is constant backand-forth movement among winemakers and consultants who ply their trade year round, moving from south to north and north to south as Earth starts its inevitable leans to and fro, toward and away from the sun.

Of course, this also means that tourists with time, money and wanderlust can likewise move between the hemispheres and live an “endless summer,” as it were.

Twelve months a year, one can find a vineyard in full. Adventure, and great wine, is a plane ticket away.

My suggestion is a trip to the wine lands of Australia and New Zealand. The Hunter Valley and the Barossa in Australia, along with the Kiwi region of Marlborough, may be the best-

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known wine destinations for Americans. But there are some other regions you may never have heard of that offer outstanding wine tourism, as well.

Here are three areas, widely acknowledged as being among the most beautiful wine regions on Earth, to keep on your wine travel radar. We’ll move from east to west across the world’s southern face.

AUSTRALIA

MARGARET RIVER On the west coast of Australia lies a wine and surf paradise called Margaret River. A 3 1/2-hour drive down the coast from Perth, this relatively new region (grapes were first planted in the late 1960s) has boomed and become a hot spot for great chardonnay and cabernet. Over 100 wineries in the region are in close proximity and make for an easy and picturesque wine holiday. Plus, the beaches and the surfing are outrageous.

Warm water and huge rollers traverse the Great Southern Ocean, crashing on rocky reefs and bone-crunching beach breaks. The white-sand beaches are magnificent and back right up to karri and jarrah treed forests filled with koalas and kangaroos that spill into the vineyards on the other side. A gem of a place.

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THE MORNINGTON PENINSULA Across the Australian continent, an hour’s drive from bustling Melbourne, is a region that is quietly becoming known as a cradle for great pinot noir. The Mornington Peninsula juts into the sea and is surrounded on three sides by ocean waters that provide fog and near-constant cooling breezes before warm sunshine nurtures the grapes during the day. There are a number of “cellar doors,” as the Aussies call their tasting rooms, and a trip to the architecturally magnificent Port Phillip Estate and the welcoming Yabby Lake is worth the long journey.

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NEW ZEALAND

CENTRAL OTAGO Our next destination would be what many believe to be the most beautiful wine region on Earth.

Central Otago, or “Central” as the locals call it, has become ground zero for pinot-philes. In the past decade, it has become one of the most talked-about regions on the planet, thanks largely to its ideal climate. Rippon, Mount Difficulty and Felton Road may be the most well-known makers in the valley, but there are a number of other ventures gaining traction, including Kalex, owned by Aspen resident Alex Kaufman.

The vineyards sit at 45 degrees south. If one turns the world upside down, that is roughly the

same distance from the equator as Bordeaux and the Willamette Valley, which straddle the same line in the Northern Hemisphere.

This is a sweet spot in global grape-growing. And did I mention that it is drop-dead gorgeous?

Actually, all three regions are worth a trip. Can I come along?

Kelly J. Hayes lives in the soon-to-be-designated appellation of Old Snowmass with his wife, Linda, and black Lab named Vino. He can be reached at malibukj@ aol.com.

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THREE MORE WINE DESTINATIONS Prefer to head to someplace a little closer? Think South America. Here, with their signature grapes, are a few other suggestions: Argentina Mendoza — Malbec Catena Zapata Malbec Mendoza 2013 Chile The Colchagua Valley — Carmenère Punto Nino 2011 Carménère Reserva, Colchagua Valley Uruguay Canelones-Tannat Artesana Canelones Tannat 2013

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FOOD MATTERS FOOD MATTERS

G’DAY FOR CELEBRATION AUSSIES FIND A TASTE OF HOME IN ASPEN

CHEFS IN APRONS and heavy winter coats — one wearing a fuzzy kangaroo hat — and a flurry of snow signify that this is no ordinary tasting. Among red, white and blue flags and plenty of wine on the rooftop deck of the Residences at the Little Nell on Jan. 14, a crowd of Australian expats, visitors, friends and wannabes gathered to celebrate AMANDA RAE Australia Day at the 2016 Neil Perry Lamington Contest.

As Australians represent Aspen and Snowmass’ top international market, the company hosts the annual competition and celebration a week before many folks from the Land Down Under head home from holiday.

(Officially, Australia Day is Jan. 26; see sidebar on opposite page.) For the third year, famed Australian chef, restaurateur, TV personality and Aspen Snowmass resort ambassador Neil Perry presided over a highaltitude cook-off focused on an Australian food icon: Lamington, or vanilla sponge cake filled with raspberry jam, dipped in chocolate and rolled in shredded coconut. Despite instructions to get inventive with four main ingredients — sponge, chocolate, coconut and jam — the five competing chefs erred on the side of tradition (perhaps because the winning entry in last year’s meatpie throwdown was a spot-on version).

“Well, it wasn’t as wildly creative as I had hoped,” Perry announced to a laughing crowd before listing his top bites.

“However, they all made great sponge, and the flavors were really good.”

Curtis Cameron, executive pastry chef at The Little Nell and winner of Perry’s blind taste test this year, created a classic confection using buttermilk

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sponge cake and Valrohna chocolate.

“It was simple,” Cameron said, “but with great ingredients.”

Stoking controversy, Cameron decided to forgo the raspberry jam on his Lamington — a fact pointed out by Cameron’s colleague Chris “Gerber” Mathie, chef de cuisine at Ajax Tavern, during judging.

Mathie, who exhibited, according to Perry, “the smallest Lamington but the most balanced flavor,” tied for second place with two-time returning champion Ashley Jenkin, executive pastry chef at the Viceroy Snowmass.

(Last year Jenkin made the winning meat pie as well as the top Pavlova meringue dessert in the 2014 contest.)

Mathie prepared golden Genoise cake with brown butter (an ingredient sponge lacks) with Vahlrona chocolate and coconut, topped with raspberrystrawberry jam laced with port wine; Jenkin baked what she calls “a traditional snack cake: vanilla sponge soaked in Grand Marnier and almond; the jam inside is raspberry, blueberry and currant.”

Even third- and fourth-place finishers Troy Selby of 520 Grill and newcomer Bret Vandermark of Buttermilk Mountain Bakery stuck to standard components.

Selby infused his sponge with vanilla and blackberry liqueur and topped it with brandied chocolate frosting, coconut and fresh raspberry compote.

Vandermark stretched his Lamington to include coconutrum mousse, double-chocolate cream and a double-whammy raspberry coulis and raspberry compote in a golden layer cake.

“They didn’t take the creative leash I led them off, (but) they did stay fairly traditional to the Lamington,” Perry said. “I judged on the texture of the sponge and how beautiful the balance the flavor between the chocolate and

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the coconut was. It was really tight.”

Perry, dubbed the “undisputed king of the Australian restaurant industry” by the Australian news media, serves Lamington — named for the governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901 — in his legendary, award-winning Melbourne restaurant, Rockpool.

“We do use it as a petit four for fun as well as Pavlova on our dessert menu,” he said. “It’s such a famous Australian cake — something that people of 30 and over would have eaten. Most mums and dads would have made it at home (for) Sunday afternoon tea.” (Try it yourself Jan. 26 at 3 p.m. at Aspen Mountain Gondola Plaza; see sidebar on opposite page.)

I asked Perry’s daughter Macy, 11, if she’s a fan of Lamington.

She shook her head sheepishly in protest.

“It’s sort of fallen out of favor,” Perry explained, “but you still see it. It’s not a thing every Australian eats now, whereas we have a chocolate-caramel slice.”

What’s a chocolate-caramel slice? I asked.

“Oh,” he began. But Lacy piped up.

“You should do that next year!” she exclaimed. “You should do that next year!”

“Yeah, yeah!” Perry replied.

“It’s like a chocolate biscuit with caramel fudge. Kids go nuts for them.”

While the verdict is out on whether chocolate-caramel slice will be the starring attraction at next year’s quirky food match, Perry can confirm the AustraliaAspen connection.

“Aspen really is such a second home for Australians,” said the chef, a wintertime habitué of about seven years with wife Samantha and two young daughters. “We run into the same Aussie mates every year!

It’s the sense of generosity and hospitality and the fact it’s not a resort but a town. There’s incredible loyalty. Once they discover Aspen, they don’t want to go anywhere else.” amandaraewashere@gmail.com

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by AMANDA RAE

NEED TO KNOW Aspen/Snowmass Australia Day Celebration Jan. 26 8 a.m.: Aspen Mountain gondola opens an hour early 8 to 9 a.m.: Vegemite toast at Aspen Mountain Gondola Plaza 9 a.m.: Tim Tams, flags and stickers at Guest Services, all four mountains 3 to 4 p.m.: Lamington dessert served at Aspen Mountain Gondola Plaza 4 to 7 p.m.: Australia Day closing festivities at Chair 9 All day: Lunch specials (sausage sizzles, “Snags & Beer” and Aussie burgers with beetroot, pineapple and fried eggs) at the Sundeck, Elk Camp, Merry Go Round and Ullrhof restaurants

“ASPEN IS A SECOND HOME FOR AUSTRALIANS. IT’S THE SENSE OF GENEROSITY AND HOSPITALITY AND THE FACT IT’S NOT A RESORT BUT A TOWN.” — AUSTRALIAN CELEBRITY CHEF NEIL PERRY

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GUNNER’S LIBATIONS

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MAKE IT

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ESCAPE ARTIST | MEXICO, BELIZE & DENVER

by AMIEE WHITE BEAZLEY

WHERE TO GO NEXT:

MEXICO, BELIZE AND DENVER HAVE GREAT REASONS TO TRAVEL THIS MONTH RECENTLY, I wrote of Southwest Airlines’ commitment to international destinations from Denver International Airport (DIA), and in particular to Puerto Vallarta, which is great for the Colorado mountain traveler. This commitment “speaks to a multi-location attraction to that region,” says Southwest Airlines spokesman Brad Hawkins. What AMIEE WHITE he is referring to is the BEAZLEY expansion of the Riviera Nayarit. Once known for just the gated enclave including The Four Seasons Resort at Punta Mita and St. Regis Punta Mita, as well as the beloved surf town of Sayulita to the north (which is currently undergoing a major and muchneeded infrastructure upgrade), now this entire stretch of coastline is now a regional destination, much like the Mayan Riviera when it emerged in the late 1980s.

There’s no denying it: The Four Seasons Punta Mita is the definition of paradise. When I arrive there, I am transformed whether it by long afternoon naps on the beach, oceanside yoga at Rocky Point each morning, taking a stab at spearfishing in Banderas Bay or enjoying a glass of local wine from a rising star producer.

For golfers, there is the American Express VI Punta Mita Gourmet and Golf event taking place Jan. 28-31, hosted concurrently at Four Seasons Resort Punta Mita and St.

Regis Punta Mita, another gorgeous property with a private, bungalow layout and extended, white-sand beaches. It’s an incredible way for guests to experience the paradise destination of Punta Mita, a gorgeous beachfront enclave in Mexico’s Riviera Nayarit.

The four-day gastronomic and golf experience will feature worldrenowned chefs (including Richard Sandoval, Dean Fearing and Felipe Donnelly), wine personalities, epicurean experts and exhilarating golf competition on Punta Mita’s two prestigious Jack Nicklaus courses.

And if that is not enough, be sure to take part in the turtle release program held at the Four Seasons.

The experience of releasing multiple baby Olive Ridley sea turtles into the ocean at dusk, to watch them taste the ocean water for the first time and then run to their forever home in the sea (fingers crossed), is an experience that both adults and children find inspiring. I also spent some time in Punta de Mita outside of the gates.

Some of the best shrimp tacos and margaritas can be found at the new restaurant Blue Shrimp, but don’t forget to also try the decadent gelato at NAEF Cafe. A Mexican born with Swiss roots, Pierre Naef, owner, has an amazing palate for inventive flavor combinations and rich gelato making.

Sit in his beautiful courtyard for breakfast, lunch or both. A hidden gem on the Riviera Nayarit.

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and adventure retreat, takes place Feb. 19-24 in Belize. To encourage women to take the time for themselves, they are providing free flights to Belize from Denver, and other destinations in the U.S. There has been a special discount code made for the readers of my column, Escape Artist. Visit http://theresetretreat.com/fly-freeto-the-reset-retreat/ for information on the free flight. While at the Reset Retreat in Belize, guests will enjoy daily yoga, life coaching sessions, cultural explorations and tropical adventures. I think every woman should make themselves a priority at least once a year and why not at the beach in Belize?

Just so you know, I receive no compensation for sharing the free flight offers. I just think this is a fantastic opportunity for readers to release themselves from bad habits, toxic relationships and self-loathing and commit to giving themselves the time and space to heal, reset and grow in a vitamin D-rich setting free from sub-zero temperatures. While I have not yet attended this retreat, and cannot recommend it personally, there have been excellent reviews and it is on my list for 2016. For more information visit www.theresetretreat.com.

MY PICK FOR YOUR DENVER OVERNIGHT

Looking for a quick getaway for Valentine’s Day? My favorite place in Denver right now is The Crawford Hotel. Housed inside Denver’s 120-year-old train station, still in operation, The Crawford is the result of a stunning $54 million

transformation. Traveling from Aspen one could take Amtrak from Glenwood Springs to this gorgeous Beau Arts landmark, and walk into the bustling Denver Union Station Great Hall, which serves as the hotel’s main entrance and lobby. Gathered together beneath the 65-foot ceilings were a mixture of hotel guests, train travelers and patrons of the 13 Colorado restaurants and retailers that fill the perimeter of the hall like Pigtrain Coffee, Mercantile Dining and Provision, Stoic & Genuine and Snooze, an A.M. Eatery.

There are just 112 rooms at The Crawford, reflecting the different eras of the building’s history including Pullman-style rooms, a modern take on the private sleeping cars of train travel; “Classic” guestrooms with soaring windows, inspired by its Victorian-era beginnings; and modern “Loft” rooms in the station’s former attic with exposed wood timbers and vaulted ceilings. There are also 1-bedroom LoDo Suites and the Crawford Suite, which features separate living and dining rooms, master bedroom and sitting area.

From The Crawford Hotel and Union Station, you can take the RTD Skyline bus to Denver International Airport and coming this April, the new RTD “A” electric commuter rail line will take guests from Union Station to DIA in 37 minutes.

If you head there for Valentine’s Day, ask about the Denver Date Night Special. It comes with two free cocktails at The Cooper Lunch, comp valet parking (they will drive you anywhere in a two-mile radius in the hotel’s courtesy Tesla) and an upgrade on your room.

Amiee’s currently planning her trip to Perth, Australia. Have tips, comments or friends she should meet while there? Tweet your best insider suggestions to @awbeazley1.

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Miss Richfield 1981, the Aspen Gay Ski Week Downhill Costume Contest hostess, poses with a posse of contestants in 2015. The on-mountain costume contest is a highlight of the annual celebration.

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TURNING GAY SKI WEEK INSIDE OUT

by Barbara Platts

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’ve never attended a soiree quite like this one.

The Living Room at Hotel Jerome is filled to the brim.

Music is playing, smiles and laughter abound, and everyone appears pleasantly buzzed off of a specialty vodka drink called Sex on the Mountain. All appears relatively normal, with one exception: I’m fairly certain I’m one of the only ladies in the building.

Living in a mountain town, a girl gets used to being outnumbered by men, but they aren’t usually ones this nicely dressed or meticulously well-groomed. And, to top it all off, none of them are even glancing my direction. Or if they are, they have an expression that one might carry if they saw a toddler stumble into a bar and ask the bartender for a cold one. It’s overwhelmingly obvious that I’m immersed in a sea of gay men, which can only mean one thing: Gay Ski Week has arrived.

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This is my fourth ski season in Aspen and technically my fourth Gay Ski Week. But I’ve never before made it a goal to attend the parties and check out the scene. I’ve always known the week to be one of many lively and entertaining events that occur in Aspen during the winter. It looks like loads of fun, but at the end of the day, no matter how you twist it, I’m a straight white girl with a heterosexual partner. Gay Ski Week has never been mine to experience, and I accepted that.

However, this all changed a couple of months ago when my gay uncle, Tanner Flynn, decided he was coming up to Aspen with a few of his friends to experience the week. Tanner moved to Denver eight months ago and befriended three other men who consider themselves Gay Ski Week veterans.

Per their enthusiasm, he decided to buy a pass and attend the week with them. Now, in my family, if we see another relative having unfair amounts of fun, we tend to flock that direction in order to make sure the wealth is shared properly. Tanner’s announcement that he was attending Gay Ski Week was no exception. I quickly cleared my week, and a couple of my cousins booked flights out to join in.

We were ready to party.

THE EVENT

Gay Ski Week runs for seven full days, but many say that things don’t really get popping until mid week. None of my fellow party attendees would arrive until then, but I felt the need to get out sooner and learn the lay of the land, so I enlisted my friend Jimmy (a seasoned Gay Ski Week attendee) as my tour guide.

We hit the town with gusto, ready for whatever was to come.

Aspen Gay Ski Week is considered to be the nation’s oldest and largest gay ski event. The hoopla started 39 years ago when a group of friends made it an annual ritual to get together in Aspen and ski every January. As the years went by, the gathering grew larger, obtained sponsors and developed a loyal following. By 1996 they had acquired the Roaring Fork Gay and Lesbian Community Fund (also known as AspenOut) as the nonprofit beneficiary. This week, nearly 4,500 people are expected to attend, which is double the amount from last year.

To say this week is just a party would be a dramatic understatement. At this point, Gay Ski Week is an institution, and it’s one that locals and visitors alike plan their year around.

Glenwood local Solomon Liston told me he recalls taking the RFTA bus up to Aspen to check out Gay Ski Week when he was a teenager.

“I knew there were other people I could identify with,” Liston said about discovering Gay Ski Week.

“I mean, what rural boy has an international gay event 40 miles down the road?”

Years later, Liston still makes Gay Ski Week an annual ritual because of the people he’s met and the friendships he’s formed.

“This is a place to come together,” he said. “It’s great because you see a lot of friends you’ve gotten

“I’m obviously looking forward to the skiing, but also to the breadth of activities that are planned and sponsored. I’m really looking forward to the casual get-togethers like aprés-ski at the Limelight, as well as the Caribou Club Benefit.

It’s great that this is not just a week about having fun but that it also gives back to the community.” — Tanner Flynn, first-time attendee

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TOP The Saturday night ppool party, also known fondly as “Boys’ Soup,” is held the last day of Aspen Recreation Center.

ABOVE Logo TV hosts a daily après-ski party in the lobby of the Limelight Hotel.

to know.”

Billy Wheelan, a seven-year Gay Ski Week veteran, said he comes back each year because he likes reconnecting with friends he typically only gets to see that week every year.

“It’s a great chance to see old friends, both locals and ones that come from other places,” he told me over a Friendship Dinner at HOPS Culture. These

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dinners occur each evening of Gay Ski Week at a different restaurant and are a way for people to congregate and dine together.

As for my first-timer uncle, he’s looking forward to experiencing what draws thousands from the LGBTQ community here each year.

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CLASSIFICATIONS In the LGBT community, there are plenty of subcultures that help to characterize a person. We talked to Gay Ski Week attendees and supporters and came up with a few examples for both gay men and women.

Please note that this is not meant to be an exhaustive list, nor is it meant to cover all tribes in the GLBT community.

MEN Bear: A large, almost husky guy that typically has a plethora of body and facial hair. He’s proud of his hyper masculine swagger and isn’t afraid to show it.

Otter: He’s similar to the bear because of the amount of hair that has accumulated on his person, but he’s smaller in frame and weight. An otter can be any age and while he’s usually thin, he’s not considered to be particularly athletic.

Wolf: Not as hairy as an otter, but known to be muscular, lean, hot and probably a bit aggressive sexually. Grrrr! A wolf can be any age or height, but he almost always has facial hair.

Gym Bunnies: He’s probably under 50 with muscles so fine it’s obvious he spends the majority of his time at the gym. He’s not really a jock because he works out for face value. But he’s so pretty you won’t care how he got that way.

Twink: These guys are the younglings of the gay community, ranging in age from late teens to early twenties. A twink is boyishly attractive with a slim build and little to no body or facial hair. If they’re more muscular than your average twink, they are often referred to as a twunk.

WOMEN Lipstick Lesbian: A feminine women who cares about her looks, usually wearing lots of makeup and prepping her hair even if she’s just hitting the gym. She may almost seem straight…but don’t let those long batty eyelashes fool you.

Butch Lesbian: This woman is super masculine to the point where she doesn’t typically identify with her feminine side. Her hair is short and she probably has some pretty impressive guns under that flannel shirt.

Soft Stud: This type of lady is somewhere in between Lipstick and Butch. She has masculine qualities and may often wear men’s clothes, but she also embraces her feminine side, wearing makeup or getting her hair done up on occasion.

Agressive Femme: She’s a lipstick lesbian that wears the pants in the relationship.

Dominant and always in control, particularly in the bedroom, she’s the lady in charge.

Sporty Lesbian: Her favorite Spice Girl was most definitely Sporty Spice. She identifies with being an athlete and is most often seen in sweatshirts, jeans and a baseball cap, because it’s much more comfortable than a pencil skirt and stilettos.

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TIMELINE OF GAY SKI WEEK 1976 (OR SO…)

Local Aspenite Jon Busch (one of the founders of Gay Ski Week) got in trouble for dancing with another man in a local bar.

1977

Gay Ski Week officially started, however it was still a casual affair where friends and ski clubs would get together each January. As years went by, the gathering became much more official.

1979

Busch and other local men pushed for secured gay rights protection in Aspen. This was the first town to do this in the state. Shortly after, Denver and Boulder followed.

1992

A setback for the gay community, Amendment 2 was pushed through, repealing all gay legislation and preventing more from being passed in Aspen and statewide.

1996

Aspen Gay and Lesbian Community Fund, a nonprofit organization, was incorporated into Aspen Gay Ski Week.

This was done to compete with other for-profit ski weeks that had popped up. This year, the Colorado Supreme Court also made the decision that Amendment 2 was unconstitutional.

2004

Sponsor dollars increase by 100 percent from the year before.

2013

Aspen Gay Ski Week, both the logo and the name, are successfully trademarked.

2013

The All for Love civil union ceremony takes place in Wagner Park during Gay Ski Week, which was open to all same-sex couples after the passing of civil-union legislation in Colorado.

(Same-sex marriages were legalized across the U.S. in 2015.)

2016

In Aspen Gay Ski Week’s 39th year, sales on everything from passes to lodging are almost double what they were in 2015. Credit for this is partially given to the Week’s first ever media partner, television channel Logo TV.

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“I’m obviously looking forward to the skiing, but also to the breadth of activities that are planned and sponsored,” he said. “I’m really looking forward to the casual get-togethers like aprés-ski at the Limelight, as well as the Caribou Club Benefit. It’s great that this is not just a week about having fun but that it also gives back to the community.”

And what about the fact that he will have his straight niece and two of his heterosexual nephews following him around the rest of the week? He said he is honored that we want to participate.

“There was a long period of time that gay people’s families didn’t have any interest to participate in our unique celebrations,” he said.

“We’ve participated in our family’s lives but it’s only been in the last few years that our families are starting to participate in our rituals and that’s really exciting.”

WHAT’S LEFT As the Sex on the Mountain libation begins to take hold of me in the Living Room of the Hotel Jerome, I find myself settling into my surroundings.

Yes, I’m still the minority. But the crowds around me feel right at home here and, after some shaking of hands and verbal exchanges, they welcome me in as well.

By the time this issue hits the stands, there will be three days left of Gay Ski Week. Some of the best events take place at the end, such as the Women’s Cocktail Reception at Casa Tua on Thursday, the wildly popular Downhill Costume Competition on Friday and the Top of Mountain Saints and Sinners party that night. Plus, we can’t forget the notoriously wild Saturday Night Pool Party to finish things off with a bang (I’ll probably let the boys play on their own for that one).

No matter your sexual orientation, I hope you partake in some part of this jubilant celebration

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that descends on Aspen once a year. For me, the experience has certainly been one that will go down in the books.

Why wouldn’t it? After all, there are over 4,000 attractive men in town. How can a girl say no?

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2016 IS OFF TO A SPLENDID START with new restaurants that have popped up in town, an Australian invasion so to speak with scores of guests on holiday from Down Under, and the Academy Awards around the corner.

In anticipation of the Oscars next month, Aspen Film presented the Academy Screenings over the holidays at Harris Hall, featuring 20 acclaimed films

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Celebrating their debut, a party took place on Jan. 13 in the spacious restaurant upstairs as guests enjoyed artisan menu items and specialty cocktails.

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Jessica Baer and Jane Roberts check out The Crystal Method at Belly Up. Marry Me? Tucker Vest Burton’s priceless reaction to beau Kevin Sommers’ proposal on Highland Peak. Courtesy photo.

Will Lenhertz, Ali Scott and Katrina Lobley paint the town red at Rec Room Aspen.

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TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE LED ZEPPELIN TRIBUTE BAND ZOSO TO DUB A COVER BAND as “in some ways, better than the real thing” is a bold and arguably controversial statement.

Especially when the band is a tribute to one of the most influential rock ’n’ roll groups of all time.

But that’s exactly what the headline of the Boulder Weekly newspaper read in its March 25, 2010, review of the Led Zeppelin cover band Zoso.

Without entertaining a discussion as to whether a rendition can be superior to the original, one fact is for certain: Many fans say watching Zoso play is the closest experience to a true Led Zeppelin performance.

“You get engrossed in it, and it’s almost like you’re back in the ’70s at a festival watching Led Zeppelin play,” Zoso fan Kelly Wolfsheimer said during a phone interview Jan. 15 while en route to a Zoso concert.

Wolfsheimer said she was “driving like crazy” from her home in Richmond, Virginia, to the see Zoso play in Norfolk alongside her friend and fellow fan Joy Syring.

The Norfolk performance would be Zoso Round 2 for Syring, who had traveled to Charlottesville the previous night to watch the band perform.

The two wouldn’t have time to check into their hotel room before the show, Wolfsheimer said, and would have to change and get ready in a mall bathroom closer to the concert venue.

While the two are passionate Zoso fans, Wolfsheimer said she’s met and talked with audience members at concerts who say they travel from state to state to see the band play.

Syring said she first saw Zoso perform at a concert in Philadelphia with her husband three years ago and didn’t know what to expect.

But after Zoso’s performance, Syring said she and her husband looked at each other and both said, “Wow.”

band first started back in 1995.

Matt Jernigan plays the part of lead singer Robert Plant, John McDaniel is guitarist Jimmy Page, Adam Sandling is keyboardist John Paul Jones, and Bevan Davies is drummer John Bonham.

But the band didn’t start as a cover band. It just played “that heavy rockblues sound, a lot like Zeppelin,” Jernigan said, and its management company suggested that it consider performing as a Zeppelin tribute.

After mulling it over for four months, Jernigan said the band decided to give the idea a shot.

The looks and the sound were already there, Jernigan said. And more importantly, everyone in the band loved Zeppelin.

Jernigan had been listening to Plant’s pipes since he was 9 years old, thanks to his older brother, who Jernigan says most influenced his musical taste.

“He turned me on to everything — The Beatles, The Stones, Black Sabbath, Floyd, The Who, Cream, Hendrix — all the earlier bands,”

a number of tribute bands play Jernigan said.

When Zoso first began performing over the years and thinks Zoso’s as a tribute to Led Zeppelin, Jernigan performance is the closest rendition to any band she’s ever seen. said there was little footage of It’s Zoso’s appearance as well as Zeppelin to which Zoso could refer. its “musical chops” that sets it apart, The only real material Zoso had Wolfsheimer said. to work with were clips from Led “They do more than a lot of Zeppelin’s 1973 concert film, “The tributes in the fact that they really Song Remains the Same,” along with try to re-create the sound,” she said. a few videotaped bootlegs, Syring agreed.

Jernigan said.

“They’re all just incredibly talented “We’d take pictures out of books, musicians,” she said. then have to kind of imagine how fluid they’d work together on stage and put ourselves in the best position we could because we couldn’t take total note on them,” Jernigan said.

Wolfsheimer said she finds this particularly impressive about Zoso’s rendition of Led Zeppelin.

“It’s hard to just imagine sometimes,” Wolfsheimer said.

“But they studied it tremendously, and they really do channel each band member.”

Wolfsheimer What: Zoso: The Ultimate Led said she’s watched Zeppelin Experience.

When: Jan. 24; doors open at 9 p.m.; show at 9:30 p.m.

Where: Belly Up Aspen.

Cost: $18 advanced-purchase general admission; $22 day-of-show general admission.

All ages

IF YOU GO ...

MEET THE BAND Aside from a seven-year stint with a different guitarist, Zoso consists of the same band members as when the

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THELISTINGS THURSDAY, JAN. 21 ART TOUR OF HERBERT BAYER EXHIBIT — 11 a.m., Aspen Institute, Doerr-Hosier Center, 845 Meadows Road, Aspen. For more information, call 970-925-7010.

CHRIS BANK — 3 p.m., The Nest, Viceroy Hotel, 130 Wood Road, Snowmass Village. Contemporary music.

HISTORICAL PUB TOUR — 3:30 p.m., Red Onion, 420 E. Cooper Ave., Aspen. Learn about Aspen establishments’ history, and hear local lore. Tour meets at the Red Onion and ends at the J-Bar. “WAR STORIES” — 5:30 p.m., Basalt Regional Library, 14 Midland Ave., Basalt. Five-part series on experiences in war and the integration back into the civilian world afterward. For more information, contact 970-927-4017 or andersen@rof.net.

5POINT FILM FESTIVAL ASPEN — 6 p.m., Wheeler Opera House, 320 E. Hyman Ave., Aspen. Short documentary adventure films and special guests. Tickets available at http://aspenshowtix.com and the Wheeler Box Office.

NATURALIST NIGHTS: “THE RED FOX: NATURAL HISTORY AND WINTER ECOLOGY” — 7 p.m., Aspen Center for Environmental Studies at Hallam Lake, 100 Puppy Smith St., Aspen. Pat Magee of Western State Colorado University discusses tensions between foxes and humans.

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JAN 21 - 27, 2016 snowbiking and s’mores and hot chocolate by a bonfire. Live indoor music. All children must be accompanied by an adult. $9 (additional costs for snow tubing and snow biking). 970-923-1227 CHRIS PHILLIPS — 6 p.m., 8K Lounge, Viceroy Snowmass, 130 Wood Road, Snowmass Village.

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STAYCEE PEARL DANCE PROJECT — 7 p.m., Aspen District Theatre, 355 High School Road, Aspen. Featuring “Playground.”

LIVE MUSIC — 9 p.m., Rivers Restaurant, 2525 S. Grand Ave., Glenwood Springs. Featuring Jeremy Isenhart. Originals and cover songs.

SATURDAY, JAN. 23 DAMIAN SMITH AND TERRY BANNON — 3 p.m., Venga Venga, Snowmass Village. Live music.

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CHRIS PHILLIPS — 6 p.m., 8K Lounge, Viceroy Snowmass, 130 Wood Road, Snowmass Village.

Classical and flamenco guitar.

ZOSO: THE ULTIMATE LED ZEPPELIN EXPERIENCE — 9:30 p.m., Belly Up, 450 S. Galena St., Aspen. Led Zeppelin tribute band. All ages.

MONDAY, JAN. 25

JOE KELLY AND ZOE — 3 p.m., The Nest, Viceroy Hotel, 130 Wood Road, Snowmass Village. Guitar and bass.

Rock, blues and Latin music.

SING-ALONG AND S’MORES — 3:30 p.m., Base Village, 110 Carriage Way, Snowmass Village. A fire and guitar sing-along. All children must be accompanied by an adult. All ages. Free. 970-922-2233

CHRIS PHILLIPS — 6 p.m., 8K Lounge, Viceroy Snowmass, 130 Wood Road, Snowmass Village.

Classical and flamenco guitar.

MONDAY NIGHT JAZZ — 7 p.m., Hotel Colorado, 529 Pine St., Glenwood Springs. Free. Listen or join in with local jazz musicians of all levels.

SUNDAY, JAN. 24 MARK JOHNSON AND CHRIS BANK — 3 p.m., The Nest, Viceroy Snowmass Hotel, 130 Wood Road, Snowmass Village. Jazz and soul.

LARRY AND PATTY HERD — 3 p.m., The Nest, Viceroy Hotel, 130 Wood Road, Snowmass Village. Rock, blues and variety.

JUGGLING AND MAGIC SHOW — 3:30 p.m., Base Village, 110 Carriage Way, Snowmass Village. Parental supervision required. All ages. Free.

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TUESDAY, JAN. 26 HISTORY TOUR — 1:30 p.m., Hotel Jerome, 330 E. Main St., Aspen.

Learn about the hotel’s history and how it relates to Aspen. $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, children 12 and younger free. Presented by Aspen Historical Society.

MASTERPIECE MINE: PAINT AND WINE — 5:30 p.m., Red Brick Center for the Arts, 110 E. Hallam St., Suite 118, Aspen. Drinks, snacks and painting. Register at http://aspenart. org or 970-429-2777.

GREAT DECISIONS SERIES— 7 p.m., Aspen Institute, Koch Building, 1000 N. Third St., Aspen. Eightweek series on foreign policy issues including the Middle East, the rise of the Islamic State group, migration, Kurdistan, the Koreas, the United Nations, climate change, and Cuba and the U.S. $195 fee includes all sessions, readings and light refreshments. Scholarships available.

Register at www.aspeninstitute.org/ aspenevents.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27 NATURALIST NIGHTS: “THE HUNGRY BIRD: WHAT BIRDS EAT” — 5:30 p.m., Third Street Center, 520 Third St., Carbondale. David Leatherman, a former forest entomologist for the Colorado State Forest Service, discusses bird nutrition. Tea and cookies available.

LEADERS LECTURE SERIES — 5:30 p.m., Aspen Club and Spa, 1300 Ute Ave., Aspen. With Dr. Christina Miller, club nutritionist and expert on integrative and functional medicine.

Free.

“NEPAL: TREKKING, PADDLING, EARTHQUAKES AND THE POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA” — 7 p.m., Aspen Center for Environmental Studies at Hallam Lake, 100 Puppy Smith St., Aspen. Jenny and Charlie MacArthur discuss their trip to Nepal in April.

Tea and cookies provided. Nonmembers $5; members free.

BOBBY MASON — 7 p.m., Hotel Jerome, 330 E. Main St., Aspen.

Guitar and vocals. Original blues and classic rock.

NAS — 10 p.m., Belly Up, 450 S. Galena St., Aspen. Rap. Ages 21 and older only.

LIVE MUSIC WITH DAMIAN SMITH AND DENNIS JUNG — 10 p.m., Red Onion, 420 E. Cooper Ave., Aspen.

Sandy's Hackett's father, legendary comedian, Buddy Hackett was great friends with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Joey Bishop - and together, they all made history. A truly authentic theatrical production based on the musical and comedic legacy of the Rat Pack, this show makes you laugh, cry and leaves you wanting for more!

All Tickets Only $65! www.aspenshowtix.com 970.920.5770

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‘AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE’ AN ORGANIZED KIDNAPPING mission rescues beauty-pageant escapees. A neighborly feud draws blood. A dying wife secures a brassiere around the chest of her opponent. In her collection of short stories highlighting the women who manage (and at times destroy) the home fronts, author Helen Ellis takes readers into the unexpected corners of wifedom in “American Housewife.” The 12 compact tales are delightfully dark and leave readers always rooting for the housewife, no matter how twisted her plots.

From a reality show to a getaway car to a Manhattan penthouse, each setting provides a unique space in which these women can truly shine and scheme. While most of the stories will make you laugh, others

will make you cackle while doublechecking your locks. Sprinkled in the mix are a few handy how-tos, like how to unlock Southern lady code (hint: nice equals boring).

Ellis expertly toys with varied points of view. One piece unfolds from the perspective of a struggling writer, and by struggling we mean held hostage, and another from the viewpoint of a crafty book-club member with some nasty intentions up her tailored sleeve. Need some advice from a cat? Again, you’re in luck. With punchy writing and unique conundrums, “American Housewife” can be devoured in a sitting. Resist. The tales are best consumed like the pinot grigio some of these housewives enjoy — daily.

NOTEWORTHY “American Housewife: Stories” Helen Ellis 208 pages, hardcover, $16.30 Doubleday, 2016

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| 01.16.16 | Aspen | TO A STANDING-ROOM-ONLY CROWD AT THE GONZO GALLERY IN ASPEN, JUAN THOMPSON READ PASSAGES FROM HIS NEWLY RELEASED BOOK “STORIES I TELL MYSELF: GROWING UP WITH HUNTER S. THOMPSON.” HE MADE IT CLEAR THAT THIS MEMOIR COMES FROM HIS MEMORY AND THAT ALL THE EXPERIENCES MIGHT NOT BE THE ACTUAL TRUTH OF WHAT HAPPENED BUT RATHER HIS EXPERIENCE WITH HIS FATHER.

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