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POPULAR MUSIC EARLIER THIS MONTH,

Lori McKenna won Songwriter of the Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards, becoming the first woman to win the biggest prize in country songwriting and adding another trophy to her mantel which also includes a 2017 Grammy for Best Country Song (for Tim McGraw’s “Humble and Kind”) and countless awards.

McKenna might best be known for her simple, powerful songwriting, which has made her one of the most sought-after writers in the game — working with the likes of Faith Hill, Keith Urban and Little Big Town.

On Saturday, April 15, she takes center stage at the Wheeler Opera House for a muchanticipated solo concert that will close the historic theater’s winter season.

Along with her acclaimed work with country music’s biggest names, McKenna has recorded 10 solo albums of her own, including last year’s “The Bird and the Rifle.” She’ll be showcasing her solo work at the Wheeler show, which marks McKenna’s Aspen debut.

Saturday’s show is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $35, available at the Wheeler Opera House box office and www.aspenshowtix.com.

Pick up the April 14 Weekend section of The Aspen Times for an interview with McKenna and more on her Aspen show.

Lori McKenna will headline the Wheeler Opera House on Saturday, April 15.

CURRENTEVENTS VISUAL ART

The Aspen Center for Environmental Studies will host an architectural installation “Energy Confessional” at Hallam Lake on Wednesday, April 19.

Glenwood Springs High School student Zach Johnson (pictured) is among the artists featured in the Young Curators of the Roaring Fork exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum opening Saturday, April 15.

THE ASPEN ART MUSEUM brings a youthful vision to its walls this weekend, as the 11th annual Young Curators of the Roaring Fork exhibition opens in the museum.

The show, opening on Saturday, April 15, with a 3 p.m. reception, includes 16 artworks culled from 80 submissions by high school artists in the Roaring Fork Valley. It’s curated by a group of 10 students from Aspen, Glenwood Springs, Roaring Fork, and Basalt High Schools.

The show will be on view through Sunday, April 30. More info at www.aspenartmuseum.org.

ARCHITECTURE THE ASPEN CENTER for Environmental Studies (ACES) will host an open house featuring an architectural installation named “The Energy Confessional” on Wednesday, April 19.

The traveling installation encourages people to engage with design, materials and energy use as part of the American Institute for Architects Colorado Chapter’s celebration of Architecture Month in Colorado.

The reception at ACES is scheduled to run from 5 to 7 p.m. It’s free and open to the public, and will include locally sourced snacks from Rock Bottom Ranch, along with libations and Earth Day activities.

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1967 ASPEN

“COLO. MT. JR. COLLEGE OPENS OCT. 9,” announced The Aspen Times on Aug. 10, 1967. “Authorized by voters in the five-county district in November, 1965, Colorado Mountain Junior College, with campuses at Glenwood Springs and Leadville, will begin classes on Oct. 9.

College officials call their courses ‘learner-centered study.’ Courses include art, astrogeophysical technology and resort management. The college will operate on the trimester system with fall, spring and summer terms. Costs per term run from about $500 for district students to about $830 for out-of-state residents. According to Public Information Officer Martin Vanderveen, former editor of The Aspen Times’ sister newspaper, the Glenwood Sage, several area residents are enrolled. One of them is Caren E. Atterbury of Aspen who will study on the Glenwood campus. Each campus is expected to have 300 students initially. Located at Spring Valley, 12 miles south of Glenwood and 36 miles northwest of Aspen, just off Highway 82, the Glenwood or West Campus comprises 588 acres. The land was donated by area ranchers led by James Quigley.

College officials refer to the Spring Valley site as one of the world’s most beautiful campuses.

They feel others are aware of the site’s attractions. Nearly 3,000 applications were received for the about 38 faculty positions.” The photo above shows construction at the Spring Valley campus in May of 1967, with Mount Sopris in the background.

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

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HOWELL MOUNTAIN RISES A SPECIAL PLACE FOR WINE

OH, TO LIVE ON HOWELL Mountain.

OK, so the lyric by Neil Young was actually about a mythical Sugar Mountain, but life on Howell Mountain, especially for the grapes and their growers, can be exceedingly sweet.

Howell Mountain is an AVA (a designated wine region) on the northeast side of the Napa Valley in the KELLY J. Vaca Mountains. In the HAYES 1880s, vintners Jean Adolph Brun and Jean V. Chaix first began to make wine from vineyards on Howell Mountain at their winery in Oakville on the Napa Valley floor. Prohibition slowed the wine heritage of the region, but over the past four decades there has been a renaissance and Howell Mountain is now renowned for growing and producing many of the finest Bordeaux varietal wines in America.

Famed names like Duckhorn and Cakebread have vineyards and source fruit from the region. Other significant privately held wine companies, like Plumpjack (Cade) and Kendall Jackson (La Jota), not only grow Howell Mountain fruit but also produce wines in their own Mountain-based wineries. And family wineries, like Dunn Vineyards Winery, founded by Howell Mountain pioneer Randy Dunn in 1979, Ladera Vineyards (their stone winery was originally built by Brun and Chaix in 1886), O’Shaughnessy Estate Winery and others, give the region a distinctly local flavor.

Cabernet sauvignon, merlot, malbec, cabernet franc and sauvignon blanc dominate the plantings on Howell Mountain, though there are pockets of other grapes.

Recently, at a Taste of Vail wine seminar, O’ Shaughnessy winemaker Sean Capiaux and winery representatives Dan Stotesbery of Ladera and Stephen Gonda of La Jota, poured wines from their Howell Mountain estates and shared tales of why Howell Mountain is such a special place. All three enthusiastically spoke of the unique characteristics that make the wines of Howell Mountain so exceptional.

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A PLACE IN THE SUN

If you have ever taken off from San Francisco Airport, heading east on a fog-covered morning, and looked north toward the Napa Valley, that mountaintop you spotted rising from above the flattened fog bank was Howell Mountain.

What you saw is the main reason why the grapes on Howell Mountain produce extremely concentrated and flavorful fruit.

The vineyards on Howell Mountain rest in the sky, above that fog line on most mornings getting the first rays of the day’s sun. While the vines on the Napa Valley floor below wait in the fog for the heat to burn the moisture off around noon, the grapes on the Mountain are already being bathed in sunshine.

With more sunlight each day the grapes respond accordingly, producing sugars and acidity that are balanced. Howell Mountain rises from 1,400 to 2,000 feet, and the nighttime temperatures can be 5 to 10 degrees higher than those in the valley below.

Conversely, during the day, due to elevation changes, temperatures are 5 to 10 degrees cooler.

This difference in the sunlight and temperatures, combined with a weather profile that delivers nearly twice as much rain as the valley floor, and unique soils provide Howell Mountain with a special terroir, the French word used to describe the characteristics of a particular place.

Those soils can be broken into two specific types. The first, called “tufa,” consists of decomposed volcanic ash. The second is dense, compressed red clay. The lack of nutrients in both soil types means the vines grown on Howell Mountain are stressed and must reach deep down into the earth to get nourishment and moisture. These struggles result in smaller clusters of grapes with smaller berries, heavily concentrated in flavors and sugars.

And it is not just the vines that are stressed. Because of the steep and rocky nature of mountain vineyard sites, the majority of work on the vines must be done by hand. This in turn lowers the yield of grapes on

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Winemaker Chris Carpenter sits in the shade of La Jota’s picturesque winery on Howell Mountain.

each plot, so only the best clusters are harvested for production.

THE WINES

Power and balance. That was the takeaway from the nine wines the three experts from the region poured at the Taste of Vail seminar. Whether it was the cabernet sauvignons from the outstanding 2013 vintage, the merlot, cabernet franc or malbec, or the three “Library” wines that each of the winemakers graciously presented from the mid 2000’s, all nine exhibited similar characteristics. The earth, spice, leather and chocolate signified the wines as being from the Mountain.

Mountain-grown Bordeaux varietals are well known for being dark, dramatic and big, but the

beauty of each of these wines was in their balance. Stephen Gonda from La Jota said that when he thought of wines from Howell Mountain he thought of Muhammad Ali. Yes, they pack a punch, but there is artistry to the power and the strength. They, in the words of the great boxer, “Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.”

Yes, life is sweet on Howell Mountain.

Kelly J. Hayes lives in the soon-to-be-designated appellation of Old Snowmass. He can be reached at malibukj@aol.com.

UNDER THE INFLUENCE LA JOTA 2013 HOWELL MOUNTAIN MERLOT “Whenever someone asks at a wine tasting ‘pour me your best cabernet,’ I reach for the bottle of La Jota merlot and pour them that,” said Stephen Gonda of Kendall Jackson’s Spire collection. He is not just being cute, he believes that the La Jota merlot is wine that cabernet drinkers would love. And he is right. “Smooth” is a word that is often overused to describe merlot, but the cashmere mouth feel of this 2013 gem meets that description perfectly. Dark as night in the glass, with notes of plum on the nose, this beautiful wine is a credit to both merlot and Howell Mountain.

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ABOVE: The Ladera Winery on Howell Mountain dates to 1886.

FAR LEFT: The fog on Howell Mountain burns off long before it does on the Napa Valley Floor.

LEFT: The vineyards of Howell Mountain bask in the morning sun.

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SMOKE SIGNALS BARBECUE SEASON HEATS UP

IT’S A FIERY TIME to be a smoked-meat fiend in Aspen. Just ask Viceroy Snowmass chef Will Nolan, who clinched the “Denver Prince of Porc” title at Cochon555 Heritage BBQ in March.

“We do a lot of barbecue here — I got my smoker out front of Ricard,” Nolan told me shortly after the win.

“During springtime we fire up the smoker and AMANDA RAE smoke some stuff up when it’s warm outside, everything from brisket to ribs to Andouille (sausage)…po‘ boys on the patio every now and again.

We make smoked duck pastrami, smoked red snapper brandade at the Viceroy. I can’t get away from it.

I love it so much.”

The Denver battle — a pig-centric free-for-all celebrating whole-hog utilization and the family farmers who raise them — was just one stop on the ninth-annual Cochon555, a 20-city US tour that culminates with Grand Cochon, this year held in Chicago on October 1. (Not to worry: Heritage Fire will return to Snowmass during the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen as usual, on June 17.)

“It’s all about using fire,” says Nolan, who prepared six porkpacked plates from a 200-pound pig raised by Mountain Primal Meat Co., in Carbondale. “Everything from char siu to cochon de lait (suckling pig) to Louisiana smoking style to straight smoking to opengrill cooking,” he said.

Nolan wowed the crowd with a black sesame bao-bun bánh mì stuffed with pork liver pâté, that char siu pork, and pork-fat aioli and his “Louisiana Sausage Party,” featuring beer-infused boudin blanc charred over an open fire and smoked Andouille dipped in hush puppy batter, fried, and served over celery root remoulade. Cornflakecrusted smoked pork cheek plus a sweet potato waffle with Tilamook pimento cheese and homemade bacon lardons fashioned Nolan’s riff on chicken and waffles. A sweet

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finish: “Pork du Crème” (chocolate blood pudding) and bacon-fat “Oreaux,” stuffed with candied bacon and pork-fat caramel. “We used everything except for the oink,” he quipped.

Just as cooking animals over fire is a practice as old as human history, barbecue comes naturally to Nolan. He learned the craft as a New Orleans teenager, toiling away at Tipton County Tennessee Pit Barbecue. “Junior and senior year in high school, I was the young pitmaster in the back with the black gloves on,” he says. “I loaded all the wood, rubbed the meat, smoked the meat, and waited until it was done.”

Primal cookery remains his favorite method, Nolan says, and grilling is “the best way to cook at home” (see “Grill Talk,” opposite page).

Aspen chef Chris Lanter concurs.

He traded fine French cuisine at Cache Cache for fire-roasted meats when he reunited with former college roommate (and erstwhile Cache Cache sous chef) Aaron “Fiery Ron” Siegel to bring Home Team BBQ, an outpost of three Charleston, S.C., restaurants, to the base of Buttermilk Mountain.

Business has been booming since the spot opened in December — so intensely at first that it took a while for the crew to catch up to Aspen appetites for St. Louis-style ribs.

“We have ribs coming out of smokers every three hours or so — 50 racks a day,” Home Team founder Taylor Garrigan told me then. “People buy four or five racks at a time — more than at any other location.” (Pulled pork, apparently, is the go-to order in South Carolina.)

The slow-and-low process begins with brining and a rest overnight.

“We start rubbing ribs at 5:30 a.m.,” Garrigan said. “It’s a dry rub, (to) create that nice sandpapery crust on top. Then they’re smoked four to six hours. When you run out you need 10 hours before you can get the next ones ready. It takes about 20-30 minutes to clean one brisket, brine two hours, cook 16-20 hours.

We plan, but inevitably when we’re super busy we run out of stuff.”

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As anyone who’s suffered through an order of emaciated pork ribs — imported, frozen, from Denmark — at the Hickory House might understand: Aspen has been starved for authentic Southern barbecue using fresh ingredients for quite some time. Which is also why Slow Groovin’ Snowmass, sister to the Marble, Colo., destination of the same name, has been consistently busy since it opened in December.

Live-fire cookery is key for Flip Wise, executive chef of the new Free Range Kitchen & Wine Bar in Basalt. There he mans one of few wood-burning grills in the area.

“You smell it when you walk into the dining room,” Wise says. “It’s very soulful.”

Every week, Wise receives a pallet of apple and peach wood from Paonia and, sometimes, local oak. Much of his menu showcases the grill — meats, produce, even a charred Indian roti flatbread with ras el hanout-spiced green lentils and apple chutney. He also uses an outdoor smoker, “as a tool to enhance flavor,” he says. “We did a beet juice-smoked Maldon sea salt to put on the farm egg that comes on the Range Salad. It’s not just a

cool gimmick — the olfactory aftertaste (is) sweet, rooty, mineraly. It’s so good.” And purple!

In fact, it was Wise’s barbecue mastery that led Free Range owners Steve and Robin Humble to track him down. “I was doing a smoker and grill on my trailer, for Open Fire Catering,” he says of the project he launched in earnest after leaving Meat & Cheese in Aspen, where he was head butcher. “I must have done 10 events at the (Roaring Fork Beer Company) brewery this past summer,” he says. Carbondale, it seemed, could not get enough.

A sure sign that barbecue is taking over Aspen, however, can be found at the unlikeliest of venues: L’Hostaria. Recently I attended an intimate dinner with Italian winemaker Enzo Boglietti, here visiting longtime friend and L’Hostaria owner Tiziano Gortan.

First course: a platter of salmon, filleted, smoked, and sliced into long, inch-wide chunks. Turns out this was the work of sommelier Carlos Valenzuela, who drove down to Austin, Texas, last November to acquire a massive smoker grill from a Hill Country artisan welder.

PHOTO BY CARLOS VALENZUELA

by AMANDA RAE

“It’s a new hobby I dove into,” Valenzuela told us during the meal, which also consisted of Valenzuela’s smoked lamb, shredded and cooked with red wine by chef Ruben Bonomi to top fresh parsley-rosemary linguine, followed by fat slices of smoked beef brisket served with griddled squares of savory polenta and grilled vegetables.

“That kind of cooking has always interested me,” Valenzuela says. “It’s like Mexican food, which takes hours and hours to prepare.”

As the California-born son of Mexican immigrants, Valenzuela grew up around the campfire, literally. “My dad, a butcher, always had a pit,” he says. “Every other weekend we had a barbecue in our backyard.

(Now) every time we visit family back in Sinaloa they kill a pig or goat to cook barbacoa: You wrap it in banana or maguey leaves and bury it underground.”

Just fire, time, and patience is all it takes, says Valenzuela, bitten by the barbecue bug last year after chef Nolan lent him a “gnarly rig” smoker so that he could cook a massive black bear that L’Hostaria manager Fabrizio Brovelli hunted near East Maroon creek.

“Then I was on a mission,” Valenzuela says. “It sparked something in my brain. Just like wine, I [had] to dive into it.” He studied Austin pitmaster Aaron Franklin’s barbecue bible, then teamed up with John Maas of Mountain Primal to prepare a whole hog for L’Hostaria’s employee party last spring using Palisade peach and maple wood. More experiments, also using oak, are forthcoming.

Having cemented L’Hostaria as a locals’ haunt for two decades now, it’s safe to say that Gortan won’t shift the menu’s focus from Italian to barbecue any time soon. Still, Valenzuela — who hopes to post up at the Basalt Sunday Market this summer — continues to share creations as the mood strikes.

Coming right up: smoked salmon and pork spare ribs during a JAS Aspen fundraiser at L’Hostaria on Saturday, April 29. amandaraewashere@gmail.com

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GRILL TALK “Grilling is the best way to cook at home,” says Viceroy Snowmass chef Will Nolan. Unlike smoking, which requires a long, slow burn at 200-degrees or so, “It’s quick.”

The most important part, though, is restraint.

“Leave it alone!” Nolan advises. “The more you move it, you pinch the muscle and all the juices come out. Just brine it, rub it, set it, and don’t move it. I only flip it once.”

Then, after removing meat from the grill, walk away for 20-30 minutes. “Resting is ultra-important,” Nolan says.

“All the flavors are in there!”

CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: Smoked salmon (and pork spare ribs, opposite page) by L’Hostaria sommelier Carlos Valenzuela are on the menu at the JAS Aspen fundraiser dinner at the restaurant on April 29; Viceroy Snowmass chef Will Nolan, newly crowned Cochon555 “Denver Prince of Porc,” holds a pig spine at the event on March 19; chef Nolan’s winning plates at Cochon555 used all sorts of hog parts.

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by JEANNE MCGOVERN

MAKE IT

SPRING QUEEN

Spring 44 vodka Spring 44 gin elderflower ginger beer Cook’s sparkling Lemon slice, for garnish

As the ski season winds down, it’s time to celebrate with some serious spring skiing and more serious apres-skiing. On a recent bluebird day at Copper Mountain, I came across a cocktail that summed the whole end-of-season vibe up in a glass: the Spring Queen. Featured on Jack’s “Raised on Colorado” menu — Jack’s is located right at the base of the mountain; the specialty menu celebrates cocktails and craft beers that are “uniquely Colorado” — the Spring Queen is refreshing but not overly sweet, a fine balance indeed. I attribute it to the use of both vodka and gin (Spring 44 is made in Loveland), as well as the mixed tastes of elderflower and ginger. And while I won’t be sipping one on Copper’s closing day, though it sounds like one heckuva party over there, I will be seeking one out somewhere in Aspen as spring shifts into summer.

LIBATIONS WAS CREATED BY BELOVED ASPEN TIMES PUBLISHER GUNILLA ASHER, WHO DIED JUNE 2, 2014, AFTER A BRAVE BATTLE WITH CANCER. CHEERS — TO GUNNER!

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by HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH for THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CENTENNIAL OF U.S. ENTRANCE INTO WWI LURES VISITORS TO MUSEUM CROSSING A GLASS WALKWAY that spans a field of 9,000 poppies, visitors to the official U.S. memorial to World War I are transported to a time when tanks and air warfare were new and the hopeful flowers sprang up on the barren, trench-dotted battlefields where hundreds of thousands of soldiers died.

The museum, which is housed under a tower that rises 217 feet into the Kansas City skyline and is topped by a giant flame, will be the site of a remembrance Thursday to mark the 100-year anniversary of the United States entering the war.

The poppies that visitors pass while entering the museum represent the 9 million combat deaths of the Great War, about 116,000 of them Americans. “In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row,” goes a famous poem about the Belgian battlefields where hundreds of thousands of soldiers died on the war’s Western Front.

With the centennial of the fighting drawing more attention to the war, more than 200,000 visited the museum last year, an increase of about 50 percent from three years earlier.

They included visitors from more than 70 countries.

The site’s Egyptian Revival-style monument was erected in a burst of postwar patriotism after $2.5 million was raised in less than two weeks in 1919, an amount that would be equal to about $35 million today. Children helped, going door to door collecting money in what was “an early 20th-century story of crowdsourcing,” according to museum spokesman Mike Vietti.

So noteworthy was the achievement that Allied commanders from Belgium, Great Britain, Italy, France and the U.S. gathered in 1921 to dedicate the site. It’s located across the street from the Kansas City train station that more than half of U.S. troops passed through before being shipped overseas. When the monument was completed five years later, a crowd of more than 150,000 turned out to hear President Calvin Coolidge speak at the dedication.

But years of deferred maintenance led the site to be closed in 1994. A massive $102 million transformation followed, funded by a sales tax, bond issue and private donations. The exterior was repaired, and the design firm behind attractions such as Washington’s Holocaust Memorial Museum was tapped to create a new museum that would tell World War I’s story of

assassination, empires swept away and new nations born. The site, now known as the National World War I Museum and Memorial, was made official in legislation that President Barack Obama signed in 2014.

The museum’s collection of documents and artifacts has a global breadth, covering the period both before and after the U.S. entered the war. The conflict ended in 1918 with the Treaty of Versailles, though many historians believe the treaty’s terms helped set the stage for World War II a generation later.

Among the items used to tell the complex story of the connection between the two wars is the tunic and cape of Paul von Hindenburg, a German commander and national hero who later became Germany’s president and in 1933 appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor.

Visitors can also see the rapidly evolving weaponry that led to widespread casualties as commanders struggled to adapt. There’s a British torpedo, a U.S.-made Naval mine, a lifesize replica of a British biplane known as the Airco DH.2 and a French Renault tank that Vietti described as a weapon of “terror as well as a weapon of war.”

One exhibit highlights the damage an artillery shell would have done to

a house in the French countryside, while another allows visitors to glimpse inside replicas of the trenches where doughboys fought and often died. In the Horizon Theater, World War I film footage plays on a 100-foot screen above a full-scale tableau of no man’s land.

The site’s original museum now hosts rotating exhibitions, with the latest highlighting propaganda posters.

Matthew Naylor, the president and CEO of the museum, keeps his grandfather’s wartime shaving kit on display in his office. While issued by the British, it was made in Germany.

He noted that the two countries were trading partners before the war.

The “fragility” of world relations at the time, Naylor said, has parallels to today that “some would say are ominous.”

IF YOU GO...

NATIONAL WORLD WAR I MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: 2 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, Missouri; www.theworldwar.org. TuesdaySunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., $16.

ABOVE: Uniforms hang on display at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Mo. LEFT: A docent walks past a French artillery piece at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Mo.

PHOTOS BY: ORLIN WAGNER/AP

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FROM ASPEN, WITH LOVE

ASPEN UNTUCKED

The author, far left, and friends doing “reserach” at the Red Onion.

A SHOT AND A SKI

THE INS AND OUTS OF A SKI TOWN’S MOST NOTORIOUS PARTY PROP PEPPERED throughout bars and restaurants in Aspen and Snowmass is a tool sure to bring party people and adventurous spirits together in intoxicating ways. We call it the shotski, and it is exactly what is sounds like: a shot plus a ski.

If you still aren’t sure what a shotski is, let me explain. It’s a ski (one singular board to be exact) without the binding. From tip to tail, BARBARA PLATTS there are shot glasses attached, typically three to six. A shotski cannot be taken alone, it must be coordinated with fellow drinkers. To take one, each participant simultaneously lifts the ski with the shot up to their lips and empties their glass.

This synchronized motion requires teamwork, as the height of the apparatus must be lowered to the shortest person in the group. It may seem intimidating at first, but once you get the hang of it, the movement becomes swift and easy.

Shotskis can be found in many watering holes in most ski towns.

Locally, they are aplenty (see sidebar for more information).

We’ve come to love shotskis as a natural bar accessory, but where did they come from? Unfortunately, the exact origins of the shotski are difficult to find. We do know that these drinking devices became prevalent in the late 1900s, however

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there’s some debate over who invented it: the Europeans or the Americans. “Aprés-ski” culture has been around in Norway since the mid-1800s, and it’s believed that the term was first coined in La Revue du Ski, a French ski Magazine, in the late 1930s. But the shot glass, a quintessential piece of the shotski, is not mentioned in the media until the 1950s. However this drinking tool came to be, it has since been embedded into our ski culture. Sure, it’s intensely silly and maybe a bit too indulgent at times, but its ours.

To learn more about the shotski,

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I decided to experience it firsthand.

Slow Groovin’ BBQ in Snowmass offers four shot options to be taken off of their fancy wooden ski: Jägermeister, Rumplemintz, Marble Distilling’s Moonlight Espresso or Fireball. My friends and I decided on the Moonlight Espresso and enlisted our waiter to help us accomplish the shot. Once we were lined up, all on the same level height-wise, we tilted the ski toward us and the flavored vodka went down seamlessly.

I also ventured with a few willing participants to Red Onion. They have several shotskis to choose

from, depending on the size of your party. We went for a four-shooter, once again insisting a member of the waitstaff to join. Danielle Arca was more than willing to help out. This time, we shot Jägermeister.

Arca said one of the fun things about shotskis is how contagious they are.

“It generates a lot of enthusiasm, and it adds to the spirit of the bar atmosphere,” she said. “Once one group of friends has a shotski then everyone else sees it, it’s on display, then everyone wants to do it.”

That’s the funny thing I learned about the shotski on my bar adventures: In one fell swoop, it can get the crowd pumping. Taking it becomes a challenge, a common event that all participants have in common. It puts everyone on an equal playing field, and not just because some have to crouch down to accommodate the shortest shooter.

Similar to talking about the weather or the latest deal you got on ski gear, the shotski reminds us that we are all in this together.

So, next time you’re at a bar with some friends or even some strangers, consider taking a shotski. It could be the perfect prop to bring your crew even closer together. Plus, it’s a hell of a lot of fun.

As always, imbibe responsibly.

After some thorough research, Barbara Platts is done with shotskis for a while.

Reach her at bplatts.000@gmail.com.

by BARBARA PLATTS

SIZABLE SHOTSKIS Here are a few ideal locations in Aspen and Snowmass to find a ski to strap a shot to...

Base Camp Bar & Grill 73 Wood Road, Suite 1100 in Snowmass Village 970-923-6000 Camp De Fiori 205 S. Mill St. in Aspen 970-920-7717 Highlands Alehouse 133 Prospector Road, Suite 411B in Aspen 970-920-3747 Mi Chola 411 E. Main St. in Aspen 970-710-7076 Red Onion 420 E. Cooper Ave. in Aspen 970-925-9955 Slow Groovin’ BBQ 67 Elbert Lane in Snowmass Village 970-429-4761 The New Belgium Ranger Station 100 Elbert Lane, Suite 115 in Snowmass Village 970-236-6277 Venga Venga 105 Daly Lane in Snowmass Village 970-923-7777

ONCE ONE GROUP OF FRIENDS HAS A SHOTSKI THEN EVERYONE ELSE SEES IT, IT’S ON DISPLAY, THEN EVERYONE WANTS TO DO IT.

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COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: FIVE DECADES AND GOING STRONG

AS COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE recognized its 50th anniversary with a celebration at its Aspen campus this past week, the community embraced what has become an institution — of higher learning, diversity, perseverance and much, much more. Stories were shared about CMC’s modest beginnings (a desk in the Aspen Police Department) to its current breadth (11 community campuses and three residential campuses); visions for its future success were also expressed.

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“I work for you. We work for you.

This is your college. We hope you are proud of what we are ... and of what we will become,” Colorado Mountain College President Carrie Besnette Hauser told those gathered at the local campus.

Indeed, CMC’s story is worth celebrating. So on these pages we share with you a few photos of our local college — past and present — as well as a few words imparted by those who love it the most.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: CMC banner from 1984; pottery by Suzanne Clarke; meeting of the college’s first governing board in 1966; slogans and logos dotted the college campus during the 50th year celebration; “I will become a scientific researcher. ... CMC helped me prove to myself I could do anything,” said Krystal Baucum, graduating CMC student

PHOTOS BY ANNA STONEHOUSE; HISTORIC IMAGES COURTESY OF CMC

SLICES OF HISTORY

This year Colorado Mountain College is celebrating 50 years of serving the educational needs of people living in the state’s mountain towns. On April 7, the celebration arrived at CMC Aspen with the opening reception for “Reminisce: A Tribute to 50 Years of Art.” “These celebrations are a gift back to the communities that Colorado Mountain College serves,” said Kristin Colon, CMC Foundation CEO and vice president for advancement. “Each oncampus celebration is focused on something that makes that particular campus stand out. In Aspen, for example, our art program is such a draw for the community that we wanted to honor the faculty and staff who have shared their expertise with students for decades.

“Reminisce: 50 Years of Art,” a survey of artwork

by CMC’s western region faculty and staff, past and present, will run through May 9.

“Our students in painting and printmaking are able to take advantage of extraordinary equipment that is rare at many colleges and universities, creating large-scale prints on our new state-ofthe-art etching press,” said K Rhynus Cesark, assistant professor of art and gallery director at Colorado Mountain College Aspen, who is organizing the exhibit. “It is also an exciting time for the Aspen ceramics program as students can experiment and create work using our newly acquired 3-D ceramic printer, which we have obtained collaboratively with our college’s Isaacson School for New Media.”

To learn about gallery hours or for more information, visit CMCBecauseOfYou.org or call 970-925-7740.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT:The 50th anniversary celebration in Aspen included plenty of color and an ice sculpture; CMC founding father David Deleplane; former student and teacher David Swersky explains why his CMC days were “some of the best”; construction of the current CMC Aspen campus begins; CMC President Carrie Besnette Hauser offers a few closing remarks at the anniversary celebration.

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MOUNTAINMAYHEM

The SOCIAL SIDE of TOWN

CLOSING TIME

MAY SELBY

AS ALWAYS, Aspen Highlands closed with a bang, wrapping up the ski season with a party of epic proportions at the base. Practically every outlet was open to celebrate with Echo Da Funk spinning at The Ritz, DJs dueling at the Alehouse, pop-up parties at Highlands condos, and Suerte Tequila pouring drinks at Strafe Outerwear. Anything

Fletcher Yaw on a father-daughter ski day with Sylvie.

Kiki Raj spends the day with her favorite snowboarder, Gray.

Heidi Kowar and Bob Bindseil at Aspen Highlands.

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goes on Closing Day, so it wasn’t out of the ordinary to see superheroes roaming the grounds, animals sharing a shotski, or cowgirls lined up at the bar. This Saturday, Snowmass is throwing a party akin to Highlands’ festivities, followed by a Hawaiian themed event on Sunday at Ajax Tavern at the base of Aspen Mountain. Thanks to Aspen Skiing Co.,

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When Levi’s away, his parents go play. Ryan and Ali Margo hit the slopes for Highlands’ Closing Day!

Denis O’Donovan, Rodney MacDonald and John O’Donovan.

the lifts on Aspen Mountain will remain open through April 23 so there’s still time to fit in one last wrap party.

Contact May with insights, invites or info: allthewaymaymay@hotmail.com

Kimmy Edwards, Vanessa Stranger and birthday girl Martha Campbell!

by MAY SELBY

Birthday girl Heather Triano Klindworth, looking pretty in a pink wig, surrounded by friends on Highlands’ Closing Day.

Katie the squirrel and Showtime the turkey get into the closing day spirit.

Sarah and Adam Roy celebrated their birthdays at a 40/40 party at Buckhorn Cabin, co-hosted with their kids.

Family ski day on Aspen Mountain with Blythe, her mom Maura and dad Jason Bradshaw. Missing from photo: sister Claire.

Brad Jasicki, owner of Replay Sports, sporting a stylish outfit, which could be yours if you shop at his store. Tags are still on it.

Virginia Layton and Candice Gorsuch putting on the Ritz at Aspen Highlands.

The OC Cowgirls making the rounds at the saloon.

Super Gerald to the dance floor on Highlands— Closing Day!

Captain Jack Sparrow knows all the best parties — like Highlands’ Closing Day.

Digi Dave and Stylin’ Sam pulling all the stops for Highlands Closing Day.

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ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT

MUSIC/ART/FILM/LITERATURE

by ANDREW TRAVERS

WORDS ‘FROM THE SKY’

ASPEN WORDS WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE LESLEY NNEKA ARIMAH RELEASES DEBUT STORY COLLECTION LESLEY NNEKA ARIMAH spent October living and working in Woody Creek as an Aspen Words writer-in-residence, chipping away at a novel in progress and enjoying some of the last stretch of anonymity before the publication of her much-anticipated debut story collection “What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky.” The book, published this month, includes a dozen stories about Nigeria or Nigerians elsewhere in the world. Many of the stories are about mothers and daughters. All of them are wrought in gorgeous prose, moving easily between intimate domestic realism and the supernatural and fantastic.

During her residency Arimah, 33 and based in Minneapolis, took a break from writing to read her story “The Future Looks Good” and talk about her craft at Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar in Aspen.

The story falls on the more realist side of the ledger in “What It Means,” but offers an example of her bracingly original voice and the slightly askew perspective she brings to her fiction. It’s about the Biafran War, but instead of writing from a familiar soldier’s story or about in-theater experience, Arimah chose to stay on the periphery in the families back at home in Nigeria.

“I thought we needed a plurality of different experiences of those who lived through it and I thought this would be a more interesting framework to write about the war, without writing about the war,” she explained at Hooch.

Like many of the stories in the new collection, “The Future Looks Good” began with a germ of Arimah’s lived experience. She was born in the U.K. to Nigerian parents and raised in Nigeria and wherever else her father’s work as an oil engineer took the family. The family settled in Louisiana when Arimah was 13. She recalled how the war loomed over her childhood and how the majority of people who were impacted by it never fought in battle.

“I think of it holistically, because growing up the Biafra War was

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like a holistic cloud that hung over our family,” she said. “We saw the scars of war in our family tree, but nobody ever talked about it directly.”

Arimah credits her ability to move between gritty realism and farflung fantasy to her indiscriminate reading habits. The premise of the collection’s title story — about a dystopian future where math and formulas have replaced religion — is pure sci-fi. She’s often described as a magical realist, a categorization she embraces, though with some caveats.

“I read so widely across genres

the literary world and making her debut collection one of this spring’s most hotly anticipated titles.

But she came to fiction writing relatively late. Arimah had planned to go to law school after college at Florida State.

“I figured, ‘Oh, I like to argue, this is a good direction,’” she told the audience at Hooch.

She changed course in her last semester after taking a creative writing class and seeing a reading

by Gloria Naylor, which convinced her to devote her life to the craft.

Author Lesley Nneka Arimah photographed after her reading at Hooch in Aspen in October.

that I wanted to have a collection that reflected my very varied interests in literature,” she explained.

“So there’s magical realism and science fiction. The thing that runs through all of the stories is a slight thread of hyperbole.”

Arimah’s work began making it into literary journals in 2014, and quickly began getting anthologized and wining prizes — she was soon placing stories in The New Yorker and Granta, earning many fans in

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Instead of law school she went to Minnesota State for an MFA and spent a decade writing, reading and steadily finding her voice.

“It was a lot of reading,” she explained, “a lot of grappling with that space between what you want the story to look like, what it feels like in your head, and translating it on the page.” atravers@aspentimes.com

NOTEWORTHY “What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky” Lesley Nneka Arimah Riverhead, 2017 230 pages; hardcover, $26

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DATE NIGHT AT THE RANCH — 7

p.m., Anderson Ranch Arts Center, 5263 Owl Creek Road, Snowmass Village. Get a little dirty in the ceramics studio as our staff provides basic instruction and guidance on throwing on the wheel. Call 970-923-3181.

FRIDAY, APRIL 14 “DEAR EDWINA JR” — 6:30 p.m., Aspen District Theatre, 355 High School Road, Aspen. “Dear Edwina Jr.” follows the adventures of

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“DEAR EDWINA JR” — 2 p.m., Aspen District Theatre, 355 High School Road, Aspen. “Dear Edwina Jr.” follows the adventures of plucky advice-giver-extraordinaire, Edwina Spoonapple, as she directs the neighborhood kids in a series of buoyant production numbers for the latest edition of her weekly “Advice-a-Palooza.”

MASTERPIECE MINE: PAINT AND WINE — 5:30 p.m., Red Brick Center for the Arts, 110 E. Hallam St., Suite 118, Aspen. Have fun with your friends while you create your own work of art, sip on wine and socialize. Register at www.masterpiecemine.com or www.aspenart.org

LORI MCKENNA — 7:30 p.m., Wheeler Opera House, 320 E. Hyman Ave., Aspen.

LIVE COMEDY WITH SPENCER JAMES — 9:30 p.m., Justice Snow’s, 328 E. Hyman Ave., Aspen. Spencer holds the 2014 title of the World Series of Comedy in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has gritted his comedy teeth on bars and comedy clubs across America. Spencer currently resides in Denver, where beautiful

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19 SMOKIN’ JOE AND ZOE — 6 p.m., Sage Bar, Snowmass Village, 0239 Snowmass Club Circle, Snowmass Village.

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Friendly, 9-month-old German Shepherd/ Pit Bull mix who gets along well with people + other dogs.

Initially wary of new people, but quickly warms up once you have earned her trust.

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Handsome, affectionate, 5-year-old German Shepherd who gets along great with all people, including kids. Niko lived with other dogs in his previous household, but will do best as an only dog because of his tendency to behave aggressively when vying for dominance.

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Friendly, affectionate, 4-year-old cat who gets along well with everyone. He eats a specific diet in order to prevent painful urinary crystals from forming in his body, so Bobby will require a responsible family in order to maintain his health.

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Domestic-shorthaired orangecolored neutered male tabby Gentle, soft-spoken, loving cat. Gets along well with everyone.

Found wandering in Aspen 1/24. We named him Oscar.

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Beautiful, 7-year-old Pit Bull mix who gets along great with people. She gets along well with most dogs, but will require a knowledgeable, responsible home.

SCOTT

Friendly, black domestic-shorthaired male. Found early January on the Rio Grande trail near Basalt High School. He is a special needs kitty.

Call 544.0206 for details.

MIMMO

Nice, black domestic-shorthaired female. Very affectionate with people and OK with other cats. Not good with dogs.

SNEAKERS

Beautiful, two-yearold black domestic short-haired male who gets along well with everyone. Very friendly and sweet.

COSMO and CHLOE

Cosmo and Chloe are beautiful 18.5-year-old Tabby cats who were released to the shelter as a lifelong pair and we would like to keep them together. Sweet kitties! Chloe is the more outgoing of the two. Cosmo loves to hang out in his bed but ventures out often for treats. Low-maintenance, loving and very spry for their age.

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Happy, friendly, affectionate + energetic. Awesome with all people, but aggressive with cats and other dogs.

Been at shelter a long time.

SAM

Beautiful, 8-year-old Calico who gets along well with everyone, including children.

Unfortunately, Laylee peed in her previous home, so she will require a stable, knowledgeable environment.

Very cute, snuggly, strong, energetic, 7-year-old Pit Bull mix. Incredibly alert + very smart. Great with all people, including children, but best as an only pet. Not great with most other dogs.

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Locally owned and operated since 1982, Aspen Tree Service is actively seeking motivated team players to provide exceptional service to our clients and the community in the following areas: • Administrative Assistant • Plant Health Care Technicians • Lawn Care Technicians • Vegetation Management Technicians • Nursery Manager

• Arborist Ground Worker • Arborist Climber • Mechanic Apprentice • CDL Driver / Equipment Operator

FT GROUNDSKEEPER: RFSD seeks a full-time, year-round, landscaping and groundskeeping professional to upgrade and maintain district properties throughout the Valley. Previous experience including installation and maintenance (trees, ballfields, sprinkler systems, etc.) is a must. Competitive pay and solid state benefits.

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Are you interested in a full-time, professional position where you can learn new skills and advance? Land Title Glenwood Springs is looking for candidates with real estate title experience and/or people who are interested in starting a career in this exciting business. If you thrive in a team environment, are adept at creating strong relationships, & enjoy a variety of work with high attention to detail, Please visit www.ltgc.com/careers for more information and to apply.

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Bilingual Case Manager

Girl power.

81 percent of women in a management or professional position with a household income of $100,000 a year or more read a newspaper in print or online in an average week.

Bilingual Case Manager Buddy Program.

(Span/Eng) Full-time. BA degree in related field.

Applicant should be passionate about w o r k i n g w i t h youth/families with constructive advanced interpersonal and communication skills for working with families, youth and volunteers.

Strong organizational skills. Email resume to jobs@buddyprogram.or g For full description buddyprogram.org/care er/

The Aspen Jewish Congregation is looking for an Administrative Assistant.

Responsibilities include data entry & member communications, graphic design a plus.

High attention to detail and strong computer skills a must. For more information contact director@aspenjewish.o rg.

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Landscaping Landscape and Nursery Help

Applications at Town Hall or online

The Town of Carbondale is now hiring: Seasonal Vegetation Management Worker

Human Services & Resources

$16 /hr

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Industrial Electrician Natural Soda LLC is looking for a full-time experienced journeyman industrial electrician.

We offer full benefits and 401k. Natural Soda is a major producer of baking soda in North America.

Facility is located in the Piceance Creek Basin.

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Experienced landscape and nursery help needed for summer. Duties include sales, general greenhouse help, offsite gardening. Must have clean CDL, able to lift 50lbs safely, be detail oriented, motivated, responsible and energetic.

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Membership Coordinator The Aspen Board of REALTORS®, a not for profit trade Association is currently hiring a talented, highly organized individual with a positive attitude to replace our Membership Coordinator who is moving out of town.

Primary responsibilities of this position include but are not limited to: The management of all membership services, programs, billing and communications to 750+ members. Qualifications: maintain fine details, provide great customer service, database management, QuickBooks, expertise with all Microsoft Programs, research, WordPress weekly & bi-annual home tours. Lots of moving parts in this position - must have the ability to initiate tasks and stay on top of all duties including constant deadlines and the ability to work on a small team.

Experience in association/non-profit organizations is ideal but not required.

This full-time position is located at the Association Headquarters in Basalt, CO. Competitive salary and excellent benefits.

Email cover & resume: maria@aspenrealtors.com www.aspenrealtors.com

Multiple Positions Architectural position F&M Architects seeks designers, job captains or PMs for entry to mid-level position.

4-year degree in arch. or related field req'd. email flynn@fandmarchitects. com.

Restaurant/ Clubs Executive Sous Chef Aspen Glen, Full-time Manages kitchen staff, orders and prepares food.

College education required.

Experienced. Benefits include: Health insurance.

Golf Priviledges, Refs required.

Email Lacey DeLost 970-704-1905 lacey.delost@clubcorp.com 0545 Bald Eagle Way Carbondale CO

Hiring Now! Riverside Grill Grand Summer Season Hiring!

Manager, Sous Chef, Server, Busser, Host, Dishwasher, Line Cook.

Must be Energetic, Outgoing & a Fun Loving Team Player. Apply Within.

Multiple Positions Capitol Creek Brewery

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NOW HIRING ALL KITCHEN AND FLOOR STAFF!! Looking for experienced line cooks, p r e p c o o k s , dishwashers, servers, bartenders, food runners and busters.

COMPETITIVE WAGES, mid-valley location, & year round employment.

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Project Managers/ Superintendents PM/Supers needed for established custom building General Contracting firm. Must have 5 years minimum experience, good project admin., estimating, contract management skills. Excel and Office Project knowledge.

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Sales Associate Full Time Sales Associate -- Bring Resume and Letter of Interest to the Store

Did you know more people read a newspaper on a typical Sunday than watched the 2011 Super Bowl?

Studio Furnished W/D 1car parking Utilities cable wifi included Has small bedroom No Pets No smoking $1850 First, last & security. 6 month lease (970)379-2389 Camonty@msn.com

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Very competitive wage. Stop by our office at 221 E. Fiou Lane, Basalt or call 970.920.2422

2 BD 1 BA 1 Partial baths 1200 SF Sq Ft Duplex Pets allowed with approval. No smoking.

4500/month First, last & security. 6-12 month lease. 480-686-6100 743 Cemetery Lane Aspen CO

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2 B d 2 B a t h upgraded/furnished unit near core, W/D, NP/NS Avail 4/1. $3500/mo.

Kyle 379-6011.

Aspen - $2,995,000

Newly Contructed Contemporary Townhome Perfect ped de tier for jet setting executive. This 3 bed 2.5 bath 1 car garage home is a short stroll to Aspen’s skiing, restaurants,shopping and Music Tent & Aspen Institute.

Danny Becker

Luxury Two Bedroom, Two bath Top floor Park Modern Condo in Willits. Available March 1st $3000/Month Plus Utilities Lisa Turchiarelli 970.379.5018 CB Mason Morse www.masonmorse.com lisa@masonmorse.com

Please Recycle 2BD 2BA top floor town center condo. FP, Decks, elevator AC WD NS NP Furn. parking space.

Electric incl. $2300/Mo. 970-925-3690.

4 BD furnished Brush Creek. Aspen School District. nr bus $6750/mo.

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Underground parting spot for rent yearly, incore 1 block to gondola!

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Basalt - $362,500

3 BD 2.5 BA Home, No smoking. $3200 Long-term lease. Jon 970-319-9807

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More than 71 percent of adults read a newspaper in print or online each week.

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WHITE BOX - YOU BUILD KITCHEN Unique, creative, cutting edge project.

May be used for Residential and/or Commercial. 16' to 19' ceiling with fabulous light. Seller financing possible.

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Rentals Carbondale Luxury 4BD 4.5BA 3000 Sq Ft Town House $5400/Mo. Flexible lease available April 2nd- Dec 15. Huge kitchen & living room, Private Hottub. Jacuzzi bathtub, free cable&internet, bi-monthly cleaning service included, all bdrms have private deck, views of mt. daily, beaut spot!

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Basalt - $370,000

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WORDPLAY

INTELLIGENT EXERCISE

by CHRISTINA LEBETTER for THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOOK REVIEW

‘NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE US’ IT’S BEEN 17 YEARS since JJ Ferguson left his hometown of Pinewood, North Carolina.

Now that he’s returned (with a Gatsbyesque plan to build his dream home atop Brushy Mountain and reunite with his high school sweetheart, Ava), everyone is watching. While JJ builds, Ava tries desperately to have a baby with her tired, distant husband, Henry. Ava’s mother, Sylvia, busies herself in the affairs of anyone who will listen, including her daughter, sister, husband and even a prisoner who’s recently begun calling her. With JJ back in the picture, both women are forced to examine their lives in a new light in Stephanie Powell Watts’ debut novel, “No One Is Coming to Save Us.”

by BYRON WALDEN / edited by WILL SHORTZ

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The story takes place against a post-integration small town America backdrop. While some townsfolk look forward to better days ahead, most are simply exhausted, especially when they compare their own situation with JJ’s and his newfound wealth.

With an omniscient narrative, the author slips readers into the thoughts of the frustrated mistress staring out the window of her trailer, the wrinkled man with his eyes closed on the couch, the boy with no money wiping his face in the hot sun.

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Not all is weighed down, though.

Conversations between Sylvia and her sassy-mouthed sister, Lana, provide brilliantly crafted, welltimed hilarity interspersed amid the surrounding despair.

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