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THEATER THEATRE ASPEN opens an expanded 2015 summer season on June 26 by transforming the Hurst Theatre into the infamous Kit Kat Klub for “Cabaret.” Previews, open to the public, run Wednesday, June 24 and Thursday, June 25. The Tony Award-winning musical, which made Alan Cumming a star with its 1998 revival, is filled with classic songs like “Cabaret” and “Maybe This Time.” Set in the seedy nightclub scene of Berlin in 1931, as the Nazis rise to power and the master of ceremonies beckons revelers to leave their troubles outside and join the decadent nightlife scene. Jon Peterson will play the emcee, a role he also performed on Broadway. Theatre Aspen artistic director Paige Price describes Peterson’s performance as “the perfect mix of ambisexuality and sinewy dancing and danger and charm.” The late ’90s revival became one of the longest-running shows in Broadway musical history. It returned for another revival last year. “Cabaret” runs through Aug. 15. The season continues with the family-friendly “Junie B. Jones the Musical” opening June 29; the Peter Paninspired musical “Peter and the Starcatcher,” opening July 16; and the play “Other Desert Cities,” opening Aug. 5. The season closes at the end of August with the new week-long Aspen Theatre Festival, featuring new work from emerging playwrights and musical teams. Among the works is the musical “Finn the Fearless” and “The Agent,” a new two-character play by Aspenite and Paramount Pictures attorney Scott Martin, about a Hollywood agent. Tickets and more information at www.theatreaspen.org

Theatre Aspen’s summer season will open June 19 with “Cabaret.”

CURRENTEVENTS THEATER Garrison Keillor will speak at the Summer Soiree at the Aspen Summer Words literary festival on June 24.

Playwright Michael Hollinger’s “Red Herring” opens June 19 in Carbondale at Thunder River Theatre.

THE FINAL PRODUCTION of Thunder River Theatre’s ambitious 20th anniversary season goes on stage in Carbondale June 19 and returns the work of playwright Michael Hollinger to the local theater. Hollinger’s “Ghost-Writer” ran there in 2012. He returns with “Red Herring,” a comedy about a nuclear espionage plot, a murder mystery and a love story in McCarthy era America. “Red Herring” runs June 19-20, 26-18 and July 2-4 at Thunder River. Tickets run $14 to $25 and are available at www.thunderrivertheatre.com.

LITERATURE

LEADING LIGHTS of the literary world converge on us for the 39th annual Aspen Summer Words literary festival, running Sunday, June 21 through Friday, June 26. This year’s authors include Andre Dubus III (“House of Sand and Fog”), Ann Hood (“The Italian Wife”), Richard Russo (Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Empire Falls”), Dani Shapiro (“Still Writing”), Akhil Sharma (Folio Prize winner for “Family Life”) and Hannah Tinti (“The Good Thief ”). Each afternoon Monday through Thursday will include author panel discussions at The Gant, with evening talks at Paepcke Auditorium Monday and Tuesday. Writer and “Prairie Home Companion” host Garrison Keillor will speak at the Summer Soiree dinner on Wednesday, June 24. Tickets and full schedule at www.aspenwords.org.

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Just saying ‘NO’ to Obama’s give-away I REJOICE IN THE NEWS that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), President Obama’s miserably flawed “freetrade” initiative, is in deep ca-ca, as they say in preschool. The TPP is a give-away that involves various Pacific Rim nations but would benefit no one except corporate border-jumpers and union-busters. On June 8, an odd combination of liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans in Congress, pushed by unions and other activists, defeated a relatively obscure piece of legislation that would have set up a new federal program, called the TAA or “trade adjustment assistance,” which would have provided federal aid to workers who lost their jobs because of free-trade agreements. The “no” vote was not aimed at downtrodden workers, though. It was aimed directly at the TPP and Obama’s strange partnership with multinational corporations and some in the Republican party, who want to duplicate Bill Clinton’s betrayal of the working class with the North American Free Trade Agreement in the 1990s, and give Obama “fast track” authority to craft similarly anti-worker, antienvironment, anti-democratic trade pacts. The TAA was designed, you see, as a diversion to confuse those who oppose any more “free-trade” agreements, which are nothing more than legislative inroads intended to further undermine unions and activists determined to keep jobs in this country rather than send them overseas. This job-exportation has depressed U.S. wages and reduced U.S. workers to virtual slaves in America’s increasing tilt toward feudal tyranny by the 1 percent and their corporate masters. The TPP, criticized by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren as too secretive in its formative stages, and too open-ended because of its proposed six-year “fasttracking” authority sought by Obama, would undermine U.S. sovereignty by allowing multinational corporations to challenge U.S. environmental protections and labor laws. Obama, unfortunately, is just another corporate shill, even though he claims to be more progressive than most in his politics and his ideals. Just as unfortunately, thanks to a Republican legislative maneuver in the wake of the TAA defeat, he is closer than ever to getting his “fast-track” authority. As a lame duck, Obama should right now feel pretty comfortable telling the lobbyists and corporate political donors, “Hey, I know you got me elected, and that was good. But I don’t owe you as much as you seem to think I do, and I certainly don’t owe you carte blanche to further degrade America’s economy by allowing trade pacts that have the potential to override this country’s environmental and labor regulations at the whim of foreign nations

and corporate interests.” That’s what our president should be saying. Instead, he is kow-towing to Big Business and showing his true colors, proving to all that in many ways he is a Republican dressed up as a Democrat. There seems, though, to be some vestige of progressivelyoriented strength left in the country, as evidenced by the fact that unions provided a big part of the strength and determination behind the defeat of the TAA and, I hope, behind the ultimate defeat of “fast-track” authority for Obama and of the TPP. Unions have been viewed by many as moribund, or simply dead, ever since Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker so nastily dismantled the bargaining power of the state’s public employees four years ago. Adding insult to injury, Walker earlier this year managed to turn Wisconsin, which was the first state to grant public workers the right to organize 80 years ago, into a “rightto-work” state. That means that unions can no longer require employees to pay dues, which is how unions historically have kept themselves in the fight for workers’ rights. Interestingly, the June 14 New York Times carried two stories about unions, one on the front page of the paper about the TAA defeat, and the other in the New York Times Magazine about the Wisconsin right-to-work vote. The front-page story reported that unions last Friday uncharacteristically stood together against the TAA and, by proxy, the TPP, and engineered the roll-back of Obama’s “freetrade” agenda. Unions representing workers whose jobs might not have been directly affected by the TPP, but who recognized the anti-union undercurrent of the issue, decided they needed to stand up and be counted. The story noted that the unions failed to stand together in this way in the face of Clinton’s push for NAFTA, a hint that maybe the unions have learned from that earlier mistake. Union-busting politicians of every stripe have succeeded for decades in convincing vast number of Americans that unions are “special interests” and evil actors in this nation’s ongoing experiment in republican democracy. But unions are the reason we have a fiveday work week, an eight-hour day, and laws that prevent children from being pressed into service as essentially slave labor, among other hard-won benefits. I can only hope that recent developments are signs that unions are coming back, that voters in this country will see unions as their allies instead of enemies, and that maybe our national slide into a new kind of feudalism can be slowed, if not stopped in its tracks.

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FROM the VAULT

by TIM WILLOUGHBY

Looking through a transit toward a rod, to survey the No. 3 lift line.

SLIDE RULES AND SKI LIFTS Explaining landlines and telephone cords to our youngest

generation can become a humorously challenging exercise. Don’t even try to explain a slide rule. But slide rules determined our journey to the moon, as well as the foundation of Aspen’s early ski lifts. My uncle, Frank Willoughby, earned a degree in mining engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He returned home to take over engineering duties at the Midnight Mine, and he became the county surveyor. Much of the daily work at the mine involved detailed mapping of the underground tunnels. A functioning mine required a consistent slope to its tunnels and exact notes of their locations. Frank excelled as a surveyor. He spent countless hours locating the corners of mining claims, especially after newcomers began building on the surface of Aspen’s multitudinous claims. Finding a corner involved careful work with a transit, the locations of the original triangulation points and a bit of luck. Some corners have never been found because the prospectors who staked the claims named reference points for which names changed or were forgotten over time. I remember watching my uncle run his calculations when I was learning the basics of a slide rule as a high school student. He was the master of the slide rule, and functioned at a level beyond meticulous. Plotting a line on

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a map required that his pencil point be as sharp as a pin. A wider mark would introduce a margin of error he was uncomfortable with. At an adjacent desk, my aunt worked at her bookkeeping business.

and count between lines that are 1/64 inch wide, or less. Frank would take off his glasses, shade the sun from his eyes and patiently confirm and triple-check the values. When it came time to build Aspen’s

FRANK EXCELLED AS A SURVEYOR. HE SPENT COUNTLESS HOURS LOCATING THE CORNERS OF MINING CLAIMS, ESPECIALLY AFTER NEWCOMERS BEGAN BUILDING ON THE SURFACE OF ASPEN’S MULTITUDINOUS CLAIMS. FINDING A CORNER INVOLVED CAREFUL WORK WITH A TRANSIT, THE LOCATIONS OF THE ORIGINAL TRIANGULATION POINTS, AND A BIT OF LUCK. SOME CORNERS HAVE NEVER BEEN FOUND BECAUSE THE PROSPECTORS WHO STAKED THE CLAIMS NAMED REFERENCE POINTS FOR WHICH NAMES CHANGED OR WERE FORGOTTEN OVER TIME. She pecked away on an electric adding machine that must have weighed 25 pounds. When she had to balance to the penny, Frank would help—but he bypassed the machinery. Whether using an engineer’s ruler, a slide rule or a transit, accuracy is limited by eyesight. It’s valuable to see

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ski lifts Frank was the logical choice to dispense with the preliminary engineering. Not only did he have the skills and experience, he also knew every inch of the mountain. Before towers could be designed, an accurate slope profile had to be drawn. If you have ever surveyed a line you may have

some idea of the difficulties of running a line up the face of Aspen Mountain. You have to keep the line straight within a fraction of an inch as you work up the slope. And that meant removing brush and trees. Next, you have to set up the transit so the plumbbob hangs directly over a point along the line you are surveying. And then, at a distance, your assistant must hold a rod perfectly vertical, directed by you as you gaze through the transit scope. Finally you have to precisely measure the level distance between the plumb point and a point on the rod. The steeper the slope, the more frequently you must take readings because the height increase between the two points should not exceed the height of the transit. After a day’s work Frank would apply trigonometry and manipulate his slide rule to match the mathematical plot lines to his real-life measurements. Today’s survey tools leave Frank’s engineering far behind, the drudgery of a different century. But for Frank the work was no harder than knowing where he was underground in an Aspen Mountain mine, cutting Aspen’s first ski run, or building the town’s reputation by hosting the National Alpine Championships. The work was eased because for him, all was a labor of love.

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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1896 ASPEN

“WOMEN WHO DRINK — how they imbibe too much in Aspen,” read a headline in the Aspen Daily Times on Jan. 17, 1896. It noted “Instances of beastly intoxication on the streets” and “social home gatherings where the growler is rapidly rushed. ‘The women tipplers of Aspen are numerous,’ said an officer the other night as he stood on the corner listening to the occasional dog-barks and the echo of a switch engine on the Midland road. ‘I’ll tell you a story,’ he continued, ‘but you must not use names, and in the meantime I will make some explanations. A very small proportion of the women who drink in Aspen patronize the wine rooms these days. Such places expose them to publicity more than care to endure, so they repair in most instances to the residences of each other. Congenial married women get together in this way and they ‘rush the growler’ sometimes for an entire afternoon. I suppose they have a jolly time and there are in rare instances any public exhibitions afterward. But occasionally a really drunken woman comes out on the street to go home. Certain residence portions of the city have more of these tippling women than others. Where they are most plentiful saloons are nearby, or at least within a few blocks, and their patronage amounts to something for the dispensers of beer in the course of a year. If any of the guzzlers get under the influence too much to navigate they will generally await the hours of darkness to go home, and it is sometimes late before they start.’” This photo and more can be found in the Aspen Historical Society archives at aspenhistory.org.

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After three cooked meals I was sold. For campers, the GoSun can replace a charcoal grill or a gas stove. The bigger picture sees the unit deployed to families in need around the globe. Portable and simple to use, the unit will reduce the need for wood as fuel in the developing world. Using the free energy of the sun, the company has a greater mission of protecting forests and helping women who are burdened each day with cooking over smoky fires and gathering wood. All you need is direct sun. I set the unit up on a June morning and tilted the reflecting panels to the east. Rays bounced off the aluminum. The glass tube became hot inside. I checked it 15 minutes later, pulling the tray out an inch, and steam escaped from my

little oven in the sun. GoSun touts up to 90 percent of sunlight is “caught” in its stove’s footprint. The design relies on parabolic reflection and the greenhouse effect to create heat. The vacuum between two layers of glass in the cooking tube keep ambient outside temperature from transferring into the oven. You can cook in winter and summer. As long as the sun is up, the stove can work. Cooking times vary greatly depending on food type and sun strength. We heated frozen corndogs one day in about 20 minutes in mid-May. The meatball and vegetable dish, as noted, was done in less than a half-hour. The food was hot and cooked through, if a little soggy. The tube of glass traps moisture from the cooking, and it’s sealed so tight that almost no steam escaped. Pull out the tray a smidge to make a steam gap. The cooking takes some trial and error, though it’s straightforward and much less messy than a gas grill. The GoSun weighs about 3.5 pounds. It has handles, and the reflectors fold over the glass tube to protect during transport. It sells for $249. A smaller unit, the GoSun Mini, goes for about $80. Around the globe, in developing nations, GoSun has a plan to give away stoves for free. The company is on a mission to make the world a little better via the power of the sun. Stephen Regenold writes about outdoors gear at www.gearjunkie.com.

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WINEINK

ASPEN – AMERICA’S BEST WINE TOWN IT’S A TYPICAL TUESDAY AFTERNOON IN ASPEN. Master Sommelier Carlton McCoy clicks into the pedals of his bike, getting in a little vertical before suiting up for the evening service at Element 47. John Beatty checks the status of the global wine shipments for the presenters at the Food & Wine Classic as he sips a Clare Valley riesling in his wine KELLY J. HAYES bar at Victoria’s. John Salamanski, of CS Wines, uncorks samples for local somms. Over at the Italian Wine Merchants, Francesco Vigorito is decanting a Barolo for a visiting collector who will be coming by for a preview of the top-notch 2010 vintage. And the two Carloses (Valenzuela and Solorzano-Smith), are checking ressies, at L’Hostaria and Matsu respectively, to ensure they have their regulars fave-raves ready to pour. Eight years ago, in one of my first WineInk columns for this paper, I attempted to rap poetic about what an outstanding wine town Aspen was. In the ensuing seasons, Aspen’s wine community has only gotten better with each vintage. I have regularly hypothesized, biased as I may be, that with the possible exception of places like Healdsburg or St. Helena or Paso Robles (where they actually make wine), Aspen is the “Best Wine Town in America.” In the past, my rational has centered on facts. The number of Master Sommeliers who have had roots here (11 by my count, of the 147 in the nation); the presence of the Food & Wine Classic, which has brought the world of wine to our ’burg each summer for 33 years; the number of weekly wine columns (two); and, of course, the moneyed collectors who call the 81611 home. Or their second home. Or their third home. But recently my argument has segued more toward the subjective. Passion is what sets Aspen apart. From the somms to the bartenders to the chefs, from the distributors to those who work the counters in the wine shops, from the collectors to the casual onebottle-a-week buyer, it seems that everyone here cares more about the

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wines they drink than ever before. It is a passion built upon a love of all things wine, the places they come from, the people who make them, the way they taste. People here talk about wine. And yes, fortunately for me, they also read about wine. This Friday night, Master Sommelier extraordinaire Jay Fletcher, an Aspen legend for lots of reasons, but especially because of his passion and generosity as a mentor to so many, is hosting an equally extraordinary wine dinner at The Little Nell that is indicative of all the things that make Aspen a great wine town To start, the event, modestly titled, “The Greatest Wines Of The World,” will feature examples from every decade from the 1920s to the 2000s. From classic pinot (1943 Clos de Tart) to great port (1941 Porto Barros) with amazing Bordeaux (1959 La Tour Haut Brion) in-between, Jay will pour over 25 wines. The cost of the dinner? $2,000 per person. “This is an insane value!” said McCoy with his usual sense of understatement. “Pouring wines from the ’30s from one of the greatest cellars in U.S. history? Most of these bottles would be more than $2k alone on a wine list!” There are bling wine dinners in many places where you can plunk down a Black Amex and drink wines from the world’s great wine houses. But this one is home grown, built on a wine donation by longtime Aspen collector Jeff Johnston specifically to raise money for the education of wine professionals. The beneficiary is the Guild of Sommeliers Education Foundation, a nonprofit, member-run organization that Fletcher helped found in 2003. It provides educational and travel

opportunities for somms and sends over 50 of its members to wine regions around the world every year. The money raised by the dinner goes to scholarships for testing and educational studies for upcoming sommeliers. Last year the Guild donated over $250,000 in scholarships. “In this fantastic donation there were quite a few one of a kind bottles,” said Fletcher as he prepared for the event. “It would be difficult to use these bottles in educational seminars because there is only one bottle of each. I thought we could use them in an exclusive dinner and limit the seats, and so the dinner has come into reality at the Nell.” There will be just 10 guests at this dinner. Advanced Sommelier Nick Barb at the Little Nell is looking forward to both assisting at the dinner and benefiting from the proceeds.

“What’s most fascinating to me about this dinner is how rare the assortment of wines are that will be served. As a scholarship recipient myself this past spring when I took my Advanced Sommelier exam, I’m especially happy to give back and help keep this program going.” So there you have it. An unparalleled wine event, hosted by a local who is legendary in the world’s somm community, pouring world-class wines donated by a local collector for the purposes of providing funding for wine education — all during the 33rd Food & Wine Classic. Only in Aspen.

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

UNDER THE INFLUENCE 2011 BONNY DOON VINEYARD “CONTRA” And now for something completely different. If you happen to be invited to the Hayes’ house for a little BBQ and you want to bring something for less than a $20 bill that will bring a smile, this old vine, field blend, from Contra Costa County will do the trick. A mash up of carignane, mourvedre, grenache, syrah and a hint of zin, the Contra is pure fruit and fun. I love this wine from the still vibrant and never more relevant Randall Grahm. Twist the cap and we’ll slow cook the ribs.

by KELLY J. HAYES

LEFT: Jay Fletcher with his wife, Lynn, at the Sundeck. You can catch Lynn pouring wines this summer at CacheCache.

THE WINES As of this writing there were a limited number of seats left for the dinner. Seats are limited. For reservations: ELEMENT 47 @ The Little Nell Hotel Friday, June 19, 2015 The Greatest Wines of the World with Jay Fletcher $2,000 per person 970.920 6330, element47@the littlenell.com

RECEPTION WINES 1990 1982 1990

LAURENT-PERRIER, GRAND SIECLE DOM PERIGNON ROEDERER, CRYSTAL

FIRST COURSE WINES 1990 1996 1997 2002

LEFLAIVE, (DOMAINE) BATARD-MONTRACHET ROUX, CORTON-CHARLEMAGNE DAGUENEAU, Blanc Fume de Pouilly, “SILEX” RAMONET, BATARD-MONTRACHET

SECOND COURSE WINES 1929 1935 1943 1949 1959 1978

NAUDIN (DOUDET-), VOUGEOT MARTENOT (FRANCOIS) (DR. BAROLET), BONNES-MARES TART, CLOS DE SEGUIN MANUEL, MAZIS CHAMBERTIN JABOULET-ISNARD, COTE-ROTIE NOELLAT (M), N-S-G, BOUDOTS

THIRD COURSE WINES 1959 1966 1982 1982 1985

LA TOUR HAUT BRION PALMER DUCRU BEAUCAILLOU LATOUR A POMERAL CONTERNO (ALDO), BAROLO, RISERVA GRAN BUSSIA

FOURTH COURSE WINES 1941 1947 1971 1989

PORTO BARROS HUET HAUT LIEU VOUVRAY MOELLEUX SCHARZHOFBERGER, AUSLESE DAL FORNO ROMANO, AMARONE

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FOOD MATTERS FOOD MATTERS

QUEEN OF HEARTS

CHEF SUSIE JIMENEZ HOSTS A TRIO OF TASTINGS FOR HER BIGGEST FANS—LOCALS ONE GLIMPSE of the Sardy Field tarmac or Wagner Park’s white circus tents this week corroborates general consensus around town: The annual Food & Wine Classic in Aspen is a fourday spectacle of food snobbery at 8,000 feet. What began 34 years ago as a small-town food fair for 300 has morphed into one of the most anticipated gastronomic fêtes in AMANDA RAE the country, thanks to Food & Wine magazine picking up the reins after five years, in 1986. Today, some 5,000 folks shell out $1,400 for an all-inclusive ticket to the Grand Tastings, seminars, and events hosted by celebrity chefs and winemakers — which sell out almost immediately, months in advance. Ask a seasoned local to sum up the weekend and you won’t hear much about the event proper. (Seriously, who needs or wants access to five Grand Tastings in four days?) Instead, it’s all about the parties piggybacking on the Classic. Even celebrity chefs who have been involved in the bacchanal for more than a decade agree. “Food & Wine is more for the person who travels from out of town — I don’t think it’s about the locals,” says renowned chef, caterer, and 14-year Aspenite Susie “Spice It Up” Jimenez. “I’ve been to so many Food & Wine festivals —South Beach, New York — and the difference is that Aspen only has one ticket. It’s gotten out of control. It’s [always] sold out!” Which is why Jimenez hosts a series of themed events every year for friends and fans in the area. “Some of us have passes, some of us can’t afford them, and some of us just want to keep it simple,” she says. “This is my home, and I do these events for the locals.” This year, the 2011 “Food Network Star” runner-up is throwing a trio of tastings on Saturday atop the Prospector Condominiums building at the

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heart of downtown. First is “Taste of the Valley,” an early-bird party from 9:30-11:30 a.m. “This is to kick off our chef series at the Carbondale Farmers’ Market, ending with Taste of the Valley on Sept. 19, which is my own version of the Classic for locals,” explains Jimenez, who pens a recipe column for the Glenwood Springs Post Independent and hosts a regular radio show on KNFO-FM. Here, guests will sample small bites and beverages from Rock Canyon Coffee, Tonic Juicery, CapRock Peak Spirits Farm Distillery, Sunshine & Moons, Casey Brewing and Blending, Aspen Meat Works, and NoFo Food. Jimenez will prepare grilled paddle-cactus breakfast tacos with scrambled eggs and tomatillo salsa and quinoa “fried rice” with jalapeños and spinach, based on flavors she grew up eating in California with a Mexican-native father. Local DJ Folami will spin tunes. In lieu of tickets, guests may make a $10 donation to benefit English in Action. At 1:30 p.m., Jimenez transforms the Prospector rooftop for Sparklers and Spice: a tasting of five sparkling wines, paella, Spanish Manchego cheese, green olive tapenade, and prosciutto. “We’re gonna drink sparkling wine like its going out of style,” Jimenez quips. Finally, at 6:30 p.m., the chef ’s grand finale: Taste of Mexico, featuring carnitas tacos with pickles; carne asada; tostadas with chorizo, black beans, cabbage slaw; and queso fresco; and margaritas, natch. “My dad starting making carnitas since I can remember,” Jimenez says of her family-recipe dish. “This is the way we celebrated all of my sisters’ weddings, quinceañeras, first communions, and just-because parties. I want to celebrate coming back to the valley after being absent for a while to open Trenza [in Houston, Texas]. There’s no place like the Roaring Fork Valley.” Titanium Tequila, which Jimenez discovered during her Texas sojourn, partners with the chef for

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Try Susie Jimenez’s family-recipe carnitas at Taste of Mexico on the Prospector rooftop on Saturday at 6:30 p.m.

these events and tastings at various venues on Friday, ending at the Baldwin Gallery with artist Tania Dibbs (see sidebar, opposite). Says Jimenez, “Food & Wine is culture, arts — and culinary food really is art, you know?” Considering the kaleidoscopic array of happenings around town, newbies learn the art of pacing quickly. It’s all too easy to burn out Friday night. “After the Food Network, it got crazy,” says Jimenez, who was invited to do cooking demos alongside other big name chefs and received full festival access. “In 2012, I had 20 events to attend, to cater for, be a part of — that was enough for me.” She recalls changing outfits in the back of a car in the basement of the Prospector and hanging at Michael Symon’s midnight soirée at the famed 212 House until sunrise. “It was four

days of no sleep,” she says. “I lived off of alcohol.” Just as any longtime local recalls her first few Food & Wine Classics as a booze-soaked blur, Jimenez has mellowed to enjoy making memories in her home. “I’ve done the whole crazy Aspen life, and now its just balance,” says the chef, who lives on a half-acre in Redstone with her archery hunter husband of eight years. “I’ve moved temporarily to places for work but nothing beats the mountains, blue skies, nature, and the healthy lifestyle I have here,” she adds, echoing Aspenites of all stripes. “There’s no place like home.”

Where are you headed this weekend? Message Amanda Rae: amandaraewashere@gmail.com

by AMANDA RAE

MAKE IT HIBISCUS CITRUS MARGARITA Chef Susie Jimenez serves this signature cocktail at Sparklers and Spice and Taste of Mexico, two parties during the 2015 Food & Wine Classic in Aspen.

Serves 4 16 ice cubes 4 ounces Titanium Tequila 2 splashes orange bitters 1 cup hibiscus tea* 2 tablespoons lime juice 1 tablespoon agave nectar 1 cup Segura Viudas Brut Cava Add first five ingredients to a shaker. Shake 10 times, until chilled. Pour into desired glassware. Top each with ¼ cup cava and stir twice. Allow hibiscus flowers to float for garnish.

Acclaimed chef, caterer, and 14-year Aspenite Susie “Spice It Up” Jimenez hosts a trio of events showcasing flavors of Mexico atop the Prospector Condominiums on Saturday during the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen.

IF YOU GO... Susie Jimenez, Saturday atop the Prospector: Taste of the Valley, 9:30-11:30 a.m., $10 Sparklers and Spice, 1:30-4:30 p.m., $25 Taste of Mexico, 6:30-9:30 p.m., $25 sparklersandspiceaspen.eventbrite.com tasteofmexicoaspen.eventbrite.com Titanium Tequila Tastings Thursday, 3-5 p.m., at Studio B Architects Friday, 1-2:30 p.m., at Testosterone Friday, 3-5 p.m., at Calypso St. Barth Friday, 6-7:30 p.m., at Baldwin Gallery RSVP: 970-989-8855

*To make hibiscus tea: Steep 1 cup dried hibiscus flowers in 1 gallon water for 2-3 hours at room temperature. Sweeten to taste with agave nectar, honey, or sugar.

PHOTOS COURTESY SUSIE JIMENEZ; THINKSTOCK PHOTO (BOTTOM)

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GUNNER’S LIBATIONS

by JILL BEATHARD

AMF AMBER LAGER AMF — come up with your own interpretation of what it stands for, but if you’re any sort of a beer lover you’re likely to enjoy this smooth amber lager. Named for a run on Snowmass ski area, AMF is the newest beer by Roaring Fork Beer Co. in Carbondale, which took home the most votes at the grand tasting at Snowmass Mammoth Fest last weekend. That’s not surprising though: What started as an amber ale became a lager when the brewers decided they wanted to avoid that hoppy taste some people don’t care for, said Jerod Day, assistant brewer. The result is a unique but easy to drink beer that’s clearly already pleasing the crowd. Libations was created by Aspen Times publisher, Gunilla Asher, who passed away June 2, 2014, after a brave battle with cancer. Cheers - to Gunner!

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P H OTO B Y J I L L B E AT H A R D

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ASPEN UNTUCKED

by BARBARA PLATTS

We’re all in it together at the Food & Wine Classic.

FOOD & WINE

AND SO THE REVELRY BEGINS YOU’VE COME FROM FAR AND WIDE, some as far as Europe or South America or possibly even Denver or Grand Junction. But you’re not here for the active outdoors or to take in the Zen of the Rocky Mountains. See that big white tent, and the numerous smaller ones sprinkled throughout town? You’re here because of those, my friend. You’re here to do BARBARA five things and five PLATTS things only:

1) 2) 3) 4) 5)

THINKSTOCK

Eat Drink Sleep Rinse Repeat

With that in mind, it’s time to start the party. So welcome, visitors; welcome, second-home owners; and welcome, locals. Note: It’s important to welcome everyone because even locals have trouble recognizing this town during Food & Wine weekend. It’s kind of like seeing a house after one of those makeover shows, you just never know quite what you’re going to get. Take a moment to prepare your mind, body and spirit(s) for the rich hors d’oeuvres, complex wines and round-the-clock partying that’s about to occur. Yes, your girth is about to drastically increase. Yes, your alcohol tolerance will soon rival that of an average-sized elephant, or possibly a large one depending on your dedication. And yes, there will be times you wish you had developed some kind of purging habit in order to

fit even more in your body. Or perhaps you have developed one already…Anyway, it’s well worth loosening the belt a notch or three for this experience. Summer-ready bodies are not a requirement this weekend. After all, just as you shouldn’t trust a skinny chef, you shouldn’t trust someone on a diet during the Food & Wine Classic. So start guzzling Gewürztraminers and filling up on foie gras. Pedal your way to a Patron margarita and sample the vineyards of Spain (skipping the spittoon, of course). The gates open shortly, and there’s not a moment to lose. But make no mistake, my friends, it won’t be all fun and games out there. There will be times when you’ll be so intoxicated that your own name will be impossible to recall and you’ll test out the hard ground because you’re almost positive it looks identical to your

bed. But, even when times get hard, when you’re so dehydrated your pissing out pinots and dry-heaving rich cheese scents, know that you were brought here for a reason. Find the confidence in yourself to continue on. When you’re feeling like you’re on your last sip of Tempranillo or that you couldn’t possibly eat one more morsel of steak tartare, remember that we are all in this together. And that no one likes a quitter. Good luck, my fellow warriors. I shall see you out there.

Barbara Platts has no more experience surviving Food & Wine then most of her readers … she just really wanted to print the alliteration “pissing pinots” in her column. Reach her at bplatts.000@gmail. com or on Twitter @BarbaraPlatts.

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The True “Rocky Mountain High” 11 bedrooms, 7 baths, 9,077 sq ft Two separate deeded properties Unique details. Own a piece of music history! $9,000,000 www.StarwoodHouse.info Main house available separately $6,000,000 Carol Dopkin | 970.618.0187

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HANGOVER HELPERS WHERE TO GET THE FOOD AND DRINK YOU NEED TO START YOUR DAY OFF RIGHT by LINDA HAYES

EVERYTHING’S DIFFERENT AT 7,890 FEET. The air is thinner, the sun is stronger. And trust us, no matter if you’re in the best shape of your life (eating and drinking shape included), your ability to maintain your equilibrium after an indulgent day and night at the Food & Wine Classic will be challenged. Well, consider this your wake-up call and GO EAT BREAKFAST. No excuses, what with loads of restaurants and coffee shops and bakeries within Aspen’s 12 square blocks plating countless variations on what’s forever been touted as the most important meal of the day. GET THE PICTURE? HERE’S WHERE TO GO.

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YOU PASSED IT ON Main Street on your way into town. The brown log building with a shaggy bear on top and a hodgepodge of tables out front. The unmistakable aroma of smoky BBQ caught your attention and you thought “what’s that place?” Well “that place” is the legendary Hickory House (Hick House, if you’re local). It’s where you go after a bruiser of a night for a Bloody Mary laced with owner Paul Dioguardi’s spicy BBQ sauce, a pile of pork ribs, a pair of fried eggs and a plate of homemade biscuits doused with pork sausage gravy. Dioguardi imports about 280,000 pounds of baby backs a year from Denmark and smokes as many as 500 racks a day. Pork-phobic? Carlos’ hefty three-egg omelet, stuffed with onion, chicken sausage, tomato, Jack and secret ranchero will do the job.

BREAKFAST DAILY 8 a.m.–2:30 p.m.

HICKORY HOUSE

TIP: Devour breakfast at the bar, where your dining companions may be anyone from old-timers in overalls to road bikers to folks in the same shape as you.

BREAKFAST DAILY

7:30-10:30 a.m. WEEKEND BRUNCH

9 a.m.-3 p.m. CHANCES ARE YOU’LL FIND YOURSELF in this craft cocktail-centric eatery at the landmark Wheeler Opera House at some point over the weekend. A return in the a.m. for breakfast or brunch should be on your radar as well. In addition to his frittatas and flatbread faves, executive chef Jonathan Leichliter is debuting some new dishes he’s excited about: eggs paired with Milagro Ranch beef and spiced up with roasted guajillo pepper and tomato salsa; house-made four-cheese biscuits with red-eye gravy and Benton’s Smoky Mountain Country Ham; and waffles with bananas caramelized in Montanya rum. TIP: According to one Food & Wine Classic seminar, the Bloody Mary is not just for brunch anymore (but you knew that, yes?). JS’s Bloody Mary Bar will set you up with everything from curry to kraut to Cholula for a custom blend.

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ELEMENT 47 AT THE LITTLE NELL BREAKFAST DAILY

7-10:30 a.m. BRUNCH DAILY

11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. IT’LL BE A BREAKFAST BACCHANALIA at stylish e47 this weekend, when the usual Fortune 400/wheeler-dealer /jetset tribe is over-run by the effervescent food and wine elite. Chef de cuisine Matt Padilla took charge of the restaurant’s menus just recently and he’s rockin’ it (in understated Little Nell style, of course). Not only are there craveable indulgences like lemon soufflé pancakes and Belgian waffles, you can order them with a flight of barrel-aged and Tahitian vanilla-infused maple syrups on the side. Brunch gets a boost, too. A highlight? Softpoached eggs Benedict with house-cured, slow-cooked, seared ‘till it’s perfectly crisp pork belly. TIP: Fashionably late? A daily summer breakfast buffet has popped up, offering a bounty of bites, including Fredy Manzano’s amazing made-to-order omelets.

ASPEN OVER EASY DAILY 8 a.m.-3 p.m. CONSIDER IT SALVATION on Hopkins’ Restaurant Row. Spot the orange umbrellas on the street-side tables, typically swarming with a crowd of young Aspen locals, and you’re there. No room? Feeling more incognito? Slip downstairs and search out a booth, or a place at the six-seater mini-bar, in the brick-walled dining room. Either way, you’ll soon be tucking into Southern BBQ pork burritos with salsa and grits; Nutella, banana and candied walnut crepes; any of a dozen or so variations on the Benedict theme; or an omelet packed with any number of tasty ingredients. Crab, quinoa, feta, sausage, hummus (uh, maybe not), jalapenos and so on. Going gluten-free? Chef Ves Tzolov will set you up. TIP: Morning juice here is about everything from organic watermelon or pear to “Aspen Body” blendz to “Avocado Dreamboat” smoothies. Drink ’em.

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M O R E B R E A K FA S T B I T E S

VICTORIA’S ESPRESSO, WINEBAR & GOURMET GRAZING BREAKFAST FROM 7-11:30 a.m. IT’S “BREKKIE,” NOT BREAKFAST, at this real-deal Aussie-centric spot just around the corner from the Belly Up. Owners Victoria Haveland and John Beatty put the accent on down-under dishes like sausage rolls (spiced pork, beef, veal or buffalo wrapped in flaky pastry), vegemite on toast (don’t knock it …) and what they tout as the ultimate hangover cure — bacon, a free-range egg and BBQ sauce-mayo on Turkish (that’s flatbread to you). Short blacks and flat whites rule on the coffee board. Grab a scone or cream tart if you’re in a rush.

BREAKFAST Monday-Saturday, 7 a.m.–noon,

Sunday 8 a.m.-2 p.m. THE CORNER OF HOPKINS AND GALENA teems with festival-goers in planning mode for the day, dishing on last-night’s escapades and/or eavesdropping on local buzz. From the line-up of dishes on the countertop display, go for anything topped with a poached organic egg. “Kitchen sink” and “French toast” muffins are good quick hits. If you can’t snare an outside table (bring your dog, it helps), window high-tops inside are your next best bet for a who’s-who view. The big news? Peach’s is now, finally, open on Sundays, so far with a semi-limited menu. Stay tuned.

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AT THE CLASSIC If liquid eye-openers are your thing, and you have a pass to the Food & Wine Classic, here are a few seminars worth checking out: SENSATIONAL CHAMPAGNE with Jordan Salcito Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. Paepcke 1 ROSÉ CHAMPAGNE with Patrick Cappiello Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. The Little Nell 2 THE BLOODY MARY: NOT JUST FOR BRUNCH with Anthony Bohlinger Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. The Little Nell 2

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THE DETAILS Element 47 675 E. Durant Ave. (In The Little Nell) | 920-3300 Hickory House 730 W. Main St., | 925-2313 Justice Snow’s 328 E. Hyman Ave. (at the Wheeler Opera House) | 429-8192 Main Street Bakery Café 201 Main St. Main and South Aspen Street) | 925-6446 Aspen Over Easy 304 E. Hopkins Ave. | 429-8693 Peach’s Corner Café 121 S. Galena St. | 544-9866 Spring Café 119 S. Spring St. | 429-8406 Victoria’s 510 E. Durant (corner of Durant & Galena) | 920.3001

SPRING CAFÉ ORGANIC FOOD & JUICE BAR BREAKFAST Monday-Friday 7-11:30

a.m. Saturday-Sunday until 2 p.m. THIS QUIET, SLIGHTLY OFF THE BEATEN PATH setting might be just what you need to recharge after a long day in the tents, refresh after a late night out, or, if you’re so inclined, fuel up for a bike ride or hike. Wholesome, 100 percent organic ingredients rule, be it in “Hale to the Kale” omelets with roasted sweet potatoes, cinnamon French toast made with millet flax bread, or tofu chilaquiles. Power Green shakes are invigorating.

MAIN STREET BAKERY CAFÉ BREAKFAST 7-11 a.m. weekdays,

7 a.m.-noon weekends JUDGING FROM THE CROWD of eager-to-eaters hangin’ on the benches out front and the packed (mostly with tourists, er, visitors) side-garden tables, this is one popular spot. Inside, order up cinnamon raisin French toast, homemade buttermilk blueberry pancakes, and classic eggs Benedict with Bakery-made English muffins. Finagle a seat at a communal table and get an earful from longtime locals. Grab a key lime custard Long John, maple glazed donut, or cinnamon twist — and cup o’ joe to go. Did we mention it’s on Main Street?

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JAZZ ASPEN SNOWMASS hosted its second annual Crawfish & Cruisers party on June 4 at the Aspen Historical Society. Guests arrived by bikes, trikes and on foot for the community event, enjoying live music from The No Joes, food from Smoke Modern Barbecue and more.

The festive family gathering served as a membership drive for the JAS Band, the new JAS membership created to encourage philanthropy and social membership from young community members. Benefits of the Band include invitations to events, $20 discounted tickets to all late shows at the JAS CafĂŠ

Downstairs @ The Nell, discounted JAS merchandise and other area events/ promotions throughout the year. For more details, visit jazzaspensnowmass.org/the-band.com. To send info, insights or invites, email mayselby@gmail.com.

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Taylor Adam and his mom, Vanessa, cruising through the West End.

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BEFORE ‘TRUE DETECTIVE,’ A SPOT ON SUMMER WORDS FACULTY

ERNEST HEMINGWAY ADVISED novelists to avoid Hollywood at all costs, famously warning his literary brethren to meet producers at the California state line: “Throw them your book, they throw you the money, then you jump into your car and drive like hell back the way you came.” But the onset of the so-called “Golden Age of Television” and the demand for complex, novelistic storytelling in this post-Sopranos era of prestige programming could have changed Hemingway’s mind. It lured “True Detective” creator Nic Pizzolatto away from writing novels and teaching at colleges to penning scripts in Hollywood, where he enlisted Aspen novelist Scott Lasser last year to help write the second season of the Emmy-winning HBO drama. The pair met and struck up a friendship at Aspen Summer Words, where, in the years before he became the revered writer-auteur behind “True Detective,” Pizzolatto taught Beginning Fiction workshops in 2008

and 2009 and screenwriting in 2012. Lasser, a former board member of the Aspen Writers’ Foundation (now known as Aspen Words), regular instructor at the annual literary retreat and author of four novels, talked shop with Pizzolatto at the conference as they were both setting their sights on film and television. “I had already been coming [to Los Angeles] for social reasons, not for work, and we had a conversation about how this was the place to be,” Lasser told me recently from L.A. Pizzolatto, author of the short story collection “From Here to the Yellow Sea” (2006) and the novel “Galveston” (2010) moved to Los Angeles in 2010 and wrote for AMC’s “The Killing.” He began “True Detective” as a novel, but adapted it instead into what became the first season of the show starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as Louisiana State Police pursuing a serial killer over two turbulent decades. Last May, as Pizzolatto was working on the second season — which features a new mystery and set of

characters — he called on Lasser to help hammer out storylines. The show doesn’t have a traditional television writer’s room, in which a team breaks stories and writes episodes together. Lasser is the only staff writer who worked with Pizzolatto on season two. “The show is 100 percent Nic,” Lasser says. “I’m just a cog in the machine. It was an honor and a great experience to work with him.” The Internet is clogged with speculation and chatter about the new season, but little is actually known about what’s coming when it begins on Sunday, June 21. HBO has imposed an effective gag order on everyone involved with the show, with which Lasser is abiding. But, of course, most fans don’t really want the story spoiled. Lasser knows the feeling. Early last year, he met Pizzolatto and “True Detective” executive producer Scott Stephens for lunch in Los Angeles as its first season was debuting, wowing critics with its dark, philosophical take on the buddy cop genre, and leaving fans quoting Rust Cohle’s “Time is a flat circle” monologue. Lasser gave the pair a quick “no spoiler” warning. “I said, ‘Please, please do not talk about the plot,’” Lasser recalls. “Fans of the show are like that. They don’t want to know.” What we do know is that the new eight-episode season stars Colin

Farrell, Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch as cops and Vince Vaughn as a career criminal who, according to HBO’s press shop, are brought together by a “bizarre murder” and “navigate a web of conspiracy and betrayal in the scorched landscapes of California.” Plot-wise, the tantalizing season trailer doesn’t tell us much more than that. But its tagline — “We Get the World We Deserve” — suggests we’ll get another serving of existential theory along with some intense sleuthing. Lasser, a Detroit native who lives in the West End, has marked time as a ski bum, steel worker, bond trader and novelist. He recently sold a screenplay adapted from 2013 novel, “Say Nice Things About Detroit,” and has several film and television projects in the purgatory of “development.” “The process is long and torturous,” Lasser says of Hollywood writing. “But I’ve worked in a steel mill. It’s better than that. There’s uncertainty and you deal with it.” This year’s edition of Aspen Summer Words also opens Sunday, June 21 with the Colorado Book Awards ceremony and continues with a week’s worth of workshops, panel discussions and perhaps some future success stories like this one. atravers@aspentimes.com

ABOVE, LEFT Aspenite Scott Lasser is a staff writer on season two of “True Detective.” He met the acclaimed show’s creator, Nic Pizzolatto, when both were teaching at Aspen Summer Words. ABOVE RIGHT (2) Set in Los Angeles, the second installment of “True Detective” stars Vince Vaughn (right), Colin Farrell (middle) and Rachel McAdams. The second season of “True Detective” premieres June 21 on HBO.

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JAMES NEWMAN — 9 p.m., Aspen Brewing Co., 304 E. Hopkins Ave., Aspen. Acoustic rock from the ’70s through modern alternative.

SUNDAY, JUNE 21 MICHAEL KRUEGER LECTURE — 7 p.m., Anderson Ranch Arts Center, 5263 Owl Creek Road, Snowmass. Guest faculty lecture on ceramics. Free.

HEAR The John Butler Trio will perform Friday June 19 at Belly Up Aspen.

THURSDAY, JUNE 18 TOUR OF HERBERT BAYER ART — 10:30 a.m., Aspen Institute, Doerr-Hosier Center, 845 Meadows Road, Aspen. Art registrar and curator Lissa Ballinger gives a tour of the exhibit “The Legacy of Herbert Bayer: Recent Gifts and Loans to the Aspen Institute.” Free and open to the public; no RSVP needed. FREE PHYSICS TALK — 5:30 p.m., Aspen Center for Physics, 700 W. Gillespie, Aspen. This dialogue will highlight the historical evolution in our understanding of the Milky Way. KACEY MUSGRAVES — 9 p.m., Belly Up, 450 S. Galena St., Aspen. Country and pop. Doors open at 8 p.m. 970-544-9800

FRIDAY, JUNE 19 LUNCHTIME AUCTIONETTE — 11:45 a.m., Schermer Meeting Hall, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, 5263 Owl Creek Road, Snowmass. HERITAGE FIRE — 5 p.m., Base Village, Wood Road, Snowmass

Village. Outdoor food and wine event will showcase wineries, breweries, craft distilleries and more than 45 chefs from Colorado working with chefs from around the country to cook 3,000 pounds of heritage-breed animals in celebration of pasture diversity and family farming. “RED HERRING” — 7:30 p.m., Thunder River Theatre Company, 67 Promenade, Carbondale. 970-963-8200 JOHN BUTLER TRIO — 8 p.m., Belly Up, 450 S. Galena St., Aspen. Australian roots and jam band. Alternative, roots rock and jam. 970-544-9800

SATURDAY, JUNE 20 “RED HERRING” — 7:30 p.m., Thunder River Theatre Company, 67 Promenade, Carbondale. 970-963-8200 GRAND COCHON — 8 p.m., Viceroy Hotel and Residences, Snowmass. Ten chefs compete in a heritage-breed pork competition.

Russo lead a conversation about crafting a long writing career. ASPEN SUMMER WORDS: WRITING HOME — 6 p.m., Paepcke Auditorium, 1000 N. Third St., Aspen. AMADOU DIALLO AND MOLLY HATCH LECTURE — 7 p.m., Anderson Ranch Arts Center, 5263 Owl Creek Road, Snowmass. Guest faculty lecture on photography, new media and ceramics. Free.

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ASPEN SUMMER WORDS: GETTING STARTED — 2 p.m., The Gant Conference Center, 610 S. West End, Aspen. Editor and author Hannah Tinti; editor, publisher and novelist Lea Carpenter; and journalist and screenwriter Michael Maren lead a discussion on the beginnings of their writing and publishing careers.

ENRIQUE MARTINEZ CELAYA — 12:30 p.m., Anderson Ranch Arts Center, 5263 Owl Creek Road, Snowmass. Presentations are focused on artists’ work and topics relevant to the contemporary art community. Free. RSVP required at 970-923-3181 or www.andersonranch.org.

ASPEN SUMMER WORDS: THE CREATIVE LIFE — 4 p.m., The Gant Conference Center, 610 S. West End, Aspen. Dani Shapiro and Akhil Sharma lead a conversation about the creative process and what advice, routines or techniques have helped them most over the years. ASPEN SUMMER WORDS: WRITING FROM LIFE — 6 p.m., Paepcke Auditorium, 1000 N. Third St., Aspen. Andre Dubus III, Ann Hood and Dani Shapiro discuss the risks and rewards of writing memoirs. GORDON LIGHTFOOT: 50 YEARS ON THE CAREFREE HIGHWAY TOUR — 8 p.m., Belly Up, 450 S. Galena St., Aspen. Folk, folk-rock and pop. $175. 970-544-9800

TUESDAY, JUNE 23 ASPEN SUMMER WORDS: THE LONG HAIL — 4 p.m., The Gant Conference Center, 610 S. West End, Aspen. Ann Hood and Richard

ASPEN SUMMER WORDS: THE BUSINESS OF WRITING — 4 p.m., The Gant Conference Center, 610 S. West End, Aspen. Industry professionals lead a discussion of the business of writing and publishing. ASPEN WORDS SUMMER SOIREE FEATURING GARRISON KEILLOR — 6 p.m., Aspen Meadows Resort, Doerr-Hosier Building, 845 Meadows Road, Aspen. 970-948-4512 “CABARET” — 8 p.m., Hurst Theatre, 470 Rio Grande Place, Aspen. Tony Award-winning musical. GREGG ALLMAN — 8:30 p.m., Belly Up, 450 S. Galena St., Aspen. Southern rock and blues rock. 970-544-9800 ERIN HARPE AND THE DELTA SWINGERS — 10 p.m., Justice Snow’s, 328 E. Hyman Ave., Aspen. Swing and blues band. Tables will be cleared for dancing. 970-429-8192

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BOOK REVIEW

‘THE PAINTER’ “I AM PRETTY GOOD, somewhat famous, which means it gets harder to be quiet.” So declares Jim Stegner, the titular painter of Denver author Peter Heller’s “The Painter.” Stegner is a bearded macho man who works in oils — the kind of tough guy artist that broods and fishes and broods some more and loves animals in a way he can’t love humans, other than his long-dead daughter whose memory (quite literally) haunts him. He’s a Hemingway-esque caricature, a man so hard he doesn’t need to use subjects in his clipped sentences. He killed a man — a sex offender, so, you know, it’s OK for readers to root for him on his hero’s journey — and did his time in prison for it. Now he’s out, trying to stay sober, and has settled in to “be quiet” in Paonia. But when he witnesses a local outfitter

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‘The Painter’ Peter Heller 364 pages, hardcover, $24.95 Alfred A. Knopf, 2014

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