Taking the executive director role at The Art Base is a full-circle moment for Lisa DeLosso. After moving to the Roaring Fork Valley in 2017, she became “intimately involved” with the Basalt nonprofit community arts center by attending exhibitions, workshops and the annual fundraising gala. She added, “Art is really important to me, and supporting […]
January 2023
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Aspen Writers’ Network speaks a writer’s language
Ernest Hemingway, arguably one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, once said of his craft: “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” It’s not quite as melodramatic as Hemingway suggests, but you get the gist of his message. Being a writer can, at times, […]
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Ps & Qs: The Grinch is going to jail
On Christmas day, my brother-in-law saw the Grinch getting arrested. He lives in a city much bigger than our Whoville-sized Carbondale, and he said a crowd watched as the police handcuffed and loaded the Grinch into a patrol car. “And you didn’t get a picture?!” I exclaimed when I heard about such holiday shenanigans. “What […]
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Letters – Jan. 5, 2023
R.I.P. Ed With the recent untimely demise of veteran Ed “Mex” Pfab, in an accident at home, the Aspen Mountain patrol lost one of its beloved brethren. A couple of vignettes: One time Ed and I partnered doing avalanche control work in the Bear Paw Glades. He kept telling me that “two Eds are better […]