The Carbondale Arts gallery debuted “Sweet Excess” by William Lanzillo on First Friday, March 6. Lanzillo, a sculptor originally from Chicago, Illinois, assembled a machine in the gallery built to produce a giant cannoli — sweet cream inside a fried shell. The first attempt resulted in a normal-sized cannoli, but Lanzillo will try again to […]
Will Sardinsky
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Horsin’ around with Pair a Dice Carriages
Taylor van Zyl and Mark Drummond are the owners and drivers of Pair a Dice Carriages, performing this Thursday, Aug. 7 at the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo (CWWR). “There’s nothing quite as exhilarating as witnessing a gleaming stagecoach drawn by six big black Percherons thunder into the arena,” CWWR’s website describes. “The ground rumbles beneath […]
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A fresh take on fashion
The Carbondale Arts Fashion Show (no longer “Green is the New Black”) returns this weekend with “Camera Obscura,” a nod to film noir exploring themes of secrecy, desire and dreams “in a world of murder and mayhem.” Laura Stover, responsible for making it a multimedia show, enlisted filmmaker Ashley Mosher to capture sequences of local […]
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Lights… camera… auction!
Sopris Sun contributor Will Sardinsky captured these photos from up and down Main Street on a bustling First Friday, Dec. 6. After viewing Carbondale’s tree-lighting, folks were invited to meet Santa, take a sleigh ride or do some shopping at Carbondale Arts’ Deck the Walls holiday market, KDNK’s Labor of Love auction and the Carbondale […]
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Community that creates together …
Photos by Will Sardinsky Green Is The New Black has been going strong for 13 runs. This year, models and dancers took to the runway attired in up-cycled, repurposed and natural materials. The designs are intricate and, put simply, breathtaking. A big takeaway each year is the community collaboration that brings it all together. This […]
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Not so fast fashion
The 13th Annual Green Is The New Black Fashion Extravaganza opens tonight! Thursday, March 7, that is, at the Carbondale Rec Center. “This year’s theme is ‘Fabulation: A Wild Romp Through the Future,’ a concept inspired by the examination of our future with advanced technology, artificial intelligence and the impact of that on the human […]
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Eagle County considers Missouri Heights horse boarding and riding facility
Eagle County planning staff, planning commissioners, owner representatives and some 40 members of the public visited the proposed site of the Twin Acres Riding Stable and Boarding Stable, a proposed development for a commercial 50-horse boarding and riding facility at 623 Fender Lane in Missouri Heights. While the property has been historically used as a […]
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Going out in style
“Wham Blam Thank You Ma’am”, Carbondale’s most recent fashion extravaganza, held in honor of Carbondale Arts executive director Amy Kimberly’s “rewirement,” went off without a hitch behind Craft Coffee House on Saturday evening, Sept. 10. Under the full moon, atop a make-shift stage shaped like a horseshoe, performers strutted their stuff in apparel designed and […]
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Locals rep at Outdoor Retailer show
Many familiar faces could be spotted at the Outdoor Retailer show in Denver earlier this month. Lindsay Jones, local artist, checks out the topo designs at Garmin. Chris Brandt, Red Hill Council president, chats with Trails Are Common Ground. Ethan Peck, of Rygr, shows off a new blanket poncho while working with his client Rumpl.
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If an aspen grove falls, continued
For part one of this two-part series, click here The Forest Service has stated that the logging on William’s Peak, along Four Mile Road, is to create a disturbance, “and cutting areas with mature aspen stimulates their root system to vigorously regenerate.” However, users of the William’s Peak area along Four Mile road have wondered […]