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Curated Calendar – March 5 to March 14

by Raleigh Burleigh and James Steindler

THURSDAY, MARCH 5 EXTRATERRESTRIAL ESCAPE ROOMTeenagers attempt to solve a space-themed escape room at the Basalt Library space from 4 to 6pm. Register at www.basaltlibrary.org AIRPORT DESIGN OPEN HOUSEThe Aspen-Pitkin County Airport presents a schematic design during an open house at the Hoffman Hotel from 4 to 7pm. Details at www.aspenairport.com  NATURALIST NIGHTSColorado State Forest […]

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Curated Calendar – Feb. 26 to March 8

by Raleigh Burleigh and James Steindler

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 OPEN STUDIOThe Art Base invites painters to practice their art, with help available from Tish McFee, from 1 to 4pm.  GRAPHIC NOVEL CLUBThe Carbondale Library invites kids ages 9 to 12 to discuss the graphic novel “Maxwell Dark: Nightmare Hunter” by Brady Smith from 3:30 to 4:30pm. BLACKOUT POETRYBasalt Library leads teens […]

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Defying limits: Austria’s Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner to speak about climbing the world’s tallest mountains

by Annalise Grueter

On Feb. 24, Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House hosts a speaker who will turn the audience’s attention to the heights. Not just any heights: specifically, 8,000 meters, the 14 tallest mountains in the world. She is Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, one of the only women to have climbed the planet’s tallest mountains, and the first woman to have […]

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Recordando el 2025 en noticias

by el Sol del Valle

2025 fue un año marcado por una ola de altibajos en el ámbito personal, comunitario, nacional, internacional y hasta mundial. A través de las dificultades y los logros, los Valles del Río Colorado y Roaring Fork demostraron una vez más el verdadero significado de la palabra comunidad. Como región, enfrentamos despidos federales, recortes de financiamiento […]

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Racing time

by Betsy Welch

Vaughn Shafer’s birthday parties are legendary. For decades now, on a chilly evening in late January, some 50 people have trekked up to Shafer’s 36-acre property near Lookout Mountain to ride vintage American Flyer sleds down his steep, 2.5-mile long driveway. Before it was sleds, they’d pile into Shafer’s river canoes, using the paddles to […]

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El Wheeler Opera House presentó su segundo espectáculo en español el 6 de junio, despertando intriga y emoción con un show lleno de magia

by Bianca Godina and el Sol del Valle

Santiago Michel, mentalista quien celebró 11 años de trayectoria la misma noche de su presentación en el Wheeler, compartió el significado oculto detrás del nombre de su espectáculo en Las Vegas: Ilusión Mental. Al reorganizar las letras, se revela el mensaje Une Mil Latinos, una invitación simbólica a la unidad a través del arte y […]

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September symposium to confront existential questions of life, the universe and humanity

by Annalise Grueter

Nonprofits from Texas and California are partnering with local media to present Frontiers of Knowledge on Saturday, Sept. 13. The symposium will bring together 10 experts from the fields of physics, cosmology, natural and social sciences, and psychedelics research for four educational lectures.  This ambitious event aims to explore topics from physics and astronomical understandings […]

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