October 2016 Around Town
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators recently awarded its 2015 Book Launch Award to children’s writer Nancy Bo Flood of Glenwood Springs. The annual award, established in 2012, provides authors or illustrators with $2,000 in funds to supplement the promotion and marketing of newly published works for children.
Symphony of the Rocky Mountains
The valley is rocking with every style of music you can imagine from classical, blues, rock and roll from the 50’s to the latest—Glitch Soulazz. Vocal artists coo, croon and belt out their melodies for all to enjoy. There is another type of symphony that only a small percentage of us get to enjoy—the Symphony of the Rocky Mountains during…
Emily Gustafson Breathes the Spirit of the West
One of the best aspects of Carbondale’s Mountain Fair is purchasing a one-of-a-kind craft from the artist who made it. Wild Feather and Stone jewelry by Emily Gustafson presents such an opportunity. The author of this article purchased a leather bracelet with a freshwater pearl and chalcedony quartz, and then went back to buy matching earrings.
A Cool Cat Visits Redstone
Locals are so accustomed to seeing wildlife in the streets that bears, deer and wild turkeys scarcely merit a mention. But when photographer Renee Ramge moved from Carbondale to Redstone recently, she was surprised to find a bobcat in her backyard. She hastily snapped a photo, initially thinking the wild cat was a lynx. The Colorado Parks & Wildlife Department,…
“Growing a Life: Teen Gardeners Harvest Food, Health and Joy”
Illène Pevec, the program director for Fat City Farmers, a food education program in Basalt, recently authored Growing a Life: Teen Gardeners Harvest Food, Health and Joy. Authentic youth voices abound in the book as Pevec interviews more than 90 teens who hail from programs in New York, New Mexico, Colorado and California. As Pevec enables young organic gardeners and…
“Alloy: The Malleability of Metals”
I consider my material: about 14 inches of 3/8" round, hot-rolled steel. Hot cut on both ends. I decide I will upset one end to build a mass for the head of my spoon. I have been making spoons during most of the days that I work at the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park blacksmith shop. Why? For Alloy: the Malleability…
Singing For Their Supper (Club)
Jonathan Gorst hasn’t had a day off since June 17 of this year. “That’s when we re-opened the Riviera Supper Club after the previous owners decided to sell,” he says. “And things have been a bit of a whirlwind since then. I guess being so busy is self-inflicted, but what can I say? I love what I do.”
Let Them Roar in the Recording Studio
Having been recently invited to a Let Them Roar (LTR) recording session, this poem intrigued me. Stoking the excitement, my housemate, long-time local Dave Stumpler, recalled LTR’s singer Olivia Pevec as a kid. “She’d just belt it out, walking around in her little cowboy dresses and her boots, just singing away.”
Monks and Mindfulness
Three monks stand at the front of the room, chanting. Their murmuring, singing voices rise and fall in a persistent wall of sound. Rows of adults sit at attention, droplets of water tracing through hair, down foreheads, cheeks and necks. An insistent bell clangs, clangs, clangs. Delicate threads of smoky incense hang in the air. Monks ritually move along rows…
Mortgage Tips from One of the Valley’s Experts
Recently, Roaring Fork Lifestyle talked with Michael Picore, area sales manager for Bay Equity Home Loans. One of the valley’s most experienced mortgage brokers, Picore started his career in commercial lending straight out of college. After working in home mortgage lending with Wells Fargo, he weathered the 2008 mortgage market meltdown. Building on hard lessons learned during that time, he…
Meet the Valley’s Celebrity Sports Chiropractor, Dr. Dave Jensen
Dr. Dave Jensen is known as a celebrity chiropractor to many of the top-tier athletes who frequent the Roaring Fork Valley. The website for the WIN Health Institute, which he founded in 2001, includes endorsements from top athletes like speed skiing champion Don Strickland, World Cup ski racer Jake Zemanski, St. Louis Blues pro hockey player Larry Giroux, martial artist…