One of the country’s largest and most popular volleyball tournaments returns for its 41st year in Aspen over Labor Day weekend. More than 700 teams of doubles hit the sand and grass courts throughout seven different sites and parks in Aspen for several days of big digs and epic saves. Players range in skill from […]

It seems that all restaurateurs and consumers are hopping on the eat-local train in some way these days. Whether it’s touting gin from a local distillery or sourcing tomatoes from the regional farm, people are more focused on knowing where from where their food comes.  In Aspen, Eat Local makes it much easier. The quarterly […]

Chefs Club lead bartender Anthony Bohlinger will soon head to Las Vegas to show off his specialty drink, Delilah in Red. He recently won the regional competition for Bombay Sapphire  & GQ  magazine’s “Most Imaginative Bartender in America” contest, held at the Sky Hotel in Aspen. His drink combines lightly crushed cucumber, fresh watermelon juice, lavender […]

    People are eager to see Journey, Keith Urban and Jason Mraz in concert, or at least ticket sales for the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Festival are proving so, according to an Aspen Times article with organizers. Single-day tickets and three-day passes for the concerts are outpacing sales from previous years, and organizers […]

One of the country’s oldest and largest gay ski events is aiming to set new records, by also hosting the largest same-sex and highest elevation group ceremony in January. “All for Love” is a group civil union ceremony set to take place in downtown Aspen on January 18, 2014, during the annual Gay Ski Week. […]

This isn’t your average sing-along. Kids in Aspen who attend the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies fundraiser on Tuesday will be treated to a jam session and reading from upbeat musician Michael Franti. The artist, known for hits like “The Sound of Sunshine” and “Say Hey,” recently released his second children’s book “Where In The World […]

A pair of star-crossed lovers will make their way to Aspen’s Galena Plaza tonight, opening the eighth season of Hudson Reed Ensemble’s Shakespeare in the Park. The popular outdoor theater series returns each August with a free performance of a Shakespearean play, and this year’s selection is “Romeo and Juliet.” Tiered benches surround the small […]

  Over the course of eight weeks, the Aspen Music Festival & School has put on more than 300 events during its busy schedule. Come Monday, it will all be done. But not before a few sweet, final shows. On Aug. 15 and 17, the Aspen Opera Theater performs Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the […]