The Crested Butte Wild Mushroom Festival August 23-25 The recent downpours have sent half the population of the valley scurrying into …
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Food production at elevation is hard but possible
The issue On any given Friday afternoon in summer, the produce area at the local grocery store in Crested Butte may …
Read More »PROFILE: Patti Gast
Poised between two guitarists, Patti Gast is more a folk singer in modern times with her smooth voice, skirt below the …
Read More »Slide show to trace Nepali journey
When Sandy Fails and Michael Garren traded their air-conditioned Kathmandu hotel for a colorful shanty on the Nepali trekking trail, one …
Read More »PROFILE: Cricket Farrington
Her smile is almost bigger than she is, and her name, Cricket, a tiny creature with a melodic story, perfectly fits …
Read More »Whodunit: The Experiential ORE Murder Mystery Dinner
Imagine—Crested Butte in the Roaring Twenties. The mines are running 24/7, the bars are hopping with the sounds of local musicians, …
Read More »Gettin’ Hitched in the Butte
Beauty brings wedding boom to the area Here comes the bride—literally. Actually the brides and the grooms, the preachers, flower girls …
Read More »Mountain Man Rendezvous 2013:
Grizzly fur traders, trappers, and hardy women Having perused the Art Festival a number of laps, eating my share of …
Read More »Geek Week: Up close and personal with RMBL scientists
On a recent Monday morning, scientists, graduate students and undergrads set out from Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) in Gothic with …
Read More »Play Review: Cabaret
Most of us have seen Bob Fosse’s film version of Cabaret. But if you’ve never seen the original stage version, or …
Read More »Profile: Smokey
The Gentle Grizzly In this town, some are legends known only by a single name and most of the time it’s …
Read More »PROFILE: Evelyn Roper
Coloring her own world Is it any wonder that a child raised by cultured hippie parents would grow up to paint …
Read More »Rising to the Top
The Silver Queen will rumble up into the brilliant morning skies an hour earlier this Saturday, July 27, at 8 a.m., …
Read More »A History of Gunnison County and the American West at Rijks Family Gallery
When Brian Levine began bringing in his antiquarian maps, documents and photographs for archival framing, Jos Rijks of the Rijks Family …
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Mountain Theatre’s Children’s Workshops set young actors on the right track It’s a bit different from putting on a play, although …
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