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Margaret Hair: Goodbye to Mountain Theater
Friday, May 16, 2008
On Saturday night, Steamboat Mountain Theater will close its doors for destruction.
Read story.Margaret Hair: Fighting for a funktified universe
Friday, May 9, 2008
“That’s a good question,” Steamboat music producer Todd Leestma says, trying to buy time to arrive at a reasonable response to, “Why did you decide to record music as the Intergalactic Funk Cowboy?”
Read story.Margaret Hair: Notes from Coachella
Friday, May 2, 2008
Across the Google News headlines on Wednesday, there was word of former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters losing his pig.
Read story.Margaret Hair: Trying out African dance
Saturday, April 26, 2008
If you’ve never taken a dance class, stepping into a guest workshop with the well-practiced Steamboat Springs African Dance & Drum Ensemble isn’t the easiest thing to do.
Read story.Margaret Hair: Trying out African dance
Friday, April 25, 2008
If you’ve never taken a dance class, stepping into a guest workshop with the well-practiced Steamboat Springs African Dance & Drum Ensemble isn’t the easiest thing to do.
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Margaret Hair: Time for tunes outside
Friday, April 18, 2008
With ski season over, a couple of sunny days behind us and a handful of outdoor concerts already set for Steamboat this summer, I’m having trouble holding a thought on anything that isn’t related to listening to live music while simultaneously burning my pasty face off.
Read story.Margaret Hair: Cardboard crash course
Friday, April 11, 2008
I’m not sure what I expected from my first run at Cardboard Classic. But I’m reasonably sure it didn’t happen.
Read story.Margaret Hair: Springalicious makes the ’Boat go crazy
Friday, April 4, 2008
I am blaming Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. for the fact that, in the past two weeks, I have listened to “Fergalicious” at least 25 times.
Read story.Mary Walker: Kenya’s differences create hurdles
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Editor’s note: Clark resident Mary Walker works at the Tasaru Girls Rescue Centre in Narok, Kenya. The center was built in 2002 with funding from the United Nations, and it provides a safehouse for Maasai girls who have run away from their families to escape or been rescued from female genital mutilation and forced childhood marriage. Walker’s updates from Kenya will appear periodically in the Steamboat Today.
Read story.Kerry Hart: Being here and everywhere
Sunday, March 30, 2008
The difference between the students of the millennial generation and the students of an earlier time really hit home recently, when I saw an old book laying on the coffee table at a friend’s house. The book was a 1971 publication of “Be Here Now” by Ram Dass — a book that I would categorize as pseudo-spirituality. As the title implies, a general theme of the book is a contemplative approach to living life fully by learning to appreciate every moment. “Be Here Now” was reflective of the culture (maybe a subculture) that stands in stark contrast to the millennial generation. Today, a typical culture of traditional-aged college students is to be everywhere all at once.
Read story.Margaret Hair: A panoramic photographer
Friday, March 28, 2008
If you think tracking wolves in Yellowstone National Park for days at a time is a crazy idea, you’ve never talked to nature photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen. That guy knows how to sell it.
Read story.Margaret Hair: Jokes at her expense
Friday, March 14, 2008
Cindy Pierce claims to be incident-prone.
It’s the sort of claim you hear someone make and want to meet with a friendly counter such as, “Oh, you think you can’t catch a break? Well, I ended up in the emergency room my first night in town. Beat that, lady.”
Read story.Margaret Hair: Art you can understand
Friday, March 7, 2008
Painter Michael Close has been in the art world for 30 years. He’s seen movements come and go, he’s tried surrealism, modernism, the elusive post-modernism, abstract this and realist that.
Read story.Margaret Hair: Why do you sound like that?
Friday, Feb. 29, 2008
Ask any member of any rock band scheduled to play in a local bar who his influences are, and you’re bound to get some variation of the same answer:
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