Steven Seagal returns as ex-Navy SEAL captain, anti-terrorist expert and culinary specialist, Casey Ryback, in this pacy and entertaining sequel to “Under Siege” (1992). The setting has shifted from a battleship to a train, the luxury Denver to Los Angeles Grand Continental no less. Taking a well deserved break from his job at a Denver […]
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How did fracking ever become legal?
Freeing oil and gas deposits from its shale, tight sand and coalbed methane coverings was first done with explosives in 1865. Using pressurized fluid and sand, hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, was invented in 1947 and commercialized by Haliburton in Kansas in 1949. Beginning in the 1990s, the process, combined with horizontal drilling, started the methane […]
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Illegitimi non carborundum
We’ve only scraped the surface of the Epstein files and it’s already like I can’t get the water hot enough to feel clean. How I long for the good ol’ days, when Dick Cheney shooting someone on a hunting trip was the Big Coverup. Nothing so innocent with these guys. Not like Paul Newman and […]
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CVEPA Views: All things near and far
My scholastic aptitudes always tended toward the humanities. My high school offered “Humanistic Physics” for such dummies. In the textbook for this class was a quote by English poet Francis Thompson that I have never forgotten. “All things by immortal power, Near or far, Hiddenly To each other linked are, That thou canst not stir […]
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Do we document to remember or to be seen?
Perfect kitchens are almost never used. The white marble gleams with the purity of a surface that has never met chile colorado. Stainless steel appliances without a single trace of sticky fingerprints. Impeccable, as if you had just peeled off the protective plastic film. In the corner, a cookbook struggles to stay open. In fact, […]
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Historiography: The Politics of Water
Turn on the tap, water pours out. We take it for granted. But our water was hard-fought in the early 20th century by some of the Roaring Fork Valley’s legendary champions of water rights. In the late 1880s, Glenwood Springs attorney Edward T. Taylor dealt mainly with cases involving land and water issues. Particularly concerned […]
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‘Newsies’ comes to life
The Theater Department at Glenwood Springs High School (GSHS) has officially brought “Newsies” to the Valley. The play, written by Harvey Fierstein, is certainly one that many theater critics have come across, but these local high schoolers brought the already heartfelt script to a whole new level of life. “Newsies” is based on the newsboys’ […]
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An ode to Youth In Nature
Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers’ (RFOV) paid internship, Youth in Nature, became my anticipated monthly highlight as a sophomore. The internship nurtured my passion for the outdoors, yet, all the while, I learned not just about our local ecosystems but about myself, too. The application to participate next school year is still open, until April 4 […]
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A passion for fashion
I now have empathy for voodoo dolls. Not in a literal sense, but the constant pricking with needles in hopes of making a masterpiece slightly warmed my heart towards them. As Carbondale’s annual fashion show grows closer by the day, so are deadlines. Those with a ticket in hand can’t wait to see dancers […]
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View from the Therapy Pool: What happened to the baby boomers?
Born in 1949, I’m a proud member of the baby boomers. You know, the generation that’s responsible for the biggest population explosion in this country in the 20th century as the World War II soldiers came home and found making love was a lot more fun than making war. We brought on the dawning of […]