Attorney for the city of Aspen, which is being sued by the Aspen Board of Realtors, are seeking documents showing the organization’s members have suffered financially because of the moratorium on residential development and new short-term rental licenses.
The block I live on has been grieving a beloved neighbor.
Journalist and author Priscilla Johnson McMillan died on July 7, 2021, just before her 93rd birthday. McMillan spoke in hushed tones but was a powerful voice on local matters like zoning or global issues like nuclear disarmament.
She and her husband had a front row seat in the civil rights movement. Both white, he taught at historically Black colleges. She befriended a young John Lewis and threw him his engagement party.
Before that, as a young reporter in Moscow, she hung out with novelist Truman Capote. He wrote about their friendship in his book, “The Muses Are Heard.”
A Personal Remembrance Of Priscilla McMillan — The Only Person Who Knew JFK And Lee Harvey Oswald northcountrypublicradio.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from northcountrypublicradio.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
New & Noteworthy, From Bob Dylan to the Bay Area
May 18, 2021
Recent titles of interest:
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF BOB DYLAN: A Restless, Hungry Feeling (1941-1966), by Clinton Heylin. (Little, Brown, $30.) Heylin, the author of “Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades,” revisits his subject’s early years with access to newly archived material.
THE END OF THE GOLDEN GATE: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco, edited by Gary Kamiya. (Chronicle, paper, $17.95.) In these essays celebrating San Francisco’s enduring beauty and fluid nature, notable Bay Area writers ponder recent changes that have driven many people to flee.
MAYFLIES, by Andrew O’Hagan. (McClelland & Stewart, $22.95.) This tender, heartfelt novel centers on the friendship among a group of young Scottish men obsessed with music and movies in the 1980s, recalled from the vantage of three decades later when one learns he’s dying of cancer.
A NEW TV documentary series will follow the lives of North Yorkshire policewomen as they go about their business of tackling crime. Women on the Force will follow women police constables, as well as PCSOs, backroom staff and Chief Constable Lisa Winward. In the opening episode, which will be broadcast on the W Channel at 8pm every Thursday, PC Pauline Law leads a drugs raid and blue lights to a suspected drink driver. New recruits PCs Emaleigh Simeson and Toni McMahon, meanwhile, bag their first independent arrest before working a challenging night shift, and emergency call handler Katharine Johnson has to deal with her worst nightmare: a 999 report about an officer under attack.