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It’s not over until the bald lady sings, and in this case Ireland’s brilliant vocalist Sinéad O’Connor is not retiring from the limelight quietly. As her swan song, she is releasing her final record
She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty on September 9 on Vanguard Records. The two-CD release features 19 studio tracks on Disc one and Disc two is a live album with 13 tracks recorded from one of her concerts in Dublin last year. The package offers plenty of material to satiate fans before O’Connor ducks out of the music industry for some peace and quiet.
How Texans of great and not-so-great means have bought a piece of ski country.
Vail, Snowbird, Steamboat Springs, Loveland Basin. They are among the most progressive ski resorts in the world, each one boarding and feeding thousands of skiers, moving them up and across slopes and peaks on automated trams with their rented skis and their ski-school diplomas all day until night comes and the après-ski nightlife begins. Not Vail, Snowbird, Steamboat Springs, nor Loveland Basin would exist as they do today without big Texas money.
The Snowbird story is typical. Ex-skiing instructor and lodge manager Ted Johnson located almost 100 mining claims in the Wasatch Range-Cottonwood Canyon area and then slowly purchased the small parcels of land. Johnson couldn’t find financial support among Utah’s bankers or its tax-paying community; his backing came from Richard D. Bass, a Dallas oilman and rancher, who skied and who had a financial interest in other resorts. Johnson and Bass m