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Scott Avett in conversation with Aspen gallerist Bob Chase at the Sundeck on Tuesday morning as part of a program launching his solo art exhibition “Power Outage” at Chase’s Hexton Gallery. (Andrew Travers/The Aspen Times)
Two days after headlining Red Rocks Ampitheatre with the Avett Brothers and amid the fury of the band’s post-vaccine return to playing rock concerts for crowds of thousands, Scott Avett took the Silver Queen Gondola to the top of Aspen Mountain for a decidedly more intimate public event Tuesday morning.
The singer and guitarist came here to talk about his work as a painter and artist, which he’s mostly kept private over the past 20 years. On Tuesday evening, Avett unveiled his solo exhibition “Power Outage” at Hexton Gallery in downtown Aspen. Longtime local gallerist Bob Chase, who met Avett through painter Eric Fischl, has been working with him in recent years and doing studio visits at his farmhouse studio in rural North Carolina.
The leader of Lambeth Council has stepped down after just over two years. In a statement on May 10 Labour Councillor Jack Hopkins did not say why he made the decision to quit as leader, but said “I know I will leave the council in safe hands”. A new leader will be elected at a future council meeting, with details yet to be confirmed. Cllr Hopkins was first elected as a councillor in Oval Ward in 2010 and has served in the cabinet since 2012, holding various roles responsible for community safety and neighbourhoods, economic development, regeneration, planning and employment and skills. He became leader of the council in February, 2019.
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The COVID-19 pandemic turned the world upside down in so many ways. In tourist destinations heavily reliant on travelers from far-flung cities across the globe, the impact has been profound. The dialogue changed from over-crowding and sustainable tourism to safety and basic survival overnight. The darkest days of the spring 2020 quarantine saw us hiding in our homes, stockpiling toilet paper, running low on Clorox wipes, and hosting Zoom happy hours. An unprecedented mountain town real estate boom was the furthest thing from anyone’s mind.
Catastrophic error THE Diary would hate to be accused of discriminatory behaviour of any kind, which is why we feel duty bound to humbly apologise for our run of stories poking fun at the silly mistakes made by schoolboys. For the truth is that schoolgirls are equally daft, as languages teacher Barrie Crawford explains. He recalls one female scholar working on an essay in German about her home life. She mentioned having a cat, then revealed that she regularly fed it. Unfortunately she chose the wrong German verb, which resulted in her admitting that she had to breastfeed the poor moggie.