Aspen’s sweetheart, Olympic Silver Medalist, poses naked for ESPN The Magazine’s issue on “The Body,” also featuring Hope Solo. Click here for a video preview of the issue. And click here for a video preview of Gretchen. Read More →
CON GAMES: Buffs, Broncos Hoofin’ It In Hell
CON GAMES–Tradition can’t hold a candle to defeat. I know because I have tried for eight years to the day to be the very best Colorado football fan I can be. I have tried tradition, going back twice now to the Oxford Hotel in LoDo, there to prepare for the Rocky Mountain Showdown betwixt CU... Read more →
CON GAMES: Pitkin County, Colorado, Suicides A Way Of Life
In 2005, the death by suicide of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Jr. at his home in Woody Creek, Pitkin County, Colorado, was literally the shotgun heard round the world, reverberating between and among political and literary types circumnavigating the planet. Nonetheless, the famous doctor’s death was not... Read more →
The Official Steve Jobs Biography Coming This November From Walter Isaacson
The Steve Jobs biography will be available November 21, 2011 according to Barnes and Noble, reports 9to5Mac. The 448-page book by Walter Isaacson, head of the Aspen Institute (which together with The Atlantic, co-hosts the annual Aspen Ideas Festival), was based on over 40 interviews... Read more →
Guilt By Association Not Fair In Aspen Cocaine Bust
In a comment following Con Man’s blog about cocaine in Aspen, Post blogger Taylor Colton writes that guilt by association is completely unfair. Read More →
Leigh Vogel’s Amazing Journey
Former Aspen Peak editor Leigh Vogel has become a world-class photographer based in Washington D.C.–all while she was enrolled in a masters program at Georgetown University. Click here for her story in words and, of course, pictures. Read More →
CON GAMES: Con Man Knows Gout
I woke up with gout in my shin last night so I thought I had better alert the media. I know gout the way Bill Simmons knows basketball, the way Joe Biden knows blather. I know gout (literally) right down to my bones, and if you don’t have gout, or if you don’t know someone with gout, then get the... Read more →
CON GAMES: Pitkin County Sheriffs Finally Shut Up About Aspen Cocaine
The latest twist in the Aspen cocaine bust blues is actually not the news that Michael Cleverly of Woody Creek—artist, writer, self-appointed “journalist”—is now being compelled to show his mug July 25, 2011, in front of a Grand Jury in Denver, Colorado. The real news is that when the current... Read more →
David Brooks and ‘The Modesty Manifesto’ At Aspen Ideas Festival (Video)
New York Times conservative columnist David Brooks waxes at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Read More →
CON GAMES: Happy Talk @ Aspen Ideas Festival
ASPEN, COLORADO—For reasons unknown and perhaps even inexplicable, the Aspen Ideas Festival 2011 decided this would be the year when the Fest would turn a big chunk of its attention to… happiness! Is “c’mon, get happy” an appropriate tagline for the “What Is Happiness?” track at the festival?... Read more →