How fashion shapes our identity
Bella Hoffman, Staff Writer
April 21, 2019
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Opinion, Showcase
Fashion shapes identity in a multitude of different ways; from the colors we pick, to the stores we frequent, who we are is ingrained in our style. Anything we wear, from hair dye to tattoos, is apart of our style. Our individual personalities influence whether we want to dye our hair or get a new pi...
REVIEW: Billie Eilish’s debut album highlights creativity
Bella Hoffman, Staff Writer
April 14, 2019
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Showcase
At only 17, it’s hard to imagine with all her success that Billie Eilish has only just this year released her first studio album, titled “WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?”. Billie Eilish has broken the typical Top-40 revolving door of the same four chords being thrown into every pop son...
Gabriel Rico: The Discipline of the Cave Exhibit at the AAM
Tessa Guthrie, Staff Writer
April 11, 2019
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Opinion, Showcase
The Gabriel Rico: The Discipline of the Cave art exhibit at the Aspen Art Museum (AAM) conveys the themes of confusion and disarray though intriguing sculptures and a unique layout. Rico uses mediums such as ceramics and taxidermy to set his work apart and create an exhibit unlike any other. Ric...
Why being single on V-Day is secretly awesome
Sophie Schlosser, Staff Writer
February 8, 2019
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Opinion
Cupid’s arrow just struck all 7.53 billion people on earth simultaneously – brace yourselves single people: Valentine's Day is upon us. If you’re currently consciously uncoupled, today might seem like the world is conspiring against you and your single status. Take a deep breath (or a “mindf...
Chainsmokers lit the stage on fire at X Games Aspen
Bella Hoffman, Staff Writer
February 8, 2019
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Showcase
The 2019 Aspen Winter X Games concerts included one of the most popular EDM (electronic dance music) artists of today, The Chainsmokers, who lit up the stage with their music, an assortment of beaming lights, and streams of smoke. Their new album called Sick Boy was prominently featured at this show...
“Margaret Kilgallen: that’s where the beauty is” exhibit at the Aspen Art Museum
Tessa Guthrie, Staff Writer
February 5, 2019
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, News, Showcase
The Margaret Kilgallen exhibit currently at the Aspen Art Museum reminds people to appreciate the under-appreciated. Kilgallen’s unique style catches one's eye with her use of vivid colors, fascinating muses, and wild imagery, imitating American folk art. She accomplished this by painting unrecognized...
Theater Aspen educates kids of all ages on more than just acting
Davy Brown, Staff Writer
January 25, 2019
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Showcase
Newsies, the Broadway Musical, sponsored by the Aspen Times, is an enthralling story about newsboys going on strike in 1899 to gain fair treatment. Theater Aspen put on a performance of the Musical that included students from all over the valley: Aspen to New Castle. It was Theater Aspen’s larges...
A Quest to Find Poetry in Music
Sam Kahn, Editor in Chief
January 15, 2019
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Opinion
In an age when music is dominated by pop princesses and fame-driven rappers, I often find myself diving deeply into my musical archives to rediscover songs that are refreshingly complicated, meaningful, and full of poetry. I was first introduced to poetry through the lyrical ingenuity of some of my...
Aspen High’s Fall Play Production
Alex Engelmann, Staff Writer
January 11, 2019
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, News, Showcase
The Fall Play Production has been a part of AHS tradition for years, and each year the show seems to be more magical than the last. Unfortunately, the play was postponed due to the failure to decide which production to put on. The performance was initially scheduled for the week after Thanksgiving and...
Aspen Students Rank top four in North America
Davy Brown, Staff Writer
December 24, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Showcase
If you want to stay up to date with some up and coming, big time video games, Playerunknown's Battleground Mobile is the place to start! The teens of AHS have recently become obsessed with a new mobile game called Playerunknown's Battleground (Pubg Mobile for short). It first appeared as an online gam...
Locals are going nuts over the Nutcracker ballet
Alex Engelmann, Staff Writer
December 18, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Showcase
An Aspen holiday classic, The Nutcracker ballet, is a tradition that locals look forward to every year. Originally written in 1816 by E.T.A Hoffman and adapted by Alexandre Dumas Père, the original production dates all the way back to the 1890s, although it didn’t become a Christmas classic ...
Bad Ideas have never seemed so good
Aja Schiller, Website Manager
December 18, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Showcase
Tessa Violet is a 28-year-old Indie-pop singer who has been hyping up her new song, “Bad Ideas”, for the past year and finally released the song on November 30. The release of the song was accompanied by a music video of Violet dancing in different settings, such as her couch or in a forest, weari...
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