Ironbridge housing south of Glenwood Springs not so affordable
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You promptly decided that the 20 three-bedroom, two-bath homes between Carbondale and Glenwood Springs were beautiful. You loved the garage. You knew the kids would love growing up with a pool and basketball courts nearby. You wondered if you might even be able to afford a membership to the golf course one day.
And let’s say [...]
Prepare for a Gruesome Retirement
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It’s time for some tough love. After all, I want you to have a comfortable retirement doing all the things you’ve desired.
Maybe you plan to dine in fine restaurants, travel to the Galapagos Islands to see blue-footed boobies, take your grandchildren to Hershey, Pa., Love Song to eat chocolate to their hearts’ content — and [...]
‘wall-E’ Turns Animation On Its Head
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Forget Isaac Asimov’s famous Laws of Robotics. WALL·E’s biggest accomplishment may be defying the Laws of Computer Animation.
In a medium that has become formulaic — mix furry critters with celebrity voices, add a dash of pop-culture snark — the Disney/Pixar film has been praised for taking new risks.
Much has been made already of the film’s [...]
Love Is All At The Bowery Ballroom
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Easy to see now how Love is All’s “Make Out Fall Out Make Up” is heroin to indie rock kids, all reigned-in abandon and bespoke signifiers (the “records” in the song’s first couplet: “Records and clothes on the floor/Remind me of the night before”; cigarettes, red wine, smudged lipstick).
As it happens, lots of tropes [...]
20Th Birthday For The Proclaimers Hit I’m Gonna Be
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IT took less than an hour to write but has become one of the most famous songs ever to have come out of Scotland.
With its catchy chorus and simple lyrics, I’m Gonna Be (500 miles) is a singalong pop classic.
Now the song - penned by one half of The Proclaimers, Craig Reid, is celebrating its [...]
Love Song At Circa
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Funny, enchanting and wonderfully touching, John Kolvenbach’s offbeat comedy Love Song is a rhapsody to the power of love in all its forms.The NZ premiere of this very funny and sexy comedy opens in CIRCA TWO on Saturday 14th June at 7.30pm, and runs until 19th July.
Beane is eccentric - an outsider from life – [...]
Tilly And The Wall Children Of The Rock
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Remembering to be a kid is a huge part of rock. The Who made an anthem out of it. Kurt Cobain had a ‘k’ tattooed on his arm. Kids know what’s up, largely because they don’t know what ‘up’ is yet. Tilly and the Wall’s guitarist Derek Presnall elaborates, “People tend to focus on the [...]
Spiritualized Everything In Its Right Space
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Jason Pierce has this clever go-to riff when faced with the suggestion that his lyrics are overwhelmingly autobiographical. It’s certainly not a stretch to come to such assumptions over a canon so mired in self-destruction and dripping with narcotica.
“I say in every interview that when you listen to Ray Charles singing, ‘I Can’t Stop Loving [...]
Hercules And Love Affair Re Digging The New York Groove
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A band of beautiful oddballs are on a mission to revitalise disco. Bernadette McNulty meets Hercules and Love Affair on their first UK visit.
As you leave the station a permanent party atmosphere wafts up from the sea front. Bars compete for your attention, but, at the bottom of the main drag, one sign catches your [...]
‘free Food For Millionaires Hit Bookstands
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It’s like skipping a stone on water ― a small stone seems to merely tag the surface of the water but it creates ripples. That was how reading “Free Food for Millionaires” by Lee Min-jin felt.
The novel, which is about a Korean immigrant’s life in the United States, brings to mind another Korean-American writer Chang-rae [...]
