The Last Stand
Autumn Phillips: Ghosts of South Routt haunt old buildings
Saturday, Oct. 27, 2007
Editor’s note: This ghostly piece of prose by former Steamboat Pilot & Today staffer Autumn Phillips originally published in October 2002. Tom Ross’ column will return to its regular schedule Tuesday.
Autumn Phillips: All downhill from here
Friday, July 6, 2007
Instead of celebrating the Summer Solstice, I found myself panicking. I saw summer slipping away, even though on the calendar, it was only the first day.
Autumn Phillips: This is it. (Or not.)
Friday, June 29, 2007
There it was. My favorite weather of all. The sky was blue, the sun was shining, and it was snowing.
Plan on a planner
Sunday, Feb. 12, 2006
In the months before your wedding, the planner you hire will witness everything from family fights to last-minute jitters, making the choice of wedding planners one of the most important decisions you will make while putting together your special day.
Society's anxiety
Amanda Adare explores drama, loneliness of human experience
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006
When you look an Amanda Adare painting in the eyes, it's hard to look away.
On Scene for Feb. 3
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006
Gypsy punks perform I first read about the band Gogol Bordello in a New York Times feature article about how cool it is to be Russian in Manhattan these days. There was one line about a Ukrainian gypsy punk band, and it stuck with me forever. Ukrainian gypsy punk ... it sounded so, well, me.
Something different
Railroad Earth defies classification
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006
Something about the way Railroad Earth wanders from one musical genre to another makes the band an easy target for comparison. Because the members cannot be quickly slipped into one category, it's easier to point out who they sound like, which changes with every song.
Meet: Great American Taxi
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006
Great American Taxi is such a new band, it hasn't released a CD, and you probably haven't heard of it.
The art of being alone
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006
Joel Johnson paints more than landscapes. He paints moments.
Snapshots of the cowboy
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006
Sculptor Rick Jackson spent most of his life working on ranches in Texas, and the American cowboy, as form and symbol, fills his art.
Reality TV not reality
Saturday, Jan. 28, 2006
As the Teen Style staff tried to imagine their perfect day for this month's issue, we thought about the people who go on television to achieve a fantasy reality of their own -- true love, instant fame, untold wealth.
Remnants of days gone by
Preserving heirlooms requires common sense
Friday, Jan. 27, 2006
It's not uncommon to inherit photos, quilts and documents from family members. It's also not uncommon to find unlabeled photos and water-damaged textiles in the collection.
Autumn's Picks for Jan. 27
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006
Tonight Grand Opening Gala featuring a showcase of local talent When: Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Show starts at 7. Where: Steamboat Mountain Theater in Ski Time Square Cost: $20 Call: 846-0578 (Call for tickets. Scott Parker said he would be surprised if there were any available at the door.)
Autumn Phillips: This is it
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006
Music with a living room vibe
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006
Jay Mogil was smoking a cigarette when he heard Shannon Hance's voice for the first time. He put out his smoke and went inside.
Crossing the bridge into his own
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006
When Drew Emmitt first stepped onto the stage as a solo artist, he wanted his sound to be different from the funky, jam-rock sound of Leftover Salmon, his longtime band.
New sound, history
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006
No other band is more intertwined with the history of reggae than The Wailers. Bob Marley led the band until his death in 1981, and anyone with even a passing interest in Jamaica or its music has heard the band.
CD Reviews for Jan. 27
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006
Susan Tedeschi "Hope and Desire" On sale at All That Jazz for $15.98
The last dance
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006
There are pictures of Alex Stegmaier, Molly Willard, Katie Matteo and Hannah Bowers as 4-year-olds standing among 20 other tiny dancers. Fourteen years later, all those other girls are gone, and only four dancers are left -- seniors at Steamboat Springs High School -- fighting back tears as they dance their last dance with the Oak Street Performing Arts Co.
Place and perception
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006
Anyone who has spent time in the center of a charred forest knows why Susan Mackin Dolan dedicated an entire body of work to the surreal beauty of that landscape.
Feeding the senses two at a time
Artist and musician come together
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006
The brain loves to have multiple senses fed at once.
The way it was; the way it is
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006
Tonight's one-person photography show by Jane Sindell will demonstrate the difference between the perceptions of youth and the view that comes with age and distance.
GRAMNET short on funds
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006
The Steamboat Springs City Council has approved a Steamboat Springs Police Department request to use money set aside for personnel to fund a regional drug enforcement task force.
Scientists share findings about brain
Sunday, Jan. 22, 2006
If was once thought the human brain does not continue to grow or change after a person enters adulthood, but research has shown the adult brain is not fixed. It can change, and it can be changed through things such as exercise.
BIG SOUNDS coming from a tiny studio
Musician, producer makes dreams come true in his backyard
Saturday, Jan. 21, 2006
Ten years ago, what Kurt Wipperfurth is doing today would have been impossible. A decade ago the era of analog recording filled entire rooms with racks of processors, mixers and multitrack recorders, but the digital age has changed all that.
Horses as object and icon
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006
A horse is a horse, until it's more than that. As Studio Gallery 27 unveils a weeklong show of horse paintings and sculptures, it becomes immediately obvious that horses represent different things to each of the nine featured artists.
Dream finally becomes reality
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006
There are dreams, and there is reality, and there is that place in between where dreams become reality.
CD reviews for Jan. 20
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club "B.R.M.C" Available at All That Jazz for $16.98
Music Jam with a cause
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006
This will be Gib Manzanares' third year playing music as part of a Jimmie Heuga Snow Express fundraiser, but this year when he picks up his guitar, it will have a different meaning. Since last year's Jimmy Heuga Snow Express for Multiple Sclerosis Benefit Music Jam, Manzanares' brother was diagnosed with MS.
Reggae the way it was meant to be
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006
Anthony B. does not water down his music. Where reggae began as a cultural and political tool, so it continues under the artistry of Anthony B.
Playing a portrait of Brazil
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006
The classical guitar has a quiet but articulate way of exploring music and, in this case, the world. On Tuesday night, audience members will be ushered into the guitar way of thinking through something familiar -- Bach overture.
Autumn Phillips: Where were you?
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006
You idiots. That was all I could think as I looked around the room at Levelz on Tuesday night. On stage were The Wood Brothers -- Chris Wood of Medeski, Martin and Wood, and his lesser-known but no-less-talented brother, Oliver Wood.
Autumn's Picks for Jan. 20
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006
Today ➤ Brown Bag Lunch Lecture: "Memories to Memoirs" by Susan de Wardt When: Noon Where: Tread of Pioneers Museum, 800 Oak St. Cost: Free
Museum looking for family memoirs
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006
Tread of Pioneers Museum officials are looking for longtime Routt County families willing to donate their memoirs and writings.
No excuses
Groups give writers a venue to unleash their creativity
Saturday, Jan. 14, 2006
On Thursday, the table was scattered with the detritus of creativity -- crumpled paper, pens and pencils, folders full of research notes and chocolate.
A year later, still healing
Saturday, Jan. 14, 2006
On Wednesday, about 100 hospital employees, rescue workers and people involved with the former Yampa Valley Air Ambulance gathered at the Doak Walker Care Center to remember three lives lost one year before.
North and South meet in Colorado
Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006
For all those who know Chris Wood, bass player for Medeski, Martin and Wood, it's time to meet his brother.
Church hosts concert for teens
Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006
An online review of one of Spoken's concerts described an unassuming guy walking through the crowd with a Bible.
Making the end of the world a more positive experience
Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006
Medeski, Martin and Wood's latest album "End of the World Party (Just in Case)" proves that, if anything, is going on in music, the band is one step ahead of it.
On Scene for Jan. 13
Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006
Look around your town When people visit and you search around town desperately for something to entertain them, you realize there are things that locals take for granted.
Making a scene in the corner
Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006
Cully Kistler gives a whole new meaning to the term "plein-air." She paints on location and completes the piece in a matter of hours. When she finally lifts the brush, she does not go back to make corrections or additions.
It goes away if you don't write it down
Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006
Rick Bragg's story about his family, "All Over But the Shoutin,'" begins by simply saying, "This is not an important book."
CD Reviews for Jan. 13
Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006
Mike Gordon and Leo Kottke "Sixty Six Steps" Available at All That Jazz for $16.98
Bands pass music on to the next generation
Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006
Brady Rymer looked out on his audience of pint-sized rock fans and heard a 4-year-old yell "Last Night in Utero." It wasn't much different from the screamed requests he used to get in nightclubs when he played with the band From Good Homes.
Inside the world of men
Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006
More than three decades ago, Bob Baker read Galway Kinnell's poem "The Bear." The poem is difficult to read because of its graphic description of man versus nature.
Arrested kicks off Ski Jam
Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006
Since Arrested Development disbanded in the '90s, hip-hop has changed. It has more mainstream exposure than it did during the group's first go around.
Rock 'n' roll fantasy
Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006
There's a spirit that came on stage with the hair bands of the 1980s, left with them and has never returned. That is why we must revisit it again and again through heavy metal tribute bands.
CD Reviews for Jan. 6
Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006
I had to have someone tell me what I was listening to. I never would have guessed that "Tiny Cities" was an entire album of Modest Mouse covers because it sounds nothing like the original. In this record, the Mouse's music is heard as if the Earth were rotating backward, as if time slowed and everything was filtered through the eyes of an acoustic guitar.
Bridging the divide
Leaders hope discussion will defuse differences
Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006
For more than a year, the religious leaders of Steamboat Springs have been meeting to discuss and understand one another's belief systems. On Thursday, for the first time, they will open the discussion to the community. This initial dialogue, they hope, will become the basis for quarterly panels dedicated to facets of spiritual experience.
On Scene for Jan. 6
Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006
For the first time in a long time, I was counting the songs to make sure I got my money's worth before I left the show. If a band is boring, I usually follow the $1 per song equation. I force myself to listen until the scales are balanced, then I drag my disappointed ears home.
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