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04/27/09Music On Our Minds
Let's face it. The weather this weekend just stunk. It rained, it snowed, it blew. The National Weather Service used that lovely term that I hate to see on the forecast: "frozen mix." Yuck. Just when you're getting excited to get your hands in the garden or break out the golf clubs or the fly rod, you're back on the couch in fleece, stoking up the fire, pouring some red wine and looking for something mindless on television. This is almost what happened to me last night. I was seconds away from succumbing to the 'give it up and hide' attitude with this nasty weather, but somehow, at about 8 p.m., looking out at my greening courtyard (the one benefit to all of this rain), a little ray of setting sunshine poked through the clouds, washing the sky with sultry, teasing... Posted at 04:56 PM | Permalink | Comments: 1 |
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04/07/09Bistro on a Blustery Day
Before we truly sink our teeth into editing each issue of Park City Magazine, my copy editor Carolyn and I have made a habit of having lunch to discuss our pile of articles, and the stories behind them, and to indulge our grammar geek selves by laughing at the funny typos we have already discovered and discussing the merits and pitfalls of things like em dashes and modifiers (Carolyn was an English teacher for 25 years). Then we plot how we're going to edit and proofread (over and over again) 60-or-so stories within a six-week period. To kick off our 2009 summer issue, we lunched recently on a grey, snowy and blustery Friday afternoon (it's always so hard to get your head into "summer" in March). Luckily, the door at Main Street's Bistro 412 was swung open invitingly... Posted at 04:03 PM | Permalink | Comments: 1 |
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03/02/09über Editor Day at Sundance
My friend J is the editor of another Utah publication. He and I had decided that since we were not People magazine and we were not Entertainment Weekly, and since we didn't know any of the press people here from L.A. or New York (and they sure as heck didn't know us), that if we humble local journalists joined together, we might be a force of nature and take Sundance by storm for an über editor outing … a "we two form a multitude" sort of thing. So off we went on a Wednesday afternoon, fortified by our über editorness. The first thing we did, unfortunately, was take in a STINKER of a film. The film shall remain nameless, because I respect anyone who puts time and effort and blood and sweat into a creative project, so I'm not going to publicly 'dis'... Posted at 08:57 PM | Permalink | Comments: 4 |
01/31/09FLYING HIGH AT DEER VALLEY AND PARK CITY MOUNTAIN RESORT
Wow! The aerials action under the lights at Deer Valley Resort last night was unbelievably exciting. It was a perfect night for aerials competition - clear, cool and no wind. The crescent moon hung sideways right over the kickers, so as the athletes came off them, twisting, spinning and twirling, they looked like they were going to touch the moon. An enthusiastic crowd of about 4,000 showed up to take it all in. Every one of the athletes interviewed thanked the crowd for their support - it truly means a lot to them, so keep it up, Park City! Our own Park City local (and Park City Magazine blogger) Emily Cook took third place - her second podium placement of the year so far on the World Cup circuit. Congratulations, Emily! On the men's side, Parkite Jeret "Speedy"... Posted at 12:24 PM | Permalink | Comments: 0 |
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01/29/09FREESTYLIN' AT DEER VALLEY
It's here! Another freestyle world cup at our own Deer Valley Resort. How do you know? Because when you pull up to Deer Valley at dawn to work the race (I am the press room manager for the event) the sun is rising up over the Champion mogul run (the same one used during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games), the mind-blowing kickers for the aerial jumpers loom overhead, the international flags are waving, and athletes in matching uniform jackets are runn Posted at 04:12 PM | Permalink | Comments: 0 |
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01/23/09Sundancin' II
Why are we so attracted to film? For me to leave a perfectly beautiful sunny Park City blue sky day to go sit in a dark theater - that takes a real distraction. Maybe it's the voyeuristic aspect of film that's so appealing … we can enter people's private lives, in their houses, their bedrooms, their cars, even their thoughts … and stare all we want. No one's going to ask us to stop. It's so delicious. Or maybe it's because on the big screen, with professional lighting and things filmed at just the right time of day, or in just the right corner of a room, humanity looks so absolutely beautiful … so beautiful that we can't turn our eyes away. Even the big cinema sound - the crinkling of a newspaper in someone's hand - the clipping of a woman's heels down a... Posted at 03:43 PM | Permalink | Comments: 0 |
01/21/09Inauguration Park City Style
What a way to start the day. And a new era. I spent yesterday morning watching the inauguration with about 200 fellow Parkites (and visiting Sundance people) outside on lower Main Street. The jumbotron that was supposed to host the viewing refused to work (and having formerly been a special events coordinator, I shudder to think of the poor soul who must have been sweating bullets with stress over THAT one), so instead, some quick-thinking geniuses set up several large flat screen televisions which served the purpose just fine. The crowd was enthralled, smiling, respectful. The crowd was happy. The crowd was silent and reverent when President Obama gave his speech, and burst out laughing when the camera swept over the scrunched up face of George W. Many Moms and Dads had let... Posted at 01:44 PM | Permalink | Comments: 0 |
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01/21/09Sundancin'
I have to admit, when you live in Park City, and you know the Sundance Film Festival is about to embark on town, there is a tad of trepidation - mostly about traffic and parking and getting around. And your cell phone reading "circuits busy" because there are so many more talkers in town. And about seeing all of those people in black with silly shoes on slipping around our snowy sidewalks. (Because it ALWAYS seems to snow during Sundance). But. The minute I picked up my press credential and film catalog, I got excited and totally into the swing of a wonderful week of CREATIVITY abounding. The catalog itself is a treat. It's like when you used to get a course syllabus at school at the very start of the semester - it listed the great books you were going to get to read... Posted at 01:42 PM | Permalink | Comments: 0 |
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01/07/09Just Another Example of Why We Love Park City
A few weeks ago, Park City's beloved Recycle Utah announced that it could no longer accept glass because with the economy in dire straits, the market for selling glass has, well, shattered. It was the strangest feeling ever to even think of throwing our wine bottles or pickle and mayonnaise jars in the TRASH, after having recycled them in Park City for many years. I wasn't the only one who felt that way. Scads of Park City residents shuddered at the thought of throwing glass away and asked what could be done. Recycle Utah suggested that if every time you drop a load of recyclables at the center, you throw a dollar in the donation box. It worked. The dollars are adding up. And then the City gave Recycle Utah a grant to continue the glass recycling. Even with all of this awesome... Posted at 08:04 PM | Permalink | Comments: 2 |
11/14/08Life in Pictures
It's a great time of year to see a movie. Autumn clouds have moved in over our mountains, the trails are too muddy for mountain biking, the ski resorts aren't open yet and darkness sets early. What better to do than sink into a cozy theater seat and get lost in your imagination? My love for the movies started early. When I was a girl, my grandfather was president of Radio City Music Hall in New York City. I was spoiled. The first big screen movie I ever saw was there. Riding in a yellow cab through grey Manhattan on Saturday afternoons - subway steam oozing up through sidewalk vents, pigeons flapping their wings on stone window ledges - made me feel like I was the star of some gritty black and white film. And then to slip from the grey steaminess into the warmth of Radio... Posted at 06:45 PM | Permalink | Comments: 2 |
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ing about town, throwing snowballs at each other (I marvel at this - to see them playing in the snow - when they're competing on it all day and yet they...
Kristen Gould Case is editor of Park City Magazine and a freelance writer who publishes nationally. Weaned on the blue ice slopes of New England, she moved to Park City 21 years ago and hasn't looked back.
