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PAHK CITY Chocolate DecstJeace Mousse es've stop by pxl check otiC our Ysto tine's t>2,y treats b the 'fotary Csse cM to order treats: 6*17-0880 Fe£m\;?ry "!3. 2005 to plsas yotir on^r! me v Wed/Thurs/Fri, February 9-11, 2005 Vacancies-Snyderville Planning Commission The opportunity is now available for citizens who live within the Park City School District to assist in the planning and development of our great community. Summit County is currently accepting applications for three vacancies on the seven member Snyderville Basin Planning Commission. This is a great opportunity to be involved and to help in creating general plans and development codes that will guide the future of our community. Meetings are the second and fourth Tuesday beginning at 6:00 pm. Letters of interest may be sent to the Summit County Board of Commissioners, P.O. Box 128, Coalville, UT 84017. For further information, contact Anita Lewis at 615-3220. Deadline is 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 15, 2005. • On approach and circling L ast Tuesday the groundhog saw his shadow. In a righl before I got sick then slarlcd into the January busski resort community this is a good thing. For peo- tle (hat resulted in this, the reckoning of February. There is something preprogrammed inside me lor this ple who, in any way, suffer from seasonal disorders, Ihis is a bad tiling For most of us, it's just the middle of win- month of my birth. And each year I lake this time to examine everything in my life thai feels mil ol sync, liy ter when we don't see sunshine nearly enough. For those of us who worked in any capacity with, and managing to ignore daily obligations for weeks on end. 1 during, the Sundance Film Festival, January is a blur. manage lo have these piles liial are manifest of ihe disDays and nights only had meaning when you applied order in my life. This exercise in clearing my spiiec. my screening limes to restocking the balhrooms/conces- head, my calendar, is not new but always seems to sursions/sall bags for ice. The basketball games at the high prise me. Without thinking, without discipline or a conschool became more important in relation to the times scious pattern, I nonetheless nest in such a way I am the parking lot might be full. As we all know acutely. forced to do damage control. Forced lo eliminate 1 hat Main Street was to be avoided or entered onto only in which is outdated, spoiled, used up, outgrown. the early daylight hours. Ditto the market, liquor store Yes, I know this week will also bring Fat Tuesday For and the pharmacy. Now that we've had a week to collec- those of us who thought we would be further along in a tively catch our breath, we find ourselves here, in winter weight-loss program, Fal Tuesday will be followed February, when just yesby Fal Wednesday, and terday it was New Years Fat 'Ihursday and Fal Day. the rest ihe week. We • • For those of us who thought we can nice I Ash What that means for would be further along in a winter weight- Wednesday with ihe me is I am surrounded by commitment piles at my home. Piles of loss program, Fat Tuesday will be followed spiritual to give up something snow on the porches I meant to stay on top of by Fat Wednesday, and Fat Thursday and for 4() days and nights or we can jusl pray for this year. Piles of paperFat the rest the week." miracles ihat require work that confirm one no work on our parl, In year has ended and anothwmi^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ • • H H cr begun, in official documy experience with ments suitable for filing with tax returns. Piles of maga- such things, the universe generally looks fur some mild zines I subscribe to that arc becoming free-form artwork form of self-examination before zapping you with (iooj with their colorful covers and spines snaking around my Fortune. I pray I will pay attention lo those opportunities bedroom, another in the study, still one more in the living tor growth. room. And yes, this week, too, is the stari of Chinese NewIn the guest room there are stacks of presents yet to Year-this, the year of the Rooster. I myself am a Rabbit be delivered from Christmas. I know, I know, that was a and I don't know how that plays out in the animal kingholiday six weeks ago. But this year I fell behind during dom. Am 1 friends with the Roosier? I doubt it. All tlutt the Christmas rush and my best intentions are sitting strutting and those early morning hours, a vain, but discithere on the bed. mocking me. I plan to buy a box of plined creature 1 suspect I would have little barnyard Valentines and send off the gifts with a delayed but lov- time for. I would be out in the meadow, hopping aloni:. playing with my babies, dying eggs to deliver. No. wjit, ing flourish - maybe this week. The laundry room, which is always a scary place, is where did thai ever come from? Even in the best pagan especially frightful. Colors and whiles have combined circles, bunnies don't dye eggs. Slill, around now in the and a mound of dry cleaning in the corner is now a soft life cycle of the rabbit they are nesting and think ing, ihoul giant ball of woolen yarns. I can imagine a giant cat toss- spring. About the rebirth of grasses and trees and flowers bursting forth from frozen ground. Maybe lhats why [his ing it between paws. In the bathroom of this girl who lives alone, there are time of year is so important to my internal clocks. Mayhu bottles and boxes and lotions and potions and funny lit- the rabbit in me knows this, plans for it. waits for it. So. I will try to take some of the time I have coming tle stubs of lipstick and eye pencils. The drawers are crammed full with ribbons and barrettes and elastics. and dig deep through Ihe piles this week. Weed out the Soaps that smell good, peel a layer of skin off your face old, the ugly, Ihe well-past-t he-use -by dale Donale the and deodorize, spill out of bowls and dishes. The hair- slill usable to charily, throw away ihe rest. Clear ihe brushes have become tangled with the cords to appli- room. Hear the panlry. Clear the head. 'Ihen in an eltori ances that dry and curl and straighten, given time and to recharge, on some day in the not too distant liilure. I patience, great patience. Soon. I will take a day and bring will get in my car and drive with no plan. I will lei the lime order there. Tame the treatments, the perfumes, the half- on the road be a moving meditation and 1 will set my intentions while inside my own space, where lor a few burned candles. This weekend, while looking for a potato in the dark hours I can control the climate and ihe sounds and the panlry. I .was forced to confront the pile of potatoes that access people have to me and 1 to them, llomiie Raill and sprouted long while eyes and entangled themselves I have performed this ritual together many times before-. around the shelves of the vegetable bin. I did not cook Then at some unknown point in time. Ihe piles m my much -almost none-during the month of January. The head will be, if not ordered, at least cataloged. And I will loo soft acorn squash mock my long-ago desire to make return home where things will make more sense and I can focus on the spring to come. 'Ihis all may take 40 days soup. Thai pile went lo the trash. Which forced me to go Wo the, garage, where there AND 40 nights so best I get startup, this very Sunday in ^ -< ' ' arc piles of boxes, empty i]ot yet broken clown, from gifts "the Park... received. Piles of colored paper from the Christmas Eve TeriOrr is a fanner editor cVTlie Park Record niui when my family gathered at my house to exchange gifts. director of (fie Park City Performing Arts Center. CORE SAMPLES By Jay Meehan Burrito Deluxe HUGHES SUCCEEDS BECAUSE HIS CLIENTS DO. rom his hard working attitude to his 19 years in Park City, Hughes has what it takes to make your real estate transactions simple and successful. REPRESENTING BUYERS AND SELLER5 EXCLUSIVE CLENWILD STERUNGWOOD in the area.. 1.22 acres overlooking beautiful Glenwilcl and all three ski resorts. Private, gated and exclusive! Offered at S 600.000 Upper Deer valley. All the luxury of a slope side retreat. 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AI i i r.\ I i: 901 -1611 www.hughesmartin.com hugheifhughesmartin.com 'Artual iqu.-irr foot,i^>?, .icfiMfce, Iklinfi di M i k and le:tlurr-i Id b.: confirmed by huyor. HPhey're smack dab in the middle of that West tory - the train rolled from Toronto lo Calgary - the X Coast-cosmic-cowboy groove and everyone in the music and festooning went 24/7 with occasional stops lo joint is bobbin' their head or tappin' their toe or smooth- put on a concert. Hard tellin' not knowin' if Pele and in' about the dance floor. It's the final week of Sundance Garth met up and bonded enough for that long-ago and Garth Hudson and Sneaky Pete Kleinow are strut- choo-choo ride to have jumpslarted ihis one. but there is tin1 their latest shtick, a band called "Burrito Deluxe," an obvious and easy affinity between the two. onstage at Plan-B. There's finally a DVD out on the ncver-beforcIf memory serves. Garth hasn't been to town since released film of that wild and crazy jaunt but three view"'Hie Band" opened for Crosby. Stills, and Nash back in ings wasn't enough to answer questions of that sort. Ji did the day out at the old Park West Resort - their first corn- demonstrate, however, that Jerry Garcia had the tools back tour after Robbie Robertson left the group. Now, with him to lead the entourage in a wonderfully quantum he and Sneaky Pete, former steel guitarist with the version of "Going Down the Road Feeling Had." No "Flying Burrito Brothers," are the stars of a new pickin1 doubt the sway of the cars had a syncopated effect. posse. But, however this current "Burrilo Deluxe" came to Aside from a gaggle of out-of-town festival folk, there be, its a wonderfully sensuous and delicious slice of is a healthy contingent of local wags in attendance who genre fiction. They should release it in paperback, 'llic remember the lads from former incarnations and, most recent CD is called "'Ihe Whole Enchilada." .utd indeed, homage is being paid. Even if Mayor Dana that just about sums up the entree. Before the night wus Williams and local concert over at Plnn-B, ihey impresario Randy Barton had served up evenhadn't been front and cen• • Even if Mayor Dana Williams and thing on (he menu and ter, it was easy to get the even thrown in "Ihe vibe thai it was one of local concert impresario Randy Barton Weight" and "Hickory those historical and highWind" for dessert. hadn't been front and center, it was easy ly-cultural, not-to-beFilling out llie onto get the vibe that it was one of those his- stage quinlcl were missed. local happenings. The aura of Gram torical and highly-cultural, not-to-be- Carlelon Moody on guitar and lead vocals, Parsons, and that cool missed, local happenings." the groat "Slick" Davis country sound he fused from the Amazing with L. A. rock way-back- • • ^ ^ M H M ^ B M H H H ^ ^ M ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ when, drifted over the Rhythm Aces slappin". room like smoke from a different time. There has been a bass, and Nashville session drummer Rick Lonow keeplot of Parson tributes in both concert and CD form over ing time. 'Iheir lotal sound is *vhat delights, however. the past years and, although it wasn't explicit to this show, Instrumental and vocal harmonies abound and there is no shortage of spicy on-stage wry. it couldn't help but be implied. It was a night of essence and heart and soul where the 'Ihosc in-the-know were pinchin' themselves, not quite believing they were in such honored musical pres- crowd was the equal of the act. They deserved each ence. Hudson, of course, brought that phantom-of-the- other. Dues had been paid. You could" loll by I ho way opera. keyboard virtuosity to the gig. For a member of they smiled and laughed and honied and hollered and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he is most definitely a raised their glasses in "salud" thai they "got it." All it quiet sort. Tooting his own whistle ain't what got him took was one look at club owner John Smion to tell you that passion was in the building. there. Emotionally, it was sweel and simple and cul-Io-(heHis trademark beard and hat were in place along with nearly-shut eyes and that slightly sheepish grin he chase - a new page in an old book, as it were. Amf. as brings out of storage every so often. Those aficionados the days pass and the pure rapture of the evening takes stacked in front of him - young and not-so-young fans firm root, the toe continues to tap and the head won't and musicians with no gigs of their own that night - stop bobbing to thai special beat. 'Iliis outfit can dish-out honored the spirit of that-thing-he-does. Awe lay thick cool country blues and hip honky-tonk with ihe best of them. upon the land. They give you not jusl Gram Parsons and various On the other side of the stage sat the other half of the draw. Sneaky Pete. To this day, his laid-back California sweethearts of the rodeo bul also a sound lhal barkens to steel-guitar twang is a soothing force - a sound that also the beginnings of American music. 'Ihe old-limey and evolved from Gram Parsons and the hours he spent turn- blucgrass and blues and dance-band are all on board. They carry within them, from ballad to anthem, Ihe ing-on the Byrds to Hag and Buck. The genesis of this meeting of musical minds may well social and cultural history of our land. They and Iheir have been a trans-continental railroad journey that music matter. Just ask Dana or Randy. Garth and Sneaky Pete took across Canada back during And. of course, they are about as much fun to be the summer of 1970. Also on board, besides The Band around as any band in recent memory, 'ihey are a and the Flying Burrito Brothers were the Grateful Dead, hayride and a barn dance and a footstomp and, at ihe Janis Joplin, and assorted other luminaries of the time. same lime, the quintessence of elegance and grace. Referred to as the longest party in rock and roll his- They're the whole enchilada! |