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Andrew Travers is a Colorado-based journalist and former editor of the Aspen Times. Since 2007, his award-winning work has chronicled mountain town life and the extremes of Aspen.

His writing has been published in The Atlantic, the Hollywood Reporter, U.S. News and World Report, the Colorado Sun, Denver Post and many newspapers. He has covered the arts, mountain subcultures, social justice, housing, politics and most every aspect of ski country. His journalism has earned awards from the Associa…

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End Times in Aspen

End Times in Aspen

How a Soviet-born developer and a West Virginia billionaire destroyed a 141-year-old Colorado newspaper

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Saving Aspen's 'Fritz-Carlton'

Saving Aspen's 'Fritz-Carlton'

Designed by Fritz Benedict and home to Aspen's unofficial poet laureate for five decades, this cabin found a …

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After Paepcke, the Deluge

After Paepcke, the Deluge

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Aspen Music Fest Turns 75: Sharon Isbin & Robert McDuffie

Aspen Music Fest Turns 75: Sharon Isbin & Robert McDuffie

As the Aspen Music Festival and School celebrates its 75th anniversary, two classical music luminaries look b…

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What Was the Aspen Center of Contemporary Art?

What Was the Aspen Center of Contemporary Art?

Residencies and exhibitions brought a who's-who of superstar artists to Aspen for a brief stretch of the late…

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Alex Karp Goes Remote

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By Andrew Travers Verified
| Aspen Local
Palantir CEO Alex Karp paid $120 million for a 3,700-acre former monastery near Aspen. His biographer explains how the remote estate fits his skiing-focused, low-key life. Why would the controversial Palantir CEO spend $120 million on St. Benedict’s Monastery? We asked his biographer. For most ofthe past seven decades, the man whose name was synonymous with St. Benedict’s Monastery in Old Snowmass was Father Thomas Keating.
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Keith Mayerson’s Aspen

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By Andrew Travers Verified
| Aspen Local
Painter Keith Mayerson returns to Colorado with 26 Aspen-inspired works, reimagining the town’s past and his childhood memories in a new American Dream chapter at the Aspen Art Museum. New paintings aimed to define Aspen as a place, an idea and the artist’s ‘Dream.’ The renowned painterand illustrator Keith Mayerson came home to Colorado in 2025 to create a new body of work about Aspen.
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The Paul JAS Center Is Open

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By Andrew Travers Verified
| Aspen Local
The new Paul JAS Center marks a historic moment for Jazz Aspen and its founder. The Great Recession hurt every arts organization, but for Jazz Aspen Snowmass and its eternally optimistic founder, Jim Horowitz, the downturn was an existential threat. It decimated the beloved presenter of Labor Day and June festivals and hub of jazz education for valley kids, leading to layoffs of longtime staff, Horowitz foregoing his salary and the loss of revenue including the title sponsor for Labor Day.
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