The Art Base in Basalt offers a variety of exhibitions and classes for children and adults. One of the organization’s newer courses is “The Art of Healing and Hope." It’s an art therapy class for cancer patients and people experiencing trauma and grief.

This week, Aspen Mayor Steve Skadron will meet with Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change.

The Banff Mountain Film Festival is stopping in Aspen this week as it makes its way around the world.

On Wednesday evening, Carbondale residents can say their piece about the prospect of a new town pool. The current pool is 40 years old...and acts like it.

Mike Birbiglia loves telling jokes, as he says in his new Netflix special “Thank God For Jokes.” He was in town this weekend for the Aspen Laugh Festival. But he’s also a longtime storyteller for “The Moth” and “This American Life.” He talks about working with public radio figure Ira Glass.

Colorado has never hosted an Olympics or Paralympics. Eagle County Commissioners meet Tuesday with a representative from the Olympic Exploratory Committee, who is taking the temperature of communities in the state, especially those in the mountains along I-70.

Aspen native cross country skier Simi Hamilton recently took sixth in the Olympic team sprint. Just minutes before his race, the US women made history, winning the gold medal in that event.

This week, host Alycin Bektesh is joined by Madeleine Osberger, contributing editor for the Aspen Daily News, David Krauss, editor of the Aspen Times, and Cindy Hirschfeld , editor-in-chief of Aspen Sojourner magazine.

John DeDakis is a former Senior Copy Editor on CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer ,” and recently penned the novel Bullet In The Chamber. He’s speaking tonight at Explore Booksellers about how the book deals with the loss of his son. It was around when DeDakis became an editor at CNN that he started experimenting with other forms of writing, like biography, before moving to fiction. “That’s not easy when it’s ground into you that making stuff up is a firing offense," he said. DeDakis’

Carbondale’s Board of Trustees are discussing an array of options to keep bears out of trash cans.