The next best thing to being on the Red Carpet…join Aspen Film this Sunday, March 7 for the “Lights, Camera, Oscars” party at the Viceroy’s Eight K lounge.  It’s the 82nd Annual Academy Awards telecast, with champagne, wine,  beer and Eight K Best Bites Buffet to enhance your viewing experience.  There’ll be a film-themed silent auction, door prizes and much more! Info and tickets,  http://www.aspenshowtickets.com or 970 920 5770.

The Red Brick Center for the Arts invites you to another scenic opening, “Awesomblage”, featuring works with Bill Gruenberg, Kathy Honea and Donna Linnecke. Opening reception tonight, February 4, from 5-7 p.m. Then head out around town for the Aspen Sojourner 1st Thursdays Art Walk, a free tour of town’s more interesting galleries and displays. Follow the red balloons, and the wine and cheese scattered like bread crumbs along the way, to help you truly savor the evening! For more info, www.aspenart.org, and www.aspensojourner.com

Winterskol gets underway, apres style, this Friday in Snowmass Village. This year’s theme, Epic Steeps and Decades Deep, hits Aspen and Snowmass this weekend with over 30 activities including SnowSculpt, Soupskol, Ice Skating, the Canine Fashion Show and the Torchlight Descent and Fireworks Extravaganza. From 3-6 p.m. on Friday (just in time for Apres), exit the slopes and enter the land of refreshing drink and hunger-curbing appetizer specials, with the Snowmass Pub Crawl through Snowmass Village.

And in Aspen, don’t miss the EPIC Winterfest on Saturday, with tons of events all within the downtown Aspen core. Alpine Property Rentals can help you find that perfect home base in Snowmass or Aspen, never far from what’s happening, 24/7. For details on Winterskol, www.aspenchamber.org and for info on finding that home base we’re talking about, www.alpinepropertyrental.com.