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Best Upscale Roller Derby Nickname

Brix Hithouse

Krisana "Brix Hithouse" Barrett gets credit for both clever wordplay and worldly sophistication. When not bumping elbows, she's an executive sommelier. The word "brix" describes the amount of sugar in a wine grape before harvest, which is used to predict the alcohol level in the resulting wine. And while opponents marvel at how cultured Barrett is, well, that's where the "Hithouse" part comes in.

Best Way to Get Stoked for the Season

Snowboard on the Rocks

Snowboard-video premiere parties have become big business in Denver and Boulder, with increasingly high-class and high-capacity venues, and sold-out crowds packed with pro-athlete VIPs. Our favorite of the bunch is Snowboard on the Rocks, an annual film-and-music extravaganza at Red Rocks Amphitheater presented by So-Gnar and Snowboard Colorado magazine. The fall event, now heading into its third year, combines live hip-hop performances with world premieres of the year's most hotly anticipated snowboard flicks. In September, Snowboard on the Rocks hosted the world premiere of TB:20, the twentieth-anniversary installment of Standard Films' Totally Board series, as well as the local premieres of Marc Frank Montoya's Familia 2 and the Videograss film Shoot the Moon, punctuated with performances by Doomtree, RJD2 and Michal Menert. That's a pretty sweet soundtrack for a September snow dance with 9,450 of your fellow shredders.

Best Way to Plan a "Sick" Day

OpenSnow.com

Powder chasers had their work cut out for them during the 2011-2012 season, with snowfall averages down across the state and winter storms few and far between. To be in the right place at the right time, you had to be either very lucky or, better yet, following the powder predictions of Boulder-based meteorologist Joel Gratz, co-founder of OpenSnow.com. The website launched in earnest in November last year, offering the official daily and five-day snow-report tallies from ski areas in Colorado and across the country, as well as weather forecasts based on live data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That's information you can find elsewhere, but Gratz — an avid skier — puts it all together in his Colorado Daily Snow dispatches, with pow projections so accurate that local skiers and snowboarders now take them as prophetic.

Best Weekly Non-Cruiser Bike Ride

Loops

Rain, sleet, snow or shine, the man behind Xrocksthespot.com and cycle enthusiast Broox Pulford maps out and leads Loops, a ride through central Denver each and every Tuesday night. Creeping up on its 200th edition, the free ride meets at Crema Coffee House around 7 p.m. and clocks in at around fifteen to twenty each trip. Pulford fully advocates that participants go at their own pace, ride safely and stop often. All ages, bikes and skill levels are welcome, but be warned: This ain't no cruiser ride. Loops doesn't require crazy costumes, and breaks are encouraged so riders can recoup and get to know each other.

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