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Closing time: An end-of-season ski and snowboard splash-down countdown

The 2012-2013 ski and snowboard season begins winding down this weekend -- with the first round of closing-day parties at Ski Granby Ranch, Powderhorn and Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort -- despite the fact that snow conditions are actually quite good, with more snow in the forecast. Here's a r ... More >>

Photos: Top celebrity weddings in Colorado -- and how many couples are still together

Sometimes it seems like marriages involving stars last about as long as the average fruit fly. But we've got what looks like a way to help pairings of the famous beat the odds: They should get married in Colorado. Our evidence? HistoryOrb.com lists nine celebrity weddings to have taken place in Col ... More >>

Josh Barhaug, exec chef of Fired Up, on Bisquick, eating dog and lazy-ass cooks

Josh Barhaug Fired Up 1135 Bannock Street 303-825-1995 www.gtfiredup.com This is part one of my chef interview with Josh Barhaug, who mans the line -- and pizza oven -- at Fired Up. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow. The first recipe that Josh Barhaug ever attempted came out of a Bisquick b ... More >>

USA Pro Challenge brings the action to Golden, Boulder, Denver this weekend

The USA Pro Challenge makes its way to Colorado Springs today and will be close to home for the rest of the weekend: Stage 6 is tomorrow with a route from Golden to Boulder (current overall tour leader Tejay van Garderen is a Boulder transplant) and the race concludes, spectacularly, on Sunday with ... More >>

Aaron Benett, exec chef of Bácaro Venetian Taverna: Don't come in five minutes before we close -- and don't order well-done steak!

Aaron Bennett Bácaro Venetian Taverna 921 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-444-4888 www.bacaro.com This is part one of my interview with Aaron Bennett, exec chef of Boulder's Bácaro Venetian Taverna. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Aaron Bennett's career in the kitchen began when he was thirt ... More >>

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Ali Hasan adds sex addict to his resume

There were definitely signs. When Westword was working on "Mr. Right?," our cover story on Ali Hassan, the son of a political powerhouse couple who was recruited by the Republican Party to run for the House District 56 seat in 2008, the 27-year-old candidate took a break from the interview for a qui ... More >>

Matthew Bowers's death is 18th of Colorado ski season, most deadly on record

Matthew Bowers, a 36-year-old from Greenville, Texas, reportedly died on Wednesday after a skiing accident at Crested Butte Mountain Resort. By our count -- one an industry spokeswoman disputes -- he's the eighteenth person to perish on Colorado ski slopes this season, one more than the previous hig ... More >>

Best Snowball After Party Bets: Dada Life, MartyParty, Wolf Lamb and more

If you're going to Snowball Music Festival this weekend, we're guessing you're already amped, having read our Bassnectar profile, our piece on Wear the Party and the Q&A we did with Dave Simonett of Trampled By Turtles, and no doubt you're full prepared for the elements, having absorbed our handy Sn ... More >>

The Art of Winter, SIA and the Winter X Games take over Colorado

Recent powder dumps across the state couldn't have come at a better time: This week the entire snow sports industry is in town for its annual SIA Snow Show confab at the Colorado Convention Center and related Mile High Snow Fest events all over town, all the top pros are in Aspen for the Winter X Ga ... More >>

Vail Resorts Epic Pass holders get snowed by Montana rustlers

MT, not CO.​While Colorado skiers keep watching the skies and the weather reports, hoping to see some of the white stuff, other states aren't sitting idly by on their snowboards. Montana's Big Sky, for example is trying to rustle Colorado skiers...by honoring the Epic Pass issued by Vail Resor ... More >>

USA Pro Cycling Challenge celebrates 2012 host cities today

​Today was supposed to be the big reveal of the host cities for the 2012 Pro Cycling Challenge -- but that list leaked on Friday, in the Denver Post. Still, the event organizers are going to make an event out of the announcement, with a live Internet broadcast at 5:15 p.m. MST today that will ... More >>

Sneak peek foodography from Ryan Leinonen's Trillium, opening tonight in the Ballpark neighbohood

Lori Midson​Ryan Leinonen isn't shy about his goals: "I want to have one of the top five restaurants in Denver," he says, while hunched over a plate of steelhead trout, one of the Scandinavian-inspired dishes on his menu at Trilllium, which opens tonight in the Ballpark neighborhood. "There's ... More >>

Thanksgiving meals, beer dinners and more on this week's culinary calendar

Have somewhere to spend Thanksgiving? Don't worry: Check out our Thursday page for a list of every feast we know about in the metro area. And that's not all; there are also cooking classes, beer dinners and more on this week's culinary calendar. See what's on the menu:

Colorado ski areas dominate Ski Magazine's 2011-2012 resort rankings

Photo by Jeff Cricco, via SkiNet.comVail makes #2 in Ski Magazine's annual Western U.S. Resort Rankings.​Eleven of the twenty resorts profiled in Ski Magazine's reader's choice list of the top twenty ski resorts in the Western Unied States this year are from Colorado, including six of the top ... More >>

A-Basin opens tomorrow, October 13, for the 2011/2012 ski season

Photo by Dave Camara, courtesy Arapahoe BasinA-Basin opens for business tomorrow.​This morning, Arapahoe Basin announced it will open tomorrow, October 13, at 9 a.m., for the season. The ski area is reporting an eighteen-inch base after a week of snowmaking and several inches of natural snow. ... More >>

Andy Daly and 'Gart Brothers' Ken and Tom take over at Powderhorn Resort

​Yesterday marked the official ownership transition at Grand Mesa's Powderhorn Resort: Andy Daly and brothers Ken and Tom Gart bought the ski area at auction on August 4 for just $577,500, plus an additional 700-acre development tract below the resort for $825,000, spending a total of $1.4 mil ... More >>

Sherri Tippie leads a beaver-trapping mission (VIDEO)

​This week's cover story, "Leave It to Beaver," explores the work of Sherri Tippie, who's spent more than 25 years rescuing beaver from trash-choked urban streams and drainage areas and relocating them to high-country habitat, or installing flow devices in dams so that beaver can thrive in the ... More >>

Vail Resorts sways Shaun White with an Epic Pass in undisclosed (probably epic) deal

Photo courtesy Vail Resorts​Shaun White picked up his Epic Pass yesterday after signing on to make Northstar-at-Tahoe his home resort and agreeing to represent all six of the Vail Resorts properties (including Vail, Beaver Creek, and Breckenridge here in Colorado) in what Vail Resorts CEO Rob ... More >>

Koch brothers: Tea Party funders' meeting near Vail draws progressive protesters (PHOTOS)

Big pics below.​While William Koch was paying $2 million for a photo of Billy the Kid, his brothers, conservative lightning rods Charles and David, were meeting at the Ritz-Carlton resort at Bachelor Gulch near Vail -- a get-together that spurred a protest stirred up in part by ProgressNow Col ... More >>

This Weekend in Stoke: Top 5 Father's Day festivities

Arapahoe Basin photo archivesSame as it ever was: Summer season on the Beach at Arapahoe Basin​Snow's out for the summer! Today is opening day at the Breckenridge Peak 8 Fun Park, where a $65 all-day pass ($32 for kids) buys unlimited access to the Gold Runner Coaster, SuperSlide, SuperPutt, M ... More >>

Today in Stoke: Micah Cook on Never Summer's Shred 'em All

​Today Denver-based snowboard company Never Summer Industries released the first trailer for Shred 'Em All, the second feature-length film showcasing its team riders. The world premiere will be in Denver in the Fall, but we figured the trailer was news hook enough to catch up with director Mic ... More >>

Japoix and its kitchen are moving food forward

See photos of the menu options at Japoix

This Weekend In Stoke: Top five mountain New Year's celebrations

Photo by Casey Day, courtesy of Arapahoe BasinRing in the New Year at 11,500 feet at A-Basin's Black Mountain Lodge​This week we brought you nearly 100 great reasons to stay in town for New Year's Eve. Here are five equally good excuses to get out of Dodge:

Today In Stoke: Pura Vida and Outdoor Divas ski and snowboard demo day at Loveland

​If you're looking around at a lot of empty cubicles in your office this morning, chances are your female co-workers are taking a "sick" day at Loveland: The ski area is hosting a complimentary On Snow Refresher Workshop today with Warren Miller Entertainment heartthrob Chris Anthony at 9 a.m. ... More >>

Today In Stoke: Ski Boot Camp at Outdoor Divas, Boulder

​Today's a powder day at Loveland (6" in the last 24 hours), A-Basin (4"), Wolf Creek (6"), Copper (7"), and Keystone (5") -- the first five out of the gates this season. Breckenridge opens on Friday, followed by Winter Park (November 17) and Vail (November 19). If you haven't whipped yourself ... More >>

The Snow Flies at Wintervention

Table 6 exec chef Scott Parker on hunger, eating a deep-fried rosebud and inbred amateur restaurant critics who frequent a site that rhymes with "kelp"

Lori Midson ​ Scott Parker Table 6 601 Corona Street 303-831-8800 www.table6denver.com This is part one of Lori Midson's Q&A with Scott Parker. To read the second half of that interview, check back here tomorrow. I'm hungry," says Scott Parker. Not just now, not just today, but ever since h ... More >>

Ritz-Carlton, Denver celebrates a sparkly AAA five-diamond win

​ The Ritz-Carlton, Denver, at 1881 Curtis Street, hosted a gathering in the lounge of Elway's Downtown last night to celebrate the hotel's AAA five-diamond rating -- the first Denver hotel to achieve that status in the 37 years of the awards. The timing was also sparkling: The Ritz got the n ... More >>

Social media app EpicMix tracks fun at Vail Resorts & more: How sick are your "sick days"?

​Unless you want your boss to know exactly how sick your "sick" days are, you might want to be careful about who's in your social network when you're at Vail Resorts this season.

Meatless Monday picks up Wolfgang Puck

​When Chris Elam, program director at Meatless Monday, told us his side of the veggie-movement story, he hinted that a national chef would soon be signing on to the cause. We mused that Emeril Lagasse, Tom Colicchio, and Wolfgang Puck were very much in play.

Culinary calendar for the week ahead: Gear up for the glorious Fourth

A Flickr photo.​Before you unbuckle that top button after over-indulging with all that glorious Fourth of July 'cue that you've no doubt got going on (and if not, we've got some suggestions for you), get ready to celebrate food through cooking classes and benefit dinners in advance of our nati ... More >>

Culinary calendar for the week ahead: Tequila dinners and tea festivals

​There are many eating and drinking opportunities this week, including a beer-and-cheese pairing, a tequila dinner and the annual World Tea Festival. Here's a taste of what's ahead: Monday, January 25: Learn how to add the flavor of North Africa to your menu at Cook Street School of Fine Coo ... More >>

Anarchists like Ariel Attack may not like laws, but they love the rules of fashion

The Edge: A handy calendar of winter events

"Insert Your Name Here" Strip and Go Naked at Spago

Democratic National Convention Advice: Run Away!

Newt Gingrich parties with Muhammad Ali Hasan

On Broadway

June restaurants are busting out all over.

With Strings Attached

Violin virtuoso Joshua Bell heats up Colorado’s winter.

Boys Gone Wild

Breckenridge has a bad-boy image, but is there truth in advertising?

Just Do It

Choose your own adventure this New Year's Day.

Preaching the Summit

Colorado ski resorts look to folkie Jim Salestrom for a musical lift.

Strange but True

A Gift for You

Off Limits

Night & Day

September 3 - 9, 1998

Whistle Stopped

A proposed railroad merger threatens jobs throughout Colorado -- and, up in Minturn, a way of life.

THRILLS

MT. PAPERWORK

ADAM'S RIB SKI-AREA DEVELOPER BLANKETS POLITICIANS WITH A BUREAUCRATIC BLIZZARD.