Loveland

May brings Maibocks, spring tappings and the start of beer-fest season

Salt Lake City-based Epic Brewing, which announced in January that it will build a 20,000-square-foot brewery and taphouse in Denver, updated its followers on social media this week with a couple of pictures and some potential opening dates. The Facebook pictures (like the one above) show the brewer ... More >>

Photos: Joe Timlin, Rick Gaukel among five victims in deadliest avalanche since 1962

On Saturday, the Colorado snowboarding community was still reeling from the avalanche death of Mark McCarron (announced by authorities along with a controversial marijuana reference) when another tragedy struck -- this one with an even greater loss of life. Five people died near Loveland in what is ... More >>

Hemp symposium tonight in Loveland to cover growing it, selling it and what to expect

Thanks to Amendment 64, industrial hemp is on its way to becoming a legitimate crop in Colorado. Tonight in Loveland, hemp industry bigwigs will gather to discuss how hemp is grown and processed, the market for the crop and what farmers interested in growing it can expect. (For instance, hemp does ... More >>

Loveland's Grimm Brothers teams up with Tivoli to distribute beer in Denver

The owners of Tivoli Brewing, which began making and selling historic Denver beer brands last year, have also formed a craft beer distributing company, and they will get rolling this week with Grimm Brothers Brewhouse, an up-and-coming Loveland beer maker that has wanted to start selling its beers t ... More >>

Restaurant roll call for January -- Corner House in, Carbone's out?

In January, there's often a shake-out in the dining scene. But while twenty new restaurants opened in metro Denver last month, including Corner House with chef Matt Selby at the helm, there were relatively few closings. And two longtime fixtures on the scene -- Jax Fish House in LoDo and Parisi -- m ... More >>

Photos: Strange Days at Rackhouse Pub brought out big smiles, good beer

Good karma and good beer were flowing in equal amounts Sunday when thirty breweries and hundreds of Colorado craft beer lovers gathered together at the Rackhouse Pub to show support and help raise money for Strange Brewing, which is facing a possible trademark lawsuit from a similarly named homebrew ... More >>

Sick lines and the stories behind the rhymes: Rooke5 breaks down some of his best lyrics

Rooke5 (aka Luke Whitrock) grew up in Loveland and Greeley, but he moved to El Paso, Texas, in the middle of high school. Though he has a self-described "southern twinge" to his personality and cites Kanye West as an influence (who isn't influenced by the omnipotent Yeezy), lyrically, he is far more ... More >>

Loveland's Verboten Brewing tells a craft-beer trademark story with a happy ending

Verboten Brewing, which will open its doors this weekend in Loveland, takes its name for the German word for "forbidden," and is a reference to German beer-purity laws, or Reinheitsgebot, which forbade brewers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries from using anything but water, barley and hops in ... More >>

Musketeer Gripweed

Straight Razor Revival
Self released

Take It to the Street

Everybody loves a good Walmart protest

Comedian Ron White on jokes, hecklers and stupid people

Ron White is best known for his appearances on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour with fellow comedians Jeff Foxworthy, Larry The Cable Guy and Bill Engvall. But his signature cigar, glass of scotch and conversational delivery has made him popular with a wide audience. White uses his personal life and exp ... More >>

Snowboard Colorado presents 2013 Demo Day at Loveland Ski Area

On Saturday Snowboard Colorado and Loveland Ski Area will co-host a demo-day event featuring next season's gear from at least sixteen different brands, including boards from Colorado companies Never Summer, Unity Snowboards and Oz, as well as boards from YES, Capita, Technine, Salomon, Niche, Echelo ... More >>

Smokin' Hot!

Wolf Creek posts record skier attendance numbers during 2011-2012 season

With many Colorado ski areas closing this weekend (some of them ahead of schedule) and recent headlines bemoaning this season's abysmal snowpack across the state, it's easy to lament the sad state of this year's ski and snowboard season. But let's accentuate the positive for a moment: Yesterday Wolf ... More >>

Powderhorn opens with thirteen inches of new snow

Courtesy Powderhorn Mountain ResortThe powder is stacking up.​Powderhorn Mountain Resort fired up its lifts this morning at 9 a.m. for its 45th anniversary season (and its first season under new ownership). Appropriately enough, it's a powder day: The resort is reporting thirteen inches of sno ... More >>

Snow Porn: Halloweekend shred from Silverton, A-Basin, Wolf Creek, Loveland

Wolf Creek celebrated Halloween weekend with 22 inches of new snow​Trick or treat, indeed: fourteen inches of new snow this weekend at Silverton Mountain brought the mid-mountain base tally to an incredible eighty inches (see powder porn after the jump). Wolf Creek got 22 inches before opening ... More >>

Thank heaven for Westerkamps Steakhouse

Photo tour: Westerkamps Steakhouse and Meat Market.

Silverton Mountain slashes season ski pass prices in half

​Silverton Mountain is a good seven-hour drive from Denver in the winter, but we're going to argue that their season pass deal is too good to pass up, especially if you buy one this week while they're 50 percent off: Silverton is selling a limited number of 2011/2012 season passes this week fo ... More >>

This Weekend in Stoke: Altogether awesome April action

​Seek and ye shall find! The New Belgium Scavenger Hunt returns to Loveland on Saturday, sending shredding scavengers all over the mountain. The $10 price to play (plus lift tickets, available for discounted price of $35) and proceeds from the raffle will benefit the Alliance for Sustainable C ... More >>

This Weekend in Stoke: Spring Break science, skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding edition

​Only an evening? Tonight at 6:30 p.m. REI Denver presents An Evening With Earthwatch, your chance to learn about upcoming volunteer expeditions around the world where you'll combine exotic adventure, scientific research and travel on the cheap. By this time next year you could be doing someth ... More >>

Tall Order

Heaven Fest on the move again from Longmont to Loveland

​ After an enormously successful outing last year, Heaven Fest, which reportedly drew more than 25 thousand fans last year, is on the move again. Last summer, as you might remember, the Christian-centric festival moved from its original location at Northern Hills Christian Church just west of ... More >>

Top 5 unfactual Colorado facts according to Uncyclopedia.com

uncyclopedia.com​Did you know that the City of Wheat Ridge once elected a known cannibal as mayor, that the original acronym for the NORAD military facility was GONAD, or that Colorado's official state song is "O, Wyoming"? It's all true according to the Colorado page at Uncyclopedia.com.

This Weekend In Stoke: Top five ways to Spring break yourself

​Love it or hate it, Spring Break is getting into full swing in the mountains. Here are 5 ways to get wild this weekend: OmMG! Looking for a side-serving of serenity with your weekend helping of stoke? Try the 1st annual Telluride Yoga Festival Winter Retreat, a chillier version of the chill ... More >>

This Weekend In Stoke: Top five mid-season ski and snowboard adventures

​Traditionally the calm before the storm before Spring Break mania takes over in the mountains, the last weekend in February has become a storm of its own, with challenging events at just about every ski area in Colorado. Here's a preview of the top five ways you could be busting your butt thi ... More >>

Strange but True: The year's weirdest news stories

Today In Stoke: Backyard Bang 2010 snowboard rail jam video highlights

​Loveland, A-Basin, Wolf Creek, Keystone, Copper Mountain, Winter Park, and Vail were all open this weekend, so why were most of the top snowboarders in Colorado and from around the world hanging out in downtown Denver? SixEleven Productions has the video recap from the 2nd annual Backyard Ban ... More >>

Boulder Fourmile Canyon update: 87 percent containment, list of 166 destroyed homes

​On Friday, officials predicted that Boulder's Fourmile Canyon fire would be contained today -- and despite warm weather over the weekend, that goal still seems within reach. At this writing, containment is estimated at 87 percent, with 100 percent containment predicted for 6 p.m. this evening ... More >>

Loveland Reservoir Road fire update: 10 percent contained, 3 subdivisions' evac alert, new video

Reservoir Road fire.​As the Fourmile Canyon fire near Boulder appears to be winding down, is a new one, dubbed the Reservoir Road fire near Loveland, ramping up? That's what authorities are trying to determine this morning. Right now, the blaze, which has already scorched between 600 and 700 ... More >>

Ken Buck: Republican delegates aren't "good ol' boys," assembly not a "backroom deal"

Ken Buck's hoping to find a lot of love in Loveland.​The nasty spat between senatorial hopefuls Ken Buck and Jane Norton, sparked in part by a planned Saturday appearance by super-Alaskan Sarah Palin, has rumbled throughout the week preceding tomorrow's Republican state assembly in Loveland. ... More >>

Let the Zombie Games Begin

Warring iPhone app fartlords settle their differences out of court with new, anti-fart app

An image from the ifartmobile.com website​ It's over -- and with nary a lawyer uttering this phrase: "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I give you Exhibit A, 'The Butt Socket!'" The feud between the creators of two different iPhone fart apps -- Loveland-based InfoMedia, Inc.'s iFart Mobile an ... More >>

From the week of July 30, 2009

Writing on the bathroom wall is safer than Craigslist

Mencia's Thunder

More Messages: Hard Sell

More Messages: Fryar's Club

Creme de la Chrome

Etched in Stone

A new exhibit celebrates the architecture of Cab Childress

Best Factory Outlet Center

Colorado Mills

Statue Jam

Sculpture sprouts in Loveland

Off Limits

Disappearing act

Thanksgiving Feast

Two impressive shows highlight a cornucopia of historic regional paintings.

Out of the Box

Her parents kept her prisoner in a storage unit, but words set Jodi Jill free.

Backwash

Idaho Springs' KGOAT proves there's radio in them thar hills!

Scenes from a Sprawl

The citizens of Berthoud thought they could control how fast their town grew. The developers had other ideas.

High and Dry

Even in the best of times, farmers and developers fight for Colorado's water. And this summer's drought is far from the best of times.

The Edge

Westword's guide to the 1997-98 ski and snowboard season

THE BREAKS OF THE GAME

THE HISTORY OF A TAX LOOPHOLE--AND HOW IT GOT PLUGGED.