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Menswear Mondays: Julian Muhammad on his Hollywood-inspired fashion

Fashion may move in waves of in and out, but true style is forever. This week we spotted Julian Muhammad, co-owner of a clothing store, on the D-Line Lite Rail. Continue reading to learn what baseball team influenced his kicks, his style mantra, and which group of Hollywood actors inspire his person ... More >>

Mike Dion takes Reveal the Path mountain biking film on the road

"If you could ride anywhere in the world, where would you go?" became a central question for Mike Dion after the success of the Denver-based filmmaker's 2010 film, Ride the Divide. That question became the tagline for his next film, Reveal the Path, which took Dion and some of the world's top mounta ... More >>

Refugee women tell their stories with photos in picture.me.here

The woman in the photo is Pabrita Niroula's mother-in-law. She and Pabrita came to Colorado from Nepal, where they lived in a refugee camp and slept on hard bamboo beds. In January, Pabrita was one of eight Bhutanese women given a digital camera and asked to document her life as a refugee for a ph ... More >>

With Masala Xpress, Ashim KC returns to the Denver dining scene

When we noticed that a restaurant named Masala Xpress had set up shop in the Aurora Mall, our first hope was that it might be a quick-service outpost of Masalaa, the restaurant on South Parker Road that serves an all-vegetarian menu and landed our Best Vegetarian Indian Buffet award in this year's B ... More >>

World Threads III pays homage to global fiber arts at TACtile Textile Arts Center

One of TACtile Textile Arts Center's most colorful exhibits is back: World Threads III: Preserving Textile Traditions, featuring -- as in the past -- a beautiful global palette of fiber-arts handiwork to both look at and to buy. Even more beautiful is the humanitarian purpose behind the show -- to s ... More >>

Dance Fever

Photographer Cory Richards wins American Alpine Club's 2012 Rowell Award

The American Alpine Club announced this week that Boulder-based photographer Cory Richards has won its 2012 Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure. The $15,000 award, which will be officially presented next month during Mountainfilm in Telluride, is named for photographers Galen and Barbara Rowell, w ... More >>

Solar for a Small Planet will shine at the Ricketson Auditorium tonight

The sun may not break through all the smoke in the air from the Jefferson County wildfires today, but "Solar for a Small Planet," a free program at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science tonight, will shine a light on how solar helps power low-income communities around the world.

First Friday reruns: Everybody loves a second chance!

​When Mother Nature dumped snow on Denver last Friday, more than a few galleries and businesses decided to shut their doors, first Friday or no. A blizzard of confusion resulted, as many show openings and other events were postponed to later dates -- many of them this weekend. Here are some ... More >>

A crash course in MacArthur-winning journalist Peter Hessler, as suggested by Peter Hessler

​Ridgway-based journalist and recent MacArthur "genius" grant winner Peter Hessler's work spans China, small towns in southwestern Colorado and back to Nepal. Latest Word has more on the $500,000 award from the MacArthur Foundation which was announced its 22 winners yesterday, as well as a Q&A ... More >>

Challenge21 climber Jake Norton sets out for three tallest peaks on each continent

Jake Norton, from Golden, CO, is attempting to climb the Triple Seven Summits -- the three highest peaks on each continent -- to raise money to support the Denver-based non-profit Water for People​Jake Norton, a mountain climber from Golden, CO, is in Uganda this week to climb Mount Stanley's ... More >>

I Made It: Celebrating the human-powered spirit of mountaineer Göran Kropp

​In 1996, adventurer Göran Kropp famously set out by bike from his home in Sweden, loaded with gear, and rode all the way to Nepal to climb Mount Everest. He made the summit on May 23 of that year, without bottled oxygen and without Sherpa support, then climbed down, got back on his bike, and ... More >>

Today in Stoke: 2011 Copp-Dash Inspire Award climbing expedition grants announced

​The spirit of Boulder's Adventure Film Festival founder Jonny Copp lives on: The five winners of the Copp-Dash Inspire Award grants for 2011 were announced on Friday, receiving $20,000 and climbing expeditions to Alaska, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Nepal. The grant program was estab ... More >>

If you want to conquer Mt. Everest, the lunchtime buffet is the way to go

Video: Man sets world record for most grapes eaten in three minutes

​Deepak Sharma Bajagain broke two Guinness World Records on Saturday, March 26, at the Community College of Aurora as part of the Work for Children Food Campaign 2011 hosted by the Global Lynx Foundation and Nepal Tourism Campaign: One for the Most Envelopes Torn in half in Thirty seconds, and ... More >>

Tomorrow: Guinness records for evelopes ripped, grapes eaten with a small spoon to be challenged

Not a world-record holder.​Deepak Sharma Bajagain already holds four Guinness records, and tomorrow, he'll attempt to add two more to that illustrious legacy: Most Envelopes Torn in Half in 30 Seconds and Most Grapes Eaten in Three Minutes by a Small Plastic Teaspoon. Yes, these are actual ent ... More >>

Today in Stoke: Erik Weihenmayer previews Soldiers to the Summit at Denver Athletic Club

​Erik Weihenmayer has climbed the Seven Summits, including Mt. Everest, and his resume of adventurous accomplishments also includes such feats as finishing the Leadville 100 on a tandem bike. Oh, and also: He's blind. Tonight at 6 p.m., the author of Touch the Top of the World and The Adversit ... More >>

Today in Stoke: Climbing expedition applications open for Copp-Dash Inspire Awards

​Ready to climb something crazy and then tell the tale in style? The Jonny Copp Foundation is now accepting applications for its $20,000 in 2011 Copp-Dash Inspire Awards, named in memory of Copp (Boulder's Adventure Film Festival founder) and his climbing partner Micah Dash, who died in 2009 i ... More >>

One chapter book reviews: The Wishing Trees

​You can't judge a book by its cover -- and it just goes to show you, because the cover of The Wishing Trees, by John Shors, is pretty awful. Decked out in pink with an apple blossom and a soft-focus photo, it might as well be an advertisement for a pill to make your kid stop wetting the bed, ... More >>

The List: Top ten Indian/Nepalese restaurants

Mark MangerRatna and Macchendra Shrestha at Nepal Cuisine.​Jason Sheehan just reviewed Nepal Cuisine, where he found more than enough momo to keep him warm through these upcoming winter months. On momo alone, Nepal Cuisine easily ranks among the top ten Indian and Nepalese restaurants in the ... More >>

Yo' momo! Nepal Cuisine knows how to make dumplings

On momo, Nepal Cuisine and yeti

​In Nepal, momo -- the small, white-flour dumplings that represent the Nepali contribution to world dumpling culture -- are used as currency. Goats and yaks can be bartered for on the streets with buckets of momo. A fine woman is said to be worth her weight in momo. There's a folk tale that ... More >>

The Colorado connection to the Mark Sandford scandal

South Carolina Governor (for today, anyhow) Mark Sandford. For political junkies, and the sort of folks who can't resist slowing down as they pass car wrecks, the sight of South Carolina Governor Mark Sandford revealing that he'd spent the better part of a week canoodling with his Argentinian mistr ... More >>

Film on the Mountain

Telluride’s Mountainfilm weds social justice and entertainment in the high country.

Talking Shop

The joys of paper unfold at Kozo Fine Art Materials.

Nancy and Nepal

Tibet on It

Tamdin Wangdu's photos bring his native Tibet to Denver.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Days of Future Past

Sky Captain zooms back to a tomorrow that never was.

Talking Shop

Diversity unfolds at the African Market

Best Tibetan/Nepalese

Sherpa's Adventurers Restaurant and Bar

On Trek

Sherpa's Adventurers Restaurant plots a steady culinary course.

Take a Peak

Talking Shop

Rare finds and real deals

Paint the Town

Maruti Narayan's food brushes up against greatness. Too bad no one's there to eat it.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of May 23, 2002

Top of the World

Kim Clark says Everest's air is thinner than Denver's. She should know -- she's up there right now.

Stars Trek

I'd walk a mile -- and then some -- for a meal at the Tennessee Pass Cookhouse.

Sweet Dreams

It's easy to honor the food at Namasté.

Mountain Do

In Himalaya, the human spirit tests its mettle.

The Bite

How to play the wild game in Denver.

Best T-shirts

Cargo

Get in Gear

You can't spell "credit" without REI.

Warm Reception

Helander Dance Theater presents Voices of Tibet

A Place in the Crowd

Red Hot Lamas

Playlist

Married, With Restaurant

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