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  • Blogs

    February 15, 2012

    Venture Snowboards ventures into skinnier snow boards

    In January we reported on a handful of homegrown Colorado ski companies making handcrafted and custom skis that stand up to or surpass anything else on the market. If we'd waited a few weeks, we could have added another local brand to the mix: Silverton-based Venture Snowboards. For the last few y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    Dancer Michelle Ellsworth wins a $50,000 USA Fellowship prize

    ​The sixth annual round of the USA Fellowship grants -- fifty awards of $50,000 each -- were announced last night in Los Angeles, and exactly one went to a Colorado artist: Michelle Ellsworth of Boulder, for her work in the field of dance. Ellsworth has an MFA in dance from the University of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    The Edge: Westword's winter activities guide helps you sort out the 2011-2012 season

    ​Welcome to the online version of The Edge 2011-2012, Westword's annual insider's guide to winter activities. This season has already seen plenty of snow, and that's just the beginning, as the 25 resorts profiled below have added new terrain, lifts, features, events and restaurants. To sort it ... More >>

  • Film

    October 27, 2011

    The Rum Diary will leave you with just a slight hangover

    ​Welcome to the online version of The Edge 2011-2012, Westword's annual insider's guide to winter activities. This season has already seen plenty of snow, and that's just the beginning, as the 25 resorts profiled below have added new terrain, lifts, features, events and restaurants. To sort it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Denver ranks No. 13 on Travel Leisure's America's Best Cities for Foodies list

    Lori MidsonIt's dishes like Euclid Hall's duck poutine that catapulted Denver to No. 13 on Travel Leisure's America's Best Cities for Foodies list​The best city in America for foodniks? According to the readers of Travel Leisure magazine, which just released its 2011 roster of the best Ame ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2011

    An interview with Ideal Fathers in advance of their farewell show tonight at the Larimer

    ​Over the course of a line-up change or two, Ideal Fathers Ideal Fathers, playing its final show tonight at the Larimer Lounge, developed a sound and a stage presence that probably would have been lumped in with "dance punk." But there was always an agenda in the band to inspire people to wake ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Eddie Friedman, Colorado contemporary

    Rhoda PollackEddie Friedman, 1948-2011​The Upper Larimer area may be hot today, but for pure aesthetics, it's hard to beat a time in the '80s when the area at 31st and Larimer streets was home to CORE New Art Space, the Sullivan-Bisenius Gallery and, right upstairs, three studios occupied by D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    The top five locally made snowboards at the SIA Snow Show (plus a couple of sweet pairs of skis)

    Photo by Sarah AustinNever Summer Snowboards co-founder Tim Canaday shows off his 2011/2012 line at the SIA Snow Show​We sifted through a mess of 893 snow sports brands representing at the SIA Snow Show to find the Colorado companies we love most, then asked them to show off their best boards ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2011

    True Grit: If only the new one had been filmed in Colorado, like the John Wayne version

    ​For the second year in a row, a movie with Colorado ties is getting Oscar buzz. In 2010, it was Precious, which was co-produced by Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness of Denver. This time around, it's 127 Hours, which stars James Franco as Aron Ralston, the Colorado climber who cut off his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Beer-jolais Nouveau: Could fresh hops do for beer what Beaujolais Nouveau does for wine?

    The Tommyknocker crew.www.sanjuanhopfarms.com​On the third Thursday of every November (today), vintners in France have been releasing a kind of red wine called Beaujolais Nouveau. The wine isn't powerful or rich or even that all that good. Its main quality is light freshness. It's fermented f ... More >>

  • Culture

    November 11, 2010

    The Edge: Westword's Winter Activity Guide 2010-2011

    The Tommyknocker crew.www.sanjuanhopfarms.com​On the third Thursday of every November (today), vintners in France have been releasing a kind of red wine called Beaujolais Nouveau. The wine isn't powerful or rich or even that all that good. Its main quality is light freshness. It's fermented f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Next year's Great American Beer Festival will welcome U.S. territories

    ​The organizers of the Great American Beer Festival will make two changes for next year's big show, which will mark the thirtieth anniversary of world's largest commercial beer extravaganza. For starters, GABF -- which drew 49,000 attendees and 3,523 different beers -- will return to a later ... More >>

  • News

    December 24, 2009

    Mexican poetry and social analysis — seriously!

    ​The organizers of the Great American Beer Festival will make two changes for next year's big show, which will mark the thirtieth anniversary of world's largest commercial beer extravaganza. For starters, GABF -- which drew 49,000 attendees and 3,523 different beers -- will return to a later ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    Video: Red Bull unveils Shaun White's private half-pipe

    Judging by the video above, Shaun White woke up one day and said, "I would like a private, giant half-pipe in the San Juan Mountains, accessible only by helicopter." And Red Bull said, "How giant would you like it?" More dramatic foreplay can be found on the Project X website.

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2008

    Best of Denver Winners from 1997

    Judging by the video above, Shaun White woke up one day and said, "I would like a private, giant half-pipe in the San Juan Mountains, accessible only by helicopter." And Red Bull said, "How giant would you like it?" More dramatic foreplay can be found on the Project X website.

  • Music

    July 5, 2007

    GOP@Riot

    GOP@Riot
    Self-released

  • Calendar

    May 10, 2007

    Bird Is the Word

    GOP@Riot
    Self-released

  • News

    May 12, 2005

    What's So Funny

    GOP@Riot
    Self-released

  • News

    April 21, 2005

    The Hardest Hit

    Tony Duran was a fighter -- but life put him on the ropes.

  • Calendar

    August 19, 2004

    Semi-Tough

    Urban Eco-Adventure puts racers through heck

  • Calendar

    July 22, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Urban Eco-Adventure puts racers through heck

  • News

    October 16, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of October 16, 2003

  • Calendar

    August 21, 2003

    All Aboard!

    Old pufferbellies stay on track at the Narrow Gauge Railfest.

  • Summer Guide

    June 13, 2002

    Mushrooming Passion

    Telluride's annual festival of fungi can be a tasty treat.

  • News

    August 2, 2001

    Risk-Ski Business

    Can Aaron Brill's single lift save Silverton and earn salvation for the sport?

  • News

    June 22, 2000

    Going With the Flow

    As spring melts into summer, water users along the St. Vrain could find themselves up the creek.

  • Film

    December 23, 1999

    Good Grief!

    All About My Mother lives up to its billing as a "screwball drama."

  • Film

    September 11, 1997

    Verse Comes to Worse

    All About My Mother lives up to its billing as a "screwball drama."

  • News

    April 10, 1997

    Trickle-Down Economics

    A new proposal could leave Animas-La Plata proponents high and dry.

  • Dining

    June 13, 1996

    The Truck Stops Here

    A new proposal could leave Animas-La Plata proponents high and dry.

  • News

    June 13, 1996

    Rough Waters

    The Animas-La Plata project is supposed to fulfill the government's promise to Colorado Utes. But tribal opponents worry it will leave the reservations high and dry.

  • News

    April 18, 1996

    Flights of Fancy

    Denver pays a consultant big money to get overseas flights for DIA--and goes nowhere.

  • News

    January 11, 1995

    LORDS OF THE RING

    NINE-YEAR-OLD JOE SILVA WAS READY TO FIGHT--UNTIL POLITICS GOT IN THE WAY.LOW BLOWS EVERYONE IN COLORADO'S FIGHT GAME LOVES A GOOD BRAWL--FROM THE LITTLEST BOXER TO THE TOP OFFICIAL.

  • News

    June 22, 1994

    THE FARM TEAM

    THE DENVER GANGS WANTED TONY BROWN'S BOYS. SO HE TOOK HIS FAMILY AND HEADED FOR THE HILLS.HOME ON THE RANGE MEET THE MUSLIM COWBOYS OF MOSCA, COLORADO.

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