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Vail celebrates 50th anniversary by projecting films and photos on the Logan Ice Theater

Icy objects are familiar sights in Vail, but a ten-foot-tall wall of ice used as a projection screen is definitely a first in this mountain town. The Logan Ice Theater will be unveiled tonight at the Sixth Annual Triumph Winterfest, coming alive with videos and images of the past fifty years of the ... More >>

Warren Miller's Flow State brings the show -- and snow -- to Denver

For some folks, the ski season doesn't really start until they've seen the annual Warren Miller adventure flick. Others caught the premiere of Flow State last month, but are ready for another look at the movie. And they'll get their chance tomorrow night, at the sixth annual Warren Miller Screening ... More >>

Feel the Flow State

Tonight: Restaurants dress up for Halloween

Happy Halloween! Here's a taste of restaurant parties that should be a real treat this evening -- and if you know of any other culinary events worthy of attention today, share the information in the comments section below:

Dia De Los Muertos, Halloween and more beer on the calendar this week

Despite its ongoing fight with the city, El Diablo will be hosting its annual Dia de los Muertos Celebration on Tuesday, October 30. And that's not the only spooky event on the culinary calendar -- there are plenty of Halloween parties that should be a real treat. Here's a taste of what's on the m ... More >>

Updated: The Great American Beer Festival 2012 calendar of awesome events

Updated with new events: Tourists may go to Rome to see the Coliseum, but it's the side streets, the adventures and the hidden cafes that typically fill their cameras and their post-trip stories. The same is true of the week surrounding the Great American Beer Festival. The event is the centerpiece, ... More >>

Updated: The Great American Beer Festival 2012 calendar of awesome events

Updated with new events: Tourists may go to Rome to see the Coliseum, but it's the side streets, the adventures and the hidden cafes that typically fill their cameras and their post-trip stories. The same is true of the week surrounding the Great American Beer Festival. The event is the centerpiece, ... More >>

Ski porn! The Westword guide to this season's biggest ski & snowboard video premiere parties

A winter storm of ski and snowboard video premiere parties will pummel Denver and Boulder over the next two months, as local theaters roll out the white carpet for VIPs (Very Important Pros), local/national/international filmmakers and snow-dancing revelers. We've put together the most comprehensi ... More >>

Aurora homicide (near East Second & Peoria?) doesn't appear to be gang-related (14)

It's been a bloody spring in Aurora, and last night, it got a lot bloodier thanks to not one but two homicide within an hour or so of each other. The first of these probably took place after 10 p.m. yesterday, but at this writing, Aurora police aren't certain where. As for possible gang links, offi ... More >>

Four surprising reasons Silver Oak wines deserve a spot on your table

Cult-favorite, pricey and snooty -- three adjectives you may have heard associated with Silver Oak Winery at some point in your life as an oenophile. The first two are true enough: A passionate set of followers obsess over the brand, hoarding prized vintages in cellars for future generations to savo ... More >>

Kurt Miller's adaptive skiing documentary The Movement premieres tonight at Boulder Theater

​The word "disabled" continues to shed meaning this week as many of the biggest names in adaptive sports are in Breckenridge for the Disabled Sports USA Hartford Ski Spectacular, an annual winter sports festival that brings hundreds of athletes and aspiring athletes to Colorado for adaptive sk ... More >>

Win two tickets to Warren Miller's ...Like There's No Tomorrow

Do you need some winter inspiration? Do you love the iconic ski and snowboard films produced by Warren Miller Entertainment? We thought so. Here's your chance to win a pair of ticket vouchers to the Friday, November 18, showing of the company's latest -- and 62nd annual -- flick, ...Like There's No ... More >>

Skiers may scoff, but snowboarders are finally being accepted by the slopes' old guard

Powder day! Wolf Creek Ski Area opens tomorrow with 36 inches of new snow

"It would be sad to see this much snow not being skied on at a ski area," says Elesha Goad, ticket office supervisor at Wolf Creek Ski Area, where they're opening this weekend to take advantage of the 36 inches of new snow that has fallen in the last 24 hours, and where the forecast calls for more t ... More >>

Battery 621 celebrates The Launch of Winter and The Business of Fun

"Your job should be something you're pumped on," says Preston Strout, co-owner of the High Cascade Snowboard Camp. He's the guest moderator at The Business of Fun, a free event starting at 6 p.m. tonight that's the kick off for the three-day Launch of Winter celebration at Battery 621 (click those l ... More >>

Solitaire, two-year extreme skiing project in Andes, nears finish line (VIDEO)

​Here at the Extreme Sports Desk, we're big fans of work by Sweetgrass Productions, a cabal of Colorado College grads turned gonzo ski-and-snowboard documentary filmmakers. And now their most ambitious effort to date, a two-year epic journey to "landscapes never before visited on film" across ... More >>

Snowsurf, noboard & backcountry magnificence from Sweetgrass Productions (VIDEO)

​There are, no doubt, saner ways to film the Cordillera Blanca of Peru than paragliding a few feet above jagged glaciers, vertiginous cliffs and freezing lakes, camera and breathing and life itself neatly suspended -- but that wouldn't be the path chosen by Sweetgrass Productions, a backcountr ... More >>

Free ski buses to mountain resorts? Ace King thinks it's an idea whose time has come

​In seventeen years of avid snowboarding, Ace King has heard all the bright ideas about how to fix the weekend traffic logjam on I-70. Monorail, zipper lanes, double-decker lanes -- all costly, all dubious as hell, and none of them right around the corner. What King lusts for is a bus.

Netflix Instant: What Denver is watching on its freeze day

​There's a storm in the midwest that's causing everyone to roll out their stupid snow puns again (Snowpocalypse Now!) and here in Denver we're getting into the negative double digits -- a big day for Netflix Instant, the movie rental option that doesn't require pants, much less a jacket and i ... More >>

Win a box of Warren Miller stuff from Westword

​Another day, another contest where we give away a box o' free stuff. For the skiing and snowboarding-obsessed among us, legendary filmmaker Warren Miller, and his accompanying paraphernalia, is the subject of today's comment contest.

Today In Stoke: Adventure Film Festival opens at Boulder Theater

​The Adventure Film Festival opens tonight at the Boulder Theater with two shorts and two feature-length films to kick off the four-day festival. Here's what's in store for adventurous film fans tonight:

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 >>

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Man found shot on 900 block of S. Dearborn Way in Aurora dies, inquiry ongoing (No. 22)

Near the crime scene.​More fatal violence in Aurora. Just days after the arrest of Michael Wade Jackson in the death of Mohamed Abushahma comes word of another shooting last night, with a thus-far-unnamed man found near a condo complex later succumbing to his wounds. Look below for the Aurora ... More >>

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Another year, another Warren Miller flick: Dynasty at Paramount this week

​Old man Miller doesn't have much to do with the films that bear his name these days, but his dynasty lives on all the same: Denver screenings of the annual ski porn from Warren Miller Films are as reliable as the changing of the seasons. Warren Miller celebrated his 85th birthday last month, ... More >>

Mile High Murder, No. 29: Four shot, one dead near Aurora's Street Soldiers Motorcycle Club

View Larger Map Another murder that took place in late July.... Early on July 25, Aurora Police Department representatives responded to a call at Street Soldiers Motorcycle Club on the 9500 block of East Colfax, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click "V ... More >>

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Colfax Ave captures the not-so-pretty part of the city.

Get Your Freak On

Miller keeps carving the slopes on film

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