The Internet may have become the go-to place for many shoppers, but it hasn’t yet killed off the good old-fashioned swap meet, especially when it comes to bicycles. As proof, the 24th annual Subaru Denver VeloSwap has grown into the world’s largest consumer bicycle swap, and promoters say this year’s…
Local author (and Watercourse Foods owner) Daniel Landes will be signing copies of his new book, Joonie and the Great Harbinger Stampede, tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Tattered Cover LoDo. Portions of the novel, which features art by local painter Ravi Zupa, will be familiar to diners who’ve frequented WaterCourse…
Arapahoe Basin CEO Alan Henceroth announced today that the ski area’s Black Mountain Express lift will start turning at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, October 17 to mark the start of the 2012-2013 ski and snowboard season. See Also: – Level 1 Productions, Stept, MSP clean up at IF3 International Freeski…
Backcountry and big-mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones is bringing his Teton Gravity Research film Further to the Oriental Theater tonight at 6:30 p.m. for the local premiere of the second installment in his Deeper, Further, Higher trilogy (tickets $13), and will also be screening the film on Friday at the Boulder…
Local artist Ravi Zupa’s large-scale paintings of rabbits, bison and other prairie critters have adorned the walls at WaterCourse ever since Denver’s vegetarian mecca relocated to its current spot at 17th Avenue and Emerson Street, lending an earthy, mythical feel to the space and hinting at a larger narrative that’s…
Snowboarder Jeremy Jones is bringing the harrowing second installment in his Deeper, Further, Higher film trilogy to the Oriental Theater tonight and to the Boulder Theater tomorrow night as part of the run-up to the season. “The most terrifying moment making this film was when I was hiking a face…
“There’s something people just love about the skateboard as a free and expressive canvas,” says American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Colorado president Elysia Sryiac, surveying more than 300 decks submitted for Saturday’s 5th annual Bordo Bello art show and auction at Redline Gallery. “This will be our largest show…
If your plan is to drink 47 shots every time Barack Obama chides Mitt Romney over his “47 percent” remarks during tonight’s presidential debate, you’re going to have more immediate problems than the latest jobs report. For an alternative to debate-night drinking games that will absolutely be better for the…
Last night I had the honor of serving as one of ten judges on the selection committee for the Something Independent 2012 Entrepreneur Award, a $1,500 prize designed to showcase the next wave of Colorado business leaders. After viewing 90-second video pitches from 23 semi-finalists, we narrowed it down to…
“Holy shit, that was so fuckin’ radical!,” proclaims Mike Paproski, a skateboarder with a POV camera who saw Ryan Vitale, one of his fellow competitors, collide with a deer during a practice run at this weekend’s Buffalo Bill Downhill Bloodspill race on Lookout Mountain. (We posted the video this morning…
Ten of the biggest new ski and snowboard films for this season will be screening this weekend at The Meeting Snowsports Film Festival in Aspen, an annual gathering of filmmakers, athletes and fans with events at the Wheeler Opera House and Belly Up. Films from Level 1 Productions, Teton Gravity…
“This year, our Full Moon Harvest Festival falls right on the night of the full Harvest Moon,” says Jennie Nevin, founder of Green Spaces Colorado; that fact wil shine a little extra light on the third annual music fest. This year’s lineup includes Signal Fire, Lunar Fire, A. Tom Collins,…
The Denver Roller Dolls’ Mile High Club destroyed the Sacred City Derby Girls 339-86 in quarterfinals and edged out tournament hosts, B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls, on their way to finals at the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association’s West Region playoffs over the weekend in Richmond, California. They also made the…
Denver’s two premiere roller-derby leagues are headed to Richmond, California this weekend for the Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby Association (WFTDA) West Region Playoffs — aka the “Bay of Reckoning” — and there’s a halfway decent chance that the Denver Roller Dolls (#2 seed, behind Portland’s Rose City Rollers) and…
Standard Films will show its latest snowboarding film, 2112, today, and the local premiere marks a bit of a milestone, says Adam Schmidt, editor-in-chief of Snowboard Colorado, the presenting sponsor. “Twenty-one films! In the world of snowboarding videos, it’s the longest run there is. Here’s a snowboard film series that’s…
Denver runners, rockers and residents are well acquainted by now with the hallmarks of the Sports Authority Rock ’n’ Roll Denver Marathon: the bands, the cheerleader squads, the tangle of road closings. But this year the local cycling scene will be part of the mix, too: The inaugural Rock ’n’…
Boulder’s Satellite Boardshop is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, and this summer also marked the shop’s seventh annual Ride With Us Colorado Skatepark Tour, which started back in May at the new Arvada park (a Westword Best of Denver 2012 winner) and concluded in August at the new park…
Denver-based ski porn purveyors Level 1 Productions won big at the IF3 International Freeski Film Festival over the weekend in Montreal, with director Josh Berman and his team taking the top prize — Best North American Film — for their 2012 film Sunny, as well as Best Editing and Best…
Keystone hasn’t yet fired up its snow guns in the race to open the first white ribbon of a run for early-season shred, but that’s not stopping the mountain from hosting the first rail jam of the season: The A51 River Run Rail Series kicks off tomorrow, September 15 –…
Three of the companies featured in our January cover story on Colorado’s “microbrew” ski industry just made the cut in Freeskier Magazine’s Top 10 Skis list of the best microbrew and independent brand skis for the 2012-2013 season. And Folsom Custom Skis took the top spot with its Rapture skis,…
File under you know you’re in Boulder when….Promoters of the Reel Rock Tour announced last night that tickets for the kickoff of their package tour of the year’s best climbing films on Thursday at Chautauqua Auditorium have already sold out, and that there are only about 100 tickets left out…
If you were ogling those photos of Sonya Looney posing for the 2013 Cyclepassion calendar we posted last week and wondering if she’s the real deal, here’s your confirmation: She was busy training for Saturday’s Vapor Trail 125 High Altitude Ultra-Marathon Mountain Bike Enduro race in Salida when those steamy…
