This morning Forge Motion Pictures and Carbondale-based filmmaker Skip Armstrong premiered The Shapeshifter online, the third installment in Armstrong’s five-part Of Souls + Water series profiling paddlers of every stripe and their relationships with the water that connects each of them…
Colorado skateboarders in Colorado don’t need an official holiday to put wheels to pavement: after all, there are 159 skate parks statewide and eight more in development. But last Thursday’s international Go Skateboarding Day celebration still made for a good excuse. The first video from the local festivities is Royal…
The International Association of Skateboarding Companies declared June 21 as “the official holiday of skateboarding” back in 2003, and there are hundreds of killer concrete skate parks across Colorado to help you celebrate Go Skateboarding Day today. Here’s a quick roundup of events and places where you can show your…
This year’s Beaver Creek Documentary Film Series features five films with Colorado roots, including the opening act, the Academy Award-winning Saving Face, from Denver director Daniel Junge and Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. “The idea for doing a Colorado-based film series came out of a conversation I had with a woman…
Doron Petersan is the owner of Sticky Fingers Sweets & Eats in Washington, D.C. — but folks around here might know her better as the vegan cupcake warrior who slayed the Food Network’s Cupcake Wars and Cupcake Wars All-Stars competition, alongside Sticky Fingers’ head baker Jenny Webb. Petersan has become…
Doron Petersan is the owner of Sticky Fingers Sweets & Eats shop in Washington, D.C., but folks around here know her as the vegan cupcake warrior who slayed the Food Network’s Cupcake Wars and Cupcake Wars All-Stars competition, alongside Sticky Fingers’ head baker Jenny Webb. Petersan’s become something of a…
“You can go almost anywhere now and find really amazing vegan or vegetarian savory food, but it’s still somewhat difficult to find really good vegan baked goods,” says Doron Petersan, owner of the Sticky Fingers bakery in Washington, D.C., and author of Sticky Fingers’ Sweets: 100 Super-Secret Vegan Recipes. “And…
Boulder-based filmmaker Hunter Weeks is bringing his new film, Where the Yellowstone Goes, to the Denver FilmCenter tonight at 7 p.m.; the screening will be followed by a Q&A session. Weeks and his crew — including his wife, Sarah Hall, and Denver-based filmmaker Mike Dion, a frequent collaborator — spent…
“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…
Tonight at 7 p.m., filmmakers Allie Bombach and Sarah Menzies will show the first two films in their MoveShake series online at www.MoveShake.org. The MoveShake films profile people pushing for environmental and social change; Breckenridge-based Shannon Galpin, who founded Mountain2Mountain, an organization aimed at “creating education and opportunity for women…
The Lyons Outdoor Games heads into its second decade this weekend with demos, clinics and events celebrating Colorado’s outdoor lifestyle. There are five kayak events on the schedule, most of them tomorrow and Sunday, including a down-river kayak race, a kayak slalom race, boater-cross races on the North Saint Vrain…
“For the Tough Mudder adventure race, we’re changing Beaver Creek’s slogan from ‘Not exactly roughing it’ to ‘Definitely roughing it,'” says spokeswoman Jen Brown. “This race is hard-core, with obstacles designed by British Special Forces that will challenge you in ways you never thought possible.” That’s no understatement: The dozen…
Thunder Valley MX Park in Lakewood has become one the world’s premiere motocross venues in recent years, and this past Saturday it hosted the Toyota Thunder Valley National, the third event in the 2012 Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship series. Ryan Dungey (who also won the 2011 Thunder Valley…
The Vail Valley Foundation’s 2012 Teva Mountain Games get to paddlin’ today in Vail with both the Mountain Click photo competition and the Steep Creek Championships kayak race running concurrently along a 1/4-mile stretch of Homestake Creek with sections affectionately known to kayakers as “Leap of Faith” and “Piece of…
The Teva Mountain Games in Vail this weekend feature two dozen events for cyclists, climbers, runners, fly fishermen, slackliners, kayakers, rafters, paddlers, photographers, filmmakers and even dogs — yes, dogs — but the best sport might just be the spectacle, says Vail Valley Foundation spokesman Paul Abling. “We love to…
The new Arvada Skate Park, which opened a few months ago, gets an official ribbon-cutting today when pro skaters Mike McGill (originator of the inverted 540-degree McTwist spin), 21-time X Games medalist Andy Macdonald and women’s skating superstars Cara-Beth Burnside and Mimi Knoop drop in to demonstrate how to make…
Carbondale-based filmmaker Skip Armstrong’s short film The Mother premiered online this week, the second of five films in his series Of Souls + Water for Forge Motion Pictures. The Mother, presented online in partnership with NRS Films and New Belgium Brewing, is a meditative profile of 67-year-old kayaker Melody Shapiro…
Mountainfilm in Telluride closed out its 34th annual festival on Monday with an awards ceremony in Telluride’s Town Park, recognizing six films for various prizes and naming the nonprofit organization Peaceful Uprising as winner of the 2012 Moving Mountains Prize. The award — and $12,000 — goes to a nonprofit…
Mountainfilm in Telluride is celebrating its 34th anniversary this weekend, through May 28, and we’re duly impressed by the the list of Colorado-based filmmakers in the mix. Here’s a preview: Telluride-based filmmaker Beth Gage is the current Board President of Mountainfilm in Telluride and is bringing her second documentary, Bidder…
Mountainfilm in Telluride enters its 34th year with the Moving Mountains Symposium on population growth, which will feature panels of scientists, filmmakers and experts who have experienced its effects firsthand. “There’s more programming than ever, spread across half a dozen venues,” says Mountainfilm executive director Peter Kenworthy, adding that the…
Not ready to let go of the ski/snowboard dream and put that crummy snow season behind you, even weeks after all the resorts have closed? Neither are the coaches at Woodward at Copper, where they’re gearing up for summer camps — and guaranteeing an on-snow experience…
Derby Baby: A Story of Love, Addiction and Rink Rash, the long-awaited roller derby documentary from Denver-based filmmakers Robin Bond and Dave Wruck, will get its local premiere on June 16 at the Denver FilmCenter with screenings at 2:30, 5 and 7:30 p.m., all presented by both the Rocky Mountain…
