Although the Denver Roller Dolls and Rocky Mountain Rollergirls are often billed as crosstown rivals, their traveling all-star teams hardly ever skate against each other: The last time DRD’s Mile Club and RMRG’s 5280 Fight Club competed directly was at the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) Championship tournament in…
The crosstown roller-derby rivalry between the Denver Roller Dolls and the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls comes to a head tonight at the 1STBANK Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane, with a triple-header starting at 7 p.m. But first, the leagues’ all-star squads — DRD’s Mile High Club and RMRG’s 5280 Fight Club –…
Young filmmaker Blaine Davies’s new trailer for the 2012 Crisis Skateboards team video nails the perfect mix of what everyone wants to see in a proper skate vid: It’s a combination of equal parts mind-blowing, technical, holy-shit skateboard prowess and people wrecking themselves over and over again, as if you…
The month of May, as any mountain biker can tell you, is mud season. Just three weeks ago skiers and snowboarders were still making decent turns at Breckenridge as the ski area closed out its fiftieth anniversary season, and in a typical year May is a month of downtime for…
“Let’s be honest: the aerial acrobatic arts do have a certain sex appeal,” says Lynn Coleman, owner of the Denver-based Aerial Fabric Acrobatics apparatus company and producer of this weekend’s second annual Aerial Acrobatic Arts Festival. “There’s a dance element, there’s a gymnastic element, there’s an acrobatic element, and there’s…
Jonny Copp’s credo for the Adventure Film Festival he founded in Boulder was “Make Your Own Legends,” and while the climber/artist/musician/writer/adventurer made many legends of his own before his death in 2009, one of his greatest legacies may turn out to be posthumous, thanks to the Jonny Copp Foundation that…
If a winter without cycling has made you stir-crazy, the end is in sight: Boulder County’s BoCo Loco Bike Bash is the perfect tune-up for the busy calendar of race events ahead. “The Bike Bash has turned into a crazy, fun annual spring event,” says spokeswoman Kathy Borgais. “We’re one…
“We made a very tough decision today,” reported Arapahoe Basin CEO Alan Henceroth in a dispatch sent out on yesterday. “Arapahoe Basin will close for the season Sunday, May 6. With the light snowfall, big wind events, and warm temperatures, Mother Nature made life for Colorado skiers very difficult this…
After racking up awards — Nebula and Hugo honors for Best Novel — for his debut novel The Windup Girl in 2009, Paulo Bacigalupi followed up with Ship Breaker, set in an equally dismal, dystopian future, and won another round of awards, including a National Book Award nomination and a…
Over the weekend, director Skip Armstrong and the Carbondale-based Forge Motion Pictures crew premiered Nomad and The Mother at the 5Point Film Festival in Carbondale. The films are the first in a planned five-part web series titled Of Souls+Water, profiling five different people whose lives revolve around water; the series…
Hiking the 500-mile Colorado Trail from Denver to Durango is one of the most epic — and scenic — adventures in the state, and it’s a more accessible bucket-list goal than you might think: Last year the Colorado Trail Foundation added three kids under the age of twelve to its…
“When I first started writing, I remember there was an ideal intended reader in my mind: Myself as a young boy, wanting to read an adventure story that had cool ideas and was thrilling and dangerous and had a certain amount of ass-kicking involved in it,” says Paolo Bacigalupi, a…
The new Arvada Skate Park took Best of Denver 2012 Best Skate Park honors last month, and the more time we spend there, the more we love it. This edit from local filmmaker Tristan Minton, of Royal Stain Design, which features 303 Boards team rider David Reyes and The Denver…
Denver-based filmmakers Robin Bond and David Wruck premiered their roller derby documentary Derby Baby on March 31 at the Atlanta Film Festival and screened it earlier this month at the Sonoma International Film Festival, but before they can bring it to a wider audience they need to sort out a…
On Saturday Snowboard Colorado and Loveland Ski Area will co-host a demo-day event featuring next season’s gear from at least sixteen different brands, including boards from Colorado companies Never Summer, Unity Snowboards and Oz, as well as boards from YES, Capita, Technine, Salomon, Niche, Echelon, Mervin Manufacturing, Signal, Arbor and…
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, who died in a plane…
Street-style artists Jolt and Quentin “Omni” Rice will show off a series of large-scale “abstract-expressionist-meets-graffiti-futurism” pieces created on seven twenty-by-twenty-foot walls at the GuerillaGarden warehouse. “This is going to be the biggest show we’ve had in three years, and I mean that literally,” says Jolt, a 2010 Westword MasterMind. “We’re…
Attention, would-be skater daters: The Denver Roller Dolls’ Mile High Club all-star roller derby team is putting its “Real men play with Dolls” slogan on the line this week with a “help us kick butt all over the country” date auction to raise travel funds for the team. Bids start…
USA Pro Cycling Challenge organizers revealed the winning design in a national poster competition yesterday, by Montrose-based artist Leanna Johnson, and this morning gave us a first look at the winning poster for the Denver Time Trial stage poster, the seventh and final stage of the second annual race, by…
Some of our favorite local skate crews have been busy this month, dropping Spring video clips that will have you ready to take to the streets. First up… Ben Ericson and Tristan Minton’s 2012 Spring Street Trash edit (above) featuring the 303 Boards team…
Getting a dance show off the ground in this economy can be a real circus, a delicate dance requiring high-flying financial acrobatics. Nancy Smith, the founder and artistic director of Frequent Flyers Productions, a Boulder-based aerial dance troupe, is uniquely qualified for the job. Last month Smith turned to Kickstarter.com…
Broomfield’s Crisis Skateboards shop is hosting the local premiere of the new Think Skateboards film Business As Usual tonight at 8 p.m., at a free screening at the shop at 6821 West 120th Avenue. Can’t make it? Boulder’s Meta Skateboards is presenting the film tomorrow at 8 p.m., with a…
