In the great tradition of ski porn, there’s no name as porntastic as Powderwhore, the free-your-heel, free-your-mind company responsible for the new telemark ski epic TeleVision. It’s the company’s 6th film in as many years, and the Powderwhore film tour is making its way around Colorado this month with a…
“The Colorado Ski & Snowboard Expo is your last big chance before the season really gets under way to find out about the best deals and packages on lift tickets, season passes, gear, soft goods, and everything you need to have a great season in the mountains,” says Jennifer Rudolph,…
Levi Leipheimer smashed Lance Armstrong’s record at the Leadville Trail 100 mountain-bike race this year, and Rebecca Rusch smashed her own women’s record on the course, finishing 22nd overall and ahead of most of her male competitors. Still, Race Across the Sky director Frank Matson, from Denver-based Citizen Pictures, says…
Skiers and snowboarders have learned to count the passing of years — 61 of them — by the steady thrum of new films from Warren Miller Entertainment, the surest sign out there that a new winter season is upon us. The latest can be seen at the Wintervention film tour…
Copper Mountain and Keystone both open on Friday — sick day, anyone? — which means it’s time to start waxing up the old sticks for early season snow conditions. If you’ve never done it yourself or need a refresher (or if you’re just looking to sip some wine and meet…
Shout it from the mountaintops: The Travel Channel announced this week that it has picked up First Ascent, a six-episode climbing and adventure travel series from Boulder-based filmmaker Peter Mortimer and his crew at Sender Films. First Ascent, co-produced by National Geographic International, has been winning big on the festival…
In addition to making feature-length flicks like STOP… Hammer Time!, Denver-based snowboard film crew SixEleven Productions releases weekly video episodes in its Ride With Us series every Sunday during snowboard season, which — now that Loveland, Arapahoe Basin, and Wolf Creek are all open — is officially now. This week’s…
It’s been dumping at Wolf Creek, a perfect excuse to get your tricks and treats on the slopes this weekend: Saturday is opening day, and 10 inches of new snow in the last few days means the Treasure, Bonanza, and Nova lifts will all be running. Early season lift tickets…
Feeling a little Friday flu coming on? Tomorrow’s a perfectly good day for a sick day, with more than 33 inches of snow at Loveland since opening day on Sunday and Chair 6 opening tomorrow. Loveland opened Nix Nox and Spillway this morning, and will open Keno, Blackjack, Roulette, Straight…
“I’m something of a cemetery buff,” says Annette Student, author of Riverside Cemetery: Where History Lies and co-host of today’s History Colorado’s Riverside Cemetery Tour. “There are a lot of ghosts out at Riverside, fascinating historic figures who helped make Denver what it is but have mostly been forgotten. You’ll…
Director Chip Mabry’s documentary portrait of Portland’s Rose City Rollers won best in show at both the Crossroads Film Festival and the Indie Spirit Film Festival this year, and the Brutal Beauty film tour has been selling out in theaters across the country. Despite his film’s success, though, Mabry says…
Last year’s Denver Gorilla Run aped its way into the Guinness Book of World Records with 1,061 costumed runners going bananas through the streets of Denver. And this year, the Wynkoop Brewing Company, where the 5.6K race starts and finishes, will stoke the primal urges of local primates with a…
In case you haven’t heard already, it’s a powder day up in the mountains. Loveland won the race to open first yesterday, and Arapahoe Basin’s hot on its heels this morning with more than nine inches of fresh snow (and counting) in the last 48 hours — on top of…
Official word just in from Loveland Ski Area: With five inches of snow last night on top of the snowmaking operation they’ve been running all month, opening day is tomorrow, Sunday October 24. Loveland’s staking their claim as the first ski area open in Colorado for the second year in…
Break out your tuxes, ball gowns and best kicks: DJ MU$A, Nike and the sneaker pimps behind Installation Shoe Gallery are pimpin’ their 2nd annual Sneaker Prom and crowning a Sneaker King and Sneaker Queen tonight — and that’s just the “kick”off (Editor’s note: That pun was all me). “We’re…
Forum Snowboards, Special Blend, and Foursquare dropped all pretense for their 7th feature film and accompanying collection of f-bomb snowboards and apparel, ripe for controversy on the mountain this season and in a school near you. The film is titled, inappropriately enough, Fuck It. It does take a certain kind…
Run this 5K as if you were the kid being chased by a monster in a horror movie, because the first-place prize at the Scream Scram is a round-trip ticket on Southwest Airlines, and plenty of other little terrors will be after you. “Every Saturday morning in Denver you can…
“These are the hard-core cyclists, and they’re here to buy and sell, get in, get out, then go for a bike ride,” says VeloSwap manager Reese Brown. “Over the years, we’ve tried to tinker with the VeloSwap model and offer more to the consumers, but it turns out people aren’t…
Tom Noel, aka “Dr. Colorado,” knows that this town is full of ghosts. As director of Public History, Preservation & Colorado Studies at the University of Colorado Denver, he’s well acquainted with Denver’s ghastliest tales. “In Capitol Hill, if you dig deep enough, there’s always some tragedy,” Noel says. “We…
We caught Never Summer’s new Made In America video at Snowboard On the Rocks in September, but in case you missed it we’ve got the full 30-minute video after the jump in all its HD local pride glory…
If you’re the praying-for-snow type, the Saint Francis Center Episcopal Diocese of Denver is ready to make you a believer on Saturday, presenting the Early Bird Rail Jam “first snow shred of the year” at the Believer’s Center of Denver (180 S. Garrison Street in Lakewood) on the campus of…
TGR’s Light the Wick gets its local premiere tonight at the Boulder Theater (with a Denver encore tomorrow, 10/16, at Gothic Theatre). If, unlike us, you’re feeling overwhelmed by the onslaught of all these ski movie premieres, trust us on this one: Light the Wick is epic. The film was…
