Just about every ski area in Colorado is getting natural snow this week and firing up the snowguns to help it along, and opening day at a couple of Colorado resorts could be any day now. To further stoke the fire, here’s another round of snowboard video premiers: Burton Snowboards…
The Denver Rock ’n’ Roll Marathon and Half Marathon sold out weeks ago, which means you can spare yourself the sweaty pretense of jogging and skip straight to the rock and roll: Thirty local bands will take up their instruments along the route, starting at 6:55 a.m. with Double Down…
The Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life events program takes a goth turn this month — just in time for Halloween — with its Being Tim Burton film series. The second installment takes place tonight at 6 p.m. with Ed Wood, Burton’s biopic of the cult filmmaker. “The spark for…
Scholars of the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar — and modern-day explorers sipping on ayahuasca — are torn over the implications of the date December 21, 2012, the end of a long count “b’ak’tun” in the Mayan calendar. The world is, of course, going to hell in a handbasket (isn’t it…
All-around film freak and local film critic Walter Chaw is the proprietor of FilmFreakCentral.net and the host of this month’s Being Tim Burton film series at the Denver Public Library, which starts tonight with a free 6 p.m. screening of the 1990 film Edward Scissorhands and continues every Tuesday through…
Loveland loves to lay down its annual earliest opening day claim, and we have to say things are looking pretty good up there this week, with a little bit of natural snow and perfect conditions for snow-making operations. They’re already behind last year’s pace (Loveland opened on October 7 last…
We’ve been getting so ahead of ourselves looking ahead to ski and snowboard season with all the recent ski porn premieres, we nearly forgot to mention that this weekend is your last opportunity in 2010 to inhale nitro fumes, soak up the sounds of tires screeching rubber all over the…
Denver-based snowboard film crew SixEleven Productions drops the world premiere of Stop…Hammer Time! tonight at Gothic Theatre (6 p.m., $10, ages 16+), along with the Denver premiere of Pirate Productions’ Hooked and a mess of free stuff from SixEleven’s new sponsors, including Ride Snowboards…
The Poor Boyz Productions Triple Threat Tour comes to Boulder Theater tonight with the local premiere of the 2010 ski film Revolver (trailers after the jump) and an autograph signing with featured athletes including Simon Dumont, Nick Martini, Matt Walker, and Dane Tudor, followed by an afterparty with music by…
Crested Butte-based company Matchstick Productions won Best Film for The Way I See It over the weekend at the International Freeski Film Festival (IF3) in Annecy, France, where Henrik Windstedt also won Best Freerider honors for his part in the film (peep the trailer after the jump). Another Colorado company,…
The Gothic Theatre gives itself over to the local snowboard scene once again tonight at 7 p.m. when 720 Boardshop presents the Denver premieres of The People Crew’s Cheers and Sup Bro? from local crew Mistaken Productions (trailers after the jump)…
Most startup magazines don’t make it past their first issue, so we’re stoked to see the second issue of Snowboard Colorado in shops this week, and with Gretchen Bleiler boosting big on the cover to boot…
The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls won the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association WFTDA Western Regional championships this weekend in Sacramento, CA, in a 127-86 upset over the Oly Rollers from Olympia, WA, breaking the Oly Rollers’ 22-game winning streak. RMRG entered the tournament as the #2 seed and will advance to…
How’s this for local pride? Both of Denver’s roller derby leagues are seeded in the top three at this weekend’s Women’s Flat Track Derby Association WFTDA Western Regionals in Sacramento, CA: The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls are in the #2 seed, behind the Oly Rollers (Olympia, WA) and just ahead of…
The Red Bull Rampage is underway today in Virgin, Utah, featuring 25 of the craziest dudes on mountain bikes competing on a course that drops 1,500 vertical feet and features a 63-foot canyon jump. The Rampage is the final stop on the Freeride Mountain Bike FMB World Tour …
The Working With Artists program in Belmar offers a full range of photography classes including workshops in portraiture, still life, environmental abstract, urban abstract and travel photography, but this weekend’s workshop is the one you’ve probably been waiting for: For $395, you’ll spend the weekend with artists Owen O’Meara and…
If you’ve been dodging Denver construction zones, battling Humvee drivers on cell phones or fixing for a showdown with the local fixies — or if you merely prefer your martinis shaken, not stirred — then here’s the bike for you: The B.O.N.D. Bike (Built of Notorious Deterrents) looks like something…
If your kids have been sitting around the house playing video games and whining, now might be the time to get some grit in their teeth — and the Colorado Mountain Bike Association’s sixth annual Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day celebration at Bear Creek Lake Park could do the…
Organizers of the eighteenth annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure are expecting as many as 60,000 people to walk and run today at the Pepsi Center. And that’s good news for breast cancer awareness, prevention, and treatment efforts, says spokeswoman Amarilis Viera-Simoes. The Denver affiliate of the organization…
Boulder’s Fox Theatre hosts The Reunion tonight with the premieres of The Arena from FODT Productions and Mark Frank Montoya, Videograss’ Bon Voyage, Airblaster’s Respect Your Elders and Instalite’s Ride With Us 2010 (trailers after the jump), plus autograph signings from many of the featured athletes and lots of swag…
The Motocross of Nations has only been staged in the United States three times in its 64 year history, but Lakewood’s Thunder Valley Motocross Park had the honor this weekend, hosting 32,000 spectators and top riders from around the world. Team USA went big for the occasion, beating out Belgium,…
Gotta love Loveland, where, in the race to claim earliest opening day honors in North America yet again, they’ve already got snowmaking crews on the mountain. After getting hit with a bit of the real deal yesterday, Loveland’s snowmaking crews went to work under the full moon last night, which…
