The Gathering at the Great Divide Art Festival has been an end-of-summer tradition in Breckenridge for 35 years, and this weekend’s juried show is no exception. The three-day festival includes more than 100 national and international artists, including a few Summit County locals, and coincides with the Breckenridge Wine Festival…

Leadville has seen rushes on gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper and even molybdenum. But the town’s most recent rush may prove to be its most enduring: At 10,152 feet, the highest incorporated city in the U.S. has positioned itself as a mecca for high-altitude endurance athletes. Now that the Leadville…

Roller derby fans and skaters are celebrating the sport’s 75th anniversary this month, and tomorrow marks a return to the derby’s fairgrounds roots: Tomorrow, the Rocky Mountain Roller Girls are headed to Pueblo to kick off the Colorado State Fair, skating against Pueblo’s Jailhouse Jawbreakers at the State Fair Events…

If you’ve been missing out on the folksier segment of the Colorado music scene, head up Boulder Canyon to Nederland this weekend for the annual NedFest, where local Nedheads like Vince Herman and Great American Taxi, Bill Nershi’s Blue Planet and Mountain Standard Time share the bill with headliners (Nedliners?)…

The goddess of love is taking her tithings from pedal-pushers today to benefit Greenhouse Scholars, a Boulder-based nonprofit offering college scholarships, mentoring and academic support to high-performing, under-resourced students. Now in its third year, the ladies-only Venus de Miles has tripled in size: Ride priestess Teresa Robbins says she’s expecting…

Christopher Cokinos has a matter-of-fact way of explaining those magical flashes of light racing across our night sky — “You can tell what the meteor’s made of by the color of its tail: red for silicon, yellow for iron, orange-yellow for sodium, bluish-green for magnesium, violet for calcium,” he says…

Registration for the Warrior Dash at Copper Mountain this weekend sold out weeks ago, so if you’re late to the party you’ll be there strictly as a spectator. But, oh, what a spectacle it will be, with bands of noble savages storming extreme and extremely muddy obstacles as they sack…

The first Transcontinental Roller Derby was held on August 13, 1935, and Jerry Seltzer — the son of roller derby pioneer Leo Seltzer — is polishing the diamond today on his blog. Seltzer gets a little sentimental, but considering the occasion, he’s probably earned it. Read what he has to…

Pegasus is flying — and Saint Lawrence will be crying — tonight: Astronomers are predicting peak viewing for the Perseids meteor shower starting at about 10pm, with a tiny crescent moon and Mars, Venus, and Saturn all coming out to watch a summer night sky full of shooting stars…

The second annual SPAN the Rockies Ride benefits Boulder’s Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence, a 72-bed shelter providing services for women and children who are victims of abuse. But it should be noted that any abuse suffered by today’s participants will be strictly self-inflicted. “We’re the only double-metric century race…

After years in Boulder and then Denver, the Rocky Mountain Bicycle Festival is making the climb to a more fitting clime this year, to coin-cide with the grueling Leadville 100 bike race. “I couldn’t be happier to be joining forces with the Leadville community,” says festival director Carol Johnson. “There’s…

Frequent Flyers Productions is presenting its twelfth annual Aerial Dance Festival in Boulder this weekend, and this year it’s attracting a more dizzying array of aerial acrobats than ever before: Franco Dragone’s production company will be in town for the festival, auditioning new performers for his Le Rêve Show at…


As action sports go, downhill freeride mountain biking is about as gnarly as it gets. This weekend’s Crankworx Freeride Mountain Bike Series will combine guts, glory, gravity, grime, and some good old-fashioned gruesomeness as riders from around the globe battle their way through slalom, slopestyle, cross-country and downhill competitions on…

Dashboard Confessional frontman Chris Carraba’s been touring in support of his band’s latest, Alter the Ending, and he’s taking that title literally: Today he’s asking his fans to hike to the top of Pikes Peak to join him at 14,110 feet for the Love Hope Strength Foundation’s Pikes Peak Rocks…

SOS Outreach has grown from the Snowboard Outreach Society into a year-round program serving 5,000 young people in Colorado by introducing them to outdoor experiences like snowboarding, rock climbing and backpacking in the Eagle River Valley. Today they’re inviting the rest of us up to enjoy the view from their…