Denver native Austin Wintory says attending frequent Colorado Symphony Orchestra concerts and nerding out on video games and comic books inspired him just about equally as a kid, so Saturday’s special concert “The Hero’s Journey: A Symphonic Tribute to Comic Con” at 7:30 p.m. at Boettcher Concert Hall is “nothing…
“Get ready for a snowy weekend,” reports Joel Gratz, forecaster for OpenSnow.com and a repeat Westword Best of Denver Best Way to Plan a “Sick” Day winner. Gratz is predicting light snow in the mountains this evening and a heavier storm late Saturday, and says he’s headed to Wolf Creek…
Looking to support the local shred economy by sending your ski and snowboard dollars to Colorado companies? Copper Mountain likes the way you think, and will present its third annual Colorado Days event this weekend in Burning Stones Plaza, at the base of the American Eagle lift. “It’s really pretty…
The Colorado Symphony’s celebration of superheroes, sci-fi soundtracks and video-game scores is making a hero of composer Austin Wintory, a Denver native whose music for the PlayStation 3 game Journey has the distinction of being the first-ever Grammy-nominated video-game score. “I don’t know which is the greater honor: to have…
The weekend was full of disappointment for both of Denver’s roller-derby leagues competing at the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association’s Roller Derby International Championships in Milwaukee. The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls’ 5280 Fight Club was eliminated in the first round on Friday, losing out to Los Angeles’ Angel City Derby Girls…
Both of Denver’s premier roller derby leagues will be competing at the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) Roller Derby International Championships this weekend in Milwaukee, hosted by the Brewcity Bruisers at the U.S. Cellular Arena, and odds are they’ll have to skate against each other in round two on…
New ski terrain, massive capital improvement projects, and an eye toward training top athletes for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games will have every ski area in Colorado looking to the future this season, while important anniversaries like the 100th birthday of the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club serve as fun…
The host cities for the first six of seven stages for the 2014 USA Pro Challenge were announced at a press conference in Aspen this morning along with news of a fan-vote contest to determine the course for the final stage, which will end in either Denver or Golden. “For…
WA 3 Voormi from Something Independent on Vimeo. Voormi, a Pagosa Springs-based manufacturer of technical wool outdoor clothing and gear, won the 2013 Something Independent Wright Award for entrepreneurship last night at a pre-launch event hosted by Session Kitchen. “This is about the best treat I could have, to be…
Colorado roller derby fans will have plenty to cheer about when the Roller Derby World Cup rolls into Dallas in December 2014: Team USA announced on Tuesday that five skaters from the Denver Roller Dolls will be among the 32 skaters on the roster. “I’m shocked,” says Julie “Angela Death”…
The annual race to be the first mountain to open Colorado’s ski season will go to Arapahoe Basin again, thanks to six inches of natural snow last night and a couple of weeks’ worth of ideal snowmaking conditions. “This is a very exciting time for us, and all of Colorado,”…
The local skate rag turned video ‘zine known as Fuck Off Zine will be unveiling Skateboarding Sucks tonight at Toeey’s Off Colfax. The film, screening at 8 p.m. (all ages) and 10 p.m. (21+) for $5, is the third installment of the FOZine video series documenting the best and worst…
The Denver Roller Dolls have had a big year in 2013 — the league’s all-star Mile High Club won the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association’s Division 1 Playoffs earlier this month and is headed to the WFTDA Championships next month in Wisconsin as a top-seeded team — but the Dolls’…
The eighth annual Reel Rock tour, the traveling climbing film show that has become the gold standard in its field over the past decade, launches in Boulder tonight at the Chautauqua Auditorium. On the menu are four new flicks from Sender Films and Big UP productions, including the controversial and…
Boulder-based filmmaker Nick Waggoner premieres Valhalla tonight in Denver at the Paramount Theatre as the local ski porn season kicks into full swing. The follow-up to Solitude, Waggoner’s grim, gritty, and award-winning meditation on death and skiing in South America, is the opposite of all of that. See also: Sniagrab…
More than thirty local and national artists will be peddling pedal-themed posters at the fifth annual ARTCRANK Denver show, which happens to fall on the night before the USA Pro Challenge concludes in Denver. From its roots in Minneapolis, ARTCRANK has expanded to include bicycle-themed art shows in sixteen different…
The annual cross-country mountain-bike race to benefit the National Sports Center for the Disabled takes on a new name and format this year with the inaugural Trax-n-Trails Bike Challenge at Winter Park, featuring both competitive and recreational racing. “We’re looking forward to getting some more serious riders up there for…
Never mind those epic closing-day celebrations last weekend at Vail, Copper Mountain, Breckenridge, and Powderhorn: All four resorts have announced they’ll be spinning the chairlifts again this weekend and reopening Friday, April 19 through Sunday, April 21, to make the most of massive dumps of late-season snow. See also: -…
Beth “Fiona Grapple” Bandimere and Mona “Triple Shot Misto” — the roller derby moms of The Amazing Race fame — are teammates on both the CBS reality TV series (still hanging in there as of this writing) and the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls’ 5280 Fight Club traveling squad, but they’ll be…
The 2012-2013 ski and snowboard season begins winding down this weekend — with the first round of closing-day parties at Ski Granby Ranch, Powderhorn and Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort — despite the fact that snow conditions are actually quite good, with more snow in the forecast. Here’s a rundown…
Photographer Dave Wood’s new show, The Art of Roller Derby, coincides with the city-wide Month of Photography celebration and also kicks off a new monthly artist showcase series at Herman’s Hideaway. Wood has been photographing roller derby for the last three years, and will be featuring a selection of his…
The Denver Roller Dolls roller derby league expanded this week with the addition of a new local squad, bringing the home team total to five: the Orange Crushers will be joining DRD’s Bad Apples, Green Barrettes, Shotgun Betties, and Electrocuties (the 2012 DRD Home Team champions) for the 2013 season…
