Erin Vanderberg

New Belgium Brewing’s Tour de Fat rolls into Denver today, bringing with it a whimsical bike parade, a killer music lineup and an estimated 10,000 people to the west end of City Park. And while beer will be flowing, the event transcends a keg party. It’s about community-building and sustainability...

What makes the Mountain Man Rendezvous different from your average summer festival? Leather fringe, for starters. Many of the participants dress like Davy Crockett, set up camp in tepees and cook over open fires. And they also compete in a variety of crowd-pleasing activities, including black-powder rifle matches, tomahawk throws...

The concept of the 'ciclovía' (Spanish for "bike parkway") was hatched in Bogotá, Colombia, over thirty years ago. It's waxed and waned over the years there, but today well over a million people participate in an event that every Sunday and holiday closes 70 miles of road in the heart...

Since 1994, the Ouray Ice Festival has been the pinnacle of ice climbing events, and it happens in a town that considers itself the Switzerland of the U.S. The festival takes place at the Ouray Ice Park, which was inspired when a leaky pipe from the Uncompahgre River diversion dam...

Isis Books & Gifts on East Colfax Avenue was a place where a person could wander and not get lost; the paths to self-realization were manifold. It was a groovy shop, to be certain, but housed in an odd little building that — despite the beaded curtains and incensed air...