If you feel better knowing you’ve burned a few calories before you indulge in a five-course meal, then the Grand Huts Progressive Dinner is just your thing. It requires a workout not only before the dinner, but between courses, as well. Hungry participants don cross-country skis or snowshoes at the…
Rick Schaden is back on the job. The major shareholder in Quiznos has returned as CEO, replacing Dave Deno, who’d been promoted to the post fewer than five months ago. According to the announcement that Quiznos released last week, Deno resigned for personal reasons: The commute between Denver and Louisville,…
Marc Moline, creative director and park designer at Echo Mountain ski resort, has long been a fan of TransWorld Snowboarding’s annual Team Challenge, in which the world’s best riders don silly uniforms for a competition that is as much about style as it is about skill. “It always looked like…
It turns out that Quiznos – the carnivorous, Denver-based chain that gave us subs like the 5 Meat Stack and Prime Rib Cheesesteak, with a double-meat option – has been engaged in behind-the-scenes talks for a year with the most notorious veggie lovers of them all: PETA. (I use the…
Two years ago, Challenge Aspen ski instructor Chris Bove was in a freak ski accident the night before the annual Buttermilk Uphill Race and Walkathon. He spent seven hours in surgery and died at 1 a.m., just hours before the race was set to begin. So it’s only fitting that…
If I ever get lost in an avalanche, I hope I’m lucky enough to have a Beacon Bowl champion looking for me. Now in its seventh year, this annual competition — in conjunction with Avalanche Awareness Day — lets ski patrollers from nearby ski areas test their search-and-rescue skills in…
Like millions of Americans, Michael Chavez took a break from work on January 20 to watch the presidential inauguration. The Foothills Art Center curator had already planned an exhibit to reflect what people were thinking about at the turn of an administration, but he was still overcome by the magnitude…
The ESPN Winter X Games are back in Aspen this weekend, bringing 200 of the world’s top snow-sports athletes to Buttermilk Mountain. The extreme action will be carried live on ESPN and ABC, but there’s nothing quite like seeing the mayhem – including the new Women’s Skiing Slopestyle and Snowmobile…
Legend has it that Mary Jane was a local lady of pleasure — or, as Winter Park’s Jenn DeBerge likes to call her, “a woman who had a keen sense of supply and demand.” She acquired the land that would become the Mary Jane Trail — a sheep trail until…
Remember snow days? What it felt like waking up in the morning and anxiously turning on the local news to see if your school district’s name was on the bottom scroll, inviting you to waste the whole day sledding or doing doughnuts in the school parking lot? Well, playing hooky…
Hungry? Denver-based Quiznos launched a new campaign this week touting lower prices on its tasty toasted subs, including twenty sandwiches under $5. The national ads show three chefs interviewing customers on the street; one features “real reactions” from people when they are told the sandwich they’re eating can be bought…
Thirty-three years ago, a group of guys trying to figure out what they could do with their Jeeps during the winter months came up with racing – on ice. Today, Our Gang Ice Racing has become a Georgetown Lake staple on weekends in January and February. Club president Jean Denny…
Every Tuesday at Bovine Metropolis Theater, two improv teams battle for the audience’s affections — and votes. Only those rare comedic talents who can keep the laughs coming, winning for six consecutive weeks against new challengers, earn the coveted Battle Royale title. “It’s not easy,” says theater producer and sales…
In all the brooding and debating over I-70 ski traffic and how to fix it or give people a way out of it — with a train — one little detail is usually missing: Denver al-ready has a Ski Train. Its 69th season providing stress-free trips to Winter Park and…
After years of following the skateboarding, BMX and freestyle motocross events of the Summer Dew Tour — the most-watched and best-attended action-sport competition in the world — Breckenridge freeskier Colby West is psyched to compete in the first-ever Winter Dew Tour. “Circuits come and go, and this one I have…
It took a few years, but I finally convinced my Midwestern mother to join the rest of the family on a ski vacation this winter. The only problem is, she doesn’t ski. I was lamenting this fact over drinks recently, brainstorming how to keep her occupied for a week in…
Looking to take the edge off your holiday-shopping experience? How about perusing unique, affordable gifts in a spa-like atmosphere while sampling food and wine? Sounds strenuous, I know, but don’t worry: If you start to cramp up, there will be massage therapists waiting to assist. Boutique for the Soul, taking…
With the hustle and bustle of its shops and restaurants all lit up by holiday lights, Old South Pearl Street is a beautiful stretch to walk along any evening this time of year. But for holiday cheer that fairly oozes onto the street and sidewalks, Winterfest is the time to…
Sharles Johnson was on the phone with his mother when the doorbell rang at his home in Bolingbrook, Illinois. It was a Tuesday afternoon, and the stay-at-home dad was tending to his four youngest kids while the other two were finishing the school day and their mother was working at…
Thirteen children whose families had been brought to the attention of child protection workers still died as the result of abuse or neglect in Colorado in late 2007 and early 2008, prompting Governor Bill Ritter to establish the Child Welfare Action Committee last April. “One child’s death is too many,”…
By the time I was five, my mom had already figured out I was a little too chubby and clumsy to be a ballerina, but when I decided I wanted to be an ice skater, she didn’t have the heart to tell me that might not be the best fit,…
When graffiti artists Wiser and Keith White started their custom art company, Your Name in Graffiti, a couple of years ago, one of their goals was to educate people about graffiti as art. Their invitation to the Denver Botanic Gardens today as part of Denver Arts Week is a clear…
