“Everyone comes to Estes Park in the summer, but winter is a best-kept secret, and this is our way of celebrating all of the amazing things that people can do in this great town — in winter and summer,” says Elizabeth Fogarty, project manager of the Estes Park Winter Festival,…
Last month, Torin Yater-Wallace, a fifteen-year-old skier from Basalt, finished in fifth place in the Winter Dew Tour’s Men’s Ski Super-pipe Finals at Breckenridge. Torin who? Exactly: Yater-Wallace is a product of the Gatorade Free Flow Tour, an amateur series that also serves as a feeder system for sending new…
“There weren’t many women out here on the ice twelve years ago, which is why I started all this in the first place,” says Kim Reynolds, the head chick behind the Chicks With Picks and Chicks Rock climbing clinics. “I like to think we’ve helped make ice climbing more approachable…
In the hallowed halls of things that are very, very serious, there are some questions upon whose resolution our society’s very survival depends. Serious questions. Very serious questions. Definitively answering those questions has long been the venerable mission of Buntport Theater — which has previously resolved such weighty issues as…
Quick: What do you know about diabetes? Chances are, not much — and that can be a problem for the millions of people diagnosed each year with what the Centers for Disease Control are now calling a full-fledged epidemic; the number of people worldwide with diabetes is expected to double…
In these parts, we don’t just call this a holiday: The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Marade — so named by former Colorado First Lady Wilma Webb to denote it as a cross between a political march and a celebratory parade — is known for being one of the…
Photography, an alchemist’s medium dependent on a manipulation of light and time, unfairly stands in that no-man’s-land between fine art and technical craft, and working to change that general perception is half the job of promoting the photographic arts. That said, the tenth anniversary of Working With Artists, a nonprofit…
Moleskins, alternative newspapers, Ray-Bans, beards: all stuff white people are into, or so says author Christian Lander, whose website spawned his first book, Stuff White People Like. Now he’s back to the printed page with Whiter Shades of Pale. The book’s primary goal is to look even closer at white…
Sample topics from Aziz Ansari’s stand-up repertoire: Craigslist, thread counts, Jamba Juice and his cousin Harris. In his hands, they’re all opportunities to screw with someone. Ansari has a big resumé that’s just getting bigger. He starred in MTV’s Human Giant and now stars in NBC’s Parks & Recreation. He’s…
What made Gilda Radner one of the all-time comic greats was her astonishing combination of fragility and complete disinhibition. She was raucous, sweet, lewd and confused. You really had no idea what she was likely to do at any given moment — spit, fall, collapse into uncontrollable laughter — nor,…
Over the past year and a half, Fascinations has been hosting “Let’s Talk Sex” events in every market. “It’s really important to us to provide open-source, accessible sex education through free classes,” notes Fascinations media specialist Shanna Katz. “Kink is part of the spectrum of sexuality, so in addition to…
You can leave your 3D glasses behind this weekend if you go to the fourth annual Festivus Film Festival, which takes over the Oriental and Bug theaters for three days and showcases more than sixty independent films. “We wanted to create something that focused on real indie films,” says festival…
She may be a big fancy star now, but once upon a time, the germ of comedy was planted in Tig Notaro while she was working as a music promoter right here in town. “When I was living in Denver, I was really itching to perform,” says the comic, who…
The brick-and-mortar movie rental store is a dying breed, but that doesn’t mean you can’t rent local. Louisville’s John Griffin has started a local kiosk movie business called Treehouse Movies. Right now he’s got one kiosk in Denver, at the Sunflower Market at 2880 S. Colorado Blvd., and three in…
Let’s say you’re trying to get to the top of Mount Rainier in Washington State. You’re walking along with your buddy across a snow bridge, and all of a sudden it collapses, plunging you into an 80-foot-deep crevasse, causing an avalanche and killing your buddy, leaving you stranded at the…
For all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you “Gettin’ Crafty” where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. Here’s a…
After the recent snowstorm, a mysterious someone built a snowman around the parking sign outside the Bradley Sinclair in downtown Morrison. It wasn’t quite street art, though, until one of the gas-station graveyard-shift workers by the name of Chris decided to prepare a birthday surprise for his colleague, Kerry –…
Wow. That was fascinating. You know, we’ve heard a lot of interesting things in our lives, but that thing you just said? That was by far the most interesting. Just to let you know how awesome you are, and because it’s Wednesday, the day that we bring you the best…
Ever since zombies started taking over, ninjas have been getting a bum rap on the game front. Thankfully, Adult Swim Games is around to latch onto these types of things, which is where House of Dead Ninjas comes from. It’s a simple, clever and addictive game…
Looking to get away from it all and head out under your own steam? Boulder’s Neptune Mountaineering is hosting a series of cool events this week leading up to the Backcountry Film Festival next Thursday: Start with tonight’s BYOB (bring your own beacon) practice session at 6 p.m., followed by…
Operation Babylift, which flew hundreds of babies out of Vietnam after the 1975 fall of Saigon for adoption in the United States, has faded from national memory. But for actor Joe Wandell, born Hai Tran Thai and the son of a Vietnamese woman and a GI, it remains the central…
A couple of months ago, in a rare “moot thread,” 4chan founder Christopher Poole indicated that he was open to the suggestion of creating a “social” board in order to rid its random board — or /b/, the (very NSFW) anon hub commonly known as “the asshole of the internet”…
