The Denver Botanic Gardens keeps up with the times, a fact that’s evident in its theme of choice for the 2010 Bonfils-Stanton Lecture Series. Feast in the Garden: Edible Landscapes and Regional Food Traditions links gardening with eating, which very well might be one of the great overriding themes of…
So far so good: My seven-year-old son and five-year-old daughter seem to be sharing my lifelong love of snow sports and all things wintry, and this winter we’ve gone sledding and snowboarding together and generally fulfilling my fatherly fantasies of family fun. But this week, they’ve been working on some…
Meet the MasterMinds Six years ago, Westword added a very special component to Artopia: the MasterMind awards. Recognizing that the local arts scene needed a little fertilizer to really get going, and growing, we created a program that every year honors five cultural visionaries — artists and organizations alike —…
The Austrian-made Snowbull merges sledding and skiing with…wait for it…a sled on skis.The sled is basically a cozy seat mounted atop a pair of Atomics, making for an easily luggable weight of 13 pounds. Steering is accomplished by pushing your foot against the pedal on the front of your turning…
Yeah, we’ve all seen the Warren Miller films, and the many other ski movies out there. While some every now and then show a woman, such as Hannah Teter, the movies are usually about the guys dropping the big lines, hurting themselves on rails, and generally out having a good…
Some of the best big-mountain skiers in the world will shred Crested Butte’s slopes this week when the Freeskiing World Tour makes its way to Colorado. It’s the fourth of six stops on the tour that judges skiers on their ability to ski uber-technical steep lines with mandatory airs…
Today the Washington Post tackled the question how skiers can hit higher speeds than a skydiver without a parachute.Depending on which sources you trust, the record is somewhere between 145 and 156 mph. That’s sort of amazing, because it’s faster than the terminal velocity of a human body free-falling through…
In the category of “reality really is fucking stranger than fiction,” the town of Telluride, home to some of the best skiing in Colorado, and some of the best music festivals in the world, has been targeted for invasion by a most unwelcome guest. Fred Phelps, of the Westboro Baptist…
This week Venture Snowboards announced the five finalists in its Protect Our Winters art contest, and voting is online now. The winning design will be made into a top sheet graphic for a limited edition run of Venture x POW boards in the 2010/2011 line, raising environmental awareness and benefiting…
So it probably won’t be until the 2012 London games that we’re watching the Olympics on 3-D TVs (presumably while sitting on 4-D couches), but until then at least we have Google Earth.Boulder-based EarthvisonZ is behind Olympicsin3D.com, a Google Earth-powered site with a 3-D directory of all things Vancouver 2010:…
Have you been checking out some of those rad backcountry ski videos and thinking to yourself, “Backcountry lines look like the bomb, but I’m not sure I want to fork over the dough for new gear or take the time to learn a new ski technique?” After all, traditionally, those…
I’ve never once been to Aspen without being treated to an inspired bout of jackassery. Sometimes it’s just a simple cutoff-and-bird from a fur-coat-wearing SUV driver, other times it’s a lengthy diatribe from a stranger on the errors of my “lifestyle choices” (living in Vail).But Aspen’s trying to change all…
Have you been watching ski porn type videos on You Tube featuring big air and tons of pow and wondering how they get that footage? Modern helmet cams, which also usually have an attachment mechanism for those riders and skiers who prefer to go sans lid, have come down in…
In a slow news week where the East Coast stole all our snow, a crafty cat burglar with a taste for expensive reels marched into several Denver-area fly fishing shops and walked out with over $8,000 in fly rods, reels, and fly-tying vises. (Think Thomas Crown in high waders, vaguely…
A dry goods shop in the 1880s and a saloon since 1907, the West Winds Tavern in Idaho Springs is a longtime locals’ joint that’s not unfriendly to outsiders, at least not as unfriendly as the Pagosa Bar. Looking a cross between a log cabin and a cave, there are…
For those of us not inclined to celebrate Valentine’s Day for one reason than another, there’s no better collective way to drown our sorrows than an old-fashioned collective bender. And thankfully the resort towns are throwing all sorts of Mardi Gras shebangs for us to practice our debauchery.Breckenridge and Winter…
Not going to be able to make it to Bourbon Street in New Orleans this year for Mardi Gras? Not a problem, just head for the slopes in Vail where you can ski, chow down on some crawfish, and party on Bridge Street…
When it comes to the Winter Olympics games, some place their bets on notorious athletes, maybe that up-and-coming skier, or maybe a nation’s athletic stats play in it. But if you ask Colorado College Economic professor Daniel Johnson, it’s all about the money, baby. Johnson, whose Colorado Springs office sits…
The Boulder Snowboarding Group is singing the praises of Vail’s big booters this Valentine’s Day weekend, taking its BSG crew to the 20, 25, and 30-foot hits in Vail’s Golden Peak Terrain Park for its Big Booter Lovin’ snowboard big air competition. The competition is open to all ages, with…
It has one of the more abrupt rises of any peak on the Front Range, and…
Nobody wants a wipeout to land them on the disabled list for the rest of the season, but for some reason we humans love to watch one another literally crash and figuratively burn. (Almost as much as we love to watch one another commit even more unseemly acts.)It follows that…
Although member shows at co-ops are typically presented side by side and often in close quarters, whether they work together isn’t something that is usually considered during the installation. As a result, it’s rare to see a slate of simultaneously scheduled shows that function both individually and in concert. But…
