On Day two of my “Follow the snow tour,” I traveled to Crested Butte. This was the second time I skied at the Butte, and the same feeling struck me: The Butte is a skier’s mountain. Other places may try to claim it, but the Butte is the real deal…
With the I-70 ski resorts still tracking toward a below average snow year, maybe your ski life is in need of some variety. Next time you’re starring at a powderless hill, leave the skis or board in the car and try ski biking. You’ve probably seen the out-of-place-looking contraption in…
This guy Mike Douglas throws down the gauntlet in favor of skiing in the old skiing vs. snowboarding debate. (Wasn’t that settled at the Tahoe Accords back in ought-three?) He does it by throwing a bunch of skiing history in people’s faces, claiming it’s “the original adrenaline sport.”There’s the requisite…
Tuesday morning, I headed out in search of finding snow. First stop: Monarch Mountain…
It had been a rough week in my household, and my husband and I were more than ready to let off a little steam. It was time for Jump Street, the indoor trampoline park. After being cautioned to stay away from the little kids’ area, and after removing our shoes…
Allen True’s West. Allen Tupper True was Denver’s premier muralist during the first third of the twentieth century. Sadly, many of his commissions have been painted over or were lost when the buildings they were in were demolished. In an act of cooperation, the three big cultural institutions on the…
Habeas Corpus. Director Richard Pegg, who’s English, completely gets Alan Bennett’s Habeas Corpus, a nutty sex farce set in Hove in the ’70s. Pegg knows that when it comes to sex, a certain kind of Englishman vacillates perennially between shame and lust. He also understands that Bennett’s ironic melancholia is…
Opening with balalaikas, scurrying agrarians in collarless shirts and helpful intertitles announcing that Tolstoy was “the most celebrated writer in the world,” The Last Station threatens at first to be Tolstoy for Dummies as interpreted by Monty Python. Soon enough, though, this workmanlike adaptation of Jay Parini’s novel about Tolstoy’s…
As personal assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) can keep himself in well-tailored suits and keep his terrific-looking kittenish girlfriend (Kasia Smutniak) in a nice Paris apartment. This is the basis for director Pierre Morel’s delicate study in transatlantic manners, From Paris With Love,…
If aliens arrived tomorrow, would they be malevolent foes bent on conquest or enlightened beings offering wisdom and peace? What if they were simply refugees, sick, tired and powerless? That’s the concept behind Neill Blomkamp’s brilliant District 9, showing tonight as part of the University of Colorado’s International Film Series’…
Waiting for a good reason to get a tattoo? Then today’s the day: From noon to 8 p.m., the artists at Th’ink Tank Tattoo will give you a two-by-two-inch tattoo of your choice for $50. The proceeds will help out a friend and client of the shop, 27-year-old Melanie, who…
In the local fashion world, Fallene Wells is the talk of the town. A hairstylist by trade and designer/homemade fashion show impresario by dream, she makes witty, comfortable clothing that’s a kick to look at and even more fun to wear. See for yourself when Fancy Tiger Clothing showcases Wells…
Fiction writers from the highbrow literary world don’t always qualify as superstars, but T.C. Boyle would be an exception: His reckless flash, flamboyant persona and elegant turns of phrase demand that kind of attention. So it’s always news when Boyle comes to town for a book signing, even if the…
There’s nothing else quite like Cafe Nuba, and Denverites who’ve checked it out know just how lucky they are to have had the multicultural lovefest, grassroots “artivist” celebration, poetry slam and open mike to call our own. And though it’s not around as much as it used to be, the…
Unlike other parties, which regularly occur in gathering places of all shapes and sizes, Super Bowl parties happen almost exclusively in the home. The television as a necessary party apparatus partially explains this phenomenon, though there’s never enough couch space, and Jenny always makes her Mexican layer dip with olives,…
In the ’90s, Conrad Kehn stretched boundaries as the vocalist for the dark, progressive Denver rock group Skull Flux. He’s still chipping away at the walls today — only now he does so as the director of Playground Ensemble, the artists-in-residence at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music…
For boutique entrepreneur Stephanie Shearer, community played a big part in her decision to take a chance on renovating the EZE Mop Complex at 17th Avenue and Lafayette Street into a row of shops. She moved her Soul Haus men’s boutique and opened the new Peppermint gift shop there and,…
Like many Denverites, artist Mark Penner Howell wanted to do something to help the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. “At first I thought about doing some paintings in response to the earthquake, exploring that devastation and chaos as subject matter,” he says. “But that seemed way too tangential…
Summit County’s gold rush days may be long gone (and this season hasn’t exactly been an epic one for the snow rush, either), but the Frisco Gold Rush has been tapping the snow-sports vein in the White River National Forest since 1970, and we’ll happily take our riches where we…
It all started six years ago when Robbie Bowman, a server at Vesta Dipping Grill, challenged his co-workers to grow mustaches — the quirkier the better, he thought. And while he was at it, why not turn the staff’s hair-raising shenanigans into a bona fide mustache festival? If you’ve been…
Musician Brian Rocheleau (aka Rosh) discovered blind cafes, a restaurant-type setup in which meals are consumed in the dark, in Reykjavík, Iceland, when he stumbled across one. “It was a really novel, cool experience,” Rosh remembers. “I got to connect with all these different senses that you don’t normally connect…
Artist Clark Richert plays a big part in the history of hard-edged pattern painting in the state. He was a protegé of George Woodman in Boulder, who’s the granddaddy of that significant movement, but it was Richert who launched a veritable school of followers that includes Bruce Price, Jason Hoelscher,…
