Beat icon Neal Cassady, who once wandered Denver’s skid row as a kid, would have been 84 tomorrow. It’s hard to imagine the motor-mouthed, free-living inspiration for Jack Kerouac’s Dean Moriarty character in On the Road as an old man, but that’s what Neal would have been, with his years…
In a parallel universe, the ukulele — not the electric guitar — is the preeminent instrument of popular culture. It’s not a stretch to say that Swallow Hill Music Association’s Michael Schenkelberg yearns for such a world. As co-creator of the Denver UkeFest, he’s long been celebrating and raising awareness…
Quick: How many of you have ever discussed Abraham Lincoln’s diet? What, no takers? In one of the more unusual foodie events, personal chef, storyteller, researcher and self-described “passionate locavore” Jessica Gaydos is conducting Lincoln Eats, a cooking demo that focuses on Honest Abe’s favorite foods: corn dodgers, baking soda…
Banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck is a musical rarity: a humble, but gifted phenom who makes his craft look easy without making a big deal of it. And that’s never been more evident than in Throw Down Your Heart, the 2008 documentary tracking Fleck’s voyage through Africa, discovering kindred spirits while…
Here’s the thing about doing an art show that celebrates potatoes: Inevitably, a handful of creatives will try to involve McDonald’s french fries in their pieces. Which is great, except that McDonald’s fries simply will not adhere to any surface for an entire month. “It’s amazing,” says Crissy Robinette, executive…
The continuing appeal of various forms of realism is remarkable when you consider that its would-be replacements, abstraction and conceptual art, have been around for a hundred years already. And the depiction of representational imagery shows no sign of becoming passé. Just look at Christoph Heinrich’s Embrace! now at the…
The members of the Buntport Theater troupe have always been interested in the creative process. They’ve imagined Alexandre Dumas creating his three musketeers after reading a novel borrowed from the library; suggested what would happen if Ovid, having burned the manuscript of Metamorphoses in a fit of pique, came face…
If you leave Loveland when the lifts grind to their halt for the day, then you might be able to sneak back into Denver just before the main brunt of rush hour. But not if you stop for beers at the Silver Plume Saloon. …
Ever fantasized about buying a ski-town chalet? You’re in luck, because ski home prices are the lowest they’ve been in years. The bad part? You’re not going to pay for it on your sandwich artist wage: According to the Grey Lady, a formerly $1 million, three-bedroom condo in Snowmass still…
Nobody ever said snowboarders need brains to win, but Shaun White gives us new, compelling scientific evidence to back this up. On a practice run Friday in Aspen, he mistimed his most difficult trick (a 1260 Double McTwist — anybody want to translate that from Riderese?) and smacked his skull…
Better than yellow snow but still not recommended for human consumption, pink snow is a fairly common springtime sight in Colorado. It has nothing to do with an explosion at a food coloring factory, as was the case in Buffalo, N.Y., a couple of weeks back. Our pink snow is…
More Ski >> We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this video of a backcountry skier exhibiting some of the worst luck and some of the best in the very same death-defying jump…
See Soren McCarty’s photos from the X Games on the slideshow page…
This Saturday, Arapahoe Basin will host the 8th Annual Beacon Bowl, which takes place at A-Basin’s avalanche beacon park at the base of Lenawee lift. Contests are held to see who can find a buried beacon fastest. Professional instruction will be available in how to use a use a transceiver,…
Would you rather hurt your knee or your wrist on the slopes? If you’re still undecided on whether you want to spend the rest of your life as a skier or snowboarder, you might want to ask yourself that question. Just as you might think, skiers tend to have more…
On Monday, all the gear manufacturers moved their wares from the giant confines of the Colorado Convention Center to the base of Winter Park for the first of two demo days. All show attendees got unlimited demos of skis, snowboards, boots, and accessories…
In a recent column in the Denver Post, Bill Husted parses the theories of a CU prof who’s positive Avatar is a metaphor for Crested Butte’s battle against molybdenum mining on the Red Lady. (James Cameron apparently has a house in the area.) It got me thinking of other sci-fi…
The Snow Show has traded the Colorado Convention Center for the slopes at Winter Park, and the demo orgy is now in full swing. On the convention floor, unnecessary but super-sweet gear was in bountiful supply, including the Zipfy sled profiled in this space a few weeks back. (I bought…
Saturday brought snowsports fans out in force to the Colorado Convention Center for Day 3 of the SIA show, while Sunday had a much more relaxed atmosphere. Plenty of cool toys were on display, and buzzwords abounded throughout the weekend…
The hottest product at the SIA Snow Show this year? Pamela Anderson stopped by the Colorado Convention Center last night to unveil her new snowboard collaboration with NDK Snowboards, benefiting People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and thousands of (mostly male) attendees dropped everything to get in line for…
Summit Daily News columnist Miles F. Porter IV opened with a shout-out to Jay Brossman for his 80th birthday on Sunday, and I wanted to second the notion.I briefly met Jay after getting onto his chair on the Lift 2 reload at Loveland last spring and our conversation sticks out…
Anybody can make a snowman, but the real badasses are making snow sculptures in Breck this week as part of the Budweiser International Snow Sculpture Championships. We’re talking 12 teams from 6 countries spending a week whittling away at 12-foot blocks of snow with more tools than a Home Depot…
