Lo and behold: The blessed union between sneaker geeks and snow sports aficionados has finally hit the honeymoon hotness in Saturday’s Shoe Shine 4.0 Winter Sports Edition exhibit at Andenken Gallery. Since the snow boot is Colorado’s winter sneaker of choice, the shindig (hosted by PULSEarts) is going down as…
Braving the downtown parking prices, I hit opening of the Snowsports Industries of America show at the Colorado Convention Center. Hordes and hordes of exhibitors were on the main floor of the show, including several local Colorado companies.While the après-ski show parties haven’t really gotten into full swing yet, drink…
Overheard at the SIA Snow Fashion Show: “On the lookout for FYB, blue steel, and the assured unintentional comedy” – Jonny Burns, proprietor of SouthOfTheNorth.com and, ahem, FuckYeahBro.com, irreverent snowboarding blogs tracking the trends at the SIA Snow Show this week.If the fashion show at the Wells Fargo Theater (the…
The news keeps getting better: For one thing it’s actually snowing up in them thar hills this week, and for another — economyshmonomy — visits to Colorado ski resorts are up this year, according to Colorado Ski Country USA. A couple inches here, one lone percentage point there… We’ll take…
On Tuesday Vail Resorts hosted a media shindig at Earl’s downtown, part of the kickoff for the SIA Snow Show in town this week, and I took the opportunity to rib Keystone PR rep Katie Adamson about my longstanding grudge against the area, one of the last Colorado resorts to…
The SIA Snow Show’s in town this week, and we’ll be helping you sort through the swag: On Friday, start at the Fillmore for the 11th Annual TransWorld Snowboarding Rider’s Poll Awards ($17). Then hit Marc Frank Montoya’s party with DJ Crime at City Hall, benefiting Colorado’s Snowboard Outreach Society…
Based in Longmont, Grand Shelters is a company of snow-cave-makers who make snow-cave-making tools. The company’s Icebox is one of the few igloo-building tools on the market.After hiking/skiing/snowshoeing to your chosen campsite, you just plop the stake into the snow at your future igloo’s center, and the attached pole makes…
For a few more days, the embattled company that is the owner of Steamboat and Winter Park (for the next few weeks at least) and the former owner of Copper Mountain — Intrawest — is offering the Pow Pow Platter. As in years past, $99 gets you a full-day lift…
In this final episode of our four-part series on ski tuning strategies, Matt Hupperts of the Edgeworks in Denver shows you how to hot wax your skis, using a waxing iron and a plastic scraper. On the slopes, you can crayon on a cold wax to improve performance of your…
Jim Milmoe is a legend in the local photo scene, with a career more than six decades long — most of it in Colorado. He moved to the state in the 1940s to attend Colorado College, where he graduated in 1949; he later earned an MFA from the University of…
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…
Home by Dark. The events in Home by Dark, currently receiving its world premiere at Curious, are very close to local playwright Terry Dodd’s heart. When he was a student at the University of Colorado in the 1970s, he received a nighttime visit from his state trooper father. Dale Dodd…
Animals and people are all jumbled up in the hyperactive Belgian puppet animation that is A Town Called Panic — most notably in its central ménage of Cowboy, Indian and Horse. The filmmakers, Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, show little regard for scale and less for convention. Cowboy (Aubier) is…
Did you shoot my daughtah?” is the question posed, in flat-voweled Bostonian, in the trailer for Edge of Darkness. And Mel Gibson, much-bereaved and much-vengeful, from Hamlet to Ransom to Revolutionary America, sets out to settle another score. Gibson is Thomas Craven: veteran, homicide detective, lonesome widower. His daughter, a…
History Repeats The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke’s first German-language film since the original Funny Games (1997) and it’s his best ever. A period piece set on the eve of World War I in an echt Protestant, still-feudal village somewhere in the uptight depths of northern Germany, The White Ribbon…
There’s a pleasant straightforwardness to Sheldon Friedman’s The Long Goodbye, which begins with a gunshot, then an elderly man holding the gun and describing the slow process of his wife’s deterioration from Alzheimer’s. Moving back a little in time, you see this man, Parker, with his dazed and disoriented wheelchair-bound…
Director Richard Pegg is English, and he completely gets Alan Bennett’s Habeas Corpus, a nutty sex farce set in Hove in the ’70s. The rhythms of the dialogue are bone-deep familiar to him — a rare and deeply welcome thing in this area. Pegg knows about Brighton and Hove, and…
Animals and people are all jumbled up in the hyperactive Belgian puppet animation that is A Town Called Panic — most notably in its central ménage of Cowboy, Indian and Horse. The filmmakers, Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, show little regard for scale and less for convention. Cowboy (Aubier) is…
The Rebelle by Tootsies salon is sending a “love letter to our women clients” tonight by hosting a men’s fashion and hair show. The fashions are from Boss Vintage and Fancy Tiger, and they’ll be hanging on models hand-picked by house barber Jordan Weinstein, who promises, “My standards are pretty…
Although Adam Lerner took the reins of MCA Denver last March, most of the exhibits on display since then were booked by his predecessor, Cydney Payton. That changed when Lerner rolled out six shows collectively titled Looking for the Face I Had Before the World Was Made. “I’m excited to…
A gritty dreamscape dominated by rival rock bands. A sizzlingly sexy Diane Lane. A sizzlingly androgynous Willem Defoe. What’s not to love about Walter Hill’s 1984 cult classic Streets of Fire? The director brought his neon-lit yet grimly cartoonish take on urban fantasy — one that he established in The…
If you’ve ever gone to Buttermilk for the Winter X Games, you probably ended up watching them on the JumboTron like everybody else, freezing your butt off and realizing why these are made-for-TV events. This year, save yourself the trip and join 20,000 snow-sports industry insiders at Skyline Park instead,…
