East Vail’s The Fang, one of the most notable climbs in the region, wounded another victim Tuesday when a climber fell almost 10 stories off of it. Just 30 feet short of the top of the climb, the entire formation collapsed, sending the poor dude plummeting over 100 feet. Miraculously,…
The American Alpine Club announced this week that it is accepting applications through March 31 for its new Copp-Dash Inspire Award to help fund and document climbing adventures around the world.The awards will come from an available pool of $20,000, administered by the AAC as a tribute to Boulder’s Johnny…
Though there have been some close calls this season, including the ridiculously unprepared guy who got partially buried in a slide off Loveland Pass last month and got his 15 minutes as a result, no one had actually died in a slide in Colorado this season.Until yesterday…
Lots of Coloradans live the contradiction of composting waste or driving a hybrid while patronizing ski resorts, which are environmental disasters no matter how you slice it. Think about it: Between tearing up slopes for runs, sucking up massive amounts of power, and pumping out boatloads of trash and spent…
So the votes are in and the winner of the 2010 Ullr Parade is Ullr’s Voyage to Breckenridge, pictured above. Second went to the Nordic Skiing Gnome by the Breckenridge Nordic Center, celebrating their 40tth anniversary. Third place was the Liquid Lounge for Live Life, Memory of Erik Peterson.I judged…
Want to ride in this year’s Triple Bypass? Well, you likely can’t. Registration for the 120-mile bicycle ride from Evergreen to Avon — and over three mountain passes — sold out yesterday in under one hour. That’s record time; in 2008, the 3,500 slots were snapped up in eleven days…
The Boulder Snowboarding Group — a local Meetup group, more than 1,000 strong, that can barely contain itself — is breaking out the SWAT team gear (snowboard weapons and tactics?) this weekend for its Rail Riot event at Loveland.The Saturday contest, open to the first 100 rioters with a lift…
Some people just can’t get enough. Marathon contests have always been popular, though they are usually applied to more accessible things like dancing or drinking. Climbing, on the other hand, is physical enough that most normal people wouldn’t consider doing marathon climbing sessions, at least not voluntarily. The sheer volume…
January is Learn a Snow Sport Month, and this week’s as good as any to get your whippersnappers whipped into shape: Keystone is hosting the second of its Kidtopia Festival events, Thursday Jan. 13 through Tuesday Jan. 19, building up to its signature family event next month.Send your spawn careening…
Simon Zalkind, director of the Singer Gallery of the Mizel Arts & Culture Center (350 South Dahlia Street, 303-316-6360, www.maccjcc.org), is an intellectual as much as an aesthete, meaning he’s as interested in ideas as he is in visual matters. So it makes sense that Spittin’ Image: Ten Artists Consider…
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…
Girls Only. The trouble with Girls Only, a two-woman evening of conversation, skits, singing, improvisation and audience participation, is that it’s so relentlessly nice. Creator-performers Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein have worked together for many years; at some point, they read their early diaries to each other and were transfixed…
Cults collide as Peter “Lord of the Rings” Jackson tackles Alice Sebold’s best-selling new-age gothic, the story of a rape-murder-dismemberment and its aftermath, narrated by its fourteen-year-old victim from heaven. The movie, starring Saoirse Ronan as the teenage Susie, is horrific yet cloying, sometimes poignant and often ridiculous. Published in…
Directors Allen and Albert Hughes were raised by an Armenian mother and African-American father. With such a background, it would be difficult not to have feelings about the church. The Hugheses’ fourth film, The Book of Eli, centers on the Christianity that was at the margins of their previous films—hypocritically misused by Bokeem Woodbine’s bush-crazy marine turned pulpit-pounder…
Yesterday’s honky-tonk hero, Bad Blake, arrives at a Clovis, New Mexico, bowling alley. It’s another in a string of low-pay, low-turnout gigs with pickup bands half his age, grinding the greatest hits out of an old Fender Tremolux, including his breakout — with the chorus “Funny how falling feels like…
Cults collide as Peter “Lord of the Rings” Jackson tackles Alice Sebold’s best-selling new-age gothic, the story of a rape-murder-dismemberment and its aftermath, narrated by its fourteen-year-old victim from heaven. The movie, starring Saoirse Ronan as the teenage Susie, is horrific yet cloying, sometimes poignant and often ridiculous. Published in…
After marching in the Marade, you might be ready for some down-home entertainment. And there’s nothing more down-home than the annual Martin Luther King African-American Heritage Rodeo, an annual MLK Day tradition at the National Western Stock Show (an estimated quarter of the cowboys in the Old West were black),…
“If you’re one of those people who has only been to Estes Park in the summer, the Winter Festival is a perfect time to see what you’ve been missing,” says Suzy Blackhurst, the town’s public information officer. “Winter is our down season, so the hotel rates are extremely affordable, the…
There were to have been three exhibits this month celebrating Dale Chisman, the Colorado artist who died in 2008, but with Metro’s Center for Visual Art moving from LoDo to a new building on Santa Fe Drive, its retrospective was postponed, and the solo show slated for the Robischon Gallery…
I like the way Denver’s galleries always bounce back after the New Year, with a plethora of fresh exhibitions making tracks through the snow and cold of January. The best New Year offering, metaphorically speaking, could be The Icebreaker Show, opening tonight at Ice Cube Gallery, one of the district’s…
At this weekend’s Festivus Film Festival, you can enjoy the full film-fest experience even if your budget is better suited to PBR than Dom Perignon. With a full-festival pass ($40), you can attend screenings, drink (for free!) with the filmmakers in a private lounge, and hit all the after-parties —…
If you love Harry Potter but think Dracula could beat him in a standoff, don’t miss tonight’s Great Debate at Buntport Theater, where experts will argue for and against vampires and wizards before deciding which, in fact, is the most badass. The experts? Comedians Andrew Orvedahl and Chuck Roy, Fashion…
