So we haven’t gotten all that much snow so far this season — the state’s snowpack level is currently sitting at about 86 percent of its average depth. That means we’re all going to need to band together, ditch school, work, and everyday life, and head up the hill to…
Heads up, local groms: This is your big chance.The Dew Tour’s amateur series, the Free Flow Tour, has helped launch the careers of young skateboarders like Chaz Ortiz, Timmy Knuth, and David Loy, and BMX riders like Kevin Kiraly and Mike Spinner. This year the series got itself a new…
Bend Oregon’s Deschutes Brewery’s decision to bring a beer it only made two barrels of says a lot about Vail’s Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival: These aren’t your everyday beers…
Just in case you didn’t get all the gear you wanted this Christmas, On the Edge is hooking you up with some freebies, thanks to the folks at Warren Miller Entertainment. The very neon, delightfully puffy Mt. Haines Columbia men’s jacket pictured here should keep you warm or, at the…
As Denver shivered, it was sunny and in the 40s on the mountain north of Durango yesterday. While it hasn’t snowed for a good week — and lifts 5 and 8 on the back side were not open — the views and the varied terrain, and the beautiful weather more…
On Wednesday morning, ski patrollers at Steamboat Springs found the body of Grace Lynn McNeil, a ski instructor at Arapahoe Basin who had been reported missing Tuesday afternoon. McNeil, who was 23 and originally from Michigan, was described as a good skier who had been on her high school ski…
Ya gotta love the Japanese: When they’re not busying themselves with tentacle porn or dropping $177K on a single tuna, they’re creating the greatest game shows ever. Me, I’d be happy simply watching a snowboarder rocking a real half-pipe, but this being Japan, they’ve chosen to incongruously include a watermelon…
The very idea of some some schmo coming up and offering to guide or teach me on a frontcountry mountain sounds ri-goddamn-diculous. But I guess it happens, because Vail Resorts is stepping up efforts to bust underground lessons and guide services on their hill. In a recent undercover sting, they…
If you’ve been anywhere near a computer, iPod, television or mall in the last two years, chances are you’ve heard the addictive audio crack that is Vampire Weekend. Now comes word that the indie darlings will be headlining Aspen’s 10th Annual Bud Light Spring Jam on March 19th…
Three snowboarders from Colorado are among the qualifiers for today’s Women’s Halfpipe Finals at the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix event at Mammoth Mountain, the second of five U.S. competitions in the run-up to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver: Gretchen Blelier (Aspen) qualified in third, behind Kelly Clark and Hannah…
[jump] This is what I’d wear on the slopes if I were filthy rich, or at least scummily wealthy: At 949 Euros — or $1,367 American — it’s not for the light of wallet. But it is light itself, weighing in at just over a two pounds, and it offers seamless…
Sometimes, when you’ve got the itch to hit the slopes but for whatever reason (cash flow, injury, house arrest) aren’t able to, you can buy yourself some sanity and read a sweet action outdoorsy book. Yeah, it’s not as good as the real thing, but it still curbs the craving…
Dale Katechis, owner of Oskar Blues, gave up his office to provide a home for Lyons Classic Video in the lower level of his restaurant — but it was worth the sacrifice to save a life. Kevin Carroll, owner of Lyons Classic Pinball (located next to Oskar Blues), “has this…
During the first half of the twentieth century, Allen Tupper True was Denver’s premier artist, but in the succeeding decades, he slowly fell into obscurity — known chiefly by local art historians and, because of his murals, supporters of local historic architecture. But three recent projects dedicated to True have…
Jessica Stockholder and John McEnroe. Jessica Stockholder is an internationally known artist who creates what have been described as three-dimensional paintings. She is widely known for her over-the top installations, so it’s unusual to find Stockholders that are small enough for people to actually buy. This exhibit is dominated by…
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…
Reunited with Charles McKeown, his co-writer from Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam has created another Ultimate Po-mo adventure crammed to a fault with big ideas and bigger images that mutate a grungy contemporary London into a living heaven and hell. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus is…
For years, Hollywood has wrestled with adapting C.D. Payne’s 1993 novel Youth in Revolt — which actually was three novels collected under one title, and so the possibilities were endless, given 500 pages of material to mine. In 1996, Fox filmed a pilot starring Chris Masterson as Nick Twisp, the…
There are those who take dance way too seriously, and then there are those who don’t. If you’re one of those folks who avoid the art form like the plague because of the former, here’s your chance to get in touch with its lighter nuances, with help from the latter:…
Set in a Boulder apartment in 1986, Home by Dark is the story of a state trooper who drives from Pueblo to Boulder one snowy morning to confront his son about being gay – and to reveal a secret of his own. “The time and place is very important because…
It’s a little early for this year’s Chinese New Year: The 2010 Spring Festival, celebrating the Year of the Tiger, officially commences on Valentine’s Day. But it’s not too soon to begin preparing for that month-long cycle of activities representing new beginnings, and there’s no better way of doing that…
If you’re kicking yourself for not making the trek up to Morrison last fall to see the well-received Miners Alley production of Jeffrey Hatcher’s A Picasso, opportunity is knocking again: The exact staging, with Chris Kendall as Picasso and Paige Lynn Larson as Miss Fischer, the Nazi attaché, is being…
