It was so nice Wednesday that I bagged work after lunch and headed down south to Palmer Lake for a hike up to the reservoirs above town. I met a buddy for the trek up to the second reservoir — about 1.5 miles with a fairly abrupt 600-foot gain –…
You pick up produce at your local farmer’s market, support your local arts and crafts fairs, shop exclusively at local indie books and records stores, and generally buy local whenever you can. So why are you riding a snowboard made in China when some of the best boards in the…
Each weekend, we’ll tell you the which mountains most deserve your attention. We’re up to six resorts open now, and most of them offer top-to-bottom skiing at this point. Still, after that massive storm a couple of weeks ago, the weather has been decidedly uncooperative…
See more photos below. Skiers flocked to Breckenridge today for opening day, enjoying four runs with three operating lifts, soft snow, clear skies and temps in the 50s.The day began as any good day should: with free pancakes. The pancake/waffle breakfast at the Bergenhof, at the bottom of the Colorado…
Update: We’re still taking names. We’ll draw the winners tomorrow. If you can’t decide if you’re interested in catching Warren Miller’s latest ski film, Dynasty, maybe this will help: We have a pair of vouchers good for free tickets to next Thursday’s screening in Littleton. To snag the tickets, send…
So Backcountry Outlet is switching over to Department of Goods in January. But today they opened the beta version of the new site. It’s pretty awesome. In addition to the usual online markdowns on clothing/skis/bikes/assorted crap you didn’t know you desperately needed, they’re giving away $200,000 worth of prizes on…
A hike through the Wheeler Geographic Area in Rio Grande Natioal Forest. Photo courtesy of taoboy49’s Flickr feed. To have your photos featured in Morning Dew, send them to edge@westword.com or post them to the Westword Flickr pool…
The history of modern design is one of the focuses of the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, and the Kirkland’s founder, Hugh Grant, has avidly acquired more than 3,000 interesting examples of furniture and accessories by a who’s-who list of international designers. In the process, Grant has turned…
Barnaby Furnas: Floods. Furnas is a New York artist who’s been exhibiting his work since 2000, and this exhibit, in the MCA’s Large Works Gallery, is made up entirely of his large abstract paintings. A unique feature of Furnas’s personal history is his early embrace of watercolors as his medium…
Calamity. Written by Stephen Wangh and Suzanne Baxtresser, Calamity brings Calamity Jane back to life, re-creating one of the Wild West shows in which she starred at the turn of the last century. But here Calamity also confronts the present — along with current ideas about just who she was…
Tickets for Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, the critically acclaimed, buzz-generating film that opens the Denver Film Festival on November 12, sold out a while ago; in fact, it was the fastest opening-night sellout in film-festival history (Westword will run a full review of Precious next week,…
Completing his multi-film vendetta against the world’s tourist trade, German-born director Roland Emmerich sends the mother of all storms to level the Washington Monument, the Eiffel Tower and a priest-filled Vatican City, among other locales, in his newest end-times thriller, 2012. From Independence Day (1996) to The Day After Tomorrow…
Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but for the title character of the pitch-black Chilean comedy The Maid, it’s closer to an infernal torment. For more than twenty years, Raquel (Catalina Saavedra) has worked as the hired help for an upper-class Santiago family, the Valdezes, whom she has served with…
Apparently playwright Charles Mee has been garnering a fair amount of attention over the past few years, but it somehow escaped me. So I have no particular expectations when Big Love begins with a group of young women clustered in the wings at both sides of the playing area, all…
Tickets for Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, the critically acclaimed, buzz-generating film that opens the Denver Film Festival on November 12, sold out a while ago; in fact, it was the fastest opening-night sellout in film-festival history (Westword will run a full review of Precious next week,…
“The idea for the show was really founded out of anger,” says Todd Barnes, aka Tina LeGrand. “I had some issues with men not wanting to date me because I’m a female impersonator. I was going to make a point that no matter if I did drag or not, I…
Get ready for a wild ride tonight when Communikey @ BMoCA, a concert/dance party/art happening takes over the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. “The bands we are hosting are all genre-bending multi-instrumentalists, and because it’s not in a ‘normal venue,’ we can do some different things with the space, and…
There are plenty of classic Christmas movies, but traditional Thanksgiving films are harder to come by. That’s probably a good thing, because it means that Alice’s Restaurant has little competition. Based on Arlo Guthrie’s hit song “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” that in turn was based on a true story that began…
Austrian-born photographer Sabin Aell settled in Denver, which she calls “the Wild West,” just a few years ago. But she began making art long before that as a child in the town of Linz. In the ’90s, Aell documented the alternative music scene in Europe — think Rob Zombie in…
Mickey Rourke’s masterfully depressing turn in last year’s The Wrestler — not to mention the increasingly dark theatrics of TV shows like Extreme Championship Wrestling — have pretty much disavowed the notion of professional wrestling as light, goofy entertainment. And yet there’s still some levity in the gloomy and garishly…
The Colorado-based PeaceJam Foundation has been inspiring youth with the help of a global enclave of Nobel Peace Laureates since 1996, but the nonprofit is also always on the lookout for kids too good to be true, especially those doing good deeds in our own back yard. And that’s exactly…
Although I like to shop, I’m not sure I can say I like shopping for the holidays, when that uncomfortable sense of urgency takes over, casting its ugly commercial pall over everything. But my advice is this: Don’t let it get to you. Make a detailed list. Smile in the…
