Forget about that bumper-to-bumper winter-weekend drive to and from the high country. Today, Rocky Mountain region pro-am boarders will be riding the rails right here in the heart of Denver — in the street, no less — as part of the Backyard Bang Rail Jam, hosted by the Art Institute…
People around the world today are celebrating the official release of the 2009 Beaujolais Nouveau, and local food and wine lovers are no exception. “Historically, Beaujolais is made with the first grapes of the season,” says Angela Bruns, assistant director and event coordinator for the French American Chamber of Commerce,…
One can only hope that this will be the beginning of a beautiful relationship: The Museum of Outdoor Arts and Hudson Gardens are teaming up this season to host Hudson Holiday, an outdoor holiday lighting extravaganza that runs the gamut from traditional to, well, downright artsy. And with MOA wizard-in-residence…
There was a time when a town’s sports geeks would line up only for the stars themselves. In the age of Internet stardom, though, it’s the guy who tells jokes about the stars who attracts the Sharpie-wielding masses — like tonight, when Bill Simmons, ESPN’s Sports Guy, stops by the…
Who in the Denver area doesn’t remember Cabaret Diosa’s joyful mambo rock with pleasure? If you ever saw the band play live, then you already know about its infectious stylings and intoxicating energy. If you didn’t, take a tip from us: Head to Swallow Hill, 71 East Yale Avenue, tonight…
Kathy Griffin is one of those comediennes you either love or hate — or love to hate. She’s best known for such television roles as Sally Weaver on Seinfeld, where she played a tongue-in-cheek acerbic, funny standup comedian who made a career out of mocking Jerry; Suddenly Susan’s Vickie Groener;…
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…
Winter Park became the sixth Colorado ski resort to open this morning, when the resort’s lifts started turning at 9 a.m. (Wolf Creek also opened today, bringing the total to seven). Winter Park is running three lifts up the mountain: Arrow, Endeavor, and Gemini. The lifts serve four trails: Larry…
Hold on to your butts, powder hounds: Freaking Alabama has a ski resort (they currently have a zero inch base and also offer golf and horse riding). Wisconsin has 24 ski resorts to Wyoming’s eight. Think Colorado has the most ski resorts? Not even close–New York has the most, and…
Every few years, Hollywood cranks out another fictional skiing movie. While the subgenre’s never hatched a bona fide blockbuster, there have been a few good films sandwiched in between the myriad variations of “Animal House on the slopes.” (Snowballing, anyone?) As with most sports movie subgenres, the catalog is a…
Colorado National Monument, courtesy of martnpro’s Flickr. To have your photos featured in Morning Dew, send them to edge@westword.com or post them to the Westword Flickr pool…
Wild news breaking today: Intrawest is selling Copper Mountain to Park City-based Powdr Corp, with plans to close the deal as soon as next month. Intrawest, based in Vancouver, owns nearly a dozen other resorts around the world, including Winter Park and Steamboat Springs here in Colorado, but has been…
Winter Park kicks off its 70th Anniversary season when it opens its lifts tomorrow at 9 a.m., staking its claim as the longest continually running ski resort in Colorado (Ski Monarch, open November 25, is also claiming platinum anniversary status this year). Winter Park, formerly known as West Portal, opened…
After Breckenridge voters overwhelmingly chose to decriminalize possession of small amounts of pot two weeks ago, the move generated considerable chatter in the national media, including coverage in The New York Times last Friday. The story speculates as to what impact the move will have on tourism, positive or negative…
Many ice climbs in Colorado are close to the road and have short approaches that take no more than a half hour. In Ouray, for instance, you pretty much belay out of your car, which is why it’s so popular with ice climbers who moved into it from sport climbing,…
A telemark skier in the backcountry, making us all look bad. Photo courtesy of agrinberg’s Flickr stream. To have your photos featured in Morning Dew, send them to edge@westword.com or post them to the Westword Flickr pool…
Telemark skiers are a funny breed. How else to explain the passion of people who are pursuing a turn invented in Norway in the 1860s that amounts to genuflecting your way down the hill?…
On the Edge was on the scene at the Ski and Snowboard Expo this weekend — and not just to shoot our mouths off and shoot photos. Our street team was busy handing out raffle tickets for a pair of new (although last year’s model) K2 Apache Xplorers and Marker…
Okay, so it didn’t even miss a single winter, but the news that Phil Anschutz was pulling the plug on the Ski Train because it wasn’t making money — although it never made any money — was met with a collective groan.But the company that operates the Rio Grande Scenic…
As reported on Friday, the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Expo took over the convention center this weekend. See more photos from the event on the slideshow page…
Here in Colorado we’ve gone and confused our gods, what with all our prayers for snow in the high country and the ones we’ve been sending up on behalf of our hockey team to help smite our enemies: It’s been nearly a decade since we’ve been able to say our…
Somewhere, someone is resting. And she probably earned it. Photo courtesy of weiglen’s photostream. To have your photos featured in Morning Dew, send them to edge@westword.com or post them to the Westword Flickr pool…
