Photos: Opening Day at Keystone
Keystone opened for the season on Thursday, and photographer Soren McCarty was there. We’re a little jealous, are you? See more photos after the jump…
Arts & Culture
Showing 25653 - 25674 of 38271Know when you can make a snow cat/hip cat pun? The ’70s.
Via Visit Colorado’s YouTube channel comes this segment from Ski Scene, hosted by Johnny Morris. It’s basically a promo video for Steamboat from forty years ago. Highlights include: Cowboy hats, full body jumpsuits, harmony, more bad puns, some shockingly inane conversation and a mildly creepy ski commercial. Noticeably absent: Snowboards,…
Why won’t you open, Ruby Hill Rail Yard? Why?!
Here’s the best thing about living in Denver in the winter: Snowy and cold up in the mountains, sunny and warm down in the city. Snow/Sun … Wet/Dry … see how that works? Then, in 2007, Winter Park and the City of Denver’s parks department had to go and come…
Morning Dew: Good morning, sunshine
Morning view of the Rockies from the peak of Mt. Evans, courtesy of Zachd1_618’s Flickr page. To have your photos featured in Morning Dew, send them to edge@westword.com or post them to the Westword Flickr pool…
Video of the Day: Uhhh Snowscooting?
For when extreme skiing and snowboarding just aren’t extreme enough…
Three to Ski: Now with options!
Each week, we’ll tell you which three resorts should win your weekend. Last week, it was also the only three running lifts. This week, however, we had to actually make a decision or two to bring you the choicest mountains. Spoiler alert: you’re looking at one of them. 1. Copper…
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Video of the Day: A ski video labeled “Holy S$#t,” and for good reason
Is it us, or do these folks have a slightly skewed understanding of how large rocks work?…
Secret stashes: A look at Colorado’s ‘lost’ resorts
Forget the traffic on I-70 and the hours-long liftlines at Keystone. Head out for a long weekend this winter to poach the secret stashes at Colorado’s small-time mom-and-pop resorts. There’s Cooper (not Copper!), Monarch, Sunlight, the bad-boys down by Telluride and more. Everybody would love to ski Aspen — there’s…
Tonight: Snowshoeing 101 at REI Denver
Snowshoeing allegedly has merits of its own — REI calls it “one of the fastest growing sports in Colorado” and my folks are nuts for it — but for me its real value has always been as a stepping stone.I grew up snowshoeing/snowboarding in the Colorado backcountry alongside a few…
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Morning Dew: Quick, before the snow returns
The Meadowlark Trail in Jefferson County, courtesy of timmyjohn1’s Flickr page. To have your photos featured in Morning Dew, send them to edge@westword.com or post them to the Westword Flickr pool…
Roland Bernier, Patricia Aaron and John Alberty at Spark
More than any of the other co-ops in town, Spark Gallery (900 Santa Fe Drive, 720-889-2000, www.sparkgallery.com) has a membership dominated by established artists. And that makes sense when you remember that it’s the city’s oldest art venue of its type. Among the current offerings is a case in point:…
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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. There’s enough good material here for a tight, funny, one-hour-long show, but this one stretches on and on. Presented by Denver Center Attractions through December 20,…
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Antichrist
Lars von Trier’s doggedly outrageous, fearsomely ambitious two-hander is so desperate to make you feel something — if only a terrible sensation of nothingness — that it’s almost poignant. Most simply put, Antichrist revels in the gruesome ordeal of a bereaved couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) who lose their…
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Historical cataclysm produces conspiratorial thinking: Germany’s loss in World War I, the JFK assassination and 9/11 are all naturally understood as the stuff of unimaginable plots, unspeakable coverups and unseen forces. The guys who made The Men Who Stare at Goats can’t quite decide whether this syndrome is risible or…
A Christmas Carol
It’s not hard to see how the director of Forrest Gump would be thought a good fit to adapt the dearly beloved (and much lampooned) Dickens tale that has survived nearly two centuries of retelling, if you count the Flintstone, Muppet and Barbie versions. Stuffed with simple souls winning over…
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Calamity is no plain-Jane production
The mythology of the West as depicted in dimestore novels and Hollywood fantasy has been pretty thoroughly discredited by now; since the 1980s, a rash of revisionist works have described lives of deprivation, hunger and dirt — not to mention greed and exploitation — on what historians no longer want…
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The Power of Then. Curated by Patty Ortiz, the former director of the Museo de las Américas who now runs the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, this uneven group show explores the shared Latino experience, as in old-fashioned Chicano art — hence the reference to ‘then’ in the…
On the Catwalk
If you’ve attended previous incarnations of the fashion-show collaboration between Debi Belk (lele knits), Laura Woodward (Garden Girl) and Jil Cappuccio, you might have gotten the impression that the fashionistas designed their collections together, complementing one another. Actually, that’s not the case at all, reveals Belk. “Laura doesn’t necessarily know…
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Bright Lights, Big City
Contrary to what you and the rest of the general public might have thought, the Denver Pavilions has never gone anywhere, says Gart Properties spokeswoman Wendy Manning. Behind all the yellow tape, she notes, it’s been business as usual for Pavilions merchants, while improvements, including street-entry escalators, LED screens and…
Oh, the Horror!
Dario Argento isn’t exactly a practitioner of cinematic restraint. But few films by any director can touch the lurid, phantasmagoric spectacle of Argento’s 1977 masterpiece, Suspiria. The Denver Film Society is showing a rare, archival, 35mm print of the horror film, including five minutes of material cut from the original…
A Really Big Shoe
What red-blooded woman with an ounce of fashion sense doesn’t love shoes? It turns out that ceramic artists have that proclivity, too, including the guys (it’s okay, men, I’ve observed more than a few of you staring longingly at a pair of lizard cowboy boots in my lifetime), as evidenced…
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’Koop Town
With the hiring of beer-marketing guru and former Oskar Blues ideas man Marty Jones, the Wynkoop Brewing Company – already Denver’s biggest and best-known brewpub – is making even bigger plans, beginning with its first annual Beers of the Year event. “There is indeed a move afoot to boost the…