See more photos from the Expo on the slideshow page. The first day of the 18th annual Denver Ski and Snowboard Expo got off to a raging start at the Colorado Convention Center. Walking into the venue, a dizzying array of resorts offered last-minute deals on lift tickets, lodging, and…
Something called Westword is sponsoring a contest for a pretty sweet Keystone vacation package. It includes four nights (December 10-13, specifically) at the six-person Keystone Scratch Game condo with a fully stocked drink fridge and six four-day passes for the mountain. Register here . The Scratch Game condo comes with…
The Winter Dew Tour doubles back to Breckenridge to kick off its second season in December with the Totino’s Open, and we just got hold of a roster of the first round of pre-qualified athletes confirmed for the competition:Last year snowboarder Danny Davis won the Superpipe Finals at the Breck…
Snowkiting is the sexy love child of skiing/boarding, and, um getting dragged around by an overly large kite. Forget balloon boy — this is the real way to pretend you’re a falcon. And if you would like to waste more time at work, a 13 minute snowkiting video with surprisingly…
Breckenridge Ski Resort opened yesterday, and our favorite opening day photographer Soren McCarty was on the slopes to capture the festivities. More photos after the jump…
Certain antsy astronomers are super-freaked-out: The sun has lost its spots. The sun’s magnetism has been decreasing for years, and now there hasn’t been a single sunspot since last year. The last time this happened was during the “Little Ice Age” in the late 17th century, when Europe was reportedly…
Just in time for Veterans’ Day, Intrawest announced this week that they’ll offer discounted season passes for both active military and vets. That means if you’re serving or you’ve previously served, you can shred Winter Park, Copper Mountain, or Steamboat for a cool $219. To be fair, most resorts already…
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,…
