Lynette Clemons, Ryan Sandes win Leadville Trail 100

Before that other big endurance event gets underway today, we thought we’d let you know that runner Lynette Clemons — a Leadville local — won the women’s division at the 28th annual Leadville Trail 100 with a time of 19:59:06 to beat out Rhonda Claridge (Ophir, CO; 21:11:24) and Andrea…

Conan the Barbarian 3D is this week’s most ridiculous trailer

This late in the summer blockbuster season, it’s pretty much like 3 o’clock on a Friday for Hollywood: You stopped caring right around yesterday, and at this point you’re just churning shit out so you can go home and get ready for Oscar season. At no other point during the…

Quiz: Can you guess what Nevin Shapiro did for Miami U?

Poor Miami. It’s been a rough summer for Will Smith’s favorite town — first hit hard by the Heat, now facing a ruinous Hurricane. OK, I can’t think of any more team name puns, so here’s the recap: after their superteam lost the NBA Finals, the city was disappointed. But…

Deal of a lifetime: Discounted umbilical cord storage

Plum Deals, a Groupon-esque daily deals site targeted at moms, is offering something really special. It’s something that is worth a lifetime of love, memories and hope. No, it’s not a picture frame made by the hands of children in the Third World to celebrate the very special bond between…

The 2012 Colorado Firefighter Calendar release party was on fire!

It seemed like women outnumbered men by fifty to one at last night’s 2012 Colorado Firefighter Calendar release party at City Hall — but the quality of the testosterone on display was so high that none of the ladies were complaining. At 6 p.m., the VIP ticketholders started filing in,…

Reader: A vote cowardly goddamned middle-of-the-roaders everywhere

There were a lot of things wrong with Erin Roberts-in-a-chicken-suit’s victory over me in Wednesday’s epic Man vs. Pigeon race — like, she was on a moped and I was on a bicycle, for starters, meaning she is a cheating cheater who cheats. But Roberts didn’t just win the race;…

This Weekend in Stoke: Top 5 ways to put human endurance to the test

This weekend we found five of the world’s gnarliest endurance events, all going down right here in Colorado. This is what you’ve been training for all summer, right? It’s all downhill from here! First up is the Trestle All-Mountain Enduro at Winter Park, a three-day, five-stage mountain bike event created…

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, August 19-21, 2011

The weekend is confirmed, and if you’re still working right now, you’re doing something wrong. Grab yourself a cocktail and get away from the desk this second — you deserve it. If you’re too responsible a worker to just get up and walk away, we still have you covered, even…

A sneek peek at the hottest (literally) firefighters of the year

In a perfect world, firefighters would not wear those heavy, shapeless jackets they wear when fighting fires — they would be doing it shirtless, that all might see their turgid pectoral muscles and washboard abs as they glisten and twitch with the exertion of heroes’ work. But this is not…

Oh Target, my Target

So, I’m moving out. After a commenter on my post last week about yoga declared that I should really get out of my mother’s basement if I ever wanted to write about anything other than stretching and poop, I’m more than on it. Not to give this stalker, I mean…

Shroomfest keynote speaker Paul Stamets on mycelium and Merry Pranksters

The author of six books on mushroom identification, cultivation and their many incredible uses, renowned mycologist Paul Stamets has studied fungi for over thirty years. We caught up with Stamets, who is the keynote speaker at this year’s Telluride Mushroom Festival (known informally as Shroomfest), recently via phone to talk…

Abercrombie & Fitch will pay The Situation not to wear Abercrombie & Fitch

With the half-exception of Pauly D, the entire case of The Jersey Shore is pretty repulsive — but none more repulsive than Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, whose very pores pretty much ooze the stink of date-rape. Like many insufferable douchebags, The Situation is an obvious fan of Abercrombie & Fitch,…

For the Birds

An exhibit featuring the work of John J. Audubon makes its debut at the Longmont Museum & Cultural Center today. As the first solo exhibition of the naturalist’s famed bird illustrations in the state, the Longmont display will be the collection’s only stop in Colorado on its cross-country trek. Among…