“There’s something people just love about the skateboard as a free and expressive canvas,” says American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Colorado president Elysia Sryiac, surveying more than 300 decks submitted for Saturday’s 5th annual Bordo Bello art show and auction at Redline Gallery. “This will be our largest show…
Last night I had the honor of serving as one of ten judges on the selection committee for the Something Independent 2012 Entrepreneur Award, a $1,500 prize designed to showcase the next wave of Colorado business leaders. After viewing 90-second video pitches from 23 semi-finalists, we narrowed it down to…
“Holy shit, that was so fuckin’ radical!,” proclaims Mike Paproski, a skateboarder with a POV camera who saw Ryan Vitale, one of his fellow competitors, collide with a deer during a practice run at this weekend’s Buffalo Bill Downhill Bloodspill race on Lookout Mountain. (We posted the video this morning…
The Denver Roller Dolls’ Mile High Club destroyed the Sacred City Derby Girls 339-86 in quarterfinals and edged out tournament hosts, B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls, on their way to finals at the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association’s West Region playoffs over the weekend in Richmond, California. They also made the…
Denver’s two premiere roller-derby leagues are headed to Richmond, California this weekend for the Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby Association (WFTDA) West Region Playoffs — aka the “Bay of Reckoning” — and there’s a halfway decent chance that the Denver Roller Dolls (#2 seed, behind Portland’s Rose City Rollers) and…
Boulder’s Satellite Boardshop is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, and this summer also marked the shop’s seventh annual Ride With Us Colorado Skatepark Tour, which started back in May at the new Arvada park (a Westword Best of Denver 2012 winner) and concluded in August at the new park…
Keystone hasn’t yet fired up its snow guns in the race to open the first white ribbon of a run for early-season shred, but that’s not stopping the mountain from hosting the first rail jam of the season: The A51 River Run Rail Series kicks off tomorrow, September 15 –…
“The human body — male or female — is a work of art, especially with athletes,” says Boulder-based mountain bike pro endurance racer Sonya Looney, the latest local rider to strip down for Cyclepassion, the infamous German Calendar of International Cycling Stars often disparaged/celebrated as bike porn. “We work hard…
This summer the Real Skateboards team sent eight of its riders home to film love letters about the streets where they came up for the company’s new “Pushing Since Day One” campaign. Our favorite of the bunch is, of course, this Colorado clip from Ernie Torres, who notes in his…
The USA Pro Challenge makes its way to Colorado Springs today and will be close to home for the rest of the weekend: Stage 6 is tomorrow with a route from Golden to Boulder (current overall tour leader Tejay van Garderen is a Boulder transplant) and the race concludes, spectacularly,…
Fans rooting for a local in the USA Pro Challenge got their wish yesterday when Tejay van Garderen, a 24-year-old rider who now lives and trains in Boulder, won Stage 2 of the USA Pro Challenge. Van Garderen rode 99 miles from Montrose to Crested Butte in three hours, 52…
NBC and NBC Sports will be airing thirty hours of USA Pro Challenge coverage next week as the country’s biggest pro cycling event returns to Colorado for its second year, but die-hard fans will want to see the action firsthand, and it’s a great excuse to see some of Colorado’s…
It seems like every weekend in Denver there’s another fun run with a theme, which is great, really. Sure, there are themed runs (often involving beer before, during or after) in other cities, but probably not with the frequency, participation level or gusto as we can boast here in Colorado…
Vail Resorts and Burton Snowboards yesterday confirmed rumors — first reported earlier this month by the Breckenridge-based Angry Snowboarder blog — that the Burton US Open is moving to Vail after thirty years in Vermont — 27 of them at Stratton Mountain. The 31st annual Burton US Open will be…
The Urban Assault Ride, the nation’s biggest bicycle obstacle event series, took place on the streets of Denver on Sunday, July 21, with competitors racing Big Wheels and BMX bikes along the route. Teams of two set out on a city-wide quest for checkpoints, dropping their bikes and completing a…
On Saturday morning, I ventured to Lakewood to experience the Run for Your Lives 5K apocalypse obstacle course. One part Tough Mudder, one part The Walking Dead, Run for Your Lives had 5,000 people crawling under barbed wire, racing through smoked-filled rooms and sliding into pits of muddy water. In…
AIGA Colorado, the local branch of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and Englewood-based BoardPusher Custom Skateboard Graphics have issued a call for artists for the fifth annual Bordo Bello skateboard art show and auction, a fundraiser for mentorship programs including the annual Robert Taylor AIGA Colorado Scholarship and the…
If this week’s climbing temperatures and the smell of burning pine from fires across the state have you pining for ski season, you’re not alone: The Woodward at Copper action sports camp is opening its outdoor summer terrain park (previously open only to summer camp participants) to the public for…
In honor of Go Skateboarding Day, as declared by the International Association of Skateboard Companies, we decided to change things up a bit. Instead of pedal-pushing around town on the ol’ two wheeler, we switched it up and hopped on the sidewalk surfer. If you have one, pick it up…
Every year the “people’s tree” takes center stage at the various Christmas festivities in Washington, D.C., and this year that tree will be a Colorado native from the White River National Forest. Colorado was selected out of 155 national forests. A celebration starts tonight in Lakewood, with help from Rolling…
The International Association of Skateboarding Companies declared June 21 as “the official holiday of skateboarding” back in 2003, and there are hundreds of killer concrete skate parks across Colorado to help you celebrate Go Skateboarding Day today. Here’s a quick roundup of events and places where you can show your…
Thunder Valley MX Park in Lakewood has become one the world’s premiere motocross venues in recent years, and this past Saturday it hosted the Toyota Thunder Valley National, the third event in the 2012 Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship series. Ryan Dungey (who also won the 2011 Thunder Valley…
