“Your job should be something you’re pumped on,” says Preston Strout, co-owner of the High Cascade Snowboard Camp. He’s the guest moderator at The Business of Fun, a free event starting at 6 p.m. tonight that’s the kick off for the three-day Launch of Winter celebration at Battery 621 (click…
Tonight’s October Snowboard Colorado Magazine release party at Casselman’s Bar & Venue ($10) features the “official” North American premiere of Bottom Line, from the Austrian crew at Pirate Movie Productions (they also showed it in Aspen last week at The Meeting) and the local premiere of Think Thank’s latest, Ransack…
Flylow, a Denver-based gear company specializing in skiing outerwear and accessories, won the first-annual Something Independent Snowsport Entrepreneur Award last night, presented at the Sypder Showroom at Battery 621. The $1,500 award comes with a marketing package to help take the winning entrepreneur to the next level, and was established…
Poor Boyz Productions’ 2011 ski epic The Grand Bizarre got its Colorado premiere over the weekend in Aspen at The Meeting ski and snowboard film festival; it comes to the Boulder Theater, 2032 14th Street, tonight at 7 p.m. with featured skiers Bobby Brown, Nick Martini, Simon Dumont, Matt Walker…
You’ll never look at an urban tree in quite the same way after you’ve been on the Fall Tree Walk offered annually on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus by the CU Museum of Natural History. That ‘s because it’s leaf-peeping with a purpose, a serene evening stroll led…
At the height of fall in Colorado, as the leaves mature from sun blazed umbrellas into a landscaped rug, Colorado experiences a glowing transformation. Aspen Mountain, in particular bursts with an electric glaze, one that was too bright to ignore over the weekend when I was in Aspen to cover…
We’ve been getting ahead of ourselves with all the recent snowboard video premieres going down — and opening day still at least a month away at most Colorado resorts — but some of our favorite local film crews have been reminding us of an important fact: It’s still skateboarding season…
Skate & create! The fourth annual Bordo Bello skateboard art fundraiser runs tonight from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Redline Gallery, 2350 Arapahoe Street, with a silent auction featuring skateboard decks, vinyl toys and other artwork. Event organizers sent out blank Board Pusher decks and KidRobot Munny toys to…
As if the explosion of Fall color isn’t reason enough to drive over Independence Pass this weekend headed for Aspen, tonight is also the NEPSA Video Awards ceremony at 7 p.m. at the Wheeler Opera House, the official kickoff of The Meeting, Aspen’s 7th annual ski & snowboard film festival…
The most-hyped snowboard film of the season gets its Colorado premiere with a sold-out show at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House tonight at 8 p.m., when snowboarder Travis Rice and Brain Farm Digital Cinema director Curt Morgan bring The Art of Flight to town (there are still tickets available for…
Break out your best black and red gear: The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls’ 5280 Fight Club finished in second place at this weekend’s Bridgetown Brawl West Region Playoffs, advancing to the 2011 Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) Championships in November, where they’ll defend their 2010 title. RMRG destroyed the #7-seed…
Denver-based snowboard manufacturer Never Summer Industries celebrates its 20th anniversary season this winter, and the party starts tonight at 7 p.m. at Summit Music Hall with the world premiere of the second full-length team video, Shred Em’ All, followed by a thrash-rock set and Metallica covers by It Should Have…
All-star teams from both of Colorado’s premier roller derby leagues — Rocky Mountain Rollergirls and the Denver Roller Dolls — are in Portland, Oregon, this weekend for the Bridgetown Brawl Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) West Region Playoffs at Memorial Coliseum, and all of the tournament’s bouts will be…
The mere thrill of jumping out of a plane wasn’t enough for Denver-based skydiver Nick Batsch, who took up the sport of canopy piloting (where the action is closer to the ground) ten years ago. Batsch just won his third United States Parachute Association (USPA) National Skydiving Championships of Canopy…
September snowboard stoke continues tonight at the Fox Theater (1135 13th Street in Boulder) with the Colorado premieres of Capita’s Defenders of Awesome, Role Model Productions’ Cockfight!, the Givin film One, and the new team video from Boulder’s Satellite Boardshop, plus an encore screening of Familia 2, from FODT &…
Yesterday marked the official ownership transition at Grand Mesa’s Powderhorn Resort: Andy Daly and brothers Ken and Tom Gart bought the ski area at auction on August 4 for just $577,500, plus an additional 700-acre development tract below the resort for $825,000, spending a total of $1.4 million and announcing…
Colorado companies cleaned up at this weekend’s fifth annual IF3 International Freeski Film Festival in Montreal, with Boulder-based Sweetgrass Productions taking Best Cinematography for Solitaire, Denver-based Level 1 Productions winning Best Editing for After Dark, and Boulder-based Stept Productions claiming Best Jib Movie for Weight (the Boulder premiere of Weight…
Mmm… totally! “We are looking forward to 10,000 snowboarders getting together to celebrate the sport and the start of the new season,” says Waide Hoyt, production manager for Standard Films. The company is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Totally Board series tonight with the world premiere of TB:20 at…
Director Nick Waggoner and his Boulder-based Sweetgrass Productions crew spent two years filming in the backcountry in Argentina, Peru, and Chilean Patagonia to make Solitaire, a film unlike any of the other ski and snowboard porn premiering this month. We caught up with Waggoner and producer Zac Ramras in advance…
“What the fuck am I doing here?” asks mountain climber Cory Richards, in the opening seconds of Cold, one of six climbing films featured in the 2011 Reel Rock Film Tour that kicks off tonight at 6 p.m. at the Boulder Theater. It’s a poignant question: Richards is at 21,959’…
New Belgium Brewing, the Fort Collins-based brewery with the iconic cruiser bike logo and best known for its Fat Tire Amber Ale, raised more than $90,000 on September 3 for the Overland Mountain Bike Club, Bike Fort Collins, and Fort Collins Bike Co-op at its Tour de Fat event in…
Turn out the lights! Director Josh Berman and his Level 1 Productions crew — local heroes all — are bringing it tonight at 8 p.m. for the world premiere of After Dark at Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, 2637 Welton Street ($15). The twelfth installment in the Level 1 ski porn filmography…
