Loveland loves to lay down its annual earliest opening day claim, and we have to say things are looking pretty good up there this week, with a little bit of natural snow and perfect conditions for snow-making operations. They’re already behind last year’s pace (Loveland opened on October 7 last…
Denver-based snowboard film crew SixEleven Productions drops the world premiere of Stop…Hammer Time! tonight at Gothic Theatre (6 p.m., $10, ages 16+), along with the Denver premiere of Pirate Productions’ Hooked and a mess of free stuff from SixEleven’s new sponsors, including Ride Snowboards…
The Poor Boyz Productions Triple Threat Tour comes to Boulder Theater tonight with the local premiere of the 2010 ski film Revolver (trailers after the jump) and an autograph signing with featured athletes including Simon Dumont, Nick Martini, Matt Walker, and Dane Tudor, followed by an afterparty with music by…
Crested Butte-based company Matchstick Productions won Best Film for The Way I See It over the weekend at the International Freeski Film Festival (IF3) in Annecy, France, where Henrik Windstedt also won Best Freerider honors for his part in the film (peep the trailer after the jump). Another Colorado company,…
The Gothic Theatre gives itself over to the local snowboard scene once again tonight at 7 p.m. when 720 Boardshop presents the Denver premieres of The People Crew’s Cheers and Sup Bro? from local crew Mistaken Productions (trailers after the jump)…
Most startup magazines don’t make it past their first issue, so we’re stoked to see the second issue of Snowboard Colorado in shops this week, and with Gretchen Bleiler boosting big on the cover to boot…
The Red Bull Rampage is underway today in Virgin, Utah, featuring 25 of the craziest dudes on mountain bikes competing on a course that drops 1,500 vertical feet and features a 63-foot canyon jump. The Rampage is the final stop on the Freeride Mountain Bike FMB World Tour …
Boulder’s Fox Theatre hosts The Reunion tonight with the premieres of The Arena from FODT Productions and Mark Frank Montoya, Videograss’ Bon Voyage, Airblaster’s Respect Your Elders and Instalite’s Ride With Us 2010 (trailers after the jump), plus autograph signings from many of the featured athletes and lots of swag…
The Motocross of Nations has only been staged in the United States three times in its 64 year history, but Lakewood’s Thunder Valley Motocross Park had the honor this weekend, hosting 32,000 spectators and top riders from around the world. Team USA went big for the occasion, beating out Belgium,…
Gotta love Loveland, where, in the race to claim earliest opening day honors in North America yet again, they’ve already got snowmaking crews on the mountain. After getting hit with a bit of the real deal yesterday, Loveland’s snowmaking crews went to work under the full moon last night, which…
We’ve been dutifully posting news of just about every ski & snowboard film premiere in the area this month — yes, we’re just as stoked for the snowy season as you are — and here comes the motherlode: Head up to Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House tonight for The Meeting, Aspen’s…
The Absinthe Films Sphere of Influence Tour makes its way to Denver tonight at 7:30 with the local premiere of NowHere at the Esquire. Featured riders Marie France Roy, Dan Brisse, Bode Merril, Cale Zima, and Annie Boulanger will be in the house with some Sharpies, and proceeds from the…
Snowboarder Jeremy Jones and Teton Gravity Research teamed up last season to bring out the biggest adventure film of the year, and the Denver premiere is tonight at the Oriental Theatre. Deeper: A Snowboard Adventure Into the Unknown follows Jones and friends ( Travis Rice, Xavier De Le Rue, Josh…
The world premiere of The Way I See It — skiing circa 2010, as seen by Crested Butte-based film crew Matchstick Productions — blew minds at the Boulder Theater on Saturday. It’s the 20th feature length film from MSP, and it’s a doozy, with Mark Abma, Sean Pettit, Eric Hjorleifson,…
Majestic landscapes filled with foliage are all well and good, but there’s only so much you can do with that. What you need is beautiful people in front of your foliage. It’s like putting dressing on your salad; it just tastes better. So to commemorate the Telluride Photo Festival, which…
The world premiere of Standard Films’ The Storming gets top billing at tonight’s Snowboard on the Rocks, and for good reason. In a film full of big names, big mountain lines and all-around ballsy boarding, featured rider Torstein Horgmo has the biggest trick of the year. Remember all of last…
Tomorrow night’s Snowboard On The Rocks event is being hyped as the biggest snowboard movie premiere of all time, with three world premieres including Never Summer’s Made In America, Think Thank’s double feature Right Brain/Left Brain (see trailer after the jump) and Standard Films’ The Storming, plus performances by Cool…
How gnarly is the Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race? Plenty gnarly, and if you’re not among the hardcore to have completed the grueling race, you can get your gnar vicariously through Citizen Pictures’ 2009 documentary Race Across the Sky and the forthcoming sequel documenting the 2010 race (see trailer…
If you’ve been getting stoked for ski and snowboard season with all the big movie premieres around town this month, here’s some fuel for the fire: Breckenridge announced this morning that they’re overhauling the Freeway Terrain Park on Peak 8 for this season and adding a 22-foot Superpipe built to…
Denver-based Level 1 Productions takes over Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom tonight with the world premiere of Eye Trip, a “skiing counterculture” documentary that follows Ahmet Dadali, Tom Wallisch, Wiley Miller, Tanner Rainville, Phil Casabon, Duncan Adams, Adam Delorme, Josh Bibby, Parker White, Chris Logan, Mike Hornbeck, Corey Vanular, JF Houle, Henrik…
The first video feature from 303 Boards’ CLFX team premiered last week at the Bluebird and is online now for the bargain price of, yes, $3.03. Denver’s a serious skateboard town, with some of the best (and most plentiful) skateparks in the world, urban spots with a worldwide reputation, and…
Snowboard Colorado is a rad new freebie magazine in local shops this month. The mag is the latest project from Adam Schmidt, founder of the Boulder Snowboarding Group (Westword’s Best of Denver 2010 pick for Best Shred Heads) and it’s the real deal: A 100-page glossy celebrating every aspect of…
