Woe was the Jew on the Christmas Eve of old, the lonely, left-out Jew with a $1.25 scoop of fried rice and a $10 ticket to Whatever Disney’s Shilling. But not since 2007, when Heebonism made its debut in Denver, has that young(ish), probably (though not necessarily) single Jew had…
“Is this the start of a new era, or the last year for the Winter Park ski train?” That’s the cryptic question on the home page of www.riograndescenicrailroad.com/skitrain, and the answer could be: both. As it stands, the new era will start at 7:15 a.m. today, when a train pulls…
The Improv Cavalcade at the Avenue Theatre is a parade not just of the city’s best improvisational performers, but some of our quickest-witted ex-pat talent. “We have a number of improvisers that used to perform here in Denver and either moved to Chicago or L.A. to continue on,” says the…
The theater at Elitch Gardens once boasted the oldest summer-stock company in the country, with stars ranging from Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to Robert Redford. But the company disbanded in 1963, and then the amusement park left northwest Denver altogether, leaving behind the circa-1891 theater. Although the exterior of the historic…
As any karaoke audience can tell you, context is everything. But when directors Sally George and Stephen Walker made the 2007 documentary Young@Heart, they proved that context, as well as musical beauty, is in the eye and ear of the beholder. The film follows the Young@Heart Chorus, a group of…
It’s Christmas Eve, you haven’t finished your shopping, and now you’re in full-blown panic mode. Stop running around like a reindeer with its head cut off, take a deep breath — and head to Larimer Square between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. today for the second annual Christmas Eve Celebration,…
Best ski deal…best ski deal. Echo Mountain earned Best Ski Deal honors in the Best of Denver 2009, and the deal keeps getting sweeter. Now that Echo offers night skiing until 9 p.m., its lift tickets are a real bargain: a full twelve hours of skiing will cost you about…
Christmas is over, but the week-long festival of Kwanzaa is just beginning. And the Denver Zoo’s fourth annual Kwanzaa celebration, which runs from 5 to 9 p.m. tonight and tomorrow at the zoo’s Gates Center, 2300 Steele Street, is another holiday animal altogether. “There will be stations about African animals,…
Tonight’s FORK Anniversary Show will serve up the result of four amazing years of travel, workshops and over 500 productions across the country. “This is just a huge culmination of everything we’ve been doing,” says FORK player Jon Jon Lannen. “It’s just a huge party to celebrate what a good…
Winter Park’s annual Christmas Eve Torchlight Procession down Lower Hughes takes on extra significance this year as part of the resort’s 70th anniversary celebration. Santa and his crew will be on hand to get one last run in before clocking in for the night, and the aprés ski scene includes…
Thousands of words have been spilled in gushing praise of legendary director François Truffaut’s Small Change, but leave it to equally legendary film critic Pauline Kael to sum up this 1976 movie most succinctly, describing it as “a poetic comedy that’s really funny.” A series of vignettes filmed with Truffaut’s…
Since Josh Blue, a local comic with cerebral palsy, won NBC’s Last Comic Standing back in 2006, things have certainly changed — including his material. “Now that people know who I am, I don’t really have to talk as much about the disability stuff,” Blue says. He’s also been hitting…
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So it almost goes without saying that Santa Claus isn’t known for being the dude with the most wicked moves on the mountain. He’s better known for superlatives involving his stomach, his speed in a flying sleigh, and his generosity with his stash. But as the following videos attest, Mr…
Okay, I know last week’s unnecessary but desperately desired product was kiddie-oriented. This week’s — the Wham-O SnowBall Blaster is even more so. But it’s perfect for a snowball fight on a white Christmas. Better yet, outfit the whole clan and have an all-out snowball war…
“We are a local store that could use a leg up this season,” writes Marily Macdonald, marketing coordinator for the Outdoor Divas shops in Boulder and Cherry Creek, just as I’m heading out the door to scrape the snow off my car and scrape together the last of my last-minute…
When Breckenridge team rider and Summit County local JJ Thomas took 3rd and stepped to the podium after the Dew Tour Superpipe Finals at his home mountain on Saturday, he did right by both the Summit Unchained “Buy Local” campaign and his new sponsors at Unity Snowboards.Unity hooked the 2006…
While digging a snow pit and pitching a tent in winter is great preparation for high-altitude mountaineering and a fun experience in its own right, Colorado has a better solution for winter overnights in the 10th Mountain Division Huts — a series of backcountry huts that offer borderline decadent backcountry…
Well, maybe only if you’re Swiss: A study built from questionnaires given to 782 injured skiers at trauma centers and 496 uninjured skiers in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland found that drinking alcohol was not likely to contribute to injury, but indulging in marijuana did.Keeping in mind that this…
I happened upon 3dskimaps.com on the intertubes last week and think it’s one of the biggest innovations in ski maps since, I dunno, folded paper…
The recent East Coast storm motivated one Teton Gravity Research follower to grab his short skis and trek 300 yards from his house in search of face shots. He found what he was looking for next to a stoplight on a newly constructed road. Here are nine photos and a…
At the far east end of Telluride, Bridalveil Falls is breathtaking in its beauty. Standing 430 feet high, it pours over a north-facing wall in a canyon. Come winter, the falls freezes into a delicate blend of hanging icicles, cauliflowers, and brutally steep ice.In 1974 steep ice climbing was still…
