The best way to kick the Grinch out of your holiday-frazzled personality? A bit of the hair o’ the dog should do the trick: Bundle up the kids and everyone else you’ve been screaming at this week, and take them to see Broomfield-based Danse Etoile’s alternative take on holiday ballet,…
Most people think of Christmas as the central holiday of the season — but before there was Christmas, there were solstice celebrations to mark the longest night of the year and the gradual return of daylight to the northern hemisphere; these festivities were linked to a mythos involving the rebirth…
One cool thing about our homegrown Flobots: The indie phenoms may tour the nation now, but they still stay true to their schools. To that end, they’ll host a progressive Flobots.org Holiday Hootenanny that begins tonight at 6 p.m. with a laid-back reception at the Flobots.org Community Center before moving…
Karen Bozik, who decorated the Governor’s Mansion this year for the holiday season, notes that the free Holiday Tours of the residence are “wildly popular. Last year was the busiest year they’ve ever had.” The tour’s run has been extended by a couple of days this year, which should give…
Rabbi Jamie Korngold, best known on the Front Range as the Adventure Rabbi, mixes religion with the great outdoors all year long. But when asked about the annual Adventure Rabbi Chanukah Party, which takes place under a roof, she has this story to tell: “In eight years, the only event…
For the past six weeks, painter Michael Gadlin has been working with a group of six- to fourteen-year-old budding artists to put together a show, Essence & Elements, for PlatteForum. He’s the latest in a long string of artists who have participated in the organization’s goal of introducing low-income youngsters…
Everyone’s got a back-story, and that includes former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, though in her case you’d think the main story – the one about being the first woman in history to hold that post – would be enough. Think again. Albright’s unique new pictorial memoir, Read My…
Cross-country skiing gets the short end of the ski pole in these parts, and that’s probably because it’s a much more subtle rush than downhill — not to mention maybe more work. But as Holly Johnson of the Colorado Cross Country Ski Association notes, it’s great exercise and brings with…
NBC Sports and the Dew Tour have been trying since 2005 to give action sports a season-long arc that fans of more traditional sports can follow: Rather than a one-off annual competition like the X Games, Dew tour athletes accumulate points over a series of events, collecting statistics that mainstream…
The mysteries of space have always held the power to inspire art. With that in mind, NASA created an art program in 1962, calling upon the talents of everyone from Norman Rockwell to Andy Warhol to explore and illustrate the beauty, majesty and wonder of exploring the last, greatest frontier…
Here’s an Olympic event you’re not going to want to miss. No, it’s not biathlon. (It’s hard not to appreciate the combination of skiing and shooting a gun, though, isn’t it?). Check out Snowboardcross at this year’s Vancouver Olympics. This relatively new Olympic event puts four snowboarders on a course…
Who says sledding’s for kids? The Zipfy Mini Luge weighs just three and a half pounds, but a 250-pounder can theoretically ride it 80 miles an hour down the mountain. Inspired by the luge and shovel sledding, riders sit on this tiny chunk of plastic and zoom feet first down…
Last weekend, spectators got a chance to check out the Snowboarding Grand Prix at Copper Mountain. If you didn’t manage to make your way up to Copper to see death-defying leaps of life and study potential mechanisms of injury, you’ll have another chance this weekend in Breckenridge…
It’s a hallowed skiing tradition, but probably not a favorite one: Miles and miles of skitards saddle up and drive into a blizzard, risking life, limb, and Subaru for a shot at once-in-a-season freshies. This results in highway pileups and automotive carnage galore — but ya gotta earn your turns, right?…
In their song “Fear of Falling,” the Badlees sing “I have no fear of falling, but I hate hitting the ground.” Those sentiments have been semi-embraced by an increasingly crazed set of daredevils who huck off cliffs…
Last week we gave you the story of a woman claiming she was getting a sex change to try and use her boyfriend’s ski pass at Keystone. She got busted — but compared to Vail, that was a relative rarity…
Who can afford to pay full price to ski in a recession? Actually, who can afford to pay full price to ski at all? Maybe you already grabbed an Epic Pass an plan to shred everything Vail Resorts has to offer, but if you’re looking to add for a little…
In our sparsely populated neighbor to the north, Yellowstone National Park opens up for winter use today. If you haven’t been to Yellowstone in winter — or alternately have been turned off by the park’s summer crowds — it’s an entirely different world after the snow falls. Not only are…
Year-round backcountry skier and a professor at the University of Nevada-Reno, Kam Leang is on the forefront of innovation in ski and snowboard technology. He currently is teaching a mechanical engineering class where his students are incorporating nanotechnology into skis they’re building. One set will somehow fold down to fit…
The U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix took place over the weekend at Copper Mountain, with Shaun White and his hair going home winners. See more photos from Soren McCarty after the jump…
Skiers are a conservative lot by nature, telemark skiers even more so. While skis have gotten shorter and have more sidecut than they did 30 years, the shape hasn’t changed too drastically from the first wood planks that people strapped on their feet millennia ago.There is one brand of skis,…
The extreme-sledding craze known as airboarding got its start in Europe, but it’s crossed the pond in the past few years. I believe Keystone, Aspen, and Winter Park are the only Colorado resorts that are allowing or offering it in any form as of 2009-10. It’s basically sledding down the…
