Jazz, as everyone from Ken Burns on down will tell you, is a uniquely American music. And yet some of its greatest practitioners have hailed from other countries. Clarinest and tenor saxophonist Anat Cohen may be a longtime New York resident, but she grew up in her native Israel —…
The other night at a wedding reception, this guy asks me if I have a reservation. I’m with the wedding party, I say. “So you have no reservations,” he says. I look confused. “No reservations,” he repeats. Huh? “You look like a young Anthony Bourdain,” he says. When I tell…
As that flaky white stuff starts to pile up on roofs and in back yards, Denverites turn their heads toward the hills, sniffing out winter adventures while they wax their skis and boards in anticipation. The Edge, Westword’s annual winter activity guide, is here to help. Whether you’re returning to…
Below you’ll find a blizzard of the season’s best activities and events. For more information on individual ski areas and resorts, see The Edge, our annual winter guide. November Aspen Shortsfest 2010: Accepting submissions of live-action, documentary and animation short films and videos for the 19th annual international competition in…
I happened upon ColoradoSkiHistory.com on the intertubes last night and found it pretty addictive. I got especially hooked on the comprehensive ski lift database, with stats on every lift in the state, and the “Lost Resorts” coverage. Random stuff I learned: Defunct Colorado resorts outnumber operating ones 145 to 30,…
Trudging up the seemingly endless boulderfield below the Mt. Lincoln ice, I couldn’t help think how cyclical our pursuits of outdoor sports are. In the early 90s, while I was living in New York, I would save up every penny so that I could go skiing at Stowe on the…
In this week’s Westword, I wrote about the Adventure Film Festival in Boulder this weekend (and the tragic death of AFF founder Jonny Copp in an avalanche earlier this year). The AFF has a full schedule of great films this weekend — including First Ascent: Point of No Return, a…
Recession or not, Colorado’s ski resorts were plenty busy this off-season. The cranes that went idle in Dubai and Vegas were still running in high gear at many of the base villages, and the list of on-mountain improvements is long. In my estimation, the top five improvements at Colorado resorts…
A momentarily abandoned mountain bike somewhere over the Tennessee Valley. Photo courtesy of jaydoubleyougee’s Flickr page. To have your photos featured in Morning Dew, send them to edge@westword.com or post them to the Westword Flickr pool…
Have you ever skinned your way up a hidden backcountry stash, only to wipe the stinging sweat from your eyes and think to yourself, “There’s GOT to be a better way!”Um, there is: Ken Block’s Subaru WRX-based Trax ST1 is probably the fastest snow cat ever built, and roaring along…
An estimated 30,000 ski and snowboard junkies will flock to the Colorado Convention Center this weekend for the 18th annual Ski and Snowboard Expo. Here, five reasons you should be one of them:…
Tomorrow night at their Boulder location, Outdoor Divas is hosting a free gear panel and punch session. They’ll have K2 ladies alliance member Lindsey Yaw, Babes in the Backcountry founder Leslie Ross, Heather Paul of K2 Ultimate Groove Tele camps, and Krista Crabtree of SheSkis on hand to answer your…
As we anxiously wait for the winter snow, it’s important to remember the building block of a blizzard — the humble snowflake — is not necessarily a unique individual.Scientists now believe that of the million billion cubic feet of snow that annually falls on the planet, some might well be…
Old man Miller doesn’t have much to do with the films that bear his name these days, but his dynasty lives on all the same: Denver screenings of the annual ski porn from Warren Miller Films are as reliable as the changing of the seasons. Warren Miller celebrated his 85th…
Threatening skies over Denver, courtesy of Dr H’s Flickr. To have your photos featured in Morning Dew, send them to edge@westword.com or post them to the Westword Flickr pool…
Keystone opened last week, and the above video should have you jonesing even more to make it there this winter…
Oscar Pistorius was told he couldn’t compete in the 2008 Olympics because his prosthetic legs gave him an unfair advantage. The ban was eventually lifted, but the debate lacked an authoritative conclusion until early this month, when a team of six researchers — a CU professor, student, and former student…
Among Colorado ski towns, Vail gets ragged on for being totally, painfully fake. Unfortunately, the town can now boast of hosting an Old-West tradition that rivals Aspen and Telluride would probably rather do without: the drunken-bar shootout.At 7:30 on Saturday, 63-year-old Richard “Rossi” Moreau allegedly shot up the Sandbar in…
[jump] On Saturday, the Basin opened the Norway lift, offering top-to-bottom skiing via Lenawaee Face and Dercum’s Gulch on the upper mountain, and Ramrod and High Noon on the lower mountain. All of the trails are intermediate runs. Skiers raced to be the first ones to get up Norway on…
Heads up, tree-hugging tree skiers: Aspen Mountain Ski Resort ranked number one out of all western ski resorts on the Ski Area Citizens’ Coalition annual environmental impact report cards for the 2008-2009 ski season. Three other Colorado resorts — Buttermilk Mountain, Aspen Highlands, and Telluride — made the Coalition’s top…
Copper opened on November 6, and photographer Soren McCarty — who also shot Keystone’s Opening Day — was there to capture the snowy goodness. See more photos after the jump…
The view from Chataqua Park in Boulder, courtesy of erunder’s Flickr feed. To have your photos featured in Morning Dew, send them to edge@westword.com or post them to the Westword Flickr pool…
