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…
Roll out the white carpet: Tomorrow night’s world premiere of After Dark from Denver-based Level 1 Productions kicks off a busy Fall film schedule that serves as a reminder of just how awesome it is to live in Colorado, where — for a few months, anyway — we get the…
The Elevations Credit Union Buffalo Bicycle Classic in Boulder isn’t a race, but it does have a lot of winners: The ride is the single largest source of scholarships for the University of Colorado at Boulder’s College of Arts & Sciences, raising nearly $1.5 million since 2003, its organizers say…
The 6th annual Reel Rock Film Tour kicks off on Thursday, September 15, at the Boulder Theater, featuring six of the year’s most intense climbing documentaries. This week, Boulder’s Sender Films and Reel Rock event promoter Big Up Productions released the 2011 lineup and a trailer featuring each of the…
If, like us, you spent some of your Labor Day weekend trying on winter gear in stifling heat at the Ski Rex and Sniagrab sales, here’s a quick reminder that the day after Labor Day is a great time to buy summer gear. Gotta love living in topsy-turvy Colorado, right?…
!xeR ikS dna bargainS You know you’re a Coloradoan if the recent late summer temperatures approaching triple digits have you dreaming of powder days and wondering if your ski pants still fit. Join the club at either Sniagrab or Ski Rex this weekend for discounts up to 75 percent off…
If you nerded out on the EpicMix app while skiing or snowboarding at the Vail Resorts last season and love to boast on Facebook about just how sick your “sick days” are by posting photos and status updates from the mountain, then EpicMix 2.0 is just for you, adding EpicMix…
Denver’s public parks date back to the 1870s, when city planners and the state legislature had the foresight to pave the way — or, rather, not pave the way — for our current boom in outdoor activities nearly a century and a half later. So today you can run yourself…
The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls’ 5280 Fight Club — defending Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby Association national champions and currently ranked number two in the nation, is busy training for the Bridgetown Brawl West Region Playoffs later this month in Portland, Oregon. But first there’s a more local score to settle:…
We came across this intriguing teaser for If You Want to Fly, from Carbondale-based Vital Films, Inc., while working on building out a mega-preview of all the many, many major ski and snowboard movie premiere events coming in September. It will be the second full ski flick from the company,…
Last week we looked at some of the best early-bird deals on season passes at Colorado ski areas; now that details of the 2011/2012 Colorado Gems Card from Colorado Ski Country USA have been announced, we’d be remiss in not mentioning that its $10 price tag makes it a must-buy,…
If you’ve been following the USA Pro Cycling Challenge as closely as the hundreds of thousands of fanatics who came out last week for the prologue and six stages of the race to make it the largest spectator crowd for any stage race in U.S. history, then it probably isn’t…
The USA Pro Cycling Challenge concludes this weekend with Stage 4 today from Avon to Steamboat Springs, Stage 5 tomorrow from Steamboat Springs to Breckenridge, and Stage 6 on Sunday from Golden to Denver. Feeling inspired to get some adrenaline of your own pumping? Read on for our top 5…
Just over ten years ago, Golden-based mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer made history as the first blind man to make the summit on Mount Everest, then went on to complete the Seven Summits — the tallest peaks on each continent — in 2008. Weihenmayer, with the help of his friend Jeff…
In a win for the sustainability argument, the second annual Green Route “Eco-Music” Festival has doubled in size this year, taking up twice as much RiNo Arts District real estate for the day and attracting more than 75 of Colorado’s most eco-minded vendors. “It’s been really exciting to see how…
Tonight, the ninth annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival, out of Nevada City, California, brings its national tour to Boulder’s Neptune Mountaineering. The fest will include a screening of this year’s People’s Choice award winner, Eastern Rises, and nearly a dozen shorts. Eastern Rises, from Ben Knight and Travis Rummel,…
After featuring the cool Revolights Kickstarter project last week, local reader Greg Hydle reached out to see if we’d have a look at his own Kickstarter project, which similarly solves a problem for adventurous types: Namely, saving your laptop or iPad from certain death…
Gotta love Colorado, where Labor Day has come to be synonymous with winter gear sales like Sniagrab and Ski Rex, and the dog days of summer serve as a tidy reminder that the best deals on season ski passes are on right now. We spent a day huddled by the…
Before that other big endurance event gets underway today, we thought we’d let you know that runner Lynette Clemons — a Leadville local — won the women’s division at the 28th annual Leadville Trail 100 with a time of 19:59:06 to beat out Rhonda Claridge (Ophir, CO; 21:11:24) and Andrea…
This weekend we found five of the world’s gnarliest endurance events, all going down right here in Colorado. This is what you’ve been training for all summer, right? It’s all downhill from here! First up is the Trestle All-Mountain Enduro at Winter Park, a three-day, five-stage mountain bike event created…
Take your job and shove it: Seven companies from Colorado made the cut this year in Outside Magazine’s annual 50 Best Places to Work list, released this week and published in the magazine’s September 2011 issue — including the top four spots on the list…
“It’s unprecedented for an American race to get all three podium-finishers from the Tour de France in the same year,” says USA Pro Cycling Challenge spokeswoman Stacie Lange. “I can’t think of a more epic place to kick off the race and welcome them to Colorado than in front of…
