Seasoned backpackers know that just about anything tastes good after a long day on the trails, but that doesn’t mean your camp meals have to be boring: Dan Hayward, owner of the Savory Spice Shop in Boulder, is the featured guest at the Spicy Divas Cooking Lesson tonight at 7…
Heather Baroody is so hardcore she wears snowboard binding screws as earrings. We last caught up with her last January as part of our cover story profile on her sponsors at Never Summer, and it turns out she’s been busy since then: Last month she won both the Women’s Slopestyle…
How about this weather we’ve been having? Local skiers and snowboarders fantasizing about 4th of July fireworks at Arapahoe Basin just might see their dreams come true this season: On Friday the ski area announced it will remain open seven days a week through June 5 as planned and then…
After watching Drew Barrymore’s Whip It with her daughters two years ago, Robin Bond — the Denver-based filmmaker behind the new documentary Derby Baby — set out to chase down some roller derby dreams of her own. She didn’t get very far. “I’m fairly athletic, and had started skating a…
Punch out! On Saturday, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) brings its Octagon Nation Tour to the tailgating party before the Denver Outlaws game at Invesco Field, where mixed martial arts fans can test their mettle at the punch strength station and complete physical fitness challenges under the watchful eye of…
Photographer Ian Shives has added more than 40 stunning new images for the paperback edition of his hit 2009 coffee table tome The National Parks: Our American Landscape, many of them shot while on assignment for National Parks Magazine. Tough gig, right? Actually… Ask him about the extreme conditions, ranging…
The 2011 Kaiser Permanente Colfax Marathon is the fourth-largest charity partner race in the country, says race spokeswoman Liz Easterly, with 73 partners and more than 8,000 runners expected. It’s also become one of the biggest celebrations of the city, starting and ending in City Park and making its way…
Forget swimming: Event planners in Montrose have paired the 36th annual Black Canyon Ascent six-mile run on Saturday and the eighth annual Mission to Ride century bike race on Sunday with this weekend’s Montrose Wine and Food Festival for a triathlon worth traveling for. “I can’t think of any race…
Retired chairlift chairs are a hot commodity around here, where hardcore skiers and snowboarders like to turn them into porch swings or mountain cabin decor: When Arapahoe Basin offered its old Expedition seats last year to make way for the new Black Mountain Express, the chairs went for $450 and…
Promoters for the 2011 Buffalo Bill Downhill Bloodspill skateboard race on Lookout Mountain may want to rethink that event name after a helicopter filming the race crashed on Sunday near — ahem — Dead Man’s Curve. Eyewitness Chris Harris has photos online at NeverSummer.com and reports that, miraculously, there were…
Regular old marathons, triathlons and century rides not grueling enough for you? The Adventure Xstream Series comes to Colorado on May 14 for AXS Buena Vista, and registration ($135-$235 depending on the race option) is still open through May 11. The event will send competitors whitewater kayaking, mountain biking, trail…
Lookout, mom! The Pagan Downhill crew (“sickest longboarding events in the world”) is dropping bombs on Lookout Mountain this weekend for the 2011 Buffalo Bill Downhill Bloodspill, a skateboarding race pretty much guaranteed to live up to its gruesome name as 120 of Colorado’s craziest skaters careen down a 1.1-mile…
Jeremy Frankovis, owner of Broomfield’s Crisis Skateboards shop, is curating the selection of films for Hueso de Perro’s Grindhouse “Skater Films” night tonight at 7 p.m. at the Bananelope Coffee Shop, 1405 US Highway 287. The event is part of the ongoing Ones and Zeroes Pixel Show film series, a…
“Three industries always do well in hard economic times: liquor, porn and chocolate,” says Colorado Chocolate Festival promoter Dana Cain, named Best Modern-Day P.T. Barnum in the Best of Denver 2011. “Whatever else has been going on with the recession, the chocolate business has been good! This is the Colorado…
Balls — and the sports built around them — are key to understanding different cultures, argues Denver-based sportswriter Josh Chetwynd. And a trip to a London park to toss around a baseball with his son helped get the ball rolling on his new book, The Secret History of Balls. “We…
“Closing day is always bittersweet, particularly when we’re marking the end of a season as awesome as this one,” says Loveland spokesman John Sellers. The ski area got more than 500 inches of snow this season, including spring dumps that have left Loveland with its best closing-day conditions in a…
Forty years ago, ten Park Hill residents looking for like-minded literature lovers put their heads together and founded the Park Hill Community Bookstore, a non-profit business that has both sustained and been sustained by that community since 1971. “Seven women and three men signed the original articles of incorporation, and…
Denver-based sportswriter and BBC Radio baseball broadcaster Josh Chetwynd has a new book in stores this week with a catchy title: The Secret History of Balls: The Stories Behind the Things We Love to Catch, Whack, Throw, Kick, Bounce and Bat. He’ll be reading from and signing copies of the…
The spirit of Boulder’s Adventure Film Festival founder Jonny Copp lives on: The five winners of the Copp-Dash Inspire Award grants for 2011 were announced on Friday, receiving $20,000 and climbing expeditions to Alaska, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Nepal. The grant program was established last year by the Jonny Copp…
Not to be outdone by its local competitors 303 Boards, who premiered Bucky O’Connell’s It’s Always Sunny in Colorado last week at the Bluebird Theater, The Denver Shop (2323 East Evans Avenue) dropped a new trailer for its forthcoming team video this weekend. This is the third trailer for the…
Get dirty! Head to Fruita for the 16th annual New Belgium Brewing Fruita Fat Tire Festival this weekend, where organizers have dropped most of the pretense in favor of letting people go ride during the day and then party all night. Don’t miss the Clunker Crit junker race on Saturday…
It’s Always Sunny in Colorado, Bucky O’Connell’s love letter to the local skateboarding scene, premieres tonight at the Bluebird Theater with screenings at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. The film, presented by 303 Boards and Toebock Media Group, features countless recognizable spots around town and nearly a dozen of Colorado’s…
