We’ve been dutifully posting news of just about every ski & snowboard film premiere in the area this month — yes, we’re just as stoked for the snowy season as you are — and here comes the motherlode: Head up to Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House tonight for The Meeting, Aspen’s…
The Absinthe Films Sphere of Influence Tour makes its way to Denver tonight at 7:30 with the local premiere of NowHere at the Esquire. Featured riders Marie France Roy, Dan Brisse, Bode Merril, Cale Zima, and Annie Boulanger will be in the house with some Sharpies, and proceeds from the…
Aspen’s four-day ski-and-snowboard film festival, The Meeting, gets under way tonight with the annual NEPSA Awards at the Wheeler Opera House. “The NEPSA Awards — that’s “Aspen” spelled backward — recognize local amateur filmmakers competing in the eighth annual film-shorts competition,” says Meredith McKee, spokeswoman for Aspen/Snowmass. This year, the…
The rivalry between the Red Riding Hoods and the Sugar Kill Gang comes to a head tonight at 6:30 p.m., when the two oldest roller derby teams in the state battle it out for the Rocky Mountain Roller Girls’ Home Team League Championships. “The Hoods have a long history of…
Snowboarder Jeremy Jones and Teton Gravity Research teamed up last season to bring out the biggest adventure film of the year, and the Denver premiere is tonight at the Oriental Theatre. Deeper: A Snowboard Adventure Into the Unknown follows Jones and friends ( Travis Rice, Xavier De Le Rue, Josh…
The world premiere of The Way I See It — skiing circa 2010, as seen by Crested Butte-based film crew Matchstick Productions — blew minds at the Boulder Theater on Saturday. It’s the 20th feature length film from MSP, and it’s a doozy, with Mark Abma, Sean Pettit, Eric Hjorleifson,…
The world premiere of Standard Films’ The Storming gets top billing at tonight’s Snowboard on the Rocks, and for good reason. In a film full of big names, big mountain lines and all-around ballsy boarding, featured rider Torstein Horgmo has the biggest trick of the year. Remember all of last…
Tomorrow night’s Snowboard On The Rocks event is being hyped as the biggest snowboard movie premiere of all time, with three world premieres including Never Summer’s Made In America, Think Thank’s double feature Right Brain/Left Brain (see trailer after the jump) and Standard Films’ The Storming, plus performances by Cool…
It can take as few as four or five sessions with a licensed therapist to move most troubled teens away from considering suicide, but too often, teens don’t get the help they need. So, in 2002, after Jefferson County’s Green Mountain High School saw four student suicides in one school…
“Snowboarding’s always been about going big,” says local pro rider and Snowboard Film on the Rocks promoter Pat Milberry. “We wanted to do something special, something really big, to celebrate the snowboard lifestyle, bring people together and get everybody stoked for the season.” And tonight’s film fest at Red Rocks…
Colorado Avalanche fans look forward to the annual Burgundy & White scrimmage — a charity event benefiting Kroenke Sports Charities and the Colorado Avalanche Youth Hockey programs — as the unofficial beginning of hockey season. After all, it’s their first chance to see the new recruits in action. It’s “always…
How gnarly is the Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race? Plenty gnarly, and if you’re not among the hardcore to have completed the grueling race, you can get your gnar vicariously through Citizen Pictures’ 2009 documentary Race Across the Sky and the forthcoming sequel documenting the 2010 race (see trailer…
If you’ve been getting stoked for ski and snowboard season with all the big movie premieres around town this month, here’s some fuel for the fire: Breckenridge announced this morning that they’re overhauling the Freeway Terrain Park on Peak 8 for this season and adding a 22-foot Superpipe built to…
Denver-based Level 1 Productions takes over Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom tonight with the world premiere of Eye Trip, a “skiing counterculture” documentary that follows Ahmet Dadali, Tom Wallisch, Wiley Miller, Tanner Rainville, Phil Casabon, Duncan Adams, Adam Delorme, Josh Bibby, Parker White, Chris Logan, Mike Hornbeck, Corey Vanular, JF Houle, Henrik…
The 10th annual Bicycle Film Festival is off to the races tonight in Denver with the BFF Goldsprints Kickoff Party at Shag Lounge (group ride to the party starts at 6:30 from the Track Shack, 1338 Tremont). Two-day festival passes for this weekend’s screenings at Starz FilmCenter are already sold…
The first video feature from 303 Boards’ CLFX team premiered last week at the Bluebird and is online now for the bargain price of, yes, $3.03. Denver’s a serious skateboard town, with some of the best (and most plentiful) skateparks in the world, urban spots with a worldwide reputation, and…
Mountain Bike Capital USA (the new alter ego of the Winter Park-Fraser Valley Chamber of Commerce) will present a kickoff party for the tenth annual Bicycle Film Festival tonight at 7 p.m. at the Shag Lounge, 830 15th Street. Tomorrow, the BFF screenings get started at 7 p.m. at Starz…
For many people, the idea of Field Day brings back memories of three-legged sprints, wheelbarrow races, big blue ribbons and cheering friends. And that’s the spirit that Women’s Adventure event director Joanne Laubscher is going for with “The Playground,” the center point of her second annual Women’s Adventure Field Day…
“My biggest frustration is reading stories in the media about these really dramatic life-or-death scenarios people get themselves into, and knowing that most of those survival situations are entirely preventable,” says Ford Church, founder and executive director of the Cottonwood Institute. “With just the tiniest bit of know-how and some…
Snowboard Colorado is a rad new freebie magazine in local shops this month. The mag is the latest project from Adam Schmidt, founder of the Boulder Snowboarding Group (Westword’s Best of Denver 2010 pick for Best Shred Heads) and it’s the real deal: A 100-page glossy celebrating every aspect of…
Now that Labor Day is behind us, we’ll be counting down the days until ski and snowboard season. In the meantime, watch for a busy schedule of video premieres around town, starting with a free all-ages premiere of Volcom’s 9191: A Mathematical Equation of Sideways Style tonight at 8 p.m…
Unless you want your boss to know exactly how sick your “sick” days are, you might want to be careful about who’s in your social network when you’re at Vail Resorts this season…
