Snow Business

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…

Let’s Roll!

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…

Walk, Run or Bike for a Cause

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…

The Perfect Storm

“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…

Get Slap Happy with the Avalanche

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…

Today in stoke: Race Across the Sky 2010 Leadville Trail 100 trailer

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…

Today in stoke: Level 1 Productions’ Eye Trip ski movie premiere at Cervantes

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…

Top five must-see movies at Bicycle Film Festival this weekend

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…

Pedal-Pushing Cinema

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…

Have a Field Day in Boulder

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…

Stayin’ Alive

“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…

Today in stoke: Snowboard Colorado, inaugural issue

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…