Screw turkey: Tons of deals for skiing and riding on Thanksgiving

While most of the Front Range areas have already opened, Thanksgiving week will see several of Colorado’s major destination ski resorts start turning their lifts. There are plenty of events and deals available for those looking to get outside the Front Range this week for the holiday.Traditionally, Thanksgiving isn’t a…

Denver Parks & Rec offers Urban Riders Snowsports Club

If you know any teenagers in a local school or youth agency, check out the Urban Riders Snowsports Club: The Denver Parks & Recreation program is the best deal running this season.For $50 a head, groups of 13 first-time skiers and snowboarders get five full days of riding at Winter…

Warren Miller Dynasty tix: We have some. You want some?

We’re sitting on two more tickets to tonight’s Littleton screening of Warren Miller’s new flick, so it’s time to give them away. In honor of yesterday’s list of the best ski movies of all time, leave a comment on this post — including a valid email address — saying what…

Winter Park celebrates 70th anniversary with tuning deals, pancakes

Winter Park kicks off its 70th Anniversary season when it opens its lifts tomorrow at 9 a.m., staking its claim as the longest continually running ski resort in Colorado (Ski Monarch, open November 25, is also claiming platinum anniversary status this year). Winter Park, formerly known as West Portal, opened…

Reader wins new skis, is forever indebted to On the Edge

On the Edge was on the scene at the Ski and Snowboard Expo this weekend — and not just to shoot our mouths off and shoot photos. Our street team was busy handing out raffle tickets for a pair of new (although last year’s model) K2 Apache Xplorers and Marker…

Win tickets to Warren Miller’s Dynasty

Update: We’re still taking names. We’ll draw the winners tomorrow. If you can’t decide if you’re interested in catching Warren Miller’s latest ski film, Dynasty, maybe this will help: We have a pair of vouchers good for free tickets to next Thursday’s screening in Littleton. To snag the tickets, send…

How to ski free at Steamboat, Copper and the rest

Back in college — during that little break in December when you are supposed to study for your finals — we’d take our studies on the road and head up to Crested Butte for their early-season ski-free promotion. What can I say? It was a state school, and classes in…

At Winter Park, pay to stay but ski for free

Winter Park is celebrating its platinum anniversary this year. That’s 70 years, apparently, and the fine folks at the newly-septagenarian resort are offering free lift tickets with the purchase of at least two nights at participating lodges from opening day (November 18) until Christmas. You get one lift ticket per…

Go for the Gold!

The discovery of gold in Colorado inspired the Rush to the Rockies exactly 150 years ago. Although many fortune-hunters who set off on the arduous journey across the plains to Pikes Peak territory never arrived, and still more gave up on ever striking it rich and headed back home, those…

Cat’s Pajamas off for a cat nap

Cat’s Pajamas is putting on its oh-so-fashionable jammies and taking a cat nap for a few months. During Cat’s hibernation, you’ll find regular features from this fashion blog in the Cat’s Pajama’s category of The Latest Word blog…

Cheap, Easy Web

While reading Seventeen’s latest issue, I found out about a website that has everything from apparel to costumes. The best part…great prices! We would all love to have the time to go out to shop, but with school, homework, studying, and jobs, it can be hard to find the extra…

Secondhand Sartorialism: Nothing New Under the Sun

My obsession with vintage clothing has been a large part of who I am for about as long as I can remember. Sure, some could interpret such an obsession as my just being superficial, but I like to think of myself as someone who has an eye for quality and…

Incroyables by Melissa May Spring 2009 Fashion Show

Melissa May, one of Denver’s most talented local fashion designers, will be premiering her retro beach inspired Spring 2009 line tonight at 9 p.m. at the Colorado History Museum, 1300 Broadway. Followers of the Denver fashion scene will no doubt have seen May’s work by now, but this is her…

Make fashion out of food for the Whole Foods Challenge

Remember how the designers got all crafty and constructed sweaters out of mop heads and dresses out of plastic cups in the first episode of the current season of Project Runway? Well, with the Whole Foods Challenge you, too, can construct fashion out of food and food-related products and you’ll…

Style Swap

Style trends are changing almost everyday. Five days a week, I am confined to the halls of my school, where I see teen fashion all around me. What happens when guys and girls swap their “norms” of style? I see the guys taking on skinny jeans — tighter then the…

The hipsters of Monolith

Slide show Plenty of people had a fashion statement to make at last weekend’s Monolith festival. Don’t believe me? Check out the slide show and vote for your favorite hipster. Nothing like watching all the hipsters trying to out hip each other…

Film and fashion at the Toofy Film Fest

If you like supporting local fashion designers and independent film makers, then this weekend’s Toofy Film Festival in Boulder is for you. For only $20 you can get a pass for all 6 independent films to be screened, plus access to the Toofy After Party Fashion Show at 10 p.m…