Dive in! Red Bull Illume — “The world’s biggest action sports photography competition” — brings its touring exhibition to the Denver Performing Arts Center’s outdoor Galleria tonight through June 12 from 8:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., with massively large-format backlit prints of the top 50 finalists from 2010. Chris Burkard’s…
The Women’s Flat Track Derby Association announced yesterday that it has accepted eight new roller derby leagues from its apprentice league program, including Colorado’s Castle Rock ‘n’ Rollers (catch them in action on June 11 at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, skating against Greeley’s Slaughterhouse Derby Girls). For those of you…
Road trip! The 32nd annual Mountainfilm in Telluride film festival gets into full swing today at 9 a.m. with opening remarks from filmmaker Tom Shadyac and a Moving Mountains “Awareness into Action” symposium. The first screenings start tonight at 6:30 p.m. See our previous posts for the must-see action sports…
Solitaire, the new backcountry skiing and snowboarding film from Colorado-based Sweetgrass Productions and director Nick Waggoner, isn’t scheduled for its Denver premiere until September 16 when the Fall flick frenzy gets into full swing. That hasn’t stopped the company from dribbling out sweet little teaser tastes: On the Road with…
What to do as snowboard season finally starts winding down? Today’s time-wasting video clips come courtesy of Boulder’s Meta Skateboards shop, Denver’s Never Summer Skateboards and Broomfield’s Crisis Skateboards shop. Enjoy:…
The 32nd annual Mountainfilm in Telluride festival kicks off tomorrow night with free outdoor screenings at the Base Camp Outdoor Theater in Telluride Town Park; the full festival runs through the three-day weekend. While the festival has come to embrace documentaries about the environment, global politics, and personal responsibility (see…
Today I’m headed for the slopes at Arapahoe Basin, where it has snowed more than 23 inches in the last three days and where, as I reported last week, the season has officially been extended through at least June 19 (seven days a week through June 5, then three-day weekends…
Watch out for the Libyans! Who cares if the world is ending tomorrow when you can fire up the Flux Capacitor, hit 88 miles per hour and travel to happier times at tonight’s Bike to the Future Bike Prom at 8 p.m. at Casselman’s, 2620 Walnut Street? Tickets are $20…
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…
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…
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…
Christianity has Easter and Judaism has Passover — and there are dinners and ritual events widely available for both those celebrations. And for the pagan-centric religions, there’s Beltania, the annual camping/music/spiritual festival in the mountains near Florence, Colorado, which kicks off festivities tomorrow (you can still purchase tickets for 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…
