Two decades after David Lowery left Camper Van Beethoven and joined Johnny Hickman to form Cracker, the two will pare down their already basic signature alt-rock sound to the bare acoustic bones tonight for a Cracker Unplugged show at the usually folksy Swallow Hill Music Hall, 71 East Yale Avenue…
It’s a telling detail that indie film’s premier misanthrope, Neil LaBute, has an executive-producer credit on writer-director Lee Toland Krieger’s scathing, dysfunctional-clan dramedy, The Vicious Kind. Meet small-town Connecticut construction worker Caleb Sinclaire (Adam Scott, blistering), a sleep-deprived misogynist who maliciously projects his bitterness and insecurities on anyone foolish enough…
There are some obvious challenges to creating an event titled A Taste of the Seven Continents, among them: What on earth comprises a taste of Antarctica? To answer that one, event chair Kerri-Ann Appleton asked Jon Emanuel — former executive chef at Antarctica’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and current executive…
The great session guitarist John Jorgenson has certainly been around, and in more than one musical circle. He founded the Desert Rose Band with Chris Hillman, cut loose in a swingabilly tangent with fellow phenoms Will Ray and Jerry Donahue in the Hellecasters, and toured the world in Elton John’s…
It’s black-ice season on the trails (not to mention the Denver sidewalks) for the foreseeable future, and there are plenty of uphills that will put you flat on your ass if you try to climb them in your Chuck Taylors.Since 2001, Sweden’s Icebug has been solving that problem with sneakers…
As the Olympics roll into their final week, it looks as if things have settled down — nobody’s dying anymore, Bode rose from the dead, and the US has been racking up the medals (we lead the field with 25 total). But with 19 Colorado Olympians, how many Rocky Mountain…
Some Crested Butte locals are looking to breathe life into the state’s first resort, Pioneer Ski Hill, which closed over 50 years ago after a two-decade run. Located near CB South on Cement Mountain, the idea is to put in a new lift or two on the old run, but…
After the Boulder Snowboarding Group’s happy hour tonight at the Installation Shoe Gallery, head to Satellite Board Shop at 7pm for a Wax Your Junk tuning clinic, swag giveaways, and 20 percent off sale for BSG members. Not a member? That’s easy enough: Click here and sign up. You’ll be…
We’re finally seeing signs that the ski season may yet be salvaged. While we haven’t had an epic dump yet, the steady snowfall of the last few days had me enjoying multiple powder runs off Chair 9 at Loveland on Monday. Now there’s more good news: Arapahoe Basin will be…
I just got back to Mile High from a couple of days skiing the three feet or so Ullr bestowed on Monarch the last few days. Hitting the mountain Sunday afternoon, crashing in Salida Sunday night, and skiing all day Monday proved to be the thee best decisions I’ve made…
Before the launch of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, we told you about a Colorado professor who has in previous years predicted the hallmark medal winners with 94 percent accuracy — all based on economic factors like per capita income, geography and home-field advantage. But, so far, Canadian-born Daniel Johnson’s…
Double-digit weekend snowfall at just about every ski resort in Colorado this week, and more on the way? My fellow skiers and snowboarders, our winter prayers have finally been answered!Unfortunately, our I-70 prayers have not…
Psst. Want to see some hardcore racers? How about racers who are ripping lines at high speed on non-releasable bindings, dropping the knee in a telemark turn at Mach 10? You’ll have a chance this weekend when the Telemark World Cup makes a stop at Keystone. The event will be…
I settle into a barstool for lunch at Loveland’s Wedge Bar and order a can of Red Stripe to go with my overpriced chicken fingers ($5.75 for three chicken fingers, make that chicken pinkies).Plunked down in the middle of Loveland’s cafeteria, the bar is busy on this particular weekday. The…
The snow problems that have plagued the Front Range this season are fairly well documented at this point. While the snow has picked up somewhat in recent weeks, levels at the resorts are still below normal, and powder days have been few and far between. While the southwest portion of…
National Canadian paper The Globe and Mail is reporting today that Broomfield-based Vail Resorts is leading the bidding for Whistler-Blackcomb as current owner Intrawest angles to keep it in hand by restructuring its debt.”There is a standing offer on Whistler from Vail Resorts, but Intrawest isn’t willing to engage, with…
So, you’re in line for the lift, and your mind starts to wander. And granted, it’s not like you’re at the beach, where there’s a lot of exposed skin or thong-factors to distract you, but really, it’s said that men think of sex every seven seconds on average — so…
Any subsequent broadcasts of Shaun White’s victory lap in the Men’s Halfpipe Finals from Vancouver will assuredly be bleeped out, but anyone watching live last night heard the final instructions from coach Bud Keane: “Drop a double Mc at the end, do whatever you want and freakin’ send that thing…
While kayaking can be an exhilarating sport and a great way to stay cool in the summer while pursuing adrenalin rush thrills, getting into it can be intimidating to the novice. Since 1995, Confluence Kayaks, a small shop in the Platte Valley area of Denver, has been the place to…
We predicted that POWDR Corp’s recent purchase of Copper Mountain would be for the best, and if this new “swingers” campaign is any indication, then the “corporate vision” for the company’s newest mountain lady involves sexing things up considerably (and going head-to-head with some of the other players in town). …
What better way to cap off a nice day on the hill than making your way to a night-cap jam session with a Marker flying V guitar. That’s right, the makers of those bindings on your skis now have their hands in the music biz. OK, fine, Gibson actually made…
Bouldering — with its relentless focus towards pure climbing technique on rocks usually less than 15 feet off the ground — can be maddening to watch. But it can serve as an amazing rock-climbing test piece for problems that would otherwise, y’know, kill you. So it is with “The Game”…
