It’s looking like the Vancouver Winter Olympics already has a scandal — a bad real-estate loan might leave the city on the hook for a cool billion — plus two fuck-ups — NBC is set to lose $200 million (Conan’s $45 billion buyout is kinda pitiful in comparison) and the…
Yesterday we kicked off the first of a four-part series on tuning your skis at home, talking about vice grips and base repair. Of course, that’s only the first part in getting the most out of your boards…
9NEWS aired a story on Sunday about the Colorado Department of Transportation’s practice of “metering” traffic when it backs up into the Eisenhower Tunnel. CDOT says it’s a safety issue: They stop traffic for 20 minutes to clear the tunnel so emergency vehicles can access it in the event of…
For the next four days, we’ll go over what types of things you can do to maximize the performance of your boards on the slopes. Check back tomorrow to learn how to deburr and sharpen your edges.While there are several places in town that can tune your skis or snowboard,…
I suspect I would drink at Loveland Ski Area’s resident watering hole even if I didn’t have a pass to the mountain. That might be overstating it, but I definitely have a soft spot for the cavernous, vaguely German joint. There are near-daily beer specials, good mountain banter, and 50…
Photographer/ski bum Scott Limbird sent the above photo of Vail from yesterday, a day he called “ridiculous.” Read his description of the day after the jump…
14ers are both the Colorado hiker’s hallmark and his/her bane. You can’t help but want to tick them off your personal list and “collect ’em all!” like they’re toys or trophies. Problem is, you’re not the only one, and the tops of all but the hardest can seem like a…
Echo Mountain near Mt. Evans in the Front Range has long believed that offering park and pipe skiing — with night options — is a viable business model. To date, with the exception of Keystone, the bigger Colorado resorts have left night skiing alone. But last week, Telluride offered a…
It’s Mary Jane’s birthday, and the people at Winter Park have come up with plenty of ways to celebrate, making it worth your while to make the drive this weekend. Always wanted to throw on a pair of skis and get towed around at 30 mph by a horse, but…
In yesterday’s Telluride Daily Planet, staff writer Ben Fornell tackled a story about snow-summoning rituals and hit on some of the biggies:Wear shorts and flip-flops to dare the pantheon of snow deities to retort with a blizzard.Light a time-tested, environmentally-unfriendly used-ski bonfire.Make a shrine involving Buddha and canned clams and…
Following in the footsteps of toker-friendly mountain town Breckenridge, Leadville plans to hold a ballot initiative this year that will decriminalize pot possession for amounts of less than one ounce. The issue came up when pro-pot advocates crashed a city council meeting and asked their government to decriminalize marijuana. (Leadville…
Last week, the Summit Daily reported on the efforts of two U.S. Forest Service officers to bust a pot smoker on the Snowmass chairlift. For the record, smoking any substance, whether legal or illegal, is generally frowned upon while riding the chairlifts. It’s especially vexing when cigarette smokers decide to…
Almost a quarter of British skiers have hit the slopes drunk, according to a recent survey. In a poll of 1,072 skiers, 23 percent said that at some point during the season, they expected to have more than a dozen drinks in a night and ski the next day. Seventy-four…
If you’ve ever pined for life in a mountain town, with easy access to peaks without all the traffic, now’s a good time to reconsider the negatives — like watching your pet dog get snarfed in front of your eyes. The Butts family (seriously) of Green Mountain Falls got a…
It takes me less than five minutes to soak through the front of my T-shirt, but I can’t stop. With my hair clumped together and plastered to my forehead, I jump, jump, jump, bounce, roll, drop, fall, jump, jump. Sometimes I bound straight up and down ten or twelve times…
Edge Gallery, one of the city’s most significant artist co-ops, is putting a twist on the typical members’ show by including non-members as well. The idea for the wide-ranging group exhibit, Edge Pairings, was originally proposed by Rian Kerrane at a co-op member meeting, and her thought was to have…
Allen True’s West. Allen Tupper True was Denver’s premier muralist during the first third of the twentieth century. Sadly, many of his commissions have been painted over or were lost when the buildings they were in were demolished. In an act of cooperation, the three big cultural institutions on the…
Remember Condoleezza Rice? Just over a year ago, she was the Secretary of State, as well as one of the most divisive figures in American political life. But after being washed out of Washington amid a Democratic tidal wave, she’s all but vanished. Her boss, President George W. Bush, remains…
Autobiography can be dangerous territory for creative writers. Of course, many writers use their own life stories to some extent; reality provides all kinds of useful insights and evocative bits and bobs of memory. But to work as a script or novel, truth needs to be rejiggered, and it helps…
There’s an expectant, zizzy feeling in the air, along with the smell of wet paint, as Roller Skating With My Cousin begins. Everyone’s in a high good humor, and between the whirling designs on the floor, the crazy whine of music and the promo materials that bill the piece as…
If ever there were a true-life tale that laid bare the laws of South African apartheid in all their arbitrary lunacy, it’s the one dramatized in Skin, Anthony Fabian’s straight-ahead biopic of Sandra Laing, the visibly black daughter born in the 1950s to white Afrikaner parents as full of denial…
This year’s Design After Dark, a fundraising gala hosted by the Denver Art Museum’s Design Council (the support group for the department of Architecture, Design & Graphics) has been given the subtitle Skin. But don’t get the wrong idea: The reference has nothing to do with nudity. Instead, Skin is…
