Comedians are supposed to deliver punchlines, not become them. But Howie Mandel has withstood plenty of paradox. For the past thirty years, the Canadian funnyman has been renowned as a dramatic actor (in his breakout role on NBC’s St. Elsewhere); an Emmy-nominated creator of the kids’ show Bobby’s World; and…
Swallow Hill Music has been going strong for thirty years, but the roots, folk and acoustic music it has always supported can still be heard and interpreted in plenty of new ways. “We definitely want to beat the stereotype that we’re just for old folkies,” says Swallow Hill spokesman Chip…
Local hero Steve Fisher’s been a busy dude since we last caught up with him for our Westword cover story at the beginning of the US Snowboarding Grand Prix series: That double cork got him in the end after all, and he missed another chance at the Olympics, but he…
Between two epic days at Monarch to start off the week, there was of course a night in Salida. My belly’s growl silenced by an Amica’s pizza, I stopped in to watch the U.S.-Canada hockey match at the Tenderfoot Tavern.Some mountain bars are none too fond of outsiders, but this…
An R2 unit for skiers looking to hone their skills without any of that pesky human interaction, the Moticon SkiGo consists of: A) a computerized brain (pictured above); B) insoles that detect your velocity and position, and thus whether you’re making good or bad turns; and C) an earbud that…
These days, just about every major resort and ski town has some kind of music festival, and we just got word the Crested Butte is jumping on the, er, band wagon (sorry). Crested Butte Mountain Resort announced yesterday that they will be filling the Gunnison Valley with the sweet sounds…
Gals, if you’ve ever skied or boarded past a terrain park and seen people throwing down jumps and tricks on the rails and wondered if you could do it too, Echo Mountain has a solution. This Thursday, March 4, is the second Echo Her Day. The event runs from 6…
Soon you’ll be able to watch the Day-Glo bike commuters and asshole rollerbladers hogging the Boulder Creek Path from the comfort of your laptop. Google plans to send their goofy Street View tricycle to take 360-degree photos of the entire walkway.The Boulder Creek Path won a contest on Monday to…
The International Olympic Committee goes hard on athletes marketing products during the games, but now that it’s a wrap you’ll be seeing more and more of them cashing in. We think snowboarder Hannah Teter’s angle just might the sweetest: As if that sexy spread in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue…
Sometime while driving south from I-70 towards Leadville last week on my way to Chicago Ridge/Ski Cooper, I found myself grinning and thinking again how lucky I am to live in Colorado. I’ve had a passion for the mountains since I was little, and I’ve seen and played in most…
She’s been training at Vail since the 1990s, and moved there from Minnesota to train. She and husband Thomas live there, and she serves as the skiing ambassador. Now, Lindsey Vonn, who won a gold and bronze medal at the Vancouver Olympic Games, has a trail named after her on…
So CDOT was metering again yesterday, and I-70 again predictably turned into a parking lot at the tunnel, ending many a getaway with an interminably slow slog back to Denver. Critics are not too happy about the practice, claiming it turns a three-hour drive into a five-hour drive for no…
Why is it that booze goes down so much smoother after a day on the hill?And why does all that smooth booze go down even smoother when you’re at the right mountain bar? Sometimes the right atmosphere makes it go down so silky smooth that getting up the next morning…
If you’re looking around your cubicle this morning and noticing that an unusual number of your colleagues have called in sick, you might want to check the ski report: The light dusting we got down here in Denver (I woke up to the sound of my neighbor sweeping her sidewalk)…
Today the Woodward at Copper facility announced its full schedule of summer skateboard camps up at The Barn at Copper Mountain. The week-long skate camps for kids ages 10 and up run between $459 and $949 depending on the session and whether you’re planning on overnight stays. If you haven’t…
This year I’ve been going for the gold in the Winter Olympic sports of Fast Forwarding Through Commercials on the DVR, Snorting Hot Cocoa Out My Nose When People Fall Down and Get Hurt, and Falling Asleep On the Couch During Ice Dancing. If you’ve been watching religiously this month…
Located in Rocky Mountain National Park just north of Emerald Like, a 60-minute hike from the Bear Lake Trailhead, the Squid (WI5/5+, M6) should be on every ice climber’s tick list, but climbing it presents multiple difficulties. For one, it’s one of the most ephemeral hard ice routes in Colorado,…
It’s not a stairway to heaven, but it’s close.Canada-based Heliqwest airlifted a pair of steel staircases and a bridge onto Palmyra Peak to span between Gold Hill Chutes 8 and 9 Wednesday morning. Telluride flacks say the getup will open up new in-bounds terrain once the staircases open for business…
Hey boarders, have you been practicing in the terrain park all winter and feel you’re ready to start competing? This Saturday, Winter Park will host the TransWorld Trans Am Rail Jam. Previous competitions have been held at Wateville Valley, N.H., Big Boulder in Pennsylvania, and Buck Hill in Minnesota. After…
Recently, I took fellow OTE blogger Greg Benchwick’s advice and I headed out to Moab, Utah. This isn’t a rare pilgrimage for Front Rangers — it just usually happens in spring and summer, when dirt hounds can get their tires and tread reliably on trails without snow. A mention of…
Come down to Fancy Tiger, 1 South Broadway, with knitting needles, calligraphy pens or even that Bedazzler you have in the closet. It’s Craft Night tonight and every Tuesday from 6 to 9 p.m., a time to get together and make pretty things and new friends. “Part of why crafts…
If there’s one thing we Coloradans love, it’s our mountains. We hike up them, climb up them, ride trains up them. We have guys named after our state capital sing songs about them. Now we even have a museum dedicated to the exploration of them: The Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering…
