I rode the heil hall connector at noon on a Sunday. I stopped at Boulder Cycle Sport and bought a few tubes and talked a bit with Brandon (www.dopersuck.com) buy a shirt will ya....about the new Scott Spark and misguided plans etc. The trail was reasonable.... the crowds were retarded. New mountain ...

DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Being There Depression and anxiety forced Peter Sellers to spend much of his career trying to prove that he was more than just a funny guy. Even his most critically acclaim...

It’s time again in Denver for a yearly ritual where skiers and snowboarders converge on the Paramount Theater to pay homage to the granddaddy of all ski movie makers: Warren Miller. For 58 years, Miller has been directing and more recently producing ski films, with each year’s skiers, riders, an...

My sister Minnie, like so many other moms of young children, was looking for a social group for new moms. She left her Silicon Valley web developer job of 8 years to stay at home with her baby, and could not afford to pay for any extra child care. She found out about Blue Sky Family Club from an adv...

For most of the rich, the object of charity is to make one's name known. Alberto Vilar, a founder of a once-high-flying tech-stocks fund who stiffed New York's Metropolitan Opera on a $25 million pledge, has succeeded all too well. But his name is in court documents rather than the opera halls and c...

Before I begin ... let me just say ... WTF???  Type pad has abruptly and totally changed the page I use to write my blog entries.  This may be fine... it may even be a good thing... I can't tell yet.  But when you encounter it before your first cup of coffee has made it into yo...

A significant arrest in France will hurt the Basque terrorists IT IS hard to be sure who really controls ETA, the violent Basque separatist group. But Garikoitz Aspiazu, who was arrested this week in the French ski resort of Cauterets, was near the top. Hiding behind the alias of Txeroki (Cherokee),...

Jussi Halla-aho is a well-known Finnish author and journalist, and has previously published two guest-essays at Gates of Vienna, “Multicultural Discourse in Finland and Sweden” and “Inter Arma”. He has recently launched a political career by winning election to the Helsinki City Council. His...

Title: Velveteen vs. The Junior Super Patriots, West Coast Division, Part I. Summary: The life of a retired superhero is definitely refusing to get easier. Especially when you're just trying to get to Oregon already, and now people from your past that you've done your best to put behind you seem ben...

Besides the classic newsboy cap, the beanie and the beret, the latest winter hat twist to hit the scene this season are these half hoodies. I first caught sight of them at Marc by MJ (left) and I thought, "whoa it looks like an oversized turtle neck- without the shirt part," and I didn't know what t...