The Last Stand
Inclusion program expands options for adaptive skiers
Monday, Dec. 1, 2008
Until this season, learning to ski in Steamboat Springs was costly and sometimes difficult for skiers with adaptive needs.
Opening a new clothing store was a community effort
Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008
By Friday morning, the owners of Urbane clothing store felt like they hadn’t slept in weeks.
How to reduce energy costs
Winterizing a home can be a cheap and easy project
Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008
Last winter, Ace at the Curve employee Jim Warren cut his home energy costs by replacing all his windows. He also stopped warm air from leaving his house by caulking around those windows, and he put a hotel shower cap over the inside grate of a bathroom fan.
Margaret Hair: Kanye gets personal
Friday, Nov. 28, 2008
It’s not that hard to review a CD in 150 to 200 words. And in most cases — if not all of them — that’s all you need to say why something is good, or why it isn’t.
On Scene: Steamboat Mountain Film Festival favors snowy movies
Friday, Nov. 28, 2008
In the opening moments of Matchstick Productions’ “Claim,” the narrator declares it the best ski movie that has ever been made. Then Europe’s “Final Countdown” kicks in, followed by about an hour and a half of awesome runs and goofy interludes.
Thrown together
Clay artisans keep collective spirit alive with holiday sale
Friday, Nov. 28, 2008
The way founding members Deb Babcock and Barb Gregoire tell their group’s history, the Steamboat Clay Artisans couldn’t help but form a guild.
New editions
Riverhouse printing staff settles into renovated space
Friday, Nov. 28, 2008
For the artists who work at Riverhouse Editions, making prints of original pieces can be taxing.
A jazzy influence
Boulder hip-hop group has mixed-genre sounds
Friday, Nov. 28, 2008
For Boulder hip-hop group Rogue Sound, a background in jazz music has opened a lot of musical doors. And since 2000, they have built a steady Front Range following with positive lyrics and a dance-party vibe. Tonight, the band plays in Steamboat Springs for the first time, with a set at Mahogany Ridge Brewery and Grill. The show starts at about 10 p.m. with a cover charge of $5.
Local vocalist Pam Pierce focuses on jazz standards
Friday, Nov. 28, 2008
“This will be my opener,” Pam Pierce said, listening to Neil Marchman play the guitar chord progression for “Let It Snow” while rehearsing last week. “Hopefully we won’t have to be pleading to let it snow by next week.” Pierce and Marchman join the Emerald City Jewel Singers for a concert at 7 p.m. Thursday at United Methodist Church.
Suit up for the season
A look at trends in ski and snowboard fashion for 2008-09
Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008
Five years ago, the lone blaze orange onesie hanging in a corner at The Click snowboard gear and apparel store would have been a joke, a way to poke fun at the past. In 2008, the lone onesie is alone because the store has sold the style in every size that is not extra large.
Opera group earns award nomination
Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008
Reading from the event program of the El Pomar Foundation’s Awards for Excellence, Emerald City Opera founder Keri Rusthoi can’t help but notice the big names.
Margaret Hair: Thanksgiving, Steamboat style
Friday, Nov. 21, 2008
In an extremely dorky moment after work on Monday, I decided to start a recipe binder, complete with dividers for main dishes, sides, desserts and bread.
‘Twilight’ puts stake in music
Premiere after party features local DJ and themed prizes
Friday, Nov. 21, 2008
There is a lot of subtlety in the song selection on the original motion picture soundtrack for “Twilight.”
Reeling in the reels
Film festival has about 40 submissions for growing snow-movie event
Friday, Nov. 21, 2008
Brian McCleary didn’t necessarily mean to start Bent & Broken Productions. He just wanted to get what his friends were doing with skis, snowboards and snowmobiles on tape.
New Pioneers honored
Community Alliance event spotlights sustainable practices
Friday, Nov. 21, 2008
When Steve Aigner describes the people and enterprises nominated as 2008’s New Pioneers of the Yampa Valley, he lands on one word: “courageous.”
A fair trade for charity
Work of Human Hands benefits artisans in developing countries
Friday, Nov. 21, 2008
When Work of Human Hands fair trade craft bazaar organizers look through a catalog to select items to sell, they find stories from the wood-carvers, papermakers and jewelers who produce those items.
Frogs Gone Fishin’ is working its way into the business
Hooked on music
Friday, Nov. 21, 2008
At 2 p.m. on a Tuesday, the four recent college graduates who make up Denver funk rock band Frogs Gone Fishin’ are gathered around their kitchen table. Frogs Gone Fishin’ is keeping busy by playing regional gigs.
Products bring home holidays
Craft fair brings more than 30 regional vendors today
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008
When Routt County Woolens started hosting the predecessor to the Hometown Holiday Shopping Gala almost a decade ago, the products’ source material was the event’s centerpiece.
Locals share favorite pie recipes for the holidays
Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008
A good pie recipe has a way of sticking around — to plates, forks, ribs and recipe cards.
Strings Pavilion garners praise
Summer music venue wins award for unique design
Friday, Nov. 14, 2008
The design of the Strings Music Pavilion is unorthodox.
Bill McKay is staying busy
Former Leftover Salmon keyboardist brings band to ’Boat
Friday, Nov. 14, 2008
With a four-piece rock band, two keyboard-guitar duos, a Latin-rock outfit, a solo career and a spot in a legendary Colorado jam band on his roster, it would be hard to say that Bill McKay has slowed down.
Fair keeps prices low, demand high
Holiday gifts available at Saturday’s 28th annual Yampa Arts & Crafts Fair
Friday, Nov. 14, 2008
It took just a few weeks for the 80 booth spaces at the 28th annual Yampa Arts & Crafts Fair to fill up, as vendors from across Colorado vied for a spot at the holiday craft sale that began as an outlet for a few Yampa locals.
Margaret Hair: Holiday movie season is here
Friday, Nov. 14, 2008
The new James Bond movie opens nationwide today, which means one thing: It’s blockbuster season again.
Encaustic artists wax collaborative
‘The Diptych Project’ pairs work from East and West coasts
Friday, Nov. 14, 2008
Until she was assigned to create a dual-panel piece of artwork with West Coast wax artist Mari Marks, Kim Bernard had never met her new creative partner.
LIFT-UP of Routt County feels the economic crunch
Friday, Nov. 14, 2008
LIFT-UP of Routt County is preparing for maximum capacity. In the past month, the organization has seen a spike in demand for its food bank, a surge of shoppers in its thrift store and a flood of requests for rental assistance, LIFT-UP Executive Director David Freseman said.
Festival of Trees a local effort
Holiday exhibit benefits museum, gathers community spirit
Friday, Nov. 14, 2008
Parked on the floor of an exhibit room of the Tread of Pioneers Museum, Lowell Whiteman Primary School teachers Victoria Rudolph and Kim Bates were putting the final touches on the school’s holiday tree.
Local continues lifetime of work in alternative fuels
Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008
In Fred Robinson’s auto repair shop near Stagecoach, items that can run on alternative fuels abound. There’s the H2-H2, a Hummer Robinson converted to run off a combination of hydrogen, natural gas, ethanol and gasoline. There’s the H-racer, a tiny hydrogen fuel cell car made by Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies.
Bead sale benefits Ugandans
BeadforLife party proceeds provide aid to female refugees
Friday, Nov. 7, 2008
Routt County residents will have a chance to purchase beaded jewelry, sample East African cuisine and support business opportunities and a better life for Ugandan women at a community party.
Margaret Hair: Obama takes the Helms
Friday, Nov. 7, 2008
Just less than 24 hours after U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was elected the first black president of the United States, North Carolina was just less than one month away from officially declaring Obama’s victory in that state.
A music machine to rely on
Eric Barry, Eric Delaney use chemistry to rock OTP each week
Friday, Nov. 7, 2008
It would not be entirely accurate to say, as Eric Barry and Eric Delaney jokingly do, that the two started playing music together at a Tupperware party. But it wouldn’t be a total miss.
CD review of The Streets, “Everything Is Borrowed”
Friday, Nov. 7, 2008
“Everything Is Borrowed” is Mike Skinner’s big, gospel-choir praise-fest of the joys of life. It’s a huge break for U.K.-based The Streets, Skinner’s rough-and-tumble hip-hop act previously characterized by his earnest, but depressing and monotone, Birmingham-accented raps.
Giving back, in fabulous clothes
Fashion show and party to benefit family of Tyler Johnson
Friday, Nov. 7, 2008
When Chrissie Hodges put on a fashion showcase as part of a party she organized two years ago, it did not go well.
Philosophy of art
Michael Dowling draws on texts, ideas for abstract work
Friday, Nov. 7, 2008
Before Denver artist Michael Dowling started thinking in abstract iconography and intricate landscapes, he thought in philosophy. In many of his paintings, that background comes through, as in his recent collection of big abstract works very loosely based on religious texts.
Updating a classic musical
‘Aida’ brings literature, diverse genres to fall show
Friday, Nov. 7, 2008
Steamboat Springs High School sophomores Hannah Ogden and Anna Poirot have been acting in productions together at Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp for five years. In this year’s fall musical at the high school, they’ll share a role for the first time.
Early voting breaks records
Less than half of county’s voters remain to cast ballots on Election Day
Monday, Nov. 3, 2008
More than 60 percent of the 17,850 registered voters in Routt County have voted or been issued a ballot for Tuesday’s election, exceeding expectations and toppling previous records by the thousands.
Capturing life after trauma
Local volunteer shows Kenyan girls out of context of hardship
Monday, Nov. 3, 2008
The girls at the Tasaru Girls Rescue Centre in Narok, Kenya, don’t understand why volunteer rescue center worker and Clark resident Mary Walker would want to take pictures of them cooking.
Visualizing Routt County’s future
Vision 2030 meetings to clarify goals, priorities for next 20 years
Monday, Nov. 3, 2008
After a year of collecting ideas from Routt County residents about how they would like to see the area develop in the next two decades, Vision 2030 is starting to hone in on a plan.
7-Election offers alternative test for presidential candidates
Polling with coffee
Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008
In the back of the 7-Eleven store at U.S. Highway 40 and Elk River Road, stacks of politically branded coffee cups are filled with dark and house blends by politically minded coffee drinkers.
Honky-tonk heroes
Texas country band hangs on to Johnny Cash’s swagger
Friday, Oct. 31, 2008
“Mainstream country,” laments Mark Stuart, “turns its back on its heroes.” Because of that, it’s near impossible to find a song by Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson or George Jones on FM radio.
Margaret Hair: If zombies attacked
Friday, Oct. 31, 2008
In coaching a group of local actors about how to stage a zombie attack, Pirate Theatre director Brian Harvey says to imagine the steamroller chase scene from “A Fish Called Wanda.”
Play of the living dead
Upcoming Pirate Theatre production takes on zombies, realtors
Friday, Oct. 31, 2008
At a Tuesday night rehearsal for an upcoming Pirate Theatre production, director and producer Brian Harvey was working to corral half a dozen zombie realtors.
Pumpkins for prizes
Event showcases decorated gourds during Halloween Stroll
Friday, Oct. 31, 2008
In the event’s first year, organizers of the Steamboat Festival O’ Pumpkins already have their sights set on something bigger.
Halloween after dark
Entertainment options and deals for ages 21 and older
Friday, Oct. 31, 2008
Old Town Pub
Creating a chamber of horror
Screamboat organizer has been haunting houses for 20 years
Friday, Oct. 31, 2008
In 10 years as organizer and creative director of Screamboat: Chamber of Horrors, Jimmy Westlake has learned a few lessons in troubleshooting.
Routt County ghost stories give glimpse into the past
Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008
Debbie Johnson can’t remember what the ghost of Yampa’s storied Royal Hotel ordered, but she knows it wasn’t on the menu. As she set up the restaurant for the night’s business one day about 10 years ago, Johnson heard the bar’s computerized ordering system print a ticket.
Homeopathic healing
Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008
Homeopathy is a field of alternative medicine, and its remedies aim to address symptoms by triggering the body’s healing processes through exposure to highly diluted substances that could cause those symptoms in healthy people.
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