Hit the slopes for cheap in January during “Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month”

It was a cold and stormy night beneath Eldora’s Bunnyfair and also my 3-year-old self was projecting a significant hissy fit. Tears flowing down my stairs, I was berating my parents for bringing me , the forces that created the terrifying incline before me and also the dark night skies for being unsympathetic to my
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“You’re a girl, you’re being targeted”: Women in esports navigate toxicity, other barriers

NEW YORK — Susie Kim thinks the women gamers are out there. As general director to get a championship esports team, she’d know. She’s not surprised none of these are around her roster. The Entertainment Software Association reported this year that 45 percent of U.S. gamers are female, yet women make up a scant part
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“Madden NFL Ratings Performance Adjuster”: Former CSU, Broncos player’s gig in video games

GILLETTE, Wyo. — Clint Oldenburg once had Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton take his walking boot after the star NFL player had knee operation. Newton was taking a tour of their EA Sports offices in Orlando, Florida, and he even had something on his head. Newton, listed at 6-foot-5 and 245 pounds, is a athletic
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Restaurant review: Carrie Baird’s “fancy toast” is good. But Bar Dough is so much more than that.

3.5 stars (out of 4) Carrie Baird didn’t want for “elaborate toast” to become her trademark dish. Following a final-four end on season 15 of “Top Chef” — and two Quickfire wins courtesy of her amped-up bread creations — the plate is now a permanent fixture in the menu at Bar Dough, at which she’s a
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New Snowmass restaurant boasts that its $120 caviar crepe might be the most expensive in the world

Base Village at Snowmass can now lay claim to an outdoor ice-skating noodle, the newest Limelight Hotel and, in case you’re direct to ask Mawa McQueen, the world’s most expensive crepe. “Google it,” she explained with a laugh. “Nobody has a 120 crepe. ” McQueen, an Aspen chef that was born on the Ivory Coast
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“Silent Night”: How a beloved Christmas carol was born of war and disaster 200 years ago

On Christmas Eve in 1818, two guys with a small guitar entered a church in Oberndorf, Austria, and also prepared to sing a brand new Christmas carol. Times were bad in Oberndorf, by which lots of individuals worked on the water, manning the salt barges that plied the Salzach River. The upheaval in central Europe
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The 9 hottest Denver restaurants of 2018

Another season, another round of new restaurant tendencies and adventures: Latin dim sum! Down with menus! Zero-waste! Sustainability! Simply give us a burger! No, just give us foie gras terrine! There kind of was something for everybody, from super-sophisticated French food and walk-up pizza windows to seriously great Chinese and bucket list-worthy pita and hummus.
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Colorado made a great setting for big movies in 2018. Too bad not one was filmed here.

From the new biopic of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “On The Basis of Sex,” which opens Dec. 28, Ginsburg and her staff march up the white, marbled steps of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals at downtown Denver’s Byron White Courthouse, where much of this movie ’s third action takes place. In “The
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Dos and don’ts when traveling in Paris. Or anywhere else, for that matter…

We thought we were prepared for our long-awaited visit to Paris. We had our progress tickets for the Louvre, the Musée Id ’Orsay, 2 times on the Batobus (river boat) and another 2 times on a hop-on, hop-off excursion bus, and a full-day visit to Normandy along with a show at the Moulin Rouge. My
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Regional books: “Continental Divide Trail,” “Bear Ears” and more

“The Continental Divide Trail:  Exploring America’s Ridgeline Trail,” by Barney Scout Mann  (Rizzoli) What makes America great is not its constitution nor its entrepreneurial spirit, writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Nicholas Kristof in his introduction to “The Continental Divide Trail. ”  & & ldquo;Another element of American exceptionalism is that the attractiveness and sweep of our
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