Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Tuesday, 14 February 2017. Happy Valentines Day from the morning edition of The Nightshift. Washington and politics and governance again provided the headlines on Monday. The National Security Advisor resigned (after a whopping 24 days in office) after it was disclosed that he had been engaged in “theoretically” unauthorized …
Monthly Archives: February 2017
The Winter Film Festival: How to Select a Pair of Skis
Edgework: This video is from/sponsored by the French company Rossignol, one of the world’s great ski companies, and it is about the basics: how to select a pair of skis. The film is part of a series that Rossignol has put together called the Rossignol Coaching Program which is actually what it says–an initiative to …
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The Winter Film Festival: Mikaela Shiffrin
Edgework: She is the real thing. Mikaela Shiffrin, not yet even 21 years old (Born March 25, 1995), is leading the FIS World Cup Ski Racing championships. Mikaela is a slalom/giant slalom specialist, and at one point in the 2016-2017 season, she had won seven straight slalom races. Currently, she is ranked number 1 Overall …
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The Nightshift: 13 February 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Monday, 13 February 2017 and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift. More difficult weather in the Northeast and it’s not just snow. It’s a combination of snow, ice, frozen rain and winds that could hit a projected 60MPH. If the winds really build up, expect power …
The Winter Film Festival: "The Thin Line"
Edgework: There once was a skiing magazine called Edgework. The staff of The Nightshift produced it and when we decided to do something digital on skiing, we brought the name back. It was not like any other skiing magazine because it covered territory that other magazines did not, with an attitude that other skiing magazines …
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The (Secret) History of The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
Paying Attention: Embed from Getty Images From The Nightshift Archives Editor’s Note: The classic Pebble Beach Pro-Am PGA Tour event is this weekend and, as always, we honor this unique event with a re-post of the history of the event and the man who started it: Bing Crosby. This particular post is excerpted from …
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The Winter Film Festival: How Ice Boat Racing Works
Edgework: Something new to the Winter Film Festival…in the past, all of the videos and films have been on skiing and snowboarding. Today, something new: a video on the rather amazing winter sport of ice boating. It’s a short introductory video but will get you ready for upcoming films and videos on ice boating. Ice …
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The Nightshift: 12 February 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Sunday, 12 February 2017 and this is the Sunday morning edition of The Nightshift. The East Coast is digging out from a major snow storm and international tensions just keep getting Higher. In other words–life is normal. Today is the final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am,which is …
The Weekend Concert Series: Steely Dan
The Hunt for New Music: The big dogs are out: Steely Dan, Think Fast in Cincinnati, published on YouTube in 2014. Do not have a clue when the concert actually took place. The video is good, the sound is very good (sound board mix? you expect very good sound from Steely Dan), published to YouTube …
The Winter Film Festival: "Take It Easy", a snowboarding movie
Edgework: How about one more long video to top off Saturday’s program for the Winter Film Festival (WFF). This one, “Take it Easy” is sponsored/produced by Quicksilver, 3M, Snowboarder Magazine and Method Snowboarding Magazine. It is–as you surmised based on the names of the sponsors–centered on snowboarding, which is a that deserves equal air time …
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