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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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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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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 …
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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Edgework: Today, the Winter Film Festival goes deep with a series of films, long and short, on powder skiing. Powder is to skiing what clay courts are to tennis–the purest expression of the sport (downhill competitors might disagree but…still…it’s pretty much the Holy Grail for most skiers). Several decades ago, a very good friend of …
Press Clippings: Good Morning. It’s Saturday, 11 February 2017 and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift. The East Coast is digging out from a major snow storm and the drama in Washington continues. All seems relatively normal. Today is the third round of the Pebble Pro-Am, which has been hampered for the first two days by …
Edgework: A short but good on essential knowledge for skiers: where to place the binding on your ski. This one is produced with the emphasis on freestyle skiing. It’s information you should know before you put a new set of bindings on your new skis (or your old ones for that matter). The video is …
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Edgework: It’s not the Winter Film Festival without a film from Warren Miller (or to be more specific, Warren Miller Entertainment). Today’s treat–the full length feature “Live Like There’s No Tomorrow”–has all of the highlights we’ve come to expect from a Warren Miller film. Terrific camerawork. amazing skiing, big air, exotic locations, laconic athletes who …
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Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Friday, 9 February 2017 and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift. A huge snowstorm–with the emphasis on “storm”–hit the Northeast last night. Schools were closed; traffic disrupted; streets clogged. But as big and impactful as the weather can be, it takes second place this week to national …
Press Clippings: Good Morning. It’s Thursday, 9 February 2017 and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift. The Washington soap opera rolls on. Are we making any real progress? America voted and got the government it wanted. It’ll even out–sooner or later. But maybe not. And..the world goes on. Catch up on what’s happening with the …