Winter Park to open top-to-bottom skiing Friday (The Steamboat Pilot & Today) Winter Park Resort has received more than 19 inches of snow since Thanksgiving Day, and the resort will open 32 acres of new terrain and two chairlifts at noon Friday. Rocky Mountain Ultimate Passholders can ski Winter Park and Copper Mountain as part of their Steamboat skiing priveleges.
friday, december 5 (St. Petersburg Times) rock, etc. Pep-See Indie pop. A2. 8 p.m. Morrah/Stalwart/Parallaxis Heavy rock. Arctica. 6 p.m. Fun2mass Indie pop. Bubble Bar. 9 p.m. Coffin Wheels Surf, garage rock.
A handy guide to outdoors gifts (Detroit Free Press) Anyone want to buy a fishing mitt with metal grippers on the fingertips guaranteed to hold your catch (and turn the flesh to mush) while you fillet it? Or a lure with a battery that makes it light up like a little Christmas tree as you pull it through the water?