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Welcome, readers of The Wild. Two words: uphill skiing. Sounds crazy, right? The sport, also known as skinning or ski mountaineering, has been around for awhile. Now it’s booming because it keeps skiers and boarders away from crowds and off ski lifts, ideal for these socially distant times.
Uphillers, as they’re sometimes called, use “skins” that cover the bottom of their skis to tromp up a slope a super-tough, lung-busting workout and then do a downhill run. Snowboarders do the same thing with split boards, which come apart to create mini-skis with skins for the uphill trudge.
6 Things to Do This Week in DC (and Beyond)
Watch a historymaking male pas de deux or support Democrats with a music festival in our editor-selected picks
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A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas
Any other year, theatergoers could seek out almost as many different staged versions of Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale around town as there are official days in the holiday. During the pandemic, however, the most notable local production available for streaming is the unique one-man
tour de force that has been a popular draw at Maryland’s Olney Theatre Company for 11 years.
In fact, Olney held out hope until just last month that they could offer safe, reduced-capacity live performances of Paul Morella’s
This Week’s Livestreams (Foo Fighters, Courtney Barnett, Yo La Tengo, Rick Ross, more)
LAST UPDATED: 12/18 at 6:54 PM ET
HERE ARE THIS WEEK S LIVESTREAMS (Sunday, 12/13 - Saturday, 12/19):
Saturday, December 19
4 AM ET, 3 PM ET, and
11 PM ET on Momenthouse. Tickets are on sale now.
BadPond Live Stream Festivals streams on YouTube at
9:30 AM ET, featuring
A.A. Williams, Jamie Lenman, Saint Agnes and more.
All Them Witches stream two virtual concerts at
2 PM ET and
Riz Ahmed is streaming a virtual performance of
The Long Goodbye at
Enslaved are streaming all three parts of the Cinematic Summer Tour at
3 PM ET on
Oh cool, I donât have to put on pants! Stars on music s year of chaos
Round table . (clockwise from top left) Moses Sumney, Phoebe Bridgers, Declan McKenna, Lianne La Havas, Rina Sawayama and Danielle Haim.
Round table . (clockwise from top left) Moses Sumney, Phoebe Bridgers, Declan McKenna, Lianne La Havas, Rina Sawayama and Danielle Haim.
Phoebe Bridgers, Danielle Haim, Lianne La Havas, Declan McKenna, Rina Sawayama and Moses Sumney discuss Black Lives Matter, WAP, TikTok, the collapse of live music and more
Fri 11 Dec 2020 01.00 EST
Each year we convene pop stars to mull over the yearâs big musical moments, and for 2020 this was â like almost every social or professional interaction â convened over a video call. It was a strangely appropriate format for an industry that learned how to livestream as it weathered a total collapse in gigs and festivals, but despite the horrors, there was still plenty of brilliant and indeed cathartic music released. Ponder