Reader: Don’t miss I’ll Remember for You tonight

You have one more chance to see Lisa Suarez’s I’ll Remember for You, which ends a short run at Su Teatro tonight. The play tells the story of Suarez’s relationship with her mother, who suffers from Alzeheimer’s. “There’s this bond and this sacrifice and this emotion,” says Su Teatro executive…

Mike Dion takes Reveal the Path mountain biking film on the road

“If you could ride anywhere in the world, where would you go?” became a central question for Mike Dion after the success of the Denver-based filmmaker’s 2010 film, Ride the Divide. That question became the tagline for his next film, Reveal the Path, which took Dion and some of the…

Ten things to do for $10 this weekend, June 8-10, 2012

Down to your last ten dollars? Don’t worry, there are plenty of things you can do this weekend that cost a Hamilton or less. Gawk at a performance artist living in a box, usher in summer at a dance party, or pretend you’re in Paris at a Francophile craft party…

AIGA Colorado invites you to do Denver by the letter — all 26 of them

Urban adventure races and downtown scavenger hunts have become old hat in adrenaline-conscious, wheel-happy Colorado. But when AIGA Colorado, the regional design association, decides to put on an outdoor event, you know it’s going to be of a very different type. To that end, letterpress typographer Rick Griffith of Matter…

MoveShake: Shannon Galpin documentary premieres online tonight

Tonight at 7 p.m., filmmakers Allie Bombach and Sarah Menzies will show the first two films in their MoveShake series online at www.MoveShake.org. The MoveShake films profile people pushing for environmental and social change; Breckenridge-based Shannon Galpin, who founded Mountain2Mountain, an organization aimed at “creating education and opportunity for women…

Reader: Summer 2004 was the best!

The news that Michael Trundle is moving Lipgloss from La Rumba to Beauty Bar — after more than eight years — had Bree Davies remembering 2004, and thinking about Denver’s three degrees of separation. And she wasn’t the only one:…

On its centennial, Paramount Pictures celebrates its peak: the 1970s

It’s a warm spring evening on the Paramount Pictures lot in Hollywood, and the crowd jostling for hors d’oeuvre in the lobby of the Paramount Theater exudes the anticipatory hum of a gala studio premiere. Only tonight’s feature presentation isn’t a new summer blockbuster or year-end prestige release. Rather, it’s…

Politics as Unusual

It’s an election year, which means most of us are a little irate, and Second City comic duo Frank Caeti and Matt Craig — known together as FrankenMatt — are no exception. So Caeti, formerly of MADTV, and Craig, an alum of Saturday Night Live’s writing team, are taking that…

In The Rough

“For the Tough Mudder adventure race, we’re changing Beaver Creek’s slogan from ‘Not exactly roughing it’ to ‘Definitely roughing it,'” says spokeswoman Jen Brown. “This race is hard-core, with obstacles designed by British Special Forces that will challenge you in ways you never thought possible.” That’s no understatement: The dozen…

Try, Try Again

Boulder’s experimental theater troupe Band of Toughs likes to focus on developing new plays, which means they’ll take the time to work a script through many drafts until it’s perfect. With that in mind, they’re bringing (re)production — a play-in-process that they performed in a nascent form last year at…

Game On

Though the idea of video-game consoles conjures up the image of gamers sitting on couches, dancer and choreographer Emily Power has re-appropriated the controller-free, motion-sensing XBox Kinect for her new modern-dance performance, Unfolding Perception. To do it, Power worked with a sound designer and computer programmer to use the Kinect…

An Old Story

In Shakespeare’s Othello, the title character strangles his wife, Desdemona, in a fit of jealous rage; manipulated by the liar Iago, Othello believes she has been unfaithful. For Jennifer McCray Rincon, writer and director of The Othello Project: Phase 2, this story is well suited for a modern audience. “I’ve…

Beer, Sun and Fun

The Lyons Outdoor Games heads into its second decade this weekend with demos, clinics and events celebrating Colorado’s outdoor lifestyle. There are five kayak events on the schedule, most of them tomorrow and Sunday, including a down-river kayak race, a kayak slalom race, boater-cross races on the North Saint Vrain…

All the Art Under the Sun

“We didn’t really know what we were doing, but we had a great time and we sold some art,” says Art Students League of Denver Summer Art Market founder Dennis Pendleton of the first-ever market. The event has done a lot of growing in the twenty years since then, but…

A District is Born

To the west of Denver, folksy Lakewood — and in particular, the West Colfax corridor — clearly had its work cut out when the idea of a new arts district began being bandied about more than a year ago. But sheer determination and a wonderful collaborative spirit, says 40 West…