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Repertory Cinema Wishlist: Crossing Delancey

Since the beginning of time -- or at least the beginning of cinema -- there have been chick flicks: three-hanky tear-jerkers and, conversely, romantic comedies. In honor of the Sie FilmCenter's new Hey Girl chick-flick series, debuting April 24 with Dirty Dancing -- which might just be the greatest ... More >>

Columbine to Newtown: A tragic list of school shootings since 1999

The senseless massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, which took the lives of twenty children, including Olivia Engel, seen here, plus seven adults, instantly stirs terrible memories of the 1999 attack on Columbine High School. On the tenth anniversary of that tragedy, we assembled a horrific roster of sc ... More >>

Reader: No chowder? Clam up about the best seafood restaurants!

Denver may be landlocked, but our ship occasionally comes in -- loaded with fresh fish. Yesterday we served up Denver's five best seafood restaurants. Says UncleDave8: I can totally back this list. Refreshing change from most Denver diners' choices like The Fresh Fish Company, Pappadeaux, Oceanair ... More >>

Anonymous proffers conspiratorial jabbering akin to the Da Vinci Code

First lady of drag Angelina Essex says farewell to the stage -- for now

March 26, 2011 Update: See photos from Drama Drag last night at Tracks Valenzuela as Essex as J-Lo.​The life of a drag queen is an expensive, high profile existence, and Joel Valenzuela, aka Angelina Essex, knows this routine all too well. The madam of many faces is making his final appearance to ... More >>

Newcomer Katie Jarvis's teen misfit swims upstream in Fish Tank

Q&A with Vaughn Harris of Nitzer Ebb

​Nitzer Ebb, from Essex, England, helped to define the musical style called EBM with its heavy industrial rhythms and stark vocals. As with emo, another much-maligned genre, EBM started out as a vital and relevant music whose pioneers never chose to name with a blanket term to encompass a music th ... More >>

The Columbine effect: A horrific roster of school shootings since 1999

The most resonant information that's come my way thus far today in relation to the anniversary of the April 20, 1999 shootings at Columbine High School was contained in an e-mail sent to Westword by Vicki Newell, a public-policy director with the Colorado PTA. It's a list of school shootings since ... More >>

James Hunter

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Imogen Heap

This singer-songwriter is a child prodigy turned adult prodigy.

Ghost Story

The Turn of the Screw delivers thrills and chills.

Listen Up

Fast reviews of recent releases

Interpolitics

The singer for an NYC buzz band tries his hand as a spin doctor.

True Feelings

Lawless Heart examines human bonds and the emotions that break them.

A Commanding Performance

Joyce Castle rules the stage in the Central City Opera's Gloriana.

Bragging Rights

Fatherhood has given Billy Bragg a new reason to make music.