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Colorado movie stars: Ten of the state's most famous actors...and Kristin Cavallari

Colorado has starred in hundreds of movies -- and more recently, watched as filmmakers pass up the Centennial State for cheaper locales, even if their films are set here. (Thanks for nothing, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.) But lawmakers and industry folks have a plan to change that, a plan that could b ... More >>

The Book of Mormon free tickets? Kind of....

Hometown heroes Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who created a musical about a cannibal when they were University of Colorado film students, have an even more unlikely hit on their hands with The Book of Mormon. The boffo Broadway musical will start its tour here in August -- and tickets sold out fast S ... More >>

Reader: You wouldn't dare write about Jews or Muslims the way you did about Mormons

​Hundreds of fans lined up to buy The Book of Mormon tickets on Sunday, since the musical written by hometown heroes Trey Parker and Matt Stone will start its road tour here in Denver next August. For those who managed to snag seats, Jenn Wohletz, who spent several years in Utah, offered up t ... More >>

Five things you need to know about Mormons

Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who created The Book of Mormon , are hometown heroes -- and that alone is reason for a "Glory Hallelujah" all around. Tickets for the musical sold out in record time yesterday; for those lucky enough to have snagged them, there are a few things about the LDS faith that yo ... More >>

The Book of Mormon tickets on sale at 10 a.m. Sunday

The Book of Mormon's Denver premiere should have musical fans dancing.​You could pretty much hear the yelps of joy all the way out here when The Book of Mormon opened in New York last year. The New York Times declared this musical -- by our very own South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Sto ... More >>

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The Book of Mormon's Denver premiere should have musical fans dancing.​You could pretty much hear the yelps of joy all the way out here when The Book of Mormon opened in New York last year. The New York Times declared this musical -- by our very own South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Sto ... More >>

You'll Eat It Up!

The Book of Mormon's Denver premiere should have musical fans dancing.​You could pretty much hear the yelps of joy all the way out here when The Book of Mormon opened in New York last year. The New York Times declared this musical -- by our very own South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Sto ... More >>

Reader combines South Park, Columbine, New World Order & guns in five sentences: Amazing!

Trey Parker.​Plenty of comments affixed to our blog posts are intelligent and thoughtful. Many of them are angry and passionate. Some are rude, obscene and/or offensive. But only a handful are jaw-slackeningly bizarre. Here's an example of the latter -- a paragraph just posted on a two-year-ol ... More >>

The Book of Mormon will come to Denver early but won't stick around long

​Despite their nearly two decades of golden success, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have always put on for Colorado -- magnum opus South Park, for example, is basically a fifteen-year-long-and-counting tribute to the home state -- and given that track record, we weren't surprised at all when they ... More >>

Five musicals based on weirdly tragic true stories

You sure about this, guys?​Although the musical -- one of the sillier holdouts from an era when theater was more, you know, theatrical -- is mostly exploited these days for its camp potential (see: The Book of Mormon), it's still not quite dead as a study of human emotion, either. And although ... More >>

Comment of the day: "For giving G-d the finger, Trey Parker and Matt Stone received a Tony."

Trey Parker​Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the Colorado boys who made the big time with South Park, are used to pushing the envelope and making people mad. But they managed to make one hthalljr so angry by winning nine Tony awards, including Best Musical, for The Book of Mormon that he forgot ho ... More >>

The Book of Mormon (and Harold Camping?) make for big Colorado night at Tony Awards

Trey Parker.​We've been following The Book of Mormon's march to theatrical dominance for months, from first raves to Drama Desk nominations and Tony nods -- fourteen of them, leading to nine victories at the awards ceremony last night, including Best Musical for hometown boys made good Trey Pa ... More >>

Trey Parker thanks Joseph Smith, the other author of The Book of Mormon

broadway.comCollaborators Trey Parker (left) and Joseph Smith.​Local boys Trey Parker and Matt Stone made good -- very, very good -- last night when the former University of Colorado students won nine Tony awards, including Best Musical, for The Book of Mormon. But while they were embraced by ... More >>

Colorado summer vacation pre-Memorial Day mascot final exam: Kenny Be's Pop Quiz

Colorado is crawling with mascots.​ It's been two weeks since the Discover Colorado Rally -- plenty of time for all Colorado summer vacation planners to have studied up for today's pop quiz. Provide the name and attraction associated with each of the mascots pictured below...

Hometown pride: The Book of Mormon will open its tour in Denver

​By every conceivable definition, Trey Parker and Matt Stone's The Book of Mormon has been am unqualified success; in fact, considering the sold-out houses, the glowing reviews and the preposterous amount of Tony Award nominations the musical has garnered, it might even be the most successful ... More >>

Gratuitous randomness: America, f*ck yeah!

USA! USA!​This weekend, America proved once again that no matter how far you run, no matter how well you hide, or possibly don't really bother to run or hide at all, you can't escape the badass eagle-sword of eventual justice! Osama bin laden is dead, and to celebrate -- and also because it's ... More >>

Trey Parker and Matt Stone win the race... to the year's most Tony nods for The Book of Mormon

​Two Colorado boys made very good yesterday -- and no, I'm not talking about Chris Romer and Michael Hancock. If all politics is local, art can be out-of-this-world, as shown by The Book of Mormon, created by former University of Colorado students Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

Doing us proud: The Book of Mormon sweeps the Tonys with fourteen nominations

​It's been not much more than a month since The Book of Mormon, the sweet and dirty musical send-up of Mormonism from South Park creators and Denver locals Trey Parker and Matt Stone, opened on Broadway to the adulation of everybody -- and now its dominance is official: Yesterday, Book of Morm ... More >>

The Book of Mormon gets 12 Drama Desk noms: South Park creators getting respectable?

Matt Stone.​Eighteen years ago this week, Westword published my interview with CU students Trey Parker and Matt Stone about their in-progress film Alferd Packer: The Musical. Did I predict in that piece that they'd someday create an acclaimed Broadway show? Sadly, no -- but the South Park crea ... More >>

Comment of the day: "Why pay to drink from the gutter?"

​Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the longtime brains behind South Park, Colorado's most famous semi-fictional mountain town, took it all the way to Broadway on Tuesday when The Book of Mormon opened to glowing reviews. The musical, a sendup of Mormon culture starring two "elders" on a mission trip ... More >>

The Book of Mormon opens on Broadway to glowing reviews. Here's a look back.

Bring it back home!​Type "The Book of Mormon" into Google right now, and the first thing to come is the eponymous play by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, two Colorado boys who went on to become, we think it's fair to say at this point, the greatest satirists of a generation. From South Park to Tea ... More >>

Portland isn't the only place with hipsters: Presenting Portlandia, Denver edition

​IFC's new show Portlandia is basically a hipster SNL. It stars Fred Armisen (of, uh, SNL) and Carrie Brownstein (aka the Jesus Christ of Portland hip). The first episode premieres Friday, but you can watch it now on Hulu. In it, jokes are made about organic chicken and radical feminist shops ... More >>

Ken Buck & Michael Bennet, South Park-style: Who's the douche and who's the turd sandwich?

​KOA's Mike Rosen accused AM 760's David Sirota of being humorless after Sirota circulated a Rosen line from a debate about crashing a plane into a thus-far-unbuilt mosque near Ground Zero -- a joke, according to Rosen, but one that still led to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann branding him the worst p ... More >>

South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone: Those weren't our bleeps in Mohammad finale

Matt Stone and Trey Parker during a recent Boing Boing interview.​Yesterday, we shared with you a video featuring local bad boys made good Matt Stone and Trey Parker talking about their depiction of the prophet Mohammad in a two-part episode of South Park -- a gag that earned them attacks on a ... More >>

South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone talk about the prophet Mohammad

Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the warped Colorado-bred minds behind South Park, are the target of threats from a Muslim group for showing the prophet Mohammad in a bear suit in a recent episode. Maybe that's why the latest full show available for viewing on South Park's Comedy Central site at this wr ... More >>

South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone: What's their plan for bringing Mormons to Broadway?

​Now that South Park bad boys Trey Parker and Matt Stone have announced plans for a Broadway production titled The Book of Mormon, congregants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are bracing themselves for some savage jokes about polygamous prophets, complicated underwear, annoy ... More >>

Medical marijuana and South Park: Everybody's favorite obscene cartoon takes on Colorado's hottest topic -- plus scrotum coats!

​South Park's creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone grew up in Colorado and attended the University of Colorado in Boulder, which explains why their celebrated show includes lots of local references. So it was only a matter of time until the duo took on the hottest topic around these parts these ... More >>

How to survive Casa Bonita, the world's weirdest Mexican restaurant

I recently visited Casa Bonita for the first time, and I'm still trying to recover. No, that's not an indigestion joke about the food, sub-par as it may be. Actually, my mind was blown in a good way. As I'd been told, there's no easy way to describe the Lakewood institution, which bills itself as "T ... More >>

Colorado goes to the Dog

The January Esquire features profiles of fifty prominent Americans, one pegged to each state, talking about "What I've Learned." And who did the mag pick to represent celebrity-starved Colorado? An elder statesman like Gary Hart?  (BTW, he's my dark-horse candidate to return to the U.S. Senate.) ... More >>

Souvenirs of South Park

The January Esquire features profiles of fifty prominent Americans, one pegged to each state, talking about "What I've Learned." And who did the mag pick to represent celebrity-starved Colorado? An elder statesman like Gary Hart?  (BTW, he's my dark-horse candidate to return to the U.S. Senate.) ... More >>

Why No Statement From South Park Creators About Isaac Hayes' Death?

The January Esquire features profiles of fifty prominent Americans, one pegged to each state, talking about "What I've Learned." And who did the mag pick to represent celebrity-starved Colorado? An elder statesman like Gary Hart?  (BTW, he's my dark-horse candidate to return to the U.S. Senate.) ... More >>

Souvenirs of South Park

The January Esquire features profiles of fifty prominent Americans, one pegged to each state, talking about "What I've Learned." And who did the mag pick to represent celebrity-starved Colorado? An elder statesman like Gary Hart?  (BTW, he's my dark-horse candidate to return to the U.S. Senate.) ... More >>

Three the Hard Way

The January Esquire features profiles of fifty prominent Americans, one pegged to each state, talking about "What I've Learned." And who did the mag pick to represent celebrity-starved Colorado? An elder statesman like Gary Hart?  (BTW, he's my dark-horse candidate to return to the U.S. Senate.) ... More >>

Down South

Visiting South Park with the man who would be Butters.

The South Park Anniversary: The First Trey Parker-Matt Stone Interview

Visiting South Park with the man who would be Butters.

More South Park Anniversary Madness

Visiting South Park with the man who would be Butters.

These Dogs Still Hunt

Visiting South Park with the man who would be Butters.

Best Homage to Ward Churchill

"Die Hippie Die"
South Park

Starz Stars

The Starz Denver International Film Festival unspools for the 27th time.

Puppet Masters

Homegrown wiseguys give pieces a chance in Team America.

Pop Quiz

Blame Conifer!
April 10, 2003

It Happens

Ohmigod! Five seasons in, South Park's the funniest show on TV.

Off Limits

A calendar hits the wall.

Off Limits

Put Up Your Dukes

Playlist

Primus, The Go, At the Drive In, Method Man/Redman

This Year Blows!

Kissing off a year of six-minute smooches and sex-toy cigars.

Off Limits

Kissing off a year of six-minute smooches and sex-toy cigars.

Artsbeat

Kissing off a year of six-minute smooches and sex-toy cigars.

Calendar

Feb. 5-11, 1998