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Comedian Bruce Vilanch on being more than a gay caricature

Comedy writing pioneer Bruce Vilanch is bursting with gayness. One of the first openly gay comedians, he's known for his continuing role on Hollywood Squares and as a head writer for the Academy Awards show, as well as writing jokes for Bette Midler, Elizabeth Taylor, The Brady Bunch, Donnie and Mar ... More >>

Five things Prince Harry should do in Denver

God save the Queen and her adorable, stilted royal wave; Prince Charles gets a few brownie points for sorta making an honest woman outta Camilla; poor Prince William got his mother's pretty face but his father's rapid receding hairline, and Princess Kate has a baby bump that the Brits are going bats ... More >>

Meet the 2013 Westword MasterMinds

Meet the 2013 MasterMinds: Kitty Mae Millinery

On Saturday, Westword celebrated its ninth class of MasterMinds -- artistic adventurers who are changing the landscape of Denver. Here's our fourth winner: I'm not a hat person, but the first time I saw Susan Dillon's handmade toppers, I had to throw my hat into the ring. Under the moniker of Kitty ... More >>

See Hyde Park on Hudson for Bill Murray's performance

Photos: Top ten jobs for soon-to-be-unemployed medical marijuana sign spinners

Next Monday, despite threats of a lawsuit, the Denver City Council seems all but certain to impose a ban on medical marijuana outdoor advertising -- a proposal that seems to have been almost entirely motivated by antipathy toward sign spinners. If the council lowers the boom, how will these MMJ spi ... More >>

Denver milliner Susan Dillon makes chapeaus fit for a queen. The Queen.

There are a few places where women without hats would seem dangerously close to naked: a Baptist church, the Kentucky Derby and Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee celebration. And for a hat to appear in conjunction with the latter -- the Queen, in her sixtieth year of Queendom, is known for her elega ... More >>

The top five Titanic film flubs

The sinking of the RMS Titanic is one of those reliable touchstones that can always be used as a time-keeper for historical fiction. Although only the fifth most deadly shipwreck of all time, it is undeniably the most famous. The drama of one of the most expensive, "unsinkable" nautical marvels of i ... More >>

Anonymous proffers conspiratorial jabbering akin to the Da Vinci Code

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Chasing Manet is worth seeing for excellent acting and a great cause

Top Chef All-Stars: Life's a beach!

Cooking for the King.​Something weird and vampiric is happening to Mike Isabella and Richard Blais on Top Chef: Mike is getting chubbier and cockier by the week, while Richard shrinks visibly, becoming ever thinner and more irritable, muttering that he hates, hates, hates everything he cooks - ... More >>

Top Five Most Outrageous Musician Stunts

Last week, on the 101 freeway in downtown Los Angeles, a previously unknown rap-rock group called Imperial Stars stopped traffic so they could play an impromptu gig on the roof of the panel van. Appropriately, the Imperial doofuses performed a song titled "Traffic Jam 101." This über-lame, Airhea ... More >>

Part two: SAME Cafe's Brad Birky on Queen Elizabeth, Led Zeppelin and the woman who wanted one egg

Lori MidsonBrad and Libby Birky, owners of the SAME Cafe​ This is part two of Lori Midson's interview with Brad Birky, chef/owner of the SAME Cafe. To read part one of this interview, click here. Greatest accomplishment as a chef: Starting SAME Cafe with really no kitchen experience to spea ... More >>

Three years after his murder, memories of Ken Gorman -- Colorado's most vocal pot activist -- have gone up in smoke

Mister Lonely

Harmony Korine creates a Neverland for celeb impersonators in the singular and sincere Mister Lonely.

Best of Denver Winners from 1998

Why I'm Ready to Kiss 2007 Goodbye

DIA Conspiracies Take Off

Conspiracy theorists think something's fishy at Denver International Airport.

Oceanaire Martini

Oceanaire Seafood Room

Five Wonders of the World

Royal Pains

How the British monarchy survived the death of the people's princess.

The Nude Bomb

Mrs. Henderson shakes up war-torn Britain with an assault of the flesh.

So Far, So Good

Hookah Cafe will hook you.

Denver Done Dirty

Rattlebrain clowns D-town

CSF's Richard Wears Thin

A monotone interpretation makes for a flat experience.

A Commanding Performance

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

Pennywise

Land of the Free? (Epitaph Records)

Momus/Kahimi Karie

Stars Forever (Le Grand Magistery)/K.K.K.K.K.(Le Grand Magistery)

Star Hustlers

With the imminent release of The Phantom Menace, Fantastic Media prepares to blast off.

As We Like It

Off Limits

Selling You on an IRA

A Stitch in Time

At the Blue Jay Inn in Buffalo Creek, life sews on.

Sacred Blue

THRILLS

INTO THE MYSTIC