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1 week ago | 
westword.com | Toni Tresca
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1 week ago | 
westword.com | Toni Tresca
Colorado native Pat Treuer built a $1.2 million comedy business, Treuer Laughs, from scratch. Then he lost almost everything chasing a YouTube dream, Of the Comics, that didn’t pan out. His new memoir, Will I Hate Myself? A Story About Going For It, published on April 1, is his painfully honest account of what happens when you go all in on your passion and it explodes in your face.
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1 week ago | 
westword.com | Toni Tresca
After years of planning, Wheelchair Sports Camp is finally releasing the songs that have been quietly playing inside the hip-hop group's immersive installation at Meow Wolf since it opened in 2021. "It's been one long art project," says Kalyn Heffernan, the hip-hop band's queer and wheelchair-using frontperson with osteogenesis imperfecta.
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2 weeks ago | 
westword.com | Toni Tresca
So, if you’re looking for more than just a place to party this Pride season, there’s a space for that. On Sunday, June 15, from 4 to 6 p.m., Hamburger Mary’s Denver is hosting Mary’s Gives Back, a fundraiser and volunteer event organized by local nonprofit Project Helping. Pride 2025 comes at a time when celebration alone doesn’t feel like enough.
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2 weeks ago | 
westword.com | Toni Tresca
On a rainy Wednesday night in late May, the crowd at Comedy Works Downtown was buzzing. Inside the intimate club, eleven comics took the stage one by one, each with five minutes and a chance to make their mark in the venue's New Faces Contest. One comic wore a leopard-print jumpsuit and joked about weed. Another, clad in a blue suit, riffed about Stevie Wonder driving.
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2 weeks ago | 
westword.com | Toni Tresca
It’s fitting that Little Miss Sunshine centers on a sputtering yellow VW van, because this musical adaptation never really gets out of first gear. Directed by Warren Sherrill and featuring a committed cast of local talent, this show boasts energy, polish and some strong performances, but the Aurora Fox Arts Center’s latest production can't overcome the fundamental issue at its core: this story should never have been musicalized.
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3 weeks ago | 
westword.com | Toni Tresca
In an age of endless streaming options, political unrest and AI-generated everything, it’s easy to feel like old stories don’t matter anymore. But at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival? Shakespeare still hits. "Over the last five years, I think we have become even more attuned to what Shakespeare is saying in these plays," CSF artistic director Tim Orr says. "With the lockdown and the loss, along with the political turmoil in the country, we see it again and again in these plays.
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3 weeks ago | 
westword.com | Toni Tresca
It starts with a sketch and a few sticks of chalk. Then come the artists — some professionals, some complete newcomers — kneeling side by side on the concrete. As hours pass, hands darken, colors bloom and an ordinary city block is transformed into a living gallery. “Chalk art is basically a performance-based medium,” says Michael Rieger, longtime artist director of the Denver Chalk Art Festival.
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3 weeks ago | 
westword.com | Toni Tresca
Let’s be real, Denver Pride just doesn’t hit the way it used to. Once a grassroots celebration of queer resistance and joy, today’s Denver PrideFest feels more like a commercial spectacle than a community rally.
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4 weeks ago | 
westword.com | Toni Tresca
Every June, Denver turns into a playground for the unpredictable. Rooftops, bookstores, breweries and black boxes across the city crack open to reveal everything from trash-collecting astronauts to tango-dancing about the human experience, all part of the wild, sprawling celebration that is the Denver Fringe Festival. Now in its sixth year, Fringe returns Wednesday, June 4, through Sunday, June 8, with more than 200 performances of 75 self-produced shows across nineteen venues.
