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1 week ago | boulderweekly.com | Michael Casey

Nothing to see here, just a creepy kid (Jonah Wren Phillips) holding a house cat in an empty pool. Courtesy: Ingvar Kenne/A24 What greater hell could exist for a parent than the loss of a child? The lengths they would go to undo what has been done, the bargains they would cut, must be bottomless. Pain that fathomable — even for those who haven’t experienced it — makes for good horror. It roots the supernatural in something real.

1 week ago | boulderweekly.com | Dan Savage

Photo by farinaz athari on Unsplash I recently camehome from a short meeting to find my husband in the bathroom secretly jerking off to porn while I was out. This has happened before. He says that the secret nature is not part of the desire for him. But there’s something about looking at women with perfect/fake bodies while I’m out briefly that feeds into my insecurities. Am I being unfair in asking him to stop jerking off to porn secretly when I could walk in on him easily?

1 week ago | boulderweekly.com | Michael Casey

Left to right: Benicio Del Toro, Mia Threapleton and Michael Cera in The Phoenician Scheme. Courtesy: TPS Productions/Focus Features The two most interesting moments in The Phoenician Scheme — the latest from director Wes Anderson — come at the beginning and end of the movie. As for what happens in between, we’ll get there.

1 week ago | boulderweekly.com | Toni Tresca

'Bright Star' might be one of the best Candlelight Dinner Playhouse productions in recent memory. Credit: RDG Photo When you find yourself at a dinner theater sitting next to two people who’ve seen the same musical three times, you pay attention. That was the case during Bright Star at Candlelight Dinner Playhouse in Johnstown, where a couple of self-declared superfans eagerly shared their love for the show’s sweeping romance, soaring harmonies and Appalachian soul.

1 week ago | boulderweekly.com | John Lehndorff

Desserts delivered at Denver’s Cirrus Social Club, Colorado’s first cannabis club and munchery. Courtesy: Cirrus Social Club Cannabis hospitality has finally arrived in Colorado. Cirrus Social Club, the state’s debut cannabis social club, has opened at 3200 E. Colfax Ave. in Denver.