Entertainment headlines from The Denver Post

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Today's Entertainment and Lifestyle Headlines

Summer movies: A preview of what you should — or shouldn't — be watching in the Denver area
Over the next four months, more than 100 movies are headed to local screens. If that doesn't make your head spin, then you might want to audition for one of those superhero roles that studios stake their tent-pole ambitions on. This doesn't even count the 10 films opening today.  

• Make sure the time's right to lop shrubs
• Sheriff Sullivan speaks: CBS4 will air confession videotapes
• Opera takes off in Fort Collins at Arias at Avos
• Movie review: "The Salt of Life" a passionate comedy
• Movie review: "The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye" a simple, sexy tale

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Today's Celebrity Buzz

People: Chris Brown's new rap: "Buy my pit-bull puppies"?
Also

A-Rod praises Cameron Diaz

Streisand celebrates 70th

 

• People: Kris Humphries asks: Is Kanye-Kim duo a publicity stunt?

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Moms - Parenting

Healthy summer camps for kids
When I went to summer camp, one of my clearest memories is of the colorful lumps of mashed potatoes: blue, purple, you name it. The bustling mess hall at Camp Pendalouan in Western Michigan was not known for its food. As kids away from home, we didn't care. We cared more about how not to freeze  

• Needed: The Dog Whisperer! Hard Lessons Our Dogs Have Taught Us
• Bumbleride Indie Twin – WIN A FREE DOUBLE STROLLER (a $755 value)

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Today's Movies

Summer movies: A preview of what you should — or shouldn't — be watching in the Denver area
Over the next four months, more than 100 movies are headed to local screens. If that doesn't make your head spin, then you might want to audition for one of those superhero roles that studios stake their tent-pole ambitions on. This doesn't even count the 10 films opening today.  

• Review: "The Salt of Life" a passionate comedy
• Review: "The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye" a simple, sexy tale
• Review: "Four Lovers" has plenty of love to go around
• Review: A not-so-"Darling Companion"
• Review: These know-it-all "Damsels" will show you their way

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Music - Classical

Opera takes off in Fort Collins at Arias at Avos
Opera doesn't have to be intimidating--even beer drinkers can love it. At least that's the idea behind Arias at Avos, a monthly opera performance at the popular Fort Collins bar and restaurant, Avogadro's Number.  

• In Opera Colorado's "Il Trovatore," Denver-bound soprano Michele Capalbo shows she knows her way around Verdi

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Reverb

Why So Serious, Amy Schumer?
Comedian Amy Schumer isn't your mother's stand-up -- although if your mother has a stand-up, that's really weird. Why does your mother have a stand-up? Tell her she should share with everyone else.

 

• Elephant Revival hits the Ogden, Leftover Salmon takes over Santa Fe Arts District, Mat Kearney films Colorado vid, more music news
• Steal This Track: Joe Sampson
• Laurie Anderson at the Boulder Theater, 4/25/12 (photos and review)
• Trace Adkins at the Paramount Theatre, 4/25/12 (photos and review)

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Today's Style

New relationship is tested by a dance (4/27/2012)
Dear Amy: I've been dating a guy for more than two months. We have been seeing each other exclusively. We both agreed to this. Last week he told me that he had forgotten something — but before we started seeing each other he had made a prior commitment to go to a spring dance with another woman.  

• Denver Post Fashion Calendar, 4/26/2012
• Colorado Rockies beer vendor Captain Earthman, a.k.a. Brent Doeden, reflects on "Cold beer!" at Coors Field and beyond
• Davidson: Denver designer Stephanie Ohnmacht looks to sew it up at Frock Out designers showcase

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Television - Joanne Ostrow

Sheriff Sullivan speaks: CBS4 will air confession videotapes
CBS4 has a hot one to kick off the May sweeps: Pat Sullivan in his own words.Brian Maass got his hands on three hours' worth of tapes from the interview with former Arapahoe Sheriff Pat  

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Theater

"Big Heart" and "Date" prove love is for amateurs
Two fine works currently on Denver stages suggest that love is an undertaking for amateurs: The Aurora Fox's "Amateur Night at the Big Heart" and Off-Center's "Date."  

• Colorado Theater Openings, 4/27/2012
• Theater review: Bewitching "Wicked" still stands strong

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Society - Joanne Davidson

Davidson: Denver designer Stephanie Ohnmacht looks to sew it up at Frock Out designers showcase
Only time will tell if Stephanie Ohnmacht will score a Frock Out three-peat. For now, the Denver designer who won the grand prize in 2007 is busting her buttons because she sewed it up again in 2012.