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THURSDAY-SUNDAYOpening weekend for this special opportunity to experience "American Prom," a work by poet/playwright/rapper Idris Goodwin commissioned by Theatreworks. Runs through Feb. 10 at Ent Center for the Arts. When a young white man asks his black friend to prom, they challenge age-old barriers in their small hometown in middle America. How to make their way toward a special prom night and more inclusive future? 7:30 p.m., weekend matinees, tickets $20-45.50, uccspresents.org THURSDAY-SUNDAYWarren Epstein does solo comedy about an area he knows well, the Catskills in New York, as Borsch Belted premieres, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday at The Millibo Art Theatre, 1626 S. Tejon St. Join the fun, directed by MAT's Jim Jackson. $25, $18 on Thursday. themat.orgTHURSDAY-SUNDAYWinter sports at their most daredevil. Experience Winter X Games, Buttermilk Mountain, in person. All the sports competitions are free and open to all. The evening concerts are sold out, but … [Read more...] about 14 things to do in and around Colorado Springs this weekend: Idris Goodwin play, Chinese New Year, Dragon Theatre, films in Black Forest, fruitcake fling

For adolescents blessed with willowy good looks, the fashion world offers the prospect of glamour, celebrity, and wealth. But this, for many, is what the beginning of a modeling career can actually look like: On her first test shoot as a 15-year-old, Dasha Alexander said, a photographer held a camera in one hand and digitally penetrated her with his other — a move, he explained, that would make the pictures more “raw” and “sensual.”When Coco Rocha refused to get naked on set as a 16-year-old, she said, the photographer replaced her with a girl who was younger and more obedient. Months later, a famous photographer simulated an orgasm as he took Rocha’s picture.By the time Lenka Chubuklieva was 17, she said, an agent had repeatedly groped her, a photographer had thrown her on a bed and kissed her, and another photographer had masturbated in front of her and threatened to ruin her family in Ukraine if she told anyone.“If people really understood … [Read more...] about The fashion world promises glamour and wealth. Instead, many find harassment and assault.

To savour Italy unyoked from the herds that clog the narrow cobbled arteries of Rome, you might try a few days in the alpine Abruzzo region. Much neglected by tourists yet just over the border of Lazio, Abruzzo is a verdant paradise of national parks, wildlife reserves, and botanical gardens. There’s hearty highland cooking at little spots where you just take the courses as the host brings them. The landscape is dotted with family farms where you can roll up, ring at the door, and buy a variety of portable palate pleasers like infused honeys, wine, genziana, olive oil, and the region’s ubiquitous pecorinos. READ ALSO: 'Abruzzo's food keeps you coming back for more' There are rock-climbing lessons, Italian maiolica and saffron tours (Abruzzo saffron is widely considered the best in the world), castles and monasteries to visit, and hosts of picturesque hill villages, each with its own attractions and claims to fame. One of those villages is Pescocostanzo, the … [Read more...] about Weekend Wanderlust: Pescocostanzo, Abruzzo’s ‘City of Art’