Amanda Barker

She came, she spanked

broad talks to Amanda Barker who is touring across the country with the Fifty Shades of Grey parody show “Spank.” Barker, who looks like a cross between American actress Megan Mullally, (of the 1998-2008 sitcom Will & Grace and a recurring character on Parks and Recreation), tells us why Fifty Shades might be the greatest literary work of all time.

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How a boss asking for coffee and Fifty Shades tempted a young girl in the library

Meet one Penelope Clearwater, a frustrated women, a young woman, a deeply spiritual woman from Florida who wants to know things about herself, things she can’t ask her mother, father, or priest. She is on a mission; not of sight, or sound, or of mind. It’s not even a mission to the Twilight Zone. Miss Clearwater wants to go “down there.”

Fifty Shades changed the game for all writers.

Fifty Shades changed the game for all writers

All writers, but particularly struggling sex columnists and romance writers of an edgier sort, will recall the year 2011 as the one where they were rudely awakened — and not by a bit of hot sausage in the morning — know what I’m sayin’? Two thousand and eleven marked the year that Fifty Shades series [...]

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Bad romance: How people, beside E.L. James, write it

Love lines lifted from bad romantic novels

From “fiery” public hair to “private wells,” following are our favorite bad lines from romance novels. These bits of delicious awfulness beg the question, why aren’t all these writers as rich and famous as E.L. James? We think any one of them could have been this century’s erotica-writing Cinderella, but you be the judge.

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Fifty Grey Products: Must haves for Shades lovers young and old

Ties inspired by Fifty Shades

The dazzlingly popular book series that began with Fifty Shades of Grey has inspired broad’s stunning line of Grey products you can’t live without. Our catalog features cutting-edge items to send you on your way to explore fifty kinds of fun.

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Fifty Shades: “A great book if you look past the writing”

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Fifty Shades of Grey reads like a monkey wrote it. I’m not talking about the 100 monkeys with 100 typewriters that will someday write the next great American novel. Those monkeys are quality monkeys. The monkey that wrote this book is not one of those monkeys. This monkey has clearly done meth for several years [...]

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Kristin Rand: One-hundred watts of hilarity

Kristin Rand, local celebrity, MCs at Denver's Beauty Bar the third Wednesday of the month.

A fearless lover of chicken wings, Local Comedian Kristin Rand believes in herself, in the power of comedy, and that “the best comic, the one who will last, is the one being vulnerable in a way that makes you laugh.”

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SASS: Sashia Atwell’s Sophomore Shenanigans

This celebrity football tattoo comes with some valuable advice.

Love football? Sat by your significant other for the Superbowl and all the games leading up to it, didn’t you? But if you don’t and you didn’t and you won’t,
Sashia Atwell’s Sophomore Shenanigans is a primer of how to give you and your companion a happy ending — even if you have to watch football to get there.

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Bestest A.J. fan EVER gets her lips done!

Who wouldn't want these celebrity lips.

These lips,the ones in the photos, they are the BEST celebrity lips in the universe and they aren’t Assy-Fatty’s. Not the top one, not the bottom one. Still, Assy-Fatty can tell you how to get them, or something very nearly like them. Read on.

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