Update: Two corrections have been made: Tropic Thunder is now the only June 18 film, and viewers can vote on which film they'd like to see on July 16.

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It's finally here.

The 2012 Film On the Rocks summer line-up at Red Rocks Amphitheatre was announced this evening, and many movies that made the cut were picked for the people, by the people. Though carefully curated by the Denver Film Center -- and led by FOTR Program Director Britta Erickson -- if the inclusion of a film like The Notebook rubs watchers the wrong way, look no further than the audience itself:

"It wasn't just because this seems to be the year of Ryan Gosling," says Karla Rodriguez, Audience Development and Social Media Manager for FOTR. "It's because The Notebook has been one of our top five most-requested films consistently since it came out. From crowd surveys to Facebook polls, this is what the people want."

Read more about tonight's announcement and see the full schedule below.

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By now your Facebook page has probably exploded with friends' posts of the viral video Kony2012. If you're one of the few who hasn't yet seen the video or read the hash tag on Twitter, Joseph Kony is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) of Uganda. He's been terrorizing Uganda and Southern Sudan since 1987, claiming to be a medium of the Holy Spirit.

So, obviously, Joseph Kony is a terrible man.

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Lights, camera, Runway.

Last night's episode of Project Runway All Stars was brought to you by a Deadhead near you. Or it might as well have been. The challenge asked the designers to create a look that would pop under a black light and impress guest judge Pharrell Williams.

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The main virtual hall

Most conventions are pants-mandatory kinds of affairs -- even those of the adult nature. For the world's first virtual porn convention, however, I'm not wearing any (relax...I'm in my PJs).

This past weekend, XBiz and Red Light Center hosted the Adult Entertainment Virtual Convention, porn's first online-exclusive gathering in a 3-D web environment called "Utherverse." If that all sounds a bit strange and complicated, you don't even know the half of it.

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Erin Streets, the main character in "Shit Girls in Denver Say." Watch the full video below.

The latest local version of the Shit Girls Say viral video trend is "Shit Girls in Denver Say," starring Erin Streets, a 25-year-old fashion designer and stylist who utters cliches and catch phrases for a good three minutes. It's funny. Watch the video below and read Street's reaction to its relative popularity (16,000 views and counting, since it was published Thursday).

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"Badlands," Otero County

Once upon a time, lots of movies were filmed in Colorado. The first was an 1897 flick called Festival of Mountain and Plain. One of the last was a 2009 Eddie Murphy movie, Imagine That. In between, there were scores of hits and classics that showcased the state's scenic beauty. Now, with the help of lawmakers and Governor John Hickenlooper, film boosters are trying to recapture that previous glory. Read more in this week's cover story, "The Reel West."

Click for a slideshow of stills from movies at least partly filmed in Colorado.

And flip the page to watch "A History of Film in Colorado," an inspiring collection of clips put together by David Emrich at Postmodern Company, a production studio in Denver.

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Ashley Tauch shows off her iPad inside the Folio around the Westword office.

The Denver-based company F3 Designs, has stumbled upon success in that much-coveted of technology niches: Apple product accessories.

Its flagship product, the "F3 Folio," has become a local hit and has begun to gain momentum online and even internationally, with publications from Italy and France singing its praises.

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Why do photovoltaic cells have p-type and n-type layers? *

What causes stars to twinkle?*

If you know the answers to these questions, you might qualify for the winning team of the Colorado Science Bowl. You might even be smarter than a Cherry Creek High school student!

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Ira Glass, pictured here being god-like.

In the sixteen years it's been around, This American Life has been more than just a radio show: It's been the parent of movie scripts as diverse as Unaccompanied Minors and The Informant, a major influence on countless other experiments with the radio format, from Radiolab to The Moth, not to mention, for a couple of years, an excellent TV show. And central to that mythos has always been host and geek-god Ira Glass, who almost single-handedly transformed it all with a simple application of the basics -- compelling stories and moods -- and a relaxed, mildly nerdy everyman persona that, if it's hard to resist over the airwaves, is nearly impossible to resist live.

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Ridgway-based journalist and MacArthur "genius" grant-winner Peter Hessler has written stories that focus on everything from China to small towns in southwestern Colorado to Nepal. (Latest Word has more on the $500,000 award from the MacArthur Foundation, as well as a Q&A with Hessler.) The 42-year-old has amassed a sizable body of work, much of it published in the New Yorker, but in National Geographic, the Atlantic and the New York Times as well. He's also written three best-selling books: 2001's River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, 2006's Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present and 2010's Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip.

He's now collecting articles for an upcoming book slated for 2012. Here's a shortlist of his favorite New Yorker stories:

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