Color PurpleOutshines Box Office Predictions by Earning Second-Biggest Christmas Day Opening of All Time

Fantasia Barrino in “The Color Purple”.Photo:Eli Adé/Warner Bros. Eli Adé/Warner Bros. The Color Purpleis a holiday box office hit. The new movie musical starringFantasia Barrino,Taraji P. Henson,Danielle Brooksand more surpassed expectations at the domestic box office, taking the No. 1 spot on Monday and accounting for the second-biggest Christmas Day opening of all time, multiple outlets reported. According toVarietyandThe Hollywood Reporter, the $18.1 million earned in North American theaters makes theBlitz Bazawule-directed musical the largest Christmas opening since 2009.

Colorado Couple Gets Trapped in Their Home by Mass of Tumbleweeds: 'I Thought It Was a Bad Dream'

“I opened the front door and it’s whole tumbleweeds,” she recalled. “We couldn’t even get out of here.” “You kind of almost, you know, you feel helpless,” she added. “I thought it was a bad dream.” Ultimately, she said that neighbors helped clear a path for her and her husband — and even that was a struggle. “You had to fight yourself through the tumbleweeds, which were above the car,” she told KRDO.

Colorado Funeral Home Director Pleads Guilty to Illegally Selling Hundreds of Body Parts

A Colorado funeral home director accused of stealing and selling the body parts of hundreds of people has pleaded guilty to mail fraud. The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado saidin a releaseTuesday, that Meghan Hess, 45, of Montrose, Colorado had pleaded guilty to running a complex fraud “devised and executed… to steal the bodies or body parts of hundreds of victims,” from 2010 to 2018. Hess then “sold those remains to victims purchasing the remains for scientific, medical, or educational purposes,” the release added.

Colorado Home Designed by NKOTB’s Jonathan Knight on HGTV’sRock the BlockSells for $2.85M

There’s a new house on the block! Long before it was listed, the Colorado residence appeared on small-screens everywhere on the competition seriesRock the Block. Chad Davies In the season, which aired last spring, four two-person teams spent six weeks and a $250,000 budget renovating one of the Berthoud properties. While Knight and Crestin did not win the fourth season —Luxe for Less’s Michel Smith Boyd and Anthony Elle received the honor — the Berthoud property they designed did sell for $2.

Colorado Man Noticed Tired Straphangers Waiting at Bus Stops — So He Made Benches for Them

After James Warren saw a woman sitting in the dirt while waiting for a bus at a seatless stop in Denver in January, he realized he could put his carpentry talents to good use. The 28-year-old decided to build a bench from scrap construction wood he finds in dumpsters, and place a much-needed seat at the stop. “My goal is to make people’s lives just a little bit better, and make their transit riding just a little bit easier,” says Warren, who has made and placed another seven benches at other stops around the city, with plans to keep going.