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100 Colorado Creatives: Chandler Romeo and Reed Weimer

#18: Chandler Romeo and Reed Weimer Artists Chandler Romeo and Reed Weimer have been fixtures of the local scene since co-ops first began to pop up around 1980, building their Denver art careers first at Pirate gallery and later starting up Zip 37 just across Navajo Street. Over the years,...
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Gregory Buerge: Inside the search for a sexually violent predator

Last night, sexually violent predator Gregory Buerge was arrested mere hours after the Lakewood Police Department put out an alert revealing that his whereabouts were unknown. In the opinion of Detective Ryan McKone, LPD spokesman, Buerge didn't go off the radar due to an oversight. "It appears to us that...
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Darkman: Celebrating Sam Raimi’s Descent Into Utter Madness

No matter what else he does, director Sam Raimi has two unassailable fan favorites under his belt: 1987's Evil Dead 2, and the 1992 trilogy-capper Army of Darkness. (His first film, 1981's The Evil Dead, is more "respected" than "loved" by the fans.) Released between those two films, Raimi's 1990...
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Acorn: Oak’s founders branch out at the Source

When the Source opened last summer in a redeveloped nineteenth-century foundry not far from the National Western Complex, the space was electric, crackling with the unexpected juxtaposition of food, urban grittiness and vintage architectural bones. It was just the kind of place to throw down a few tacos or grab...
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Bill May’s photo diary of flooding in Longmont

Our posts about flooding in Boulder and Lyons show the wide-ranging nature of the ongoing situation, which has already resulted in a slew of road, business and public-agency closures, as well as several lives lost. But dealing with a deluge like this one remains a very personal experience, as illustrated...
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100 Colorado Creatives: Marie Vlasic

#11: Marie Vlasic Like many of her portrait subjects, painter Marie Vlasic has nothing to hide. There's no pretense to her hyper-realistic work: She paints what she sees -- a lot of it skin, much of that skin tatted and otherwise permanently decorated. But her visual observations also peer deeply...
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How Colorado became ground zero in America’s energy wars

At the Denver premiere of the film Dear Governor Hickenlooper last month, there were no stretch limos, no red-carpet divas, no paparazzi or moguls in tuxedos. What you got instead, squeezed into the spartan confines of the Oriental Theater, were auteurs in old jeans and ball caps, a modest concession...
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Matthew Stringer busted for looting CU buildings after floods

The flooding that's swamped Colorado in recent days has resulted in loss of life, thousands of evacuations, enormous property damage and ministerial claims about prophecies and God's wrath. But there have been relatively few reports about looting. Until now. The CU-Boulder campus is open today, but it's been closed since...
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Vegan stroganoff for a hearty dinner on Meatless Monday

Everyone reaches a point during the holiday season when the thought of one more bite of holiday food makes you feel like never eating again. You'll get over it -- we promise -- but in the meantime, there are plenty of other comfort foods that can fill you up without...
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Contemporary art sets the stage at Havu and the CVA

Though contemporary art went fully international more than a generation ago, certain qualifiers related to country, culture, history, sexuality, gender and ethnicity, among a raft of other factors, persist, and there is no indication that they will give way to some kind of worldwide sameness. This idea came to mind...
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Pink’s Denver show rescheduled to January

Pink was originally slated to bring her Truth About Love tour to the Pepsi Center on Friday, October 18, but upon direct doctor's advisement, she postponed the date until Wednesday, October 30, in order to rest her voice. After a short rest, she played a pair of shows in the...
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Power to the People

Denver has been presenting the Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in Arts & Culture since 1986 — but this year the city added a new twist, asking people to vote for their favorites in two categories. Tonight, the winners of those contests will be announced at a free awards ceremony that...