Saturday, May 18, 2013
News
Last Chance Motel
Through October, the Aztec Motel is offering some of the city's homeless a chance at a new life as they search for jobs and a fresh start.
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Long story short
I don't like scary films, but I enjoy "scary" ones — with cheesy rubber bats on fishing line.
Manitou implements parking plan for busy summer
Residents worried about paying to park on several major streets in their city don't need to start collecting change just yet.
Maketa campaign reveals investigation involving opponent
Hatch-et act?: What better way to advance one's candidacy than by revealing one's challenger is under federal investigation?
Noted: City seeks PILT ruling
Also: Memorial's declining finances, Fountain Council drama continues, FutureSelf head resigns and more.
Columns
Audiences: ours vs. theirs
Coming this Sunday inside each copy of the Gazette: a mustard pack to draw out the congestion, a poster of President Eisenhower, a rubber hot-water bottle to cure "the aches" and a "Where the Hell Are My Glasses?" bumper sticker.
Rivera's last go-round
Next Wednesday Mayor Lionel Rivera will embark on his final lap as the head of this city's government.
IQ: Helping the homeless
Funding for hotels for the homeless is expected to run out in October. If the they are unable to find jobs before then, the city could face a cold winter with many people looking for places to pop up tents.
HRC not worth the trouble
The absolute last thing Colorado Springs really needs is to give the Human Relations Commission another chance.
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Stranger than fiction
All the weird news that's fit to print.
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CannaBiz
Caregivers Coalition's mission, update on raided dispensaries and Paige's protest.
Hill Climb yearns for records
On a perfect summer morning in 1994, I rode in a van to the summit of Pikes Peak and enjoyed a sneak preview of history.
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Advice goddess
Better a strange drunk cabbing to Motel 6 than a strange drunk turning your home into Motel Sex.
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Letters
Troops in Stratton Open Space, BP's "negligent homicide", a letter to Obama, saving game animals and more.
Memo to BP: Please just quit talking!
Urgent memo to the shareholders of the oil corporation formerly known as British Petroleum: Cap that gusher!
Food & Drink
Lyons' roar
If the menu's a Robert Frost line, it's the road less traveled.
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Side dish
The back story on Ruffrano's Pizzeria and Bakery, another spice shop opens and more.
Music
Wilco guitarist Nels Cline pays a return visit to his avant savant roots
"There's always a need for destruction in order to have creation and change."
Young Veins go for it
Panic! At the Disco guitarists take a permanent vacation.
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Reverb
I drove over 3,000 miles, safely across seven states, and I end up nearly getting killed by some crazy-ass drunk driver! Right in front of my house!?
Whitman
"The rule was: If it was done after 1975, we weren't going to do it."
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Sound advice
Bettye LaVette, Jack Johnson, Dixie Chicks
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Big gigs
Upcoming concerts here and around the region.
Playing around
Who's playing where, and when, at area venues for the next week.
Film
Monster dreams
Area filmmaker documents the secrets, scandals and shocking incompetence behind one of Hollywood's most delightfully disastrous films.
Proof of concept: Knight and Day
Execution is everything — and it's why Knight and Day is so unexpectedly satisfying.
No shame, no game: Grown Ups
Is it too overblown to suggest that what passes for the modern American mainstream comedy has finally descended into the downright sociopathic?
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Cinefiles
180° South: Conquerors of the Useless, Showgirls, The Stranger and more.
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Movie picks
Our reviewers' recommendations for films playing around the area.
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Opening this week
Grown Ups, Knight and Day, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Visual Arts
Neil Fenton will have you seeing red — in a good way
Cadmium red light is a vibrant orange-red that helps details pop in Fenton's paintings.
London artist explores music through layers of film
Idris Khan is an artist whose favorite medium is paint. The only problem is, he's not a very good painter.
Books
Author John Edgar Wideman diversifies with DIY publishing
Here, Wideman talks about his new stories, his unusual publishing choice, and the future of the book world.
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Short stories
Last Words of the Executed, Did Somebody Step on a Duck? A Natural History of the Fart, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
Calendar
Special Section
A review of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
The Twilight Saga producers keep trying; you’ve got to give them that.
Willie and Snoop
From Snoop Dogg's Twitter: Is that Snoop and Willie Nelson? Is it marijuana? Is it medicinal? Are they finally forming a super group? Questions, questions ...
Tastes of Tut, take two
Beyond it's cool factor and tight flavors, Root Down's whole focus on organic, local, sustainability and greenness, from foundation to food sources, is commendable. If more urban blight could be transformed into something so culinarily worthwhile and vibrant to its neighborhood, we'd certainly be looking at our vacant buildings in up-and-coming areas through new lenses.
