Sunday, May 19, 2013
- Issue Archive for
- Sep 28 - Oct 4, 2000
- Vol. 8, No. 39
- Going All the Way
News
Going All the Way
When it comes to death, America has been like a cocky adolescent who believes no harm can come his way. But that's changing. As the century has turned, so has the desire for a new, more honest public dialogue about death.
Improving the Care of the Dying
The Institute of Medicine's Seven Recommendations
Birthpangs of Peace
On. Sept. 9, five nuns between the ages of 52 and 73 blazed onto Peterson Air Force Base with the fierce concern of elders who burn with the ancient zeal to teach and caution.
City Council Backs Old North End Preservationists
A ten-year battle between neighborhood preservationists and anti-regulation activists came to a decisive head on Tuesday when City Council voted to make the Old North End the city's first historic preservation district.
Columns
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Public Eye
The Colorado Springsbased United States Olympic Committee is back in the new again; a few media outlets have decided to tackle some issues with their own research; and Independent Media Center organizes and publicizes protests against the National Association of Broadcasters.
A Hunter for Gun Control
These days I wear blaze orange with less anxiety. It didn't take me long to figure out that a healthy fear of guns is a good thing.
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Outsider
Is it possible that city government, under Mayor Bob, was actually more progressive?
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Letters
Readers of the Independent talk back to the editor.
Make mine a jazz funeral
In early 20th century New Orleans when someone died, members of the community would parade their coffin through the streets to the accompaniment of a small ensemble of supremely talented, improvational musicians in a jazz funeral.
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Garden Daze
I watch the weather closely these days. After a month of lolling about in the summer garden, the cool nights of the last two weeks signaled the onset of fall.
Lauren Springer
With fearless fingers, shes tamed 115 acres "in the middle of nowhere" west of Fort Collins. Lauren Springer comes to grace us with her horticultural wisdom in the Annual Founders Memorial Lecture sponsored by the Horticultural Art Society this Saturday.
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Back Tracks
This weekly feature is designed to provide follow-up to stories which originally appeared in the Independent's news pages.
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Stranger Than Fiction
All the strange news that's fit to print.
Food & Drink
Burgers, wine and a view
Located in Cascade at the base of the Pikes Peak Toll Road, The Wines of Colorado sells about 17 different wines from around the state. But more importantly, it also offers up some of the finest grilled fare around, burgers and brats being their specialties.
Bipartisan burgers, Democratic dogs
Bipartisan burgers and Democratic dogs at Downtown Dogs n Smoothies
Music
Playing Around: First Annual Blues Jam Bash
This week we highlight Laura Belles Wednesday night blues jam, which will be celebrating its first anniversary this week.
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Playing Around Listings
Where to find live music in the Colorado Springs area.
Film
Chicks First
The term chick flick, historically, refers to that genre of film that draws tears by focusing on the difficulties usually emotional, sometimes physical, often societal of being a woman. But in the past 25 years or so, the chick flick has expanded beyond weepies.
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Movie Picks
Our reviewers' recommendations for films showing on Colorado Springs area screens.
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Movie Times
What's playing, where, and when, on the silver screen in Colorado Springs.
Visual Arts
Fit for a King
It isn't often that so many things go so overwhelmingly right for a production. To say that the stars were in alignment for Star Bars King Lear downplays the hard work from director Paul Mathewson and a tremendous cast, all at the top of their game.
Two-Man Mob
TheaterWorks Minstrel Show paints an exquisitely bleak face on American history.
Artaud Resurrected
If you're interested in being "forced into a poetic state," Theater/Plague may be just the fix for your existential musings.
Books
Adventure Illustrated
As American literature came of age toward the end of the 19th century, the art of American illustration was following close at its heels, a half-step behind. A welcome new art book from Watson-Guptill Publications offers contemporary enthusiasts the first chance to see the works of the most prominent, groundbreaking school of illustrators finally presented as they looked when they were first painted on the artists easel.
Calendar
Event Listings
If there's something going on, we've got it listed here.
Seven Days
What's happenin' this week in the big city -- highlights from our listings.
