Thursday, May 23, 2013
- Issue Archive for
- Oct 19-25, 2000
- Vol. 8, No. 42
- Best of Colorado Springs 2000
News
Best of Colorado Springs
Feast your eyes on our seventh annual Best Of edition, brimming with opinions on the people and places that make the Springs so wacky and wonderful.
District 11 hoping that lessons learned mean voter support
Last November, voters gave a resounding thumbs-down to a District 11 request for a $29 million increase in property taxes. A year later, D-11 faces an $8 million to $12 million budget shortfall for 2000-2001, and the district is again asking voters to approve a mill levy override, this time to the tune of $26.9 million. The district, however, claims it learned a critical lesson from last years drubbing.
Gerash takes the case of 'fool for God' priest protester
Prominent Colorado defense attorney Walter Gerash has taken on the case of a just-as-famous Catholic priest who refuses to quit protesting the nuclear proliferation by the United States.
Columns
Design Your Own Baby
Huxley's 1932 Brave New World vision inched a little closer last week with the news that a Colorado couple designed a baby using genetic tests a baby who would, in turn, help save their desperately ill daughter.
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Public Eye
Kudos to our own Owen Perkins; state Rep. Ron May proposes four state Supreme Court Justices be replaced; and Salon magazine revisits George W. Bushs glib death penalty comments.
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Letters
Readers of the Independent talk back to the editor.
P.S. Mueller
Cartoonist P.S. Mueller has taken his pen to yet another medium: writing lyrics for a Madison band called Honor Among Thieves, which just released a CD of 12 songs that came straight out of the cartoonist twisted brainstem.
iQ: The best what?
Best time? Best place? Best friend? Best memory? Our lives are full of superlatives. What are yours?
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Outsider
The process by which politicians devolve from power to impotence, from relevant to ridiculous is, like the passage of the seasons, slow, inevitable, and utterly predictable.
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Stranger Than Fiction
All the strange news that's fit to print.
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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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Domestic Bliss
Today, I spent the entire day in a room I wanted to escape.
Food & Drink
Cook Your Heart Out
Award-winning cooking really is dependent upon confidence, and a cooking class at the The Culinary Arts Program at Pikes Peak Community College could boost yours.
Music
Hands Across the Water
Natalie MacMasters fiesty fiddling guarantees to set the crowd a-steppin' on Sunday night at the Colorado Music Hall.
Playing Around: Sinister Creed
This week we highlight Sinister Creed, who will be opening for Deicide at the Colorado Music Hall on Tuesday.
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Playing Around Listings
Where to find live music in the Colorado Springs area.
Film
WWJD-2
This much-anticipated star vehicle for Sixth Senses Haley Joel Osment is surprisingly moving and satisfying, right up to the end when the script and the directors ambitions eat (and ruin) all that has gone before.
Doggy Delight
Best in Show is a clever, funny "mockumentary" about the people who love dogs and love to show them.
Girls Club
Theres actually much to like in Dr. T and the Women, a great big mess of a film directed by Robert Altman.
Walk with the Devil
Cinematographer Jaunsz Kaminski (Saving Private Ryan) will probably have to go back to cinematography after his directorial debut with the undisputed failure of Lost Souls.
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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
Fine and Functional
Though virtually every piece in the 16th Annual Quilts and Fine Woodworking Exhibit is a work of craftsmanship remarkable for the diligence and perseverance of its maker, anyone going to the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum to see some kind of a craft show is in for a surprise.
It's Alive!
Walking the Dead may deal in subject matter that scares some audiences away, but Upstart Performing Ensemble's production is a must-see event for anyone who cares about good theater, good stories and quality writing.
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.
Best Of
