Addicted to High-Tech Speed

Do you walk down the street with your ear glued to a cell phone. Check your e-mail 20 times a day? Work long hours at a breakneck pace? Beware of high-tech addiction.

• by Tamara Straus

Eat Up, Nice and Slow. It's Good For You.

It may sound like a back-door approach to the pervasive problem of speeded-up lives in the post-industrial age, but folks around the globe are giving it a shot and reviving their taste buds in the process.

• by Kathryn Eastburn

Next in Line

The national election may be over, but one important Colorado contest has just begun. And, to borrow one of Dan Rather's lively election-night colloquialisms, the battle over who will become the next esteemed speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives is nasty enough to gag a buzzard.

• by Cara DeGette

Homeless complex battle goes to City Council

The David and Goliathstyle tug-of-warover the future of Mill Street neighborhood south of downtown is headed to the city Coucil to determine whether a $6 million complex of homeless services can be built.

• by Bob Campbell

Undecided by a Landslide

The play-by-play on an all-nighter of indecision

• by Owen Perkins

Why I oppose the proposed Montgomery Community Center

A few years ago, the American Red Cross and the El Pomar Foundation proposed a new, multi-million-dollar homeless complex in an industrial area along lower Shooks Run.

• by Malcolm Howard

Brian E. Paulson

The teachers who repeatedly kicked Brian Paulson out of their music classes knew he exactly what you'd call a conformist. But they might be surprised at his current musical pursuits.

• by Morgan McCarty

IQ: Dead White Guy Alley

We understand the time-honored tradition of creating physical monuments to honor the achievements of the deceased, in this case, along Pikes Peak Avenue downtown. These rich white men, in their time, made contributions to Colorado Springs.

• by Matthew Fullen

The Dumplings Have It

My most recent foray into Fountain took us to Café Alpine Rose and I think it's a little gem.

• by MB Partlow

Utopia on Bijou Street

Sir Thomas More would be proud. The Utopia Café operates with ideal edibles and a splash of humor.

• by Suzanne Becker

Playing Around: Ashley Cleveland

This week we highlight Ashley Cleveland, Grammy Award-winning "rock gospel" artist, who will be performing this Saturday at Vanguard.

• by Kristen Sherwood

You Ain't Got a Thing if You Ain't Got that Swing

Whether or not you like The Legend of Bagger Vance will probably depend on your degree of Zen enlightenment.

• by Andrea Lucard

Honor, Duty and DeNiro

Finally, after a long stretch of mediocre comedies, Robert DeNiro returns to dramatic acting in the well-rounded family film Men of Honor.

• by Cole Smithey

Two by Two

Though initially designed to showcase nationally recognized artist couples, the touring exhibit Together/Working has been expanded in scope and expressiveness by the inclusion of work from 15 regional artist couples.

• by Dave Rootes

The Great Western Imagination

Painters and the American West: Selected Paintings from the Anschutz Collection, on exhibit at the Denver Art Museum, is a deeply satisfying and, aesthetically, endlessly interesting exhibit.

• by John Hazlehurst

Symphony of Suspense

From the opening scene of TheatreWork's Angel Street, the audience becomes tangled in an aura of suspense as thick as a London fog.

• by Owen Perkins

The All-Century Club

Short story writer and essayist Pam Houston turns her talent for dialogue to the stage play, and tells the Independent all about it.

• by Owen Perkins

Michael Ondaatje's poetic ways

Michael Ondaatje's tenth book of poetry is a collection of exquisitely crafted poems about love, history and landscape set in the poet's first home, Sri Lanka.

• by S.K. Carew

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.

• by Kristen Sherwood