Friday, May 24, 2013
- Issue Archive for
- Apr 5-11, 2001
- Vol. 9, No. 14
- Word of Mouth
News
Word of Mouth
Dave Eggers blurts, Russell Martin delves and Mary Midkiff was a horse conversations with contemporary authors.
Follow the Money
Why has the United States criminal justice system grown 10 times larger than it was just 29 years ago? To answer that, Boulder-based author Joel Dyer just followed the money.
Activists Booted from City Hall
Capping a sometimes ugly, often spiteful City Council campaign, this week Colorado Springs City Clerk Kathryn Young evicted activists who were exercising political free speech in front of City Hall.
Columns
Stirrin' Up the Fire
Colorado Springs has a newly formulated City Council, and we're hoping some new blood will stir things up over at City Hall, at least enough to raise an issue or two of concern to a large number of Springs constituents.
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Public Eye
The editorial writers over at the Gazette are on a roll, and as usual, their logic is enough to leave thinking readers with a migraine bad enough to send us fleeing into a dark, cool cave, where we would no doubt find those same editorialists spewing their gibberish.
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Outsider
If the current caretakers of this architectural treasure get their way, the Fine Arts Center will be irrevocably and tragically altered.
IQ: The books of revelation
As Henry David Thoreau said, "Many a person dates the turning point of his life to the reading of a book."
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Insight
A weekly photographic feature
Picture Perfect
The Colorado Rockies are Kings-for-a-Day.
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Letters
Readers of the Independent talk back to the editor
Food & Drink
Ohh, La La!
At Mimi's, the menus eclectic, the ingredients are fresh, and the portions are scandalously huge.
Music
A Hymn to Poetry
The Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble erases the line between words and music this weekend as Colorado Springs-based choir presents Immortal Fire, an evening of poems set to music by 20th-century composers.
Beyond Jazz
Medeski, Martin & Wood go where no jazz has gone before.
Playing Around: zebrahead
In a word, zebrahead is smarmy. But that very smarm lends a ballsy charm to their highly danceable, driving punk-rap-pop-rock.
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Playing Around Listings
Where to find live music in the Colorado Springs area.
Film
Artful Demons
Pollock is a film well worth seeing, first for Ed Harris' portrayal of the mercurial painter, but foremost for Marcia Gay Harden's Academy Award-winning performance as Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock's tough, devoted wife.
Kids Save the World!
I don't know anything about the personal life of Robert Rodriguez, writer and director of Spy Kids, but I'd bet you a dozen electrostatic gumballs that he's somebody's parent.
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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
Stark, Raving Witticisms
The Star Bar Players production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead creates a state of blissful head-scratching.
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.
