Wednesday, May 22, 2013
- Issue Archive for
- Apr 12-18, 2001
- Vol. 9, No. 15
- The Secret Life of AAA
News
The Secret Life of AAA
A self-styled representative of "the interests of motorists and other travelers," AAA works to influence national law and policy, lending its name, its middle-American respectability and the moral weight of its 43 million members to its transportation causes. But almost without exception, critics say, AAA advocates policies that damage the environment and endanger health.
A Green Roadside Helper
How Travel Cool offsets the environmental damage caused by cars, planes, and other activities that burn fossil fuels.
SCIP failure may spawn layoffs, spiral city fees
A thoroughly chastened Colorado Springs City Council and city manager Jim Mullen are sifting through the rubble of last weeks resounding defeat of the SCIP 01 program that would have funded a grab bag of 107 public improvement projects at a cost of $787 million.
City tables debate over condemnation
A contentious showdown over whether an unelected, government-appointed board should have power of condemnation was temporarily averted when the City Council this week tabled a scheduled vote on how they would proceed with the Confluence Park project and the surrounding neighborhood southwest of downtown.
Columns
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Public Eye
The much-ballyhooed Joint Operating Agreement between the states two largest newspapers is complete and after reading last weekends Saturday Rocky Mountain News and Sunday Denver Post, they seem like one big, unhappy family.
The Bard of the Bogs
The bard of the bogs, Nobel Prizewinning poet Seamus Heaney, lowers his anchor in Colorado Colleges Shove Chapel.
Women Suffering "Extreme" Sex Abuse in U.S. Prisons
A recent report issued by human rights group Amnesty International has documented the extreme degree of mistreatment, sexually and otherwise, suffered by the growing population of incarcerated American women at the hands of prison authorities.
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Outsider
Does anyone in the local arts community support the Fine Arts Center's proposed expansion?
IQ: Truth or consequences
Is the growing energy crisis we're hearing so much about and beginning to experience locally real or rigged? And what about global warning -- which only cavemen still believe is a pesky myth?
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Insight
A weekly photographic feature
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Letters
Readers of the Independent talk back to the editor
Food & Drink
Organic Minds
Fresh vegetables, locally grown, all summer long, from Country Roots Garden
Pizzanomics
Open for about a month now, H.W. Briggs Pizza offers a nice, open, relaxed atmosphere and decent, affordable fare.
Music
Folk, Punk, Funk n Roll
Reinvigorating releases celebrate musical reunions and redefinition
Playing Around: David "Fathead" Newman
Legendary jazz saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman makes a rare Colorado Springs appearance for a musician of his stature.
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Playing Around Listings
Where to find live music in the Colorado Springs area.
Film
In the Eye of the Storm
Blow's Johnny Depp gives a spellbindingly naturalistic performance as George Jung, an intensely individualistic man whose propensities for crime brought him immense riches but eventually cost him everything he cared about.
A Dose of Delight
If you're willing to sit through the first quarter of the movie where the pace is a little slow, the reward is a solid romantic comedy with some really intelligent laughs.
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Opening This Week
What's new in the movie theaters this week.
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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
The Elephant Man Cometh Even as the cast goeth
Upstart Performing Ensemble graces the Springs with the modest gift of The Elephant Man, humbly allowing themselves to play second fiddle to the story at its most essential level.
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.
