Sunday, May 19, 2013
- Issue Archive for
- Jun 21-27, 2001
- Vol. 9, No. 25
- Red Rock Canyon
News
Red Rock Canyon, the Secret Garden of the Gods
Some time in the next year, Colorado Springs will make one of the most momentous decisions of our time concerning open space. In question is whether the Red Rock Canyon property, a magnificent geologic wonder and a natural continuation of the Garden of the Gods will be saved for future generations as quality open space or annexed by the city and turned into a resort and trophy home complex by an out-of-state developer.
Red Rock Canyon Report Details Health Concerns
Landowner John Bocks schemes for a higher and better use for Red Rock Canyon left a significant chunk of that stunningly scenic property environmentally scarred.
Academy Project Killing Business
An increasing number of business owners inhabiting the mile-long stretch of Academy Boulevard between Union and Montebello are complaining that "improvements" along the heavily-used thoroughfare are doing them in.
Columns
Surprise: Westerners Can Eat the Scenery
The folks who run more and more of the Wests growing towns are finally realizing that conservation sells not just to local voters but to the cool companies and footloose and canny professionals whose location-decisions more and more determine who wins in the New Economy.
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Public Eye
Remember the stink over the Columbine license plates with their message to Respect Life? Well, thanks to Gov. Bill Owens Republican administration, the plates are back, to stay.
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Outsider
I can only imagine how delighted Council members Charles Wingate, Margaret Radford and Sallie Clark were when Mayor Mary Lou Makepeace, in her recent "State of the City" speech, characterized them as ambitious and self-serving.
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Letters
Readers of the Independent talk back to the editor
A weekly photographic feature
A weekly photographic feature
String Cheese Incident, a concert review
A special online review of String Cheese Incidents impromptu free show at Boulders tiny Fox Theater last week, June 11, 2001.
IQ: Call of the wild
Since its founding as a would-be resort in the 1870s, Colorado Springs has tended to provoke two vastly different viewpoints.
Food & Drink
You Can Go Home Again
The First Commandment of diner cooking seems to be Stuff thy Belly. A review of My Sisters Kitchen, Betty Boop's Kitchen and Milt's Coffee Shop.
One Thing Leads to Another
It's funny how things happen...like if my roommate had never moved out and taken with her the best and hottest habanero sauce in the world, I never would have found We Like It Hot!, an awesome little Caribbean place which serves great food and, above all, the yummiest sweet plantains.
Music
Playing Around: The Monkees
This week we highlight the original boy-band, the Monkees, who will be performing at the Pikes Peak Center on June 24.
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Playing Around Listings
Where to find live music in the Colorado Springs area.
Film
Love Hurts
Roughly translated "Love's a Bitch," this debut film by 37-year-old Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is a startling, gritty exploration of love, loyalty and betrayal.
Girls Kick Ass
Were supposed to hate this movie. By nearly all critical accounts, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is dull and cliché-ridden. But I had loads of fun watching this picture. Shouldn't I feel guilty?
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Opening This Week
Whats new on the Colorado Springsarea screens.
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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
Masterpiece!
Instead of pawing through second-rate stuff in the basement, a major museum has sent us the heart of its collection. The European Masterpieces exhibit at the Denver Art Museum may be the best show ever to come to Colorado.
Stage
Mind Games
Colorado College alumni present one of the most compelling plays to hit the stage in years. Copenhagen, winner of the 2000 Tony award for Best Play, is an unlikely stage hit, anchored in the world of the atom, but it is full of conflict, action, and the kind of interpersonal drama that is the heart of the theater.
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.
