Sunday, May 19, 2013
- Issue Archive for
- Jul 5-11, 2001
- Vol. 9, No. 27
- Back from the Dead
News
Eternally Grateful
As each year rolled on in the long strange trip of the Grateful Dead, there was an increasing sense of a band on borrowed time. Over the course of 30 years pushing the wave of American rock n roll, the steady progression of tragic losses kept mortality close in mind. Pigpen, Keith Godchaux, Brent Mydland and, finally, Jerry Garcia were successive casualties of a life in hard pursuit of the outer limits.
Manitou Eyes Zydeco Watertap Proposal
A developers plan to build a couple dozen million-dollar estates and a 27-hole golf course in Red Rock Canyon may be in serious jeopardy, with unavailability of water the straw that broke the camels back.
Federal Judge Slaps Countys Attorneys
El Paso County attorneys are smarting from a June 21 ruling in which U.S. District Judge John Kane ordered the El Paso County Board of Commissioners to reimburse Friends of Black Forest Park for $12,000 in legal fees.
City Profits from Red Light Runners
What started as an effort to crack down on red light runners has turned into a potential cash cow for Colorado Springs city government.
Columns
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Public Eye
El Paso County Commissioner Ed Jones appeared on Boulder-based rock station KBCO recently to brag because he, along with four other commissioners, have named the stretch of Interstate 25 that runs through El Paso County after former President Ronald Reagan. On air, he quipped, "The only thing we let Democrats do down here [in El Paso County] is pay taxes and buy goods."
One Man's Garbage
When an archeologist sees trash, he instinctively thinks treasure. So when archeologist Jeffrey Hovermale, learned that a dump from the city's earliest days lay just down Baltic Street from his Mill Street neighborhood home, he naturally thought it might be of important historic interest.
The Global Economy Quiz
Add up the numbers of your answers and check score at end. I'm aware of globalization's affect on me because: 1. I can't pronounce my car. 2. I bought a cell phone with an international plan. 3. My third grader can make bail for me in six languages.
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Outsider
Clearly, an overwhelming majority of Coloradans, not to mention Springs residents, would prefer cantaloupes to sprawl, open space to ranchettes, clear night skies to urban glare. But that's not what we're gonna get. We're gonna get more sprawl, more congestion, less open space, less wildlife and more orange streetlights.
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Letters
Readers of the Independent talk back to the editor.
A weekly photographic feature
A weekly photographic feature
IQ: Long strange trip
From 1965 to 1995, Phil Lesh was bass player for the Grateful Dead, one of the premier rock groups out of the Haight-Ashbury 1960s, widely acclaimed as the greatest live band ever.
Food & Drink
Mamma, Mia!
A guy named Gennaro Lombardi started it all; he opened the first U.S. pizzeria in New York City in either 1895 or 1905. While the date is inexact, the address is not: 53-1/2 Spring Street in Little Italy. Lombardi's still serves pizza today, down the block at 32 Spring Street. I've been there.
Music
One Long Saturday Night
Colorado Springs has never seen anything like BR549. Thanks to this weekends WestFest, the critically lauded Tennessee-based quintet will blow through town, and the resulting wake will knock you on your ass.
Playing Around: Darryl Purpose
This week we highlight Darryl Purpose, who will be performing at the Acoustic Coffee Lounge on Friday, July 6
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Playing Around Listings
Where to find live music in the Colorado Springs area.
Film
Robo Boy Gets Real
In the short story upon which A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) is based, one character asks another a seemingly simple question: "How do you tell what are real things from what aren't real things?" The answer: "Real things are good." Filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick apparently think that that's a dubious answer. Its more complicated than that, and A.I. is their attempt to mine the question for all its worth.
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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.
Books
From Brooklyn Dodgers to Butterflies
An American Child Supreme offers a concise but rich explanation of how author John Nichols has discovered the meanings of interconnectedness in the course of his 36-year career as novelist, essayist, photographer, screenwriter and troublemaker.
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.
