Tuesday, May 21, 2013
- Issue Archive for
- Jul 19-25, 2001
- Vol. 9, No. 29
- Unlucky Strikes
News
Unlucky Strikes
Garry Rudd never saw the flash. He never felt the heat of three suns upon his body or the million volts of electricity humming through his veins, but he remembers the blackness, the chill and the dreams. He is lying beside the ditch, darkness is falling around him, and he is waiting to die.
Strike Zone
Web sites loaded with lightning data, statistical trends and safety tips.
Hillside Parrots Becoming Stars of Bird World
A pair of wild Quaker parrots living in the Hillside neighborhood southeast of downtown Colorado Springs have survived four years of Colorado winters, gawking human and pet neighbors and, last week, a lightning strike that destroyed their nest.
School Plan Draws Daggers
A vocal band of Mountain Shadows residents have launched a battle to keep a private school for the gifted and talented from building a new campus in their neighborhood.
Columns
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Public Eye
Just after City Council denied the southwest downtown urban development plan, Public Eye ran into Chuck Miller, who heads up the citys economic development office.
Oh, my, says Idaho, 20,000 hippies are way too many
Oh, my! Oh, dear! Imagine 20,000 hippies, messing up the meadows like animals. Befouling the streams like animals. Eating, sleeping, defecating like animals.
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Outsider
Colorado Springs! My ol hometown! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Our culture, our businesspeople, our preachers, our politicians, our philanthropists, our local big shots... It is, as Gen. Schwartzkopf might have put it, a target-rich environment.
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Letters
Readers of the Independent talk back to the editor.
A weekly photographic feature
A weekly photographic feature.
IQ: Sizzlin'
Sit back, drink a lemonade and watch the fireworks light up the sky.
Food & Drink
Get your Goulash
As if in a dream, I walked into a diner that wasn't a diner. The exterior had fresh coats of bright, colorful paint, not historical, faded, peeling layers. The large plate-glass windows sparkled when random sunbeams flung themselves to earth to escape the incoming clouds.
Music
Keep It Simple
It would be logical to think that 3 Doors Down knew they had a hit single on their hands with the song "Kryptonite" well before that song was ever released as the lead single from the bands first CD, The Better Life.
Playing Around: You Call That Art?
This week we highlight You Call That Art? who will be performing at the Acoustic Coffee Lounge on Friday, July 20, at 8 p.m..
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Playing Around Listings
Where to find live music in the Colorado Springs area.
Film
Gilded Affair
Yet another adaptation of a Henry James novel, this his last and most difficult, this Merchant-Ivory adaptation of The Golden Bowl succeeds as a glittering period piece and as a well-told morality tale exploring marital infidelity and familial fidelity.
Heist Hoax
The Score is the kind of movie that makes every movie fan in the world want to bemoan the state of American cinema.
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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
Under Glass
In the basement of the Warehouse Gallery and Restaurant, the 23-year-old Jason Chase is busy working on two paintings at a time, getting ready for his "going away party" scheduled for this weekend.
Jewel Tones
One of the great things about being an observer of art in Colorado Springs is the fact that there are so many venues capable of putting on exhibitions of quality work.
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.
