Wednesday, May 22, 2013
- Issue Archive for
- Jul 26 - Aug 1, 2001
- Vol. 9, No. 30
- An Urban Life
News
An Urban Life
Jerome Pages life has been defined by three unavoidable realities: Hes male, hes black and hes tall. But there are other truths about the recently retired director of the Urban League of the Pikes Peak Region: Hes passionately driven to break the cycle of poverty and has devoted a lifetime busting up the devastating toll of discrimination in America.
Black Forest Project "Shameful"
A developer who proposed carving a road through a wooded park would be laughed out of town in just about every county in Coloradoexcept El Paso.
City, Zydeco in Poker Game over Red Rock Canyon
The Sante Febased developer that wants to build a golf course and sell multimillion dollar luxury estate sites in the highly visible Red Rock Canyon, has thrown the latest chip in what is turning into a high stakes poker game with the City over the canyons fate.
Columns
President Bush Won't Win This New War on the West
Why this interest in subjects youd think most people would avoid like the plague?
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Public Eye
It took daily newspaper publisher Thomas Mullen just a little over a year to dump editor Terri Flemingwhich was a lot longer than some critics (read: former Gazette employees) predicted.
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Outsider
Its almost August. Its hot, its high summer, and the one burning question about local politics is a simple one: Who cares?
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Letters
Readers of the Independent talk back to the editor.
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Insight
Our weekly photographic feature
IQ: A different view
No surprise here: Colorado Springs is exceedingly white.
Food & Drink
Eat Your Greens
When it's summer, the heat is on and the produce is fresh, the restaurants I frequent pull out all the stops, offering an array of salads so enticing and refreshing, even I am interested.
Y'all Have a Real Nice Day
There are three reasons to drive the 38 miles to Calhan (three if you happen to have a heifer at auction). The Western Omelette East is one of those reasons.
Music
Playing Around: Rubber Planet & Wendy Woo
I am sitting here with two musical entities on my desk one is a critically acclaimed singer-songstress, and the other a rock band with a decidedly 80s pop-rock (heavy on the rock) sound. And they're both playing at Acoustic Coffee Lounge this weekend.
Don't Look Back
If you needed one word to capture Mary Chapin Carpenters new album Time* Sex* Love*, the word might well be ready; its full of connotations of time, opportunity, daring and action.
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Playlist
Reviews of the latest albums from Depeche Mode, Gorillaz, and Nikka Costa.
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Playing Around Listings
Where to find live music in the Colorado Springs area.
Film
Brute Force
With Sexy Beast director Jonathan Glazer has delivered a stunning debut film, at turns funny, vicious, shocking and unassumingly philosophical.
Tinseltown Trivia
In spite of some good, giggly moments and a virtual cinematic orgy of pretty faces, Americas Sweethearts disappoints both as a screwball romantic comedy and as a satire on the obscene marketing practices of Hollywood.
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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.
Stage
Phat on Fats
In the exciting and soulful Encore! Dinner Theater production, Aint Misbehavin , director Hugo Sayles transports us to an imaginary Depression-era "rent party," in which the cast members mingle, argue and, of course, sing and dance in the midst of a piano covered in half-full liquor glasses, rollicking bass and drums, and a sketched city skyline.
Books
The Ballad of Glen and Bessie Hyde
Some stories just get bigger and bigger in the telling, such as the story of Glen and Bessie Hyde, honeymooners who took off in 1928 in a handmade boat to run the rapids of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. But just a month after the Hydes set off, they vanished, never to be found. This summer, two new books have been released depicting the Hydes voyage and speculating what happened.
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.
