Seeing Red

Open your body, heart and mind to the Western wilderness, author Terry Tempest Williams urges. It's an act of patriotism.

• by Kathryn Eastburn

Environmentalists re-check priorities, strategy After 9-11

Has attacking the president's environmental and consumer policies become an Act of Sedition?

• by J.A. Savage

A Monorail Runs Through It

Their foes deride the idea of a monorail through Colorados mountains as a Disneyland-inspired fantasy. But proponents of the plan to develop a high-speed rail system along Interstate 70 believe the concept is a courageous, creative and overdue solution to the current traffic jam through the mountains

• by Cara DeGette

Bonds and Boards

IIt may not feel like an election's coming at least not yet but on Friday, Oct. 12, mail ballots will be sent out to El Paso County voters in a broad-based election including school boards and bond issues in many of the county's school districts.

• by Kathryn Eastburn

Rising from the Ashes

When the Citys massive Springs Community Improvement Plan was thrashed nearly 2 to 1 just six months ago, its main supporters swore voters would have approved the tax increase if they would have been able to pick and choose among the projects. This autumn, the city seeks to raise the money to pay for many of the same projects. And this time, voters can choose which to fund and which to forget.

• by Cara DaGette

Manitou Races Heat Up

The race for mayor of Manitou Springs heats up.

• by Cara DeGette

Revisiting Columbus Day

With Christopher Columbus as the example, slavery, brutality and genocide became the preferred European method for interacting with Native people. Why do we honor him with a holiday?

• by Pamela White

IQ: The bombing of Afghanistan

The bombing of Afghanistan seems to have tapped into a crusading mood that's been largely latent since the early to mid-1990s when aggressive intolerance and far-right politics all but ruled Colorado Springs.

• by Bob Campbell

Like a Pilgrim to a Shrine

People who hate grocery shopping should live in my head for a week. They'd soon realize that food can be window-shopped as much as cars or jewelry.

• by Marina Wolf

The Crotch-Grab Will Set You Free

Since 1996, SoCal modern rockers Alien Ant Farm have been busting ass to get some respect, and this summer the love finally came in the form of AAFs bizarre, unlikely cover of Michael Jacksons "Smooth Criminal."

• by Kristen Sherwood

Playing Around: Sunset Valley

Sunset Valley is a distinct kind of annoying.

• by Kristen Sherwood

Three-Way Bank Robbers

Pratfalls, snappy dialogue and snazzy character work (especially by Billy Bob Thornton) make Bandits a laugh-out-loud movie that even manages to pull off a surprise ending.

• by Cole Smithey

War Zone Diary

Training Day is a brilliantly written and directed urban blood bath set in Los Angeles's mean streets of drug dealers, gang bangers and undercover detectives.

• by Cole Smithey

Fear Less

When the artists at The Bridge Gallery heard the news about the recent terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, they reconsidered the propriety of going ahead with the Fear exhibition which had been scheduled months ago. It would have been a shame if the gallery had scrapped the plan.

• by Dave Rootes

Gung-Ho

The Repertory Theatre Company's rendition of Annie Get Your Gun at the Fine Arts Center seems to bellow, "Are you not entertained?"

• by Paul Wilson

Daddy's Girl

In Fatherless Women, a hybrid of memoir, self-help and psychological study, Clea Simons explores how women change after they lose their dads.

• by Kathryn Eastburn

Event Listings

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Seven Days

What's happenin' this week in the big city -- highlights from our listings.

• by Kristen Sherwood