Sunday, May 19, 2013
- Issue Archive for
- Apr 11-17, 2002
- Vol. 10, No. 15
- Faking it
News
Faking It
Sex, Lies and Womens Magazines
Making Cancer Sexy
Why must the media coverage on breast cancer feature 20-something women fondling their naked breasts?
Plutonium in the Playground?
Widefield schools stop use of "toxic sludge" as fertilizer
Connect the Dots
Trail to link local birding hotspots
Columns
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Public Eye
Malcolm Howard on four abandoned homes that werent needed after all
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Livelong Days
What's happen this week in the big city-- highlights from our listings.
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Outsider
John Hazlehurst on how county commissioners will do whatever Maria tell em
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Letters
Readers of the Independent talk back to the editor.
IQ: The sexual skinny (for $4.95)
All of us have paged through Cosmopolitan, Elle and Glamour in the supermarket checkout line or dentist office waiting room, our curiosity piqued by their sex advice -- moves in bed that'll get your man's attention, 15 tips for a spicier sex life, etc., etc. Does anybody actually use this advice or make these moves?
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Domestic Bliss
Kathryn Eastburn on the dream of the missing son
Food & Drink
Surf's Up
Emily's Ocean Grill flooded with glorious fish dishes
Music
Playing Around: Eliza Gilkyson
Eliza Gilkyson has the kind of voice that can break your heart, mend it, and teach it a lesson or two in the process.
Personal Effects
Jazz legend Houston Person soldiers on
Film
Sentient Smooch
Smart, funny and stylishly directed, Kissing Jessica Stein is a terrific romantic comedy, almost completely devoid of the schmaltz and insipid characters the genre often employs.
Cinema Felony
While Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd repeat their successful screen chemistry after Kiss the Girls (1997), the narrative twist that concludes High Crimes comes as a reprehensibly cheap device that perverts the film's scathing commentary on the U.S. military and its terribly flawed military court system.
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Movie Picks
Our reviewers' recommendations for films showing on Colorado Springs area screens.
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Opening This Week
What's new on Colorado Springsarea screens
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Movie Times
What's playing, where, and when, on the silver screen in Colorado Springs.
Books
Ping-pong Zing
Romping, fast-paced memoir honors belittled sport
