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Cover Story
Chico Basin Ranch builds bridges between ranchers, environmentalists and city folks
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Local News
Neighbors question county planner's ties to asphalt-plant scheme
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Local News
Community activists hope to boost local recycling efforts
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What's happen this week in the big city-- highlights from our listings.
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Malcolm Howard on beating your dogma to death
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Readers of the Independent talk back to the editor.
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IQ
Earth Day is our planet's Valentine's Day, a chance every year to express our love and respect. Taken for granted, our living planet can grow sick and decline. That's just one more reason we can't treat the Earth as a mere commodity.
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John Hazlehurst on the latest revelation of County incompetence which could bring drought
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The flowers will outlast us all
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Appetite
Think globally, eat locally -- at La Petite Maison
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Playing Around
You know when you're down in the dumps, and you're sure no one else has ever felt the way you do? Well, Rainville understands.
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Playlist
20th-century classical music that will knock your SmartWool socks off
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Culture Vulture
Well, the first annual Colorado Springs Music Awards (CSMA) at the City Auditorium this past Sunday night was, uh, interesting. Between 200 and 250 people seemed to be in attendance, depending on the number of smokers outside.
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Reviews
Changing Lanes isn't a masterpiece, but it does a better job than most at showing the moral ambiguity and complexity possible in one crazy, messed up, very bad day.
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Reviews
In Frailty you basically got your classic Texas gothic horror tale, acted and directed, yep, by a bunch of Texans.
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Our reviewers' recommendations for films showing on Colorado Springs area screens.
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What's new on Colorado Springsarea screens
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What's playing, where, and when, on the silver screen in Colorado Springs.
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Artbreak
This and that with local mural master Eric Bransby
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Fine Print
Author Chris Offutt on exile, friendship, home, stuffed possums and his new book, No Heroes
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>On one hand Cuba is Fidel Castro and the communist country where conditions are so poor that deciding whether or not to return Elian Gonzales there -- to his father -- was, for better or worse, an international incident ultimately involving armed federal agents.