• Issue Archive for
  • Apr 18-24, 2002
  • Vol. 10, No. 16
  • Back to the Ranch

News

  • Back to the Ranch

    Chico Basin Ranch builds bridges between ranchers, environmentalists and city folks
  • The Bottom of the Heap

    Community activists hope to boost local recycling efforts

Columns

  • Livelong Days

    What's happen this week in the big city-- highlights from our listings.
  • Public Eye

    Malcolm Howard on beating your dogma to death
  • Letters

    Readers of the Independent talk back to the editor.
  • IQ: The Big Blue

    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.
  • Outsider

    John Hazlehurst on the latest revelation of County incompetence which could bring drought

Food & Drink

Music

  • Playing Around: Rainville

    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.
  • Earth Shattering

    20th-century classical music that will knock your SmartWool socks off
  • Promotions 101 -- A few words of advice

    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.

Film

  • One Very Good, Very Bad Day

    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.
  • Demon Driven

    In Frailty you basically got your classic Texas gothic horror tale, acted and directed, yep, by a bunch of Texans.
  • Movie Picks

    Our reviewers' recommendations for films showing on Colorado Springs area screens.
  • Movie Times

    What's playing, where, and when, on the silver screen in Colorado Springs.

Visual Arts

  • Bransby al Fresco

    This and that with local mural master Eric Bransby

Books

  • Kentucky Fried

    Author Chris Offutt on exile, friendship, home, stuffed possums and his new book, No Heroes
  • Cuba Then and Now

    >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.

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