Tuesday, May 21, 2013
- Issue Archive for
- Apr 25 - May 1, 2002
- Vol. 10, No. 17
- When your trailer is trashed
News
Landlords, Guns and Arson
For tenants, Colorado is still the Wild West
Tooth and Nail
City eyes stricter housing codes
Sharks to Keep Swimming
Industry lobbyists help sink predatory lending curbs
Columns
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Outsider
John Hazlehurst on the end of our little pool party
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Livelong Days
What's happen this week in the big city-- highlights from our listings.
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Public Eye
Cara DeGette on a heros welcome for Neil Bush
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Domestic Bliss
Kathryn Eastburn on the lost art of working with your hands
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Letters
Readers of the Independent talk back to the editor.
IQ: Kiss your deposit goodbye
Colorado and Arkansas are the only states that don't have laws addressing tenants' rights, and the landlord lobby in Colorado wields enormous power.
Food & Drink
Mouthwatering Magnet
Fountain's An Nam Restaurant will pull you in
Music
Playing Around: Velvet Jesi
Regardless of who they're covering, Velvet Jesi has an uncanny knack to nail the tune.
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Culture Vulture
Noel Black on the city he loves to hate
Film
To the Mouth of Heaven
Let me start off by saying that Y Tu Mama Tambien is the best film I've seen since last year's brilliant mosaic of Mexican culture, Amores Perros (with the possible exception of Hedwig and the Angry Inch).
Stormy Weather
Though Monsoon Wedding, an enjoyable and funny new film by Mira Nair, won the Venice film festival this past year, you have to wonder if the competition was all stuck at the airport.
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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.
Visual Arts
An Impotent Dynasty
Wyeth family's leaden schlock on display at the Fine Arts Center
Books
Talk to Me
Verse for the poetry skeptic
