Friday, May 24, 2013
- Issue Archive for
- Feb 20-26, 2003
- Vol. 11, No. 8
- Love, Honor and the Search for Family
News
Love, Honor and the Search for Family
Colorado Springs author Gus Lee on the quest for character
Crowd Control
Local cops defend gassing protesters; Council calls emergency meeting
Columns
Seizing control of City Hall
Everyone knows that when it comes to partisan politics in Colorado Springs, the Grand Old Party is king.
Wu-Tang to That!
This week is the kind of week music fans have been waiting for with three incredible shows: Wu Tang Clan, Bob Log III, and BR549.
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Livelong Days
What's happening this week in the big city-- highlights from our listings.
In the Sticks
Told in what he describes as a snapshot storytelling style, Manitou Art Theater director and international clown of mystery Jim Jackson will bring a needed dose of local theater to Manitou Springs this weekend.
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Letters
Readers of the Independent talk back to the editor
IQ: Men in black
As Colorado Springs grows into a big city, so too must our police force. In the past couple of weeks for example, cops announced their new toys for subduing people -- stun guns will take anyone down in a flash.
Trying to sleep
I don't know why this man was sleeping in his car in the middle of the afternoon in the parking lot next to Prospect Lake on a dreary day in February.
Be quiet and listen
How to respond to a President who dismisses international law, ignores international and national concern over the violence he might unleash if he gets his way, and refuses to hear the desperate cries of the majority of the nations 50 states drowning in budget shortfalls?
Food & Drink
Home Run
Picture a hotel conference room, filled with women seated at long tables and working on their scrapbooks. Pictures are being cropped, matted and framed while the pros and cons of markers vs. gel pens vs. colored shading pencils are hotly debated.
Music
Playing Around: AutoNo Reunion Show
In the early 90s, the AutoNo were the great white hope of the Colorado Springs indie-rock crowd.
Cowboy Crooner
Don Edwards is a cowboy. Has been for 43 years now. This Texan's been playing the traditional songs of the American West since 1960, and it looks like it's finally paid off.
Film
Calm in the Storm
A review of The Quiet American
Girlfriend in a Coma...oh no...
Pedro Almdovar has a remarkable knack for crafting tragic love stories with a visual style all his own, sex scenes that are as delightful as they are inane, and films that ultimately dissolve from your memory before the popcorn has dislodged from your gums.
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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 Springs area screens
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Movie Times
What's playing, where, and when, on the silver screen in Colorado Springs.
Visual Arts
Decrescendo
Hopes for the Symphony fading
Stage
Dispute This
In light of imminent geopolitical conflagration, the battle of the sexes can easily seem like a privileged fancy. But TheatreWorks' production of Marivaux's The Dispute still manages to be a worthwhile engagement.
