Wednesday, May 22, 2013
- Issue Archive for
- Apr 17-23, 2003
- Vol. 11, No. 16
- Saving the Earth
News
Mother Knows Best
If only it were as simple as Mom's favorite advice: Share.
Earth Day, Schmearth Day
Environmentalists get one day each year to celebrate Earth Day. The Colorado Legislature, however, gets to spend four whole months trashing the planet.
Red Rock Reversal
Despite promises, City may develop portion of open space
Columns
Who's in charge?
Colorado Springs is in for a change, as an almost entirely new group of policy setters takes charge at City Hall.
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Livelong Days
What's happening this week in the big city-- highlights from our listings.
This year's Buzzard Watch
Just as they always do, El Paso County Republicans are making long, lazy circles around our Congressman-for-life, Colorado's original signer of self-imposed term limits, Joel Hefley.
Gender Offenders
Every now and then, the opening act of a show alone is worth the price of admission -- even when it's $26.50.
Going, going, gone
There's nothing like the fog and chaos of a postwar environment for score settling, for taking care of business absent the restraints of law and order.
A history erased
How telling that U.S. forces so carefully protected Iraq's oil fields while ignoring the looting of Baghdad's internationally renowned museum.
Thermals Dynamic
What's happening this week in the big city-- highlights from our listings.
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Letters
Readers of the Independent talk back to the editor
IQ: Be nice to your mother
The world is coming alive again and another Earth Day is upon us. Still, Mother Nature is a little worse for wear these days.
Food & Drink
Day Trip to Tuscany
There aren't too many meals that can transport one to another country. Take a bite or two at Cafe Giovanna and you'll forget the little strip mall outside where you parked your car.
Music
Playing Around: Mary and Mars
Mary and Mars found a way to bring the music back to center stage while leaving the cult out of the culture.
Film
2 Men, 2 Days, 10 Films
We at the Independent know that ex post facto film festival coverage is tantamount to a sports report that withholds the final scores.
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Opening This Week
What's new on Colorado Springsarea screens
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Movie Picks
Our reviewers' recommendations for films showing on Colorado Springs area screens.
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Movie Times
What's playing, where, and when, on the silver screen in Colorado Springs.
Stage
Cherry Blossoms
Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, like the best historical works, is virtually timeless. Written 15 years before the Socialist Revolution in Russia, and now produced at TheatreWorks almost 100 years after its first performance, it remains fresh, interesting and captivating.
Books
He Talk Funny
In fact, it's difficult to imagine a single person who's read David Sedaris and doesn't like him. Well, perhaps that's stretching it -- he's a gay American man who now lives in France, so it's possible the Freedom Fries folks would have some reservations.
