Sunday, May 19, 2013
- Issue Archive for
- May 8-14, 2003
- Vol. 11, No. 19
- 'Are you ready for me?'
News
'Are you ready for me?'
As a Mexican-American growing up in the border town of El Paso, Texas, Lionel Rivera may have started out with odds against him in a white-dominated society.
FBI Embroiled in 'Spy Files'
The Denver and Colorado Springs police departments aren't the only agencies that have collected intelligence about political activists in the Springs.
CC students booted for anti-Semitic graffiti
Two students were suspended from Colorado College and face criminal charges in connection with the scrawling of anti-Semitic graffiti on several college buildings last week.
Wal-Mart: A Supercenter divided
Last month, nine "associates" at Cañon City's Wal-Mart Supercenter signed cards authorizing the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) to represent them in collective bargaining. But according to two of the card signers, their nascent campaign to unionize was crushed before it began.
Teen's death sparks inquiry
The American Civil Liberties Union is expressing interest in the case of Orlena Parker, a 15-year-old girl who died in March after being restrained by personnel at the Devereux Cleo Wallace Center, a private Colorado Springs institution for troubled youths.
Columns
Six mayors is enough
In her 30 years as the mayor's assistant, Nancy Bramwell saw it all.
Kenneth Cleaver, Consumer Correspondent
I read with excited interest in our daily paper about the growing trend of chainsaw art caused by the drought and its ensuing loss of trees.
From the righteous to the rabid
Not unexpectedly, the City Council's April 22 vote to repeal benefits for same-sex partners generated a flood of correspondence to the city -- with nearly 2-1 opposing the elected body's first order of business.
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Livelong Days
What's happening this week in the big city-- highlights from our listings.
Something for Everyone
Potluck, the new show at the Business of Art Center, falls gracefully in the 'Can't Fail to Please' category.
It's about policy, stupid
It's not easy to be a Democrat these days.
G-Lo
When you hear George Lopez talk about his difficult childhood, it sounds like a plot ripe for a Lifetime movie of the week -- not a sitcom or stand-up routine.
We must be inclusive
The United States should sit down with all the allies it can muster, especially from the Arab world, to consider all the underlying causes of distress; causes like distorted religious beliefs, misunderstanding of American motives, the Palestine problem, a lack of economic opportunities, and political oppression.
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Letters
Readers of the Independent talk back to the editor
IQ: Genetically altered food
As spring pokes up its green, green head and bikini season looms, people are thinking more about what they put into their bodies -- and the potential risks of genetically altered food.
Mother's Day
I don't want a box of chocolates for Mothers Day. I want absolution.
Food & Drink
Take-Home of the Gods
The drive to Garden of the Gods Market is glorious on a spring day -- a minor escape from the concrete of downtown to swishing grasses and painfully blue skies. Climbing up 21st Street from the north, the Mill Hill Tavern appears at the top of the first major hill, a plastic bucking bronco reared up on its roof.
Music
Playing Around: Go Kart Go
Go Kart Go's new CD is a virtual wax museum of the alternative genre. If youve got the nostalgia bug, come see them bring the noise to Industrial Nation.
Film
X-cellent!
How did I love X2, sequel to summer-before-last's excellent mutant romp? Let me count the ways.
Anatomy of a Heist
Heist films typically exploit the following structure: a main character meet-and-greet followed by the visionary shyster's starry-eyed pitch for "the perfect job." A bank, a jewel store, a Super Wal-Mart, whatever; the point is that if the gaggle of loveable lowlifes pull it off they'll never have to work again.
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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
Damn Yankees Sports Winning Lineup
Now that spring has sprung, the boys of summer are back at Coors Field, Sky Sox stadium and ... the Fine Arts Center stage?
Books
Points of Light
According to author Nick Arvin, the first short story he wrote that appears in his recently published collection In the Electric Eden was "Commemorating," the tale of a man cursed with the gift of prescience, who receives clues before fateful events but can't always interpret them accurately enough to prevent inevitable disaster.
