Tuesday, May 21, 2013
- Issue Archive for
- May 29 - Jun 4, 2003
- Vol. 11, No. 22
- 101 Summer Things
News
101 Summer Things
Summer's one of the best reasons to live in Colorado. Get out your calendar and start planning now or don't plan a thing -- just enjoy the brief interlude of long, green days and glorious summer nights.
Starbucks is Coming. So?
Unless green-aproned latte slaves are trying to bust mochas in your bathroom, the opening of a Starbucks store is an event of such yawn-inducing magnitude that even The Gazette is likely to ignore it.
News Briefs
The majority of Colorado Springs' current City Council members swept into office this spring preaching the gospel of smaller government, private property and free enterprise.
Columns
New politics at work in Denver election
Next Tuesday, Denver will elect a new mayor. At this writing, businessman John Hickenlooper leads the nonpartisan race by 30 percentage points. Clearly, Hickenlooper's gonna win.
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Livelong Days
The internationally acclaimed touring production of Lord of the Dance hits the Pikes Peak Center (190 S. Cascade) tonight with legs-a-floppin' to prove that tunics and leather pants never really go out of style.
Arts Extra!
Tickets go on sale Monday, June 2, for one of the Springs' stellar summer events, the 2003 Summer Festival of the Arts at Colorado College.
Um, folks, this doesn't look like victory
Much as I hate to interrupt what is apparently a deeply felt triumphalism on the American right, now that it's over, does anyone see any reason for our having invaded Iraq?
Celebration Location!
While local adults trying to make " a go of it" in the arts these days may be sifting their pocket lint for penny dust, Colorado Springs is a rootin' tootin' great place to be a young artist.
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Letters
Readers of the Independent talk back to the editor
IQ: Summer Dreams and Schemes
Ah, summertime, when the living is easy and the fish are jumpin'. When life is its most affirmative, your troubles less overwhelming.
"Price Check on a Cellist?"
Flanked by navel oranges, caramel apple dip, Dasani water bottles and 4-pound cartons of "old-fashioned" potato salad (you know, the kind Grandma used to box), the Colorado Springs Philharmonic prepared to help Tom Jensen do what no conductor has done before: conduct for 24 hours straight.
The way of all flesh
It's sleeveless season when middle-aged women can no longer ignore the dreaded flabby upper arm.
Food & Drink
Therapeutic Dining for One of Those Days
By the time you arrive home, your mood is foul, your belly is empty and your blood sugar low. You need food, relaxation and a drink. That brings us to Antonio's Italiano Ristorante.
Music
Playing Around: Blue Sun
The Springs can take hard rock, and, in fact, has repeatedly proven that it may be the everlasting soul of our music scene.
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Have An Even Funner Summer
As we all know, " summertime" is "funner time!" Given that having "fun" in Colorado Springs can sometimes mean leaving Colorado Springs, we thought we'd also include with a checklist of some of the biggest, baddest, most whoopassinist events of this, your Even Funner Summer 2003.
Lips!
When Flaming Lips guitarist Ronald Jones left the band six years ago, lead singer and rhythm guitarist Wayne Coyne, drummer Steven Drozd and bassist Michael Ivins wondered seriously if the band would survive.
Wouldn't you like to be a fascist too?
So I walk into Safeway the other day and my favorite 50-cent vending machine had been removed!
Film
Banana republic ennui
As an actor, John Malkovich exudes a unique pathology of subdued malevolence -- as if with a pointed gesture or a remark he could have your ass in therapy for the better part of a decade.
Oh, good lord
Is anyone else bothered by Jim Carrey's apparently insatiable need for attention and approval?
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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.
