Sunday, May 19, 2013
- Issue Archive for
- Jun 19-25, 2003
- Vol. 11, No. 25
- Rock-a-Bye Baby
News
Rock-a-Bye Baby
Four years after Kevin Wadle's death, the trial of Deborah Wadle continues
'Nothing to lose'
When Judy Dole moved into a mobile home in September 2000, she didn't realize her search for affordable housing would lead her into a two-and-a-half year court battle.
Monument's four-legged friend dies at 38
When Red Baron wandered off to horse heaven last week, he left a town to mourn -- folks accustomed to the aging appaloosa who ambled Monument's streets, free as you please and welcome everywhere.
Fighting back
FCC ruling stirs a a firecry in Congress
Columns
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Kenneth Cleaver
I figured I'd wait until the fires of public controversy were cold ashes before letting you know how much I appreciated your apologetic invention on behalf of Sen. Trent Lott.
Cashing in on Jessica Lynch
M erely sending patriotic books and lockets to prospective interviewees isn't good enough anymore, even if you're a television doyenne with an eye on the prize.
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Livelong Days
What's happening this week in the big city-- highlights from our listings.
Somebody call an ambulance
A few years back, my daughter, then 16, was driving home from a friend's house. It was late at night, she was tired and distracted, and turning into our tree-lined driveway, she collided with a car parked just inside the driveway.
Mother Lode
What's happening this week in the big city-- highlights from our listings.
Or My Name Is Mud
What's happening this week in the big city-- highlights from our listings.
Echoes of Juneteenth still haunting us
This Thursday, June 19, many African-Americans will be celebrating Juneteenth, the bittersweet anniversary of the same day in 1865 when the last remaining slaves were freed.
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Letters
Readers of the Independent talk back to the editor
IQ: Free for all
Sometimes Colorado Springs is a wild place to live. We've got shiny metal sculptures and cheesy political pizza tales.
Been a long time
It was 1978, a very good year. Rich Hawk and friends decided to buck the top-40 tried and true and launch a rock 'n' roll station that was so unconventional, so innovative, so out there, that people would wonder just what these guys were on.
Unexpected grace
Mama and Daddy were both children of a generation of hardscrabble farmers who had toughed it out on tenant farms through the Great Depression.
Food & Drink
Food 101
Nothing would please me more than to have a neighborhood bistro on the West Side in a space small and inviting, staffed with responsive, attentive folks serving a menu of simple yet impeccably prepared dishes.
Music
Playing Around: Johnny and the Jukes
Some bands are perfect for the patio. One of those bands would be Johnny and the Jukes.
Pop for the masses
Not since Lou Reed lost what little of the magic touch he still had after his miraculously beautiful album Magic and Loss in 1990 has such a deep, unpretentiously simple yet intelligent voice made a muse of darkness the way Bill Calahan of the band Smog has.
Film
A Troubled Mind
Director David Cronenberg has ventured down dark avenues of the psyche before with his marvelous version of the old sci-fi classic The Fly, starring Jeff Goldblum, and his twisted tale of competing twin gynecologists, Dead Ringers, starring Jeremy Irons and Jeremy Irons.
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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.
Visual Arts
Water World
A few years ago, Hardu Keck, then an instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design, conceived the idea of creating a circular rainbow.
Wanderlust
The last weekend of June (27-29) is a time when passion flows through Salida's historic downtown as art voyeurs stroll from gallery to gallery, viewing a variety of artistic offerings you'd be hard-pressed to find in most towns 10 times its size.
