Friday, May 24, 2013
- Issue Archive for
- Jul 24-30, 2003
- Vol. 11, No. 30
- Pinned Down
News
Pinned Down
We know that Orlena Parker suffered from depression and had lived for 18 months in Colorado Springs at Devereux Cleo Wallace residential treatment facility for mentally ill children until her death on March 10, 2003. We know that on that day she became agitated and was pinned face down by at least six, possibly seven, adult staff members.
Stay! No wait, leave!
Newspaper report confuses Red Rock Canyon residents
A toxic mess
...unlike actual toxic waste sites, no regulatory agency or standards guide their cleanup. And unlike the presence of lead paint, property owners are not legally required to inform renters that their future homes were once meth labs.
The FB-eye may be watching
"That was my mom," I tell them. "The FBI's coming for me." They laugh; it's a good joke, especially when the FBI actually shows up. They are not the bogeymen I had been expecting. They're dressed casually, they speak familiarly, but they are big. The one in front stands close to 7 feet, and you can tell his partner is built like a bulldog under his baggy shirt and shorts.
Columns
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Livelong Days
What's happening this week in the big city-- highlights from our listings.
How to build a convention center
Let's see -- just when did the business community begin to push for a publicly financed downtown convention center? Maybe in the late '50s, early '60s -- whatever. It scarcely matters.
Session obsession
Let's face it. Manitou Springs is known more for its benevolent occultists than for its music scene. But that may soon change.
To show loyalty, Rice lies for Bush
According to contemporary political lore, the Bush clan exalts loyalty above every other virtue. Other politicians envy that inviolable code, whose power is reflected in the absence of leaks from the White House, in the lockstep obedience of politicians in Congress and around the country, and in the enormous cash donations from hundreds of wealthy "friends." This is how dynasties are built to endure.
Putting Colorado on the map
The Colorado Springs hip-hop scene might finally be breaking the icy curse of provincial obscurity that has doomed most talented local musicians to a life of restaurant work and dead-end day jobs.
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Letters
Readers of the Independent talk back to the editor
IQ: Behind bars
The El Paso County Jail is a world unto itself, and it's lately been a deadly one: Since Michael Lewis died after being strapped face down to a restraint board on May 7, 1998, 12 other prisoners have died in custody, two of them within the past month.
The reds of summer
Head-high lobs, pitches so far off the plate they could have been in another time zone -- anarchists will swing at anything! Perhaps they were seizing the historical moment or maybe pitch selection is too bourgeois.
Food & Drink
D is for delicious
For the longest time I thought of it as Rick's Brother's Place. Rick, of course, is Rick Dominguez, longtime owner of the Pepper Tree who sold the restaurant and retired recently for health reasons.
Music
Playing Around: The Wayfarers
The Black Rose Acoustic Society will be putting the arghh back in the blearghh on Friday night as the traditional Irish musical clan The Wayfarers jig their way into your heart.
It's huge; it's "Nuge"
Chris Forsythe is doing his best to ignore the hype. But as his band Gripped, a local metal outfit, tears across the stage amidst a throng of fist-pounding fans, a wry smile escapes him.
This pop rocks!
My history with power-pop band Fountains of Wayne is one of long, unpleasant trips.
Sculpture Vulture
I was so moved by the latest installments of the downtown's US Bank Art on the Streets program that I felt compelled to further immortalize some of the already more-or-less immortal sculptures in verse.
Film
The horse can do
Everyone has a story line they're so enamored with that they'll overlook any number of cinematic misfortunes: Bad acting, heavy-handed direction, even Heather Graham.
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Opening This Week
What's new on Colorado Springs area 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.
