• Issue Archive for
  • Feb 19-25, 2009
  • Vol. 17, No. 8
  • How did we get here?
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News

  • Natural selection

    The bill would create a task force of physicians and naturopathic doctors to recommend standards and a scope of practice for the profession.
  • Long Story Short

    It's been a busy month for District 11's board of education. Perhaps too busy.
  • Stim-u-lust

    The stimulus package that President Barack Obama signed into law did not warm the hearts of all local Republican leaders.
  • What happens next?

    After years of what turned out to be empty threats, Colorado Springs' largest school district might not back away this time.

Columns

  • Advice Goddess

    Hope you don't think it impolite of me to ask, but what's your head doing all the way up there?
  • Letters

    Stimulus debate, health care, city budget and more.
  • We're stimulated, all right

    Local response to the $789 billion "stimulus package" runs the gamut, from cautious optimism to outright anger.
  • D-11 shuns its best choice

    The school board should take a second look at Deputy Superintendent Mike Poore.

Food & Drink

  • Side Dish

    Home Plate Grill, Ted's Montana Grill, events and tidbits.

Music

  • Folk you

    She's never been shy about standing up for herself, especially back in small-town Georgia.
  • The Airborne Toxic Event

    "I just knew I wanted to be in a rock band. I guess it was just more fun."
  • Reverb

    There are a couple of Rocket Room "debuts" worth noting this weekend.
  • Big Gigs

    Upcoming concerts here and around the region.
  • Guttermouth on parade

    He has spent much of those two decades putting the screws to his more liberal-minded colleagues and yelling at fair-weather fans.
  • Suddenly solo

    When Rice bid her an abrupt adieu after seven years of devoted service, Hannigan didn't get much of a severance package.

Film

  • Movie Times

    What's playing where, and when, on the silver screen.
  • Opening This Week

    Fired Up!; Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience; Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail
  • Cinefiles

    Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder; Religulous; Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!: Season 2
  • Rah-rah-rotten

    I've always suspected that films like this are based on adolescent wet dreams of 40-something Hollywood nerds.
  • Movie Picks

    Our reviewers' recommendations for films playing around the area.

Visual Arts

  • Unbound

    Hobson used to be a lawyer who dabbled in art, but one day in 1984, that changed.

Calendar

  • Lost in place

    He's found a medium to re-create and explore his blind wanderings, and to relive moments of intense dislocation.
  • Get Involved

    Courts lecture, CASA open house, sustainability classes.
  • The Run Down

    An Evening with Benjamin Franklin, Teach Me Show Me, SciFi comes to town.
  • Seven Days to Live

    What's happening around the area highlights from our listings

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