Thursday, May 23, 2013
News
DR. D.I.Y.
What if Americans were to quit waiting for government to take a "victory garden" approach to reforming health care? Are there things we can do in our own lives?
Locally, fears of 'socialism'
Volunteers "checked the pulse" of area residents on health-care reform, and they found it won't be an easy sell in this conservative stronghold.
It's dirty work, but ...
Open or closed — that's the question behind the South Rampart Travel Management Plan, the Pikes Peak Ranger District's response to a 2005 off-highway vehicle rule allowing motorized access to national forests.
Talking back
Hernandez claims that charges of his schools cheating on CSAP tests are false, and he feels his $261,000 in salary and benefits is fully justified.
Cripple Creek's flood warning
Colorado's gaming industry expects to benefit, luring people who previously have gone to Las Vegas or elsewhere in Nevada, but the casinos also are wary.
Let the recall begin
They go door-to-door collecting signatures when most people are cooking dinner. Their mission is simple: change the elected leadership in Falcon School District 49.
Noted: New law helps umemployed
Also: Gazette pay cuts, courthouse damage, another doctoral program at UCCS.
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Long Story Short
National recognition came to the Indy at our national convention last week, and we think it's worth sharing here.
Columns
Getting to know Amy
You may think you know Amy Alkon, simply from reading her irreverent Advice Goddess column in the Independent, but you might be surprised.
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Advice Goddess
There you are, trying to appreciate the nude female form, when you discover Winnie the Pooh beat you to her cleavage, and there's Tigger, climbing out of her underpants.
IQ: Stayin' alive
The rise of alternative forms of healing means lots of different answers to the question, "How do you stay healthy?"
Military gays: now or when?
Local tolerance still doesn't mean progress at the national level in striking down the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy regarding gays.
Another month to remember for Rockies
As the Rockies struggled this spring, after an exasperating 2008, they no longer could silence the cynics who looked back on two years ago as a wondrous mirage, an amazing fluke, a harbinger of ... frustration.
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Letters
Idol worship, health care, renewable energy, post-partum doulas and more.
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Stranger than Fiction
All the weird news that's fit to print.
Food & Drink
Cup runneth over
It's beyond improbable that a restaurant should suffer a debilitating fire the same week we choose to review it, but it's worth a visit in the future.
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Side Dish
New D'Vine Wine ownership, sustainable seafood, a chocolate treasure chest and more.
Music
Glorious bastard
On his new band: "It's more like how Johnny Cash used to do it in the '50s: no drums and more acoustic, organic-type sounds. I'm tired of drummers."
Dust never sleeps
Son Volt's new CD, American Central Dust returns to more familiar, earthy terrain with an emphasis on acoustic and pedal steel guitars.
Girl in a Coma
"I wanted to really listen to what I was doing and let it flow, and find beauty in all types of music and incorporate it somehow into what I was writing."
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Reverb
As far as Michael Jackson goes, I think I'll get over it. The poor kid really died 25 years ago, so it's about time we got around to burying him.
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Sound Advice
Cheap Trick, Otis Taylor, Wilco
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Playing Around Listings
Who's playing where, and when, at area venues for the next week.
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Big gigs
Upcoming concerts here and around the region.
Film
Slushy mess
This is how far cartoons have descended in the last decade and a half: The Lion King was Shakespearean. Ice Age is Everybody Loves Raymond-ean.
Johnny be good
This film is not a history, but a fantasy, mostly having to do with the durable gangster-glamour of the movies, boiled down to a vision of two elegant men on opposite sides of the law.
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Cinefiles
The IT Crowd: The Complete Second Season; Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine; My Dinner with Jimi
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Movie Picks
Our reviewers' recommendations for films playing around the area.
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Opening this week
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs; Public Enemies; Whatever Works and more.
Visual Arts
Keep on the sunny side
It's hard to be optimistic about anything. Everyone is broke, fighting, and the world is going to blow up. The last positive story I saw on any news station was that the Obamas got a dog.
Bag of tricks
Liz McCombs' integration of odd relics in her art results in a subtly cheerful and outright quirky mix of macabre and cute.
'Drunk on nectar'
Unexpected props (a bag of dog food) and radical dance premises (sex and flowers) comprise some of Heron's acclaimed performances.
Calendar
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Get Involved
Colorado Springs Green Fair, Health Care Reform Rally, Mi Casa Resource Center fundraiser
