Tuesday, May 21, 2013
News
Tongue depressor
Unlike other such gatherings elsewhere, it quickly becomes clear that the main disagreement among most attendees is whether a handful of pro-reform activists should be shown the door.
Prescription: PCP
Many reform advocates now believe efficient, effective primary care is essential to reining in the nation's out-of-control health care spending.
Ambition above the clouds
The more Woodland Park grows, the more its leaders seem to want to make it into something different, and changes are happening up the pass.
Through the ... roof
Legislation passed in 2008 will begin making a difference in upgrading area schools, starting next year.
Noted: Bruce caught trespassing
Also: Cesar Chavez update, Lambert gets a boost, Utilities opposes Morleys' idea, Poore looks at Pueblo and more.
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Long Story Short
College is a difficult thing to sum up. Author Tom Wolfe tried to describe it in his 2004 novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons. "Sex! Sex!" he wrote. But it's slightly more complicated than that.
Columns
Crucial week ahead for city
There's only one apparent escape route from the budget nightmare, and that's the November election, depending on what makes it onto the ballot.
Editorial: Help prevent a TABOR train wreck
You can help determine whether voters might sunset the parts of TABOR that are out of control while maintaining the requirement that citizens approve all tax increases.
Your leaders, hard at work
We can all stop worrying about our nation's health care system because our county commissioners are trying to help America with the whole reform thing.
Bodor finds home in Hawaii
Obviously, this stop wasn't part of Bob Bodor's career plan, until Colorado College killed its football program back in late March.
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Letters
Stoplight cameras, health care, Lamborn, radio's future and more.
IQ: Hindsight is 4.0
College inarguably gives a great boost to the career-minded, and memorable stories to the beer-minded. Most of us would choose to go (or go back) tomorrow, if given the chance.
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Advice Goddess
You don't just march up and blurt out, 'I like you. Do you like me?' — which is about as alluring as 'Drop by some afternoon so I can give you genital herpes.'
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Stranger Than Fiction
All the weird news that's fit to print.
Food & Drink
High on Wire
It's beyond rare to stumble upon a sandwich in which the pome fruit stars as the central ingredient ... in a coffee shop ... in Pueblo.
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Side Dish
New Afghan restaurant, High Altitude Happy Hour, Clam Jam, organic seed workshops and more.
Music
The Dead Weather Report
A review and photo spread of the Dead Weather, a band that lives up to supergroup status.
The Black Joe Lewis Story
United by an affinity for old soul, older blues and timeless yacht rock, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears share deep musical inspirations.
After the Rapture
For Blondie, touring this summer will be more than opportunity to entertain fans and earn some income. It will bring the band one step closer to creating its next album.
The rebel kind
Steeped in the Southern rock tradition of Lynyrd Skynyrd and fortified with crunchy metal goodness, the band has found their own target audience, among the Internet gun rights set.
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Reverb
Everybody knows no matter how totally f'n brilliant they can wail and shred, a band is only as good as its songwriter/s. Bad songs = bad band.
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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.
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Sound Advice
Modest Mouse, The Hooters, Delbert McClinton
The Casualities'
"Our fans will love it or hate it, and I think it'll get some new people into it."
Film
Blood and glory
Serious Holocaust Drama this is not. It's more like a smug, glamorous, violently inclined cartoon.
Help wanted
If Post Grad is indicative of how college leaves graduates at the far end, we're in big trouble.
Short and sweet
Shorts is a zippy, slapsticky romp about a suburban town of technology-dependent dullards going bonkers when a wish-granting, rainbow-colored rock falls out of the sky.
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Opening this week
Inglourious Basterds, Post Grad, Shorts, Tony Dungy's Red Zone '09 and more.
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Cinefiles
Mutant Chronicles, Surveillance, Spring Break
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Movie Picks
Our reviewers' recommendations for films playing around the area.
Visual Arts
The buy-in behind SELLOUT
As a young girl, Beckstrom watched her grandparents' barn burn down. While her family cried, she says, she jumped up and down clapping because it was so beautiful.
Man vs. Mountain
A weekend spent on the slopes of a summertime ski resort.
Calendar
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Get involved
Charity consignment sale, volunteer calls for literacy tutoring and the Commonwheel Artists Labor Day Arts & Crafts Festival
Special Section
Student Survival 2009
Our interns' advice for college life in the Springs
Student Survival 2009: Why so serious?
Consider the following a chronological film and TV first-aid kit. It may save your (social) life someday.
Student Survival 2009: Red roses optional
Hook-ups may be the norm for college co-eds, but old-fashioned dating has the thrill of actually getting to know someone.
Student Survival 2009: What goes up ...
Caffeine, borrowed prescriptions and other uppers may not be serious at first glance, but have heavy consequences with extreme use.
Student Survival 2009: Sky blue sky
Rest assured that when everything goes wrong, you are in Colorado, after all, where there's a multitude of outdoor activities to take your mind off your troubles.
Student Survival 2009: Getting outta Dodge
Some ways to tool around our beautiful state, short of hitching a ride to the nearest used car dealership for a rusty clunker.
Student Survival 2009: How it's done
Want to transition unscathed from college to your next step? Take notes.
Student Survival 2009: Genius in a bottle
I have come to learn that there is a lot more to beer than the bland-yet-metallic taste that flowed from that beautiful can and dribbled down my chin during those wonder-filled years.
