Tuesday, June 18, 2013
News
The helpers need help
Unique in the nation, the Resource Advocacy Program takes the people who have hit absolute rock bottom. Often they're addicted to drugs and alcohol, homeless and mentally ill. Oh, and they're usually distrustful of the Man.
Get the message?
Utilities blogs, tweets, issues press releases and then some, at a cost to ratepayers of $3.25 million this year, including $752,542 in salaries and benefits for the 10-member PR team.
Sudden chaos
"This decision is intensely personal. ... It also allows me to focus on keeping the state budget balanced. By not running for re-election, I'll be able to make the tough decisions that have to be made."
From freedom to failure
The 29 days since Jason Horn left jail have been a blur of bus rides, AA meetings and rejections. Today, with a cold snap tugging the temperature into the single digits, he's taking the No. 3 bus to continue his job search in Old Colorado City.
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Long story short
When I first interviewed Jason Horn in jail last October, the 33-year-old sounded hopeful about restarting his life and putting his felony record in the past.
Noted: Jones bows out from District 5 race
Also: Changes in House leadership, continuing problems at 13 Pure, more auditing for Chavez, open space adoption drive and more.
Columns
Starting a new life, with hope
Sometimes, it just goes wrong. You lose your way and no one is there to show you the path back. Life's lights — your friends and your family — fade and flicker. Then they vanish. Then you are alone. And the darkness is not easily chased away.
Blackmun: perfect for USOC
Scott Blackmun will not require a learning and adjustment period as CEO. He knows exactly what he's getting into, and how much his position means to Colorado Springs in 2010 and beyond.
IQ: Off the chain gang
Though shooting a man in Reno just to watch him die will certainly do the trick, people end up in prison for a wide variety of reasons. Once they're out, however, an entirely new set of trials and tribulations can begin.
Broncos: Changes await
So now we know that Josh McDaniels, the Boy Wonder of head coaches, really doesn't have all the answers.
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Letters
Thoughts on Avatar, kudos for Herpin, calling out health care corruption and more.
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Stranger than fiction
All the weird news that's fit to print.
Let's chuck the bottle from our lives
I know we're a nation of inveterate consumers, but who would buy pollution in a bottle? Well, millions of Americans do, to the tune of $11 billion worth a year. That's the size of the bottled water industry in our country.
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Advice Goddess
This girl doesn't need a boyfriend; she needs a search party with tracking dogs — just in case the Mormons take a night off from combing the bushes for drunks.
Food & Drink
Relleno revival
Much unlike boomerangs, pathetic exes and herpes, restaurants rarely come back. When they close, it's almost always for good.
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Side dish
Rudy's coming from Texas, upcoming beer and wine tastings, Tuscan dinner and more.
Music
Two-steps back
"I was raised on a little farm, my parents were very traditionalist, and they didn't have any music except for Cajun music. I'm really one of the few guys who just doesn't know jack squat about modern-day music."
Rocket Woman
Once Carlile gained music-industry cred with her somber folk-rocking debut, she had but one crucial guest artist in mind for her Give Up the Ghost follow-up. Listen to the mid-tempo ballad "Caroline," and you can hear Sir Elton himself, dueting with his longtime admirer.
Less psycho, more billy
The Reverend Horton Heat wants his fans to know that he's still the same psychobilly, even if his new album doesn't sound like it.
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Reverb
It's a little slow around town this week, but I do have one hot tip for all you hep cats.
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Sound advice
Mary J. Blige, Neil Young, Ellis Paul
Playing Around
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
Hard knocks
Like The Hurt Locker, The Messenger skips politics to instead focus on soldiers, particularly those who have died and two who are tasked with notifying their next of kin.
Doctoring it up
You'll never be bored by the film, yet there are too many WTF? moments and messy plot turns to recommend it.
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Opening this week
Daybreakers, Leap Year, The Young Victoria, Youth in Revolt and more.
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Cinefiles
Falling Up, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, The Marine 2
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Movie picks
Our reviewers' recommendations for films playing around the area.
Visual Arts
Traveling Buddha
We all know people who walked five miles, uphill, in the snow, barefoot, to get to school. They've got nothing on the children of Zanskar.
Rocking orthodox
Father Luke Sheffer is a man of the West, born in Colorado Springs and he's a man of the East, educated through classroom and travels across Massachusetts, Russia and Greece. He's pulled to the monastery, and also to the "speed and joy and humor" of punk music.
Calendar
Special Section
McInnis "fuzzy math" commemorated
An oversized calculator covered in white fur will be delivered to Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis, as a means of commemorating the newly clean-shaven conservative's "fuzzy math."
