Tuesday, May 21, 2013
News
Success story
While most government agencies are slashing budgets and laying off workers, the Pikes Peak Library District is building a new $3.3 million branch in the fast-growing, unincorporated area of Falcon.
Demise
Obama's inauguration a year ago was a historic triumph, but the year since has seeped with anxiety, upheaval and political ugliness. The frustration and despair have trickled down, with Republicans attacking at every chance and Democrats failing to respond effectively.
Council's resolutions
"We have an obligation to address our challenges so that the incoming Council in 2011 at least has a foundation to work from," Councilor Tom Gallagher notes. So what comes first? We talked with Vice Mayor Larry Small, Gallagher and fellow Councilors Jan Martin and Randy Purvis about top priorities.
Dude, where's my candidate?
"I feel like I'm letting some people down," Gardner says, admitting he's still tempted. "I know that there is a movement afoot for the progressive community to be more organized and have good candidates."
A little like purgatory
The Freethinkers, despite adherence to dispassionate opinion-making based on science, logic and reason, had been lumped together for several years with religious groups as part of the Academy's Special Programs in Religious Education.
-
Long story short
Being a progressive in Colorado Springs, as many of our readers know, means getting accustomed to minority status.
Noted: No-camping ordinance resurfaces
Also: Scott McInnis unveils plans at recent breakfast, more people on food stamps in the county, Council delays Doug Bruce's measures and more.
Columns
What now for Dems?
Standing on the Capitol steps in the city he already rules, John Hickenlooper made the announcement Tuesday afternoon that most Colorado Democrats were expecting to hear.
Kramer plots for change
Lorne Kramer, former city manager and village police chief, eases back in the coffee shop chair, sips from the steaming cup and smiles. He's happy these days. Life is good.
Why Chertoff wants to see you naked
Pardon my modesty, but why is there such an unseemly rush by Department of Homeland Security officials and assorted terrorism experts to sneak a peek in my underwear?
IQ: Hope and change and ... whatever
A year into office, Obama looks conspicuously passive, Republicans are virtually unanimous in opposing his every move, and ongoing gridlock remains the norm.
-
Letters
The harsh life after prison, a happy farewell to Stormwater, tacky Top 10 lists, an Evangelist dictionary and more.
-
Stranger than fiction
All the weird news that's fit to print.
Coaching pendulum swings
Just when the annual chaos known unofficially as the "football coaches carousel" appeared to have ended, Southern Cal's Pete Carroll breaks the profession's recent trend by abandoning his lofty perch for the Seattle Seahawks.
-
Advice Goddess
I'm guessing you gambled that having a kid would move your relationship to the next level. And lookie here, it did: into bitterness, envy and resentment.
Food & Drink
Pretty persuasion
It's that time of year when every TV commercial reminds you, "Time to get healthy!" Food-wise, we're constantly told what we have to give up, and we're rarely shown what we gain.
-
Side dish
Flavors on Tejon replacement goes to Pueblo, new ownership at the Coffee Exchange, Beavers leaves the Blue Star and more.
Music
Run like hell
Fafara wants you to know that he hasn't done things the easy way when it comes to building the career of his band, DevilDriver.
Git 'er done
"It's not always pretty. It's not always perfect, but we're real. I don't think we spend our time trying to create some image. We just go out there and get it done."
-
Reverb
Sunshine Studios is looking to heat up what has, to say the very least, been a stupidly cold winter with some steaming Southern folk, blues, gospel (in the good way) and country soul.
Playing around
Who's playing where, and when, at area venues for the next week.
-
Big gigs
Upcoming concerts here and around the region.
All-4-One
"It's almost strange to hear about somebody who's been happy with their label for their whole career."
-
Sound advice
Animal Collective, Freedy Johnston, OK Go
Film
Prophet and loss
Yes, it is another goddamned movie about the apocalypse, and with a god-saved hero to boot.
Lost in translation
It probably seemed to Peter Jackson that he had a take on Bones that was more cinematic than the book. But the problem isn't that Jackson attempted something radically different. The problem is that he didn't succeed.
Beautiful mourning
It's a good thing director Tom Ford cast Colin Firth as his leading man, because it meant that Firth could be left to carry the movie while Ford busied himself with fluffing it up like the film equivalent of a fashion magazine spread.
-
Opening this week
The Book of Eli, The Lovely Bones, A Single Man, The Spy Next Door and more.
-
Cinefiles
Fame, Big Fan, Kathy Griffin: She'll Cut a Bitch
-
Movie picks
Our reviewers' recommendations for films playing around the area.
Visual Arts
Step inside
"The photographs are really poignant, they're beautiful. They are tragic in some cases, but often there's a lot of joy."
Stage
Sweating the small stuff
Smith traces his close relationship with ephemera to his childhood, in particular one "housecleaning mishap" involving his mother and some of his treasured drawings.
Tough act to follow
"We're going to do it with the same desire, dedication and discipline that Tony had in all of his projects, and it's going to show up in your rehearsals, and it's going to show up in your performances."
Calendar
Special Section
Carmen electric
Last weekend’s sellout, high-def live screening of the Metropolitan Opera’s Carmen — which will encore Feb. 3 at local Hollywood and Cinemark theaters — confirmed (at least for me) the numerous critical accolades it's so far received.
Rays of hope for Rocket Room, City Auditorium
The Rocket Room has ended a month-long booking hiatus and apparently warded off the threat of imminent closure. And the City Aud gets a lifeline. (Yes, it's still technically alive.)
Coachella uber alles
Anybody thinking of driving to the Mojave desert in the middle of April? You might want to, once you’ve had a chance to read through the jaw-dropping lineup (130-plus bands over three days) that Coachella...
