Wednesday, May 22, 2013
News
Sitting shotgun: Four fun hours with the CSPD
It's Saturday night inside the police department' s Ride Along program. A simple phone call, a few signatures and a criminal background check were all it took to get me riding with the Springs' finest.
Sheriff Maketa gets a stinging wakeup call on friendly ground
Unable to dominate political newcomer Jake Shirk at the El Paso County Republican County Assembly last Saturday, Maketa now faces a primary opponent for the first time in his political career.
Hickenlooper's first county visit helps keep the optimism flowing
For all the pundits predicting that 2010 will be dismal for his party, Hickenlooper's outlook fits well with El Paso County Dems.
NORAD general warns that turbines pose national security threat, but he's breezy on details
Last month, Gen. Gene Renuart told the House Armed Services Committee that wind farms pose problems for the radar that keeps America safe from air and space threats.
Marigold's molehill
The trouble apparently began when the restaurant decided it was time to replace cabinetry and perform other aesthetic upgrades to their restaurant's bar.
Pueblo doctor sees no rest for the needed in Haiti
An endless demand for medical care paired with slow-arriving supplies complicate health care efforts in post-earthquake Haiti.
Brewing terrorism
Millions of Americans genuinely believe that we have an illegitimate presidential usurper, installed to power through a fraudulent election, who, with his Marxist allies in Congress, are running an unconstitutional government and pushing our nation irreversibly on a path to a secular, despotic regime.
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Long story short
Earlier this week, I found myself among a gathering of area residents, listening to an expert describe his views on America's financial outlook.
Noted: Humane Society gets new woman CEO
Also: Powers development gets more water, Dems pad candidate list, Indy pulls in awards and more.
Columns
Honoring our dispatchers
I'm currently at my computer looking — OK, staring — at a photo of El Paso County Sheriff's Office dispatcher Tiffany Huntz. She is naked and has what appears to be boat rivets through her nipples.
Let Colorado decide, please
Every day of the year political e-mails come my way. Sure, sometimes the content can be shallow, stupid, even repulsive. But they're worth reading even when one of them rises above — or drops below — the usual standard.
IQ: Tiger, tamer?
You didn't have to be a golf fan to have heard that Tiger Woods was in trouble. He returned to his sport last weekend, but his golden-boy image may never come back.
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Letters
Perspectives on sex ed, ways to get back park trash cans, health care and the Constitution, Israel and more.
Fees are the new game for airlines
Flying is, of course, what airlines are supposed to do, but that's no longer their core profit center. Instead, they've jumped head-first into the fee business!
Big draft now for Broncos
Now we know that the Denver Broncos really didn't care about keeping wide receiver Brandon Marshall. Now we know that head coach Josh McDaniels was determined to make a trade and dump the Pro Bowler to the highest bidder.
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Stranger than fiction
All the weird news that's fit to print.
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Advice goddess
There's no rush like walking into a room with a changed man (even better than having much better shoes than all the other women at the party).
Food & Drink
Bus tub buffet
It's a proud moment in my dining career: I'm eating off a bus cart. We've ordered so much food that our wait staff has rolled the plastic shelving unit to the end of our booth for us to spill over onto.
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Side dish
Brewery coming to Tri-Lakes, bulgogi hoagies, Banzai closing and more.
Music
Silverstein frontman Shane Told finally manages to pull his head out of the sand
For three albums Told was all about love and romance. But those looking for love on the current Silverstein album, A Shipwreck in the Sand, will be looking in the wrong place.
Nashville singer-songwriter Steff Mahan’s soulful serenade
Without resorting to artifice or clichés, the Nashville singer-songwriter has a gift for writing songs that sneak up on you and, before you know it, get you all teary-eyed.
Alan Sparhawk journeys from Low to Retribution
Sparhawk easily ranks among indie rock's most gifted artists. He's also one of the most intriguing.
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Reverb
Boulder's 3OH!3 are making good on their threat to defile the new Mountain Lion Stadium at mine own "almee-madre," UCCS.
Dr. Dog
"It's an absurd and really egotistical idea to think you can somehow arrive at this music that no one has ever conceived of or felt before."
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Sound advice
Peter Wolf, Harlem, The White Stripes
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
Kick-Ass: Fanboys and bad girls
A film in which it's hard to know — or care, really — whether all of this is innocently cynical or cynically innocent.
The Runaways: Rocking the cradle
With movie stars and rock stars, it's always the same. We want to be them, or to be with them. With movie stars impersonating rock stars, it's a little different. We want to judge them.
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Opening this week
Death at a Funeral, Kick-Ass, Oceans, The Runaways
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Cinefiles
Party Down: Season One, The Story of Math, The Yes Men Fix the World
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Movie Picks
Our reviewers' recommendations for films playing around the area.
Visual Arts
Local potter fuses old and new for a complex aesthetic
Reviving antiquity: After reading about a shipwreck discovered in Greece, one Jerry Rhodes was inspired to make a representation in clay.
Stage
Celebrating 20 years, Ormao dance company receives a milestone gift
Choreographer Billy Chang developed his tribute piece "O.R.M.A.O.," which is not only named after her group, but is very specific to its members and the community.
Calendar
Special Section
Not the final Banzai (Updated)
Café Banzai , the ultra-cheap and wholly tasty Korean/Japanese outfit located next to the Rocket Room, closed recently.
Jim Ciletti named new poet laureate
Jim Ciletti has been chosen as the next Pikes Peak Poet Laureate. Ciletti is the president of Poetry West and co-owner of Hooked on Books.
Mark your calendars
If you're hot about the recent Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Supreme Court ruling that flung open the doors for corporations to flood political campaigns with money, mark 7 p.m., Thursday, April 29 on your calendar.
Pipeline contractors announced
ASI Constructors, Inc., specializes in the construction and rehabilitation of dams, spillways and major water resource projects, and it plans to use several regional sub-contractors for the SDS dam connection project, Utilities said in a press release today.
Leopold Bros. slay other spirits
Last night, I attended a tasting of the full line of Leopold Bros. products at the Melting Pot. "You don't have to be an expert to understand these," I heard Todd Leopold tell another taster. "My job's just not to screw up what mother nature's done."
Bennet goes big in campaign spending
Coloradopols.com notes that U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is among the top spenders in Congress at this point in the 2010 election cycle, having burned through $1.31 million in the first quarter.
