Sunday, May 19, 2013
News
School house rocked
The superintendent of Colorado Springs' Harrison School District 2 thinks he can organize his way to better student achievement. Others aren't so sure.
SDS projects will help out the construction industry, but the price tag is escalating
Larry Brown needs work. He wants a piece of the $2.3 billion Southern Delivery System water line that begins construction this year to bring water from Pueblo Reservoir.
Local MMJ community grapples with HB 1284
Snake in the grass: "I think there's going to be a lot of people making funny bed partners. From that, there's going to be a lot of problems."
Sheriff's race heats up as Maketa slams challenger Shirk's credentials
Is someone with two college degrees ignorant? Is someone who has spent 35 years in law enforcement inexperienced?
A rogue member of Harrison's school board lobs bombs at colleagues
The board's vice president has publicly broken ranks with four others, whom he accuses of election law violations, attacks on First Amendment rights, and allowing a well-known developer to orchestrate board actions.
Two entrepreneurs bet on a downtown rebirth
It's easy to be skeptical about the Mining Exchange Hotel project. In fact, it's only sensible in this economy to question how viable a $24 million hotel and entertainment complex is for Colorado Springs' downtown.
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Long story short
It seems everyone these days wants to be like Mike. Harrison School District 2 Superintendent Mike Miles, that is.
Noted: Strong mayor push goes to petition
Also: FAC receives El Pomar grant, Copper Ridge project moves foward, GOP leader leaves, D12 starts drug tests and more.
Columns
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Advice Goddess
If I hated women, I'd tell those looking to date men to grow a big hairy hedge above their lip.
Merrifield battles to the end
For the first time in eight years, Mike Merrifield woke up Thursday morning without an agenda to pursue as a member of Colorado's House of Representatives.
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CannaBiz
Update on the state MMJ bill, California's MMJ woes, and a new dispensary.
Hope for CU hoops
As soon as CU discovered that Jeff Bzdelik would be departing as head men's basketball coach, the first thought must have been: What a great opportunity.
Blame anyone but BP for Gulf oil disaster
Some think the nightmare gushing from BP's well was not a product of tech failure, corporate greed, or regulatory laxness, but the result of sabotage by maniacal greens.
IQ: Alumni blues
Even if school sucks, that doesn't mean our schools actually have to suck. And yet even motivated kids today have a lot of obstacles to overcome en route to a good education.
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Letters
Thoughts on the Gazette, Rove's defenders, excessive parking tickets, a positive spin on the Gulf oil spill and more.
Johnny needs a weapon
My youngest child is off to college in August. And I'm not saying there's any panic, but this leaves me with barely 12 weeks to get little Johnny a handgun.
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Stranger than fiction
All the weird news that's fit to print.
Food & Drink
Go with the Flow
If this eatery doesn't take here, no Mexican will.
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Side dish
Details on a new OCC coffeehouse and an upcoming PB&J restaurant.
Music
Martin Sexton turns personal disillusionment into bittersweet ambivalence
In the aftermath of his recent 'awakening,' the singer-songwriter's latest ode to America is a sweet, almost wistful musical confection that masks a haunting fixation at its lyrical core.
The Expendables would really like a hit record, but they'll settle for some respect
"We kind of get hounded on for being just another ska, weed-toking, reggae-punk band. But I feel like we have a little bit more substance than that, and I hope this album kind of proves it."
Akron/Family makes the world just a little bit safer for avant-folk sing-alongs
300 drunk Norwegians can't be wrong.
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Big Gigs
Upcoming concerts here and around the region.
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Playing around
Who's playing where, and when, at area venues for the next week.
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Reverb
I am talking about the most infamously unfamous band Colorado band EVER, the Warlock Pinchers, whose reign of proto-rap/punk terror had the Mile High scene trembling from 1987 to 1992.
Cobra Starship
"Nobody likes the genre people put them in. We don't sing about losing our girlfriends and having all these problems. So you should at least drop emo from the list."
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Sound advice
The New Pornographers, Hoodoo Gurus, Sara Hickman
Film
Slings and arrows: Robin Hood
Robin Hood was supposed to be awesome. Did not Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott implicitly promise me awesome with their Gladiator-in-Sherwood-Forest trailer?
Personal foul: Just Wright
There is a great cinematic tradition of male and female leads in romantic comedies trading barbs. But not in this film.
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Cinefiles
Tetro, District 13: Ultimatum, Tooth Fairy and more.
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Movie Picks
Our reviewers' recommendations for films playing around the area.
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Opening this week
Bay, Just Wright, Letters to Juliet, Robin Hood and more.
Visual Arts
'Fanning the flame'
Commercial illustrator Thomas Blackshear, now at the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, emerges from a Bible-styled fast with renewed passion for painting.
Stage
Cannon for courage
A Colorado-born comedian wants your laughs to help wounded soldiers.
Calendar
Special Section
What to do with a bee swarm
Don't freak out if on some fine spring day you find a swarm of bees in your yard. Calmly call the Pikes Peak Beekeepers and wait for someone to show up to capture it for you. There are several folks each season awaiting free bees via this process, and to them, what you perceive as a crisis is just business as usual.
Virtual medieval France
Everyone has heard of the terracotta army from China, but now it's time to meet the Mourners, 80 tomb sculptures from the Court of Burgundy.
Bemis registration opens today
From the listings desk: Public registration for the Bemis School of Art's summer session opens today. The school's massive schedule offers courses for young children, teens, adults and seniors, with instruction at all skill levels. If you're into clay, painting, drawing, critiquing art or drama, Bemis has a class for it.
Two great art openings tomorrow
Be sure to block out some time tomorrow to visit both Mountain Living Studio (741 Manitou Ave.) in Manitou Springs and Kathleen McFadden's Range Gallery (2428 W. Colorado Ave.) in Old Colorado City for an opening reception and a grand opening, respectively.
Burger good, bartender hot
An insider's tip on mouth-watering food and delicious wait staff. From Andrew.
Pool needs money
The only pool the city chose to fund through the end of 2010 was at the Cottonwood Creek Recreation Center. But even that support had a catch. The Friends of Aquatics needed to help support that pool and its programs. The Friends, a nonprofit organization, is still trying to raise the money.
Grilling Season Kick Off Class date change
From the listings desk: This course on how to grill meats, veggies and fruits was originally scheduled for May 19, but is now postponed until May 26
New season of Mixed Taste
A bit of absurdity really opens doors in life (doesn't genius look alarmingly like insanity sometimes?). That was always the root of my love of morphology...
