Saturday, May 18, 2013
News
Rooms for improvement
Some local hotel and motel owners say business is better, but still not what it once was.
Help for the disabled: bad to worse?
The cuts keep coming for developmentally disabled people — and 'means-based' services loom as a possibility.
Patients get rewarded
VA plans to build a larger health clinic for the Springs.
Community centers: center of gravity
What happens at Meadows Park could foreshadow the future for two other local community centers.
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Long story short
I found it funny when my friend mentioned that he was reading War and Peace. I was, at that same moment, in the process of organizing two food features that could be reduced to the same themes.
Noted: USAF may bring special forces to CO
Also: Section 16 purchase getting closer, personnel changes in local media, Doug Bruce not in contempt and more.
Columns
Making sense of Maes
Other than George W. Bush , Dan Maes is the most curious candidate for political office in American history.
Longer term limits? Really?
Someday, after Colorado Springs escapes these economic hard times, there's a book to be written. We could call it Pikes Peak Is a Bust: Our Worst Mistakes (1985-2010)
Gazette abdicates its role
I was more saddened than shocked to open the Sept. 4 Gazette and see my old editorial page selling out its editorial independence in pursuit of one publisher's personal agenda.
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Stranger than fiction
All the weird news that's fit to print.
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CannaBiz
A closer look at the Amy Lathen editorial, possible zoning regulations for centers and more.
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Letters
Discussing the role of bikes and cars on the roads, atheists and believers on the big mystery and more.
Broncos stuck at 8-8
A year ago this week, readers came to this space and saw the Denver Broncos' 2009 season projected to end at 8-8, the same as in 2008.
IQ: May I have another?
We all have foods we favor most when feeling blue, or festive, or just hungry. Usually, they're light on the lettuce and heavy on the cream.
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Advice goddess
There actually is a good time to break up with somebody, and it's when you're sure the relationship's over.
Bad policy hatches toxic eggs
To make an omelet, you gotta break some eggs — and half a billion eggs would make a mighty big omelet!
Food & Drink
Full speed ahead
Quietly, the Depot is changing. Out are the can openers and menus cluttered with 70-plus items; in, a sleeker-by-half, Italian-focused slate.
Crop clash
How four of our farmers markets measure up, from beets to balloon animals.
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Side dish
News on the fresh breads at Old Stone Bridge Bakery and the bountiful foods at Kaleidoscoops.
Music
Senses working overtime
Mose Allison returns with more songs about mouths and minds
The mighty Quins
Sisters Tegan and Sara bid their roaring 20s farewell
Don't dream it's over
When he first walked into it three years ago, the dusty old Art Deco edifice in his native Auckland, New Zealand was just another nondescript fixer-upper for sale.
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Reverb
I have bad news for you. Not just one, but three of the "scene's" most beloved bands are calling it quits.
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.
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Sound advice
Peter Himmelman, Marty Stuart, Charlie Musselwhite
Titus Andronicus
"A song being 3½ minutes long? Verse, chorus, verse, chorus? All those things are completely arbitrary, anyway."
Film
Guilt by dissociation: Flipped
I can't recommend Flipped highly enough, even though it may be on DVD by the time most of its potential audience finds out about it.
Now a major motion picture!
From orphaned owlets to Fincher's Facebook, here's a fall preview of book-to-movie adaptations.
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Cinefiles
Time Bandits, City Island, Escape From New York and more.
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Movie picks
Our reviewers' recommendations for films playing around the area.
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Opening this week
Flipped, Resident Evil: Afterlife
Stage
A devilish mess
Theatre 'd Art again embraces a brutally sharp, ever-evolving brand of 'barely controlled chaos' in A Devil Inside.
Calendar
Special Section
Dish: Welcome
This year, for our fifth annual Dish guide, comfort food is the theme we asked our 24 local, participating culinarians to keep in mind as they generously shared their recipes with us.
Changes at the BLM could affect Over the River (Updated)
The Royal Gorge Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management is undergoing some reorganization, one that could affect the person who makes the Record of Decision regarding Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "Over the River" project.
Recipes Part I
Smoked duck cassoulet, chocolate orange Mayan cookie sandwich, tula crêpe and more.
Recipes Part II
Chocolate lava cake, pork adobo, tortellini Jamaica mon, beer cheese soup and more.
