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"Ponycow! That sounds like fun."
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Local News
A look at why, even in her new life miles away from Colorado Springs, the security guard-turned-reluctant-celebrity still has to address New Life.
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Local News
A handful of homeowners aren't going along with Utilities' plan to run water pipe through their land.
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Local News
Wisconsin's situation inspires calls for local transparency, but District 11's teachers union resists.
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Local News
Didn't vote in November 2010? The city won't make it easy for you to participate now.
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Noted
Also: Water officer appointed, city fire chief retires, concealed-carry passes and more.
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Local News
The Indy and The Gazette issue a rare joint editorial.
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Between The Lines
This guy could, really could, become Colorado Springs' first strong mayor in a few months.
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City Sage
For the election, we need to use the same metrics as NFL teams did in evaluating player personnel at their recent draft combine.
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CannaBiz
Also: Center anniversaries and news on the cannabis competition.
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Your endorsements for mayor, a discussion on family planning, thoughts on transit and more.
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Ranger Rich
Lawyers are fascinating. Take last week. I was in court when a lawyer compared Nelson Mandela with Rev. Don Armstrong.
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End Zone
Of all the college sports, one stands out as far more grueling than the rest. No, not football. This would be hockey.
- by Ralph Routon
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Tags: End Zone, WCHA, AHA, Scott Owens, Frank Serratore, Jacques Lamoureux, Jaden Schwartz, Air Force, Colorado College, Colorado Avalanche, Joe Sacco, ROOT Sports, Tad Boyle, Big 12, Colorado Rockies
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Street Smarts
This year's municipal election is unique. We'll elect our first strong mayor, and in a mail-ballot election, meaning no polling stations.
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All the weird news that's fit to print.
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Hightower
With unemployment and underemployment devastating millions in our country, perhaps you've assumed that U.S. corporations aren't hiring these days. Nonsense.
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Too bad you aren't 19 and in college. You'd be free to take a little tour of the Isle of Lesbos.
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Appetite
Blue Agave gives nuance to North Nevada Avenue.
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Side Dish
Also: BrewDogs on the move and more.
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AudioFile
The Adicts celebrate their 30th year in the glamorous world of punk-rock show biz
- by Bill Forman
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Tags: AudioFile, The Adicts, Keith Warren, Monkey, A Clockwork Orange, Droogs, Life Goes On, Afterbirth & the Pinz, punk, glam, rock
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AudioFile
Denver-based musician Morgan Packard's addictive iPhone app brings generative art to the masses
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"It had a population of about 450, and out of those 450, I think I mighta been related to 400 of them."
- by Bill Forman
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Tags: Reverb, Joe Johnson, A Time to Dance, Creating a Newsense, Lon Chaney Theater, BJ the Deejay Johnson, Busdriver, World Music Festival, Mexican Institute of Sound, Khaïra Arby, Ali Farka Touré, Luisa Maita, Busdriver
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The Go! Team, Lucinda Williams, Corinne Bailey Rae
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Playing Around Listings
Who's playing where, and when, at area venues this week.
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Upcoming concerts here and around the region.
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Reviews
It's hard to describe but also hard to overstate just how extraordinary Javier Bardem's performance is.
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Reviews
This film wants to stow a lesson at the center of its suspense, which often is a recipe for heavy-handedness. Here, there's a deft touch at play.
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Reviews
How can it be that a kiddie movie is wiser and funnier and more relevant than the Coen Brothers' True Grit?
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The Walking Dead: Season 1, Wild Target, Fish Tank
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Our reviewers' recommendations for films playing around the area.
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The Adjustment Bureau, Beastly, Rango, Biutiful
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Art News
As he's done almost every day, for several hours a day, over the last three months, Jonas McCluggage hunches over a polished, dark wood table at Lofty's Idea.
- by Matthew Schniper
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Tags: Art News, Lofty's, Jonas McCluggage, Josh Kennard, comic books, graphic novel, The Lofty's Comic, steampunk, Mike Coco, Escape Velocity Comics, Alan Moore, Watchmen, Hellboy, The Walking Dead, Lofty's Idea
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Art News
History and modernity meet and make 'magic' in an insular Colorado artist's retrospective.
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Art News
Those who were once blind show off their skills — and gratitude — in Circle of Light at Marmalade.
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Today in colorado Springs
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IndyBlog
- by Eric Calder
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Tags: Entertainment, Rants & Raves, Books, Pikes Peak Library District, PPLD, Books, feminism, sexism, Chelsea Handler, Adam Carolla, Danica McKellar, Barbara J. Berg
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IndyBlog
Yesterday, the Colorado Springs Business Journal published an article on the "vibrant economic picture" of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Rebecca Tonn's piece outlined the FAC's current fiscal status, which is extraordinarily healthy, thanks in large part to the FAC's new director of development, Thomas Jackson, who has landed the FAC numerous grants.
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IndyBlog
Joint editorial by the Independent and Gazette: Up to 95,000 registered but so-called inactive (by a narrow definition) voters will not be mailed ballots unless the City Council takes action quickly.
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IndyBlog
If you've got an unwanted instrument lurking in your garage, attic or spider-hole, you may want to have a visit with folks from the International Vintage Guitar Collectors Association this week. They're holding court at the Clarion Hotel & Conference Center Tuesday through Saturday ...
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IndyBlog
- by Jack Ward
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Tags: Food & Drink, Entertainment, Outdoors, Arts, Music, Local News, St. Patrick’s day, parade, 5k run, Downtown, Colorado Springs, Lieutenant governor, joe garcia, dr. Claire garcia, colorado college, marching bands, car clubs, leprechauns, green, bagpipes, Stargazers, theatre, solas, woody guthrie, pastures of plenty, springsteen, ghost of tom joad, Irish, Celtic, music, wine festival, FAC, Fine Arts Center, Spain, Broadmoor, garden of the gods, club, amuzé, Independnet, Indy Minute, Jack Ward, Video
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IndyBlog
- by Edie Adelstein
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Tags: Arts, art news, Stacy Steers, David Armstrong, David Tippit, Byers-Evans House Gallery, MCA Denver, Denver Art Museum, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Heebee Jeebees Gallery, Marmalade at Smokebrush
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IndyBlog
The cover to 1964's The 7th Dawn paints a picture of a classic, rollicking jungle adventure. Hell, it stars William Holden and is directed by future Bond director Lewis Gilbert ...
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IndyBlog
The Philharmonic has already presented the renowned violinist with a short list of suggested repertoire, including concerti by Bruch, Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.
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IndyBlog
"The so-called inside and so-called outside are part of the same system called democracy," says Jones, who worked the "outside," both literally and...
- by Bill Forman
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Tags: Politics, Van Jones, Colorado Springs, Shove Chapel, Obama, white house, advisor, green jobs, environment, economy, Video