Monday, May 20, 2013
News
Payback time
County commissioners face GOP primary challengers, largely due to bitterness over term limits.
Healthy input
Group wants you to help construct the state's 'one-stop shop for health insurance.'
Occupy smackdown
A protest provocateur tries to 'make enough noise' to doom OCS.
Stopping the leaks
Commissioners may probe release of county e-mails.
Comfort in the storm
CASA program helps families and children through turbulent adjustment periods.
Noted: HCA-HealthONE's Memorial offer
Also: FutureSelf shuttering, Bensberg ends race, UCCS plans expansion.
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Long story short
Really, you have no idea how hard we tried to land a Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 review this week.
Columns
City brand: Is that all?
Two weeks ahead of the original timetable, local officials unveiled the finished product: Live it up! But many aren't thrilled.
One plus one equals what?
Not too many years ago, it was simple to market Colorado Springs to relocating companies — just give 'em the story line that has, with minor variations, worked since Palmer's day.
Box office mojo
Has the economy taken some fun out of going to the movies? And how many really great (or even good) flicks are out there?
Tebow's other expertise
I'd like to tell a joke that is inappropriate in almost every social situation. Then we will get to Tim Tebow.
CannaBiz: Upcoming MMJ study by CSPD
Also: Indispensary robbed
Flicker of hope at CU
Just when even the University of Colorado's most faithful loyalists were beginning to wonder, the Buffaloes put together a solid game last Saturday.
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Letters
Occupying our minds: OWS and socialism, the 99 percent and, of course, Tim Tebow.
Pull bankers' sticky fingers out of your pockets
It's one thing to be addicted to a drug, but it's worse to be hooked because someone else is addicted.
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Stranger than fiction
All the weird news that's fit to print.
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Advice goddess
Sure he wants to go on a hike — a hike your skirt up over your head.
Food & Drink
Mindful mastery
At Conscious Table, incredible local gourmet makes a downtown home.
Stick and move
Chopsticks Asian Bistro lives in a magical food corner of southern Colorado Springs.
Side dish: Amuzé moves out
Also: Places to find Bristol's pumpkin ale
As American as ...
With the holidays approaching, we drove our Chevy to the levee in search of good apple pie.
Music
Joy revision
San Antonio's Girl in a Coma wakes up to a cultural identity crisis
In from the cold
Mary Gauthier confronts a past shared by many
Hands in the air like they just don't care
Pretty Lights co-producer Michal Menert surveys the current electronic dance landscape
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Reverb
I haven't listened enough to say much more than that it sounds way more art-damaged and lo-fi than his other bands, but I just figured I'd give you something to be jealous about.
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Big gigs
Upcoming concerts here and around the region.
Playing around
Who's playing where, and when, at area venues this week.
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Sound advice
Florence + the Machine, Lou Reed and Metallica, Sons of Fathers
Film
Checkin' them twice
Behold, our forthcoming blasts from various pasts.
Coma chameleon: The Descendants
A triumph for all, especially the audience.
Flocking crazy: Happy Feet Two
It's tough to cut this film too much slack, because it is such a colossal mess.
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Opening This Week
The Descendants, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 and other film events around town.
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Cinefiles
The River Why, Atlas Shrugged: Part One, The Rules of the Game
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Movie picks
Our reviewers' recommendations for films playing around the area.
Visual Arts
Monsters, Inc.
Melia Gutierrez explores imaginary realms in living color.
Calendar
Special Section
Community contest: WeBrand the Springs
Let's give the city other options. Your options.
Bonus CineFiles: Alleged, Frankenhooker and Rio Sex Comedy!
If a movie is titled Rio Sex Comedy, don’t you think it should have some sex and comedy?
Battle Portraits has a website
Laura BenAmots, the artist behind the Battle Portraits: Wounded Lions Wounded Lambs project we profiled in this year's Fall Arts Preview, has built a website for her endeavor: battleportraits.com.
