Wednesday, May 22, 2013
News
Liquid gold
How might Mayor Bach pay for expensive stormwater improvements? Here's one prediction.
Earning power
Big businesses — and the people who love them — have a lot to lose if Drake disappears.
Eastern standard
In unincorporated El Paso County, sheriff's deputies often walk (or drive) alone.
Noted: 60 Minutes probes the city
Also: Sierra Club may sue over Drake, Occupy is back, and more.
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Long Story Short
It took Jason Lewis 13 years to complete the first completely human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
Lewis and the arc
"Circumnavigating the globe using only human power wasn't just a bullshit 'first.' It quickly became apparent that it was a personal thing. I owed it to myself ... to my family, and to me."
Columns
Let's look at ourselves
Why do we imagine that we can create a laundered, bum-free, mock-suburban downtown?
Embree: Go now or later?
The bubble has fully deflated, and CU has collapsed into a near-cataclysmic mess.
America's health worker mismatch
Despite a labor shortage, our crowded medical professional schools are turning away hundreds of thousands of qualified applicants.
CannaBiz: DA's office tries again
Also: Green House shifts location and thrives, and Amendment 64 gets good news.
The adventure is the unknown
Does true adventure require spontaneity? And would you rather go someplace you've never been or repeat a perfect day from the past?
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Letters
Sheriff Makita's tax initiative, the Neumann Systems deal, taxing the church, and more.
Robots in the workforce
So, what are millions of displaced human workers to do?
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Stranger Than Fiction
All the weird news that’s fit to print.
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Advice Goddess
When two become as three, it isn't so much a relationship as it is the beginnings of a parade.
Food & Drink
Life is beautiful
La Bella Vita may already serve the city's best Italian.
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Dine & Dash
Thai Satay, Fargo's Pizza Co., Xpresso Yourself Coffee Shop
Side Dish: Greenhorn Brewing opening soon
Also: Ramon Q's Cantina brings playful Tex Mex-American, and OCC wine bar tours start Oct. 4
Music
Free bird
Gypsyhawk finds the missing link between Skynyrd and Metallica
Felt up
Nils Frahm brings improvised classicism to Colorado
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Reverb
Born Champions is one of the most pitch-perfect combinations of hip-hop and R&B since the Fugees.
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Sound Advice
Field Report, Imagine Dragons, Bob Dylan
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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.
Train kept a rollin'
The platinum pop band extends its Bay Area brand
Film
I will follow: The Master
It's profoundly compassionate toward the animal always at war with our fragile grasping at a better, more connected humanity.
This American love: Sleepwalk With Me
It's primarily about a struggling comic fumbling his way toward success while trying to maintain an increasingly unstable romance.
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Local Film Events
Things I Don't Understand, and more.
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Cinefiles
Citizen Gangster, Piranha 3DD, Penumbra
Stage
Rushing to beat the polls
Local author and activist Bill Durland puts political and historic twists on A Christmas Carol in a new play.
Heart of Glass
TheatreWorks presents Williams' classic Menagerie.
Calendar
Special Section
Drinking scotch with a Scottish master distiller
Unsurprisingly, not all scotches are alike. But surprisingly, price doesn't necessarily equal the best. Here's a look at 12 scotches via a tasting with master Scottish blender Ian MacMillan, of Burn Stewart Distillers, who make Deanston, Bunnahabhain and Tobermory brands.
Colorado College and AFA profs study DADT's fallout
Two local professors research the impact of Don't Ask Don't Tell and its subsequent repeal.
Neumann Systems — and its jobs — may be leaving Colorado Springs
Neumann Systems Group says it will leave, and take its 60 jobs with it, if the city cancels the emissions control contract.
UPDATE: Academy cadets charged with sex crimes
Two Air Force Academy cadets are charged with sex crimes.
UPDATE: Schuck's private meeting is under way
Developer Steve Schuck makes good on his promise to have a private meeting with the community's elite to talk about how to value the city-owned electric utility.
