Saturday, May 25, 2013
News
Blood and circus
Legislation has been proposed at the federal level to implement and standardize scientific best practices. It's gone nowhere.
The vapor trail
The state's blood test procedure.
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Long Story Short
Wade into the intricacies and subtleties of both the law and the science, and you begin to see how complicated blood alcohol testing is.
Nipped in the bud
City sustainability office becomes a budget target, despite cash savings and cachet.
Pump the brakes
Transit's growth in 2013 may be an anomaly.
Shedding the stigma
Fire can't suppress property sales in burn area.
Noted: Costs of the Carrier case
Also: CSPD refuses to return Bob Crouse's marijuana, Ron Butlin leaves the Downtown Partnership, and more.
Acts of courage
Springs Ensemble Theatre goes out on a limb to present challenging theater.
Columns
Sequestration: What now?
Depending on the election's aftershocks, sequestration could mean immediate federal budget cuts starting Jan. 2.
Election season's just beginning
We have less than five months until the municipal election on April 2, 2013.
Life without office hours
Even though I am an employee of sorts, I don't go into the actual newspaper office as often as I should (once, in 2010).
CannaBiz: A business-focused conference
Also: 64 wording questioned
False start for the Nuggets
George Karl needs to put the jigsaw pieces in place as fast as possible.
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Letters
Race and Obama, thoughts on climate change and Sandy, Planned Parenthood, and more.
One more for the road
With holiday parties and events coming up, "Don't drink and drive" ads will be dancing through our heads.
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Stranger than fiction
All the weird news that's fit to print.
No tears for Lloyd Blankfein
The happy news is that the annual pay of Wall Street bankers this year is back up to near-record levels.
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Advice goddess
"Why shouldn't I be able to throw all self-discipline out the window and have the man I want drop down my chimney like Santa?"
Food & Drink
Ape over arepas
More than a little Colombian flair adds to Café Corto's charm.
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Dine & Dash
Cupcake Girls, Bambino's Italian Eatery, Salsa Latina
Side Dish: Chill space with hot joe
Also: Parked Pierogi starts with breakfast and Triple Nickel adds a bar.
Music
Cool, calm and collected
The Be Good Tanyas reconnect with a fondly remembered past
No sleep till Nashville
Daniel Ellsworth & the Great Lakes take an uphill swim
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Reverb
Rawkus aims to book the kind of international electronic acts who play Beta up in Denver.
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Sound Advice
Neil Young, Amy Gore & Her Valentines, Wreck & Ruin
Playing Around
Who's playing where, and when, at area venues this week.
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Big Gigs
Upcoming concerts here and around the region
Film
License renewed: Skyfall
A secret agent with a soul can be just as exciting as an exploding pen.
Enter the RZA: The Man With the Iron Fists
The Wu-Tang mastermind discusses his directorial debut.
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Cinefiles
Your Sister's Sister, The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams: Season One
Visual Arts
Pretty in ink
Two monotype artists bring a touch of permanence to a new art gallery inside an old Ivywild tanning salon.
Calendar
Special Section
UPDATE (No. 2): Academy dean of faculty to retire
Air Force Academy Dean of Faculty Brig. Gen. Dana Born will leave the academy.
Procussions line up funding for new album
The band that was once Colorado Springs' most widely-known hip-hop ambassadors — snagging a Sony record deal and a national tour with A Tribe Called Quest — announced yesterday that it's finally recording a new album.
VA clinic construction begins at Centennial and Fillmore
Construction begins on a new VA clinic in Colorado Springs.
UPDATE: Sierra Club cites study in bid to close Drake
Sierra Club makes an other bid to close Drake, citing a study.
