AltWeeklies Wire
Dumpster-Diving Filmmaker Shares Back-Alley Secrets of Grocery Storesnew
Jeremy Seifert and his colleagues are introducing a school-based campaign to encourage zero waste called Eat Trash.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
07-08-2010 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Dumpster Diving, Jeremy Seifert
Apple's New iPad is Poised to Change the World of Publishing — Possiblynew
I can't tell you definitively whether or not the device will, in fact, change the future of publishing, or save newspapers and magazines, or, on the flip side, decimate bookstores and libraries Heck if I know. No one knows. Yet.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
03-25-2010 |
Tech
Writer Captures New Dimensions of Old West Legends Pat Garrett and Billy the Kidnew
Growing up in a small Missouri town in "the heart of Jesse James country," Mark Lee Gardner and his friends would chase each other through the schoolyard pantomiming holdups, manhunts and violent showdowns. "We all wanted to be Jesse James," he muses.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
02-09-2010 |
Nonfiction
Author Carol Ann Wilson on utopia and the man who brought it to Coloradonew
When alternative thinkers and restless souls go looking for utopia, where do they go? According to Wilson, one group of bliss-seekers in the early '70s chose Manitou Springs.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
11-30-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The StoryCorps Project Pursues Material in Colorado Springsnew
Made famous by NPR, the national nonprofit initiative has recorded interviews with more than 26,000 ordinary people in all 50 states.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
09-24-2009 |
History
'Second Skin' Documentary Brings Audiences Inside Gamers' Virtual Worldsnew
A look at the film that gives audiences a tantalizing glimpse inside the games where 50 million players inhabit virtual lives as their computer-generated alter egos.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
08-13-2009 |
Video Games
Dillon Novak's 'Swan Song' Might Be the Start of Something Bignew
Novak can lay claim to a handful of music videos he's directed, as well as short films, commercials and nonprofit promos. And he's only 17.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
08-06-2009 |
Art
Carleen Brice Challenges Readers to Stretch Their 'Must-Read' Listsnew
From her blog, "White Readers Meet Black Authors," to her genre-bending novels, Brice's writing is gaining momentum.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
07-30-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
To Proponents of Natural 'Death Care,' Colorado Springs Feels Like Fertile Groundnew
A Boulder nonprofit aims to educate and empower families to care for their own dead in less conventional ways that are more meaningful to them, more affordable and more environmentally conscious.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
06-09-2009 |
Children & Families
Stephen Singular on Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffsnew
His current book details the rise of Warren Jeffs, the leader of the FLDS, who was convicted on two counts of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
07-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
Filmmaker Eric Shiveley Talks About Music, Fame and Assless Chapsnew
He'll hate the comparison, but Shiveley brings to mind a thinking man's Paris Hilton: He usually travels with a posse of little dogs, and his new film, Everyone But You, is a sort of video docu-diary.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
04-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Eric Shiveley, Everyone But You
Indie Spirit Film Festival Hits Colorado Springsnew
The films range from don't-blink shorts to full-length features. Some avant-garde entries that defy categorization -- like Gods of Light, Idols of Mud, an experimental short with no dialogue, about three people escaping reality.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
04-29-2008 |
Movies
Tags: Colorado Springs, film festivals
Experts Can Predict Your Breast Cancer Risk -- If You Want to Knownew
Approximately 600,000 people in the U.S. are thought to have the gene mutation which often leads to breast cancer -- so far, only 30,000 of these have been tested.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
11-20-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Hedunnitnew
Robert Crais unlocks the mystery behind writing crime novels.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
04-24-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Robert Crais, The Watchman
Why Size Mattersnew
The science of scaling and the dinosaur problem.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
01-23-2007 |
History
Tags: history
