AltWeeklies Wire
It Takes Guts...new
A food critic springs Tripes Les Halles on dinner guests.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Aaron Retka |
09-30-2005 |
Food+Drink
Focus on the Familynew
Dan Savage's life is more traditional than you probably think.
Colorado Springs Independent |
John Dicker |
09-26-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Dan Savage, The Commitment
Family Affairnew
Neil Gaiman lightens up with Anansi Boys.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Kara Luger |
09-26-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: neil gaiman, Anansi Boys
Schoolhouse Crocknew
Apartheid in American schools is no accident, according to Jonathan Kozol.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Kathryn Eastburn |
09-16-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Spell of New Orleansnew
Those of us who have only visited need to remember the spell the city casts, stripping our conventions and inhibitions, letting us become someone else for a brief, blessed moment.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Kathryn Eastburn |
09-08-2005 |
Commentary
Remixing Their Outlooknew
Interpol guitarist Daniel Kessler tells what led the band to do a remix album.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bettina Swigger |
09-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Interpol
The Ghost in the Consolenew
The Kills' Jamie Hince hunts down Sly Stone's Flickinger mixing board.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Kara Luger |
09-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Kills
Eye of the Stormnew
Fanatical Christian groups blame Katrina on New Orleans' "sins."
Colorado Springs Independent |
Cara DeGette |
09-08-2005 |
Commentary
Pastor Ted Haggard Says He Won't Run -- for Nownew
The prominent evangelical leader talks about his political aspirations and shows a reporter his gift to President Bush.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Michael de Yoanna |
08-26-2005 |
Religion
Tags: religion
The Gospel According to the Gazettenew
On Sunday, Dec. 19, the International Bible Society and Colorado Springs’ daily paper, The Gazette, will join together. That’s when all 91,000 Gazette subscribers will retrieve from their driveways or their porches -- or their rooftops -- copies of the New Testament, tucked inside the newspaper’s standard blue plastic wrappers.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Cara DeGette |
12-17-2004 |
Media
The War Comes Homenew
Thanks to body armor and a rapid medical-evacuation process, many service members survive attacks that would have killed them in previous wars. However, they're often left with severe injuries. Rehabilitation could last a lifetime.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Terje Langeland |
12-14-2004 |
War
Militant Opposition: Veteran's Group Latest to Oppose Warnew
After completing a 10-month, prolonged tour of war duty, Sgt. Kelly Dougherty joined a handful of Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans across the nation to launch the anti-war group Iraq Veterans Against the War. "A lot of people became disillusioned with our mission there," she says.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Michael de Yoanna |
11-15-2004 |
War
Endorsements -- Election 2004new
The Colorado Springs Independent endorses John Kerry for president, Ken Salazar for U.S. Senate, and Michael Merrifield for the House. It also takes a stand on state, county and local candidates and issues.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Staff |
10-27-2004 |
Commentary
The Mud, the Blood and the Poopnew
A rodeo insider takes you behind the chutes of America's cowboy sport.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Gavin Ehringer |
10-07-2004 |
Sports
All Aboardnew
John Sayles and his partner Maggie Renzi discuss the political messages in their film Silver City and describe how they pulled together the financing and cast.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Kathryn Eastburn |
09-03-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
