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Soul-Searching Songwriter Stays True to Her Artnew
Carrie Newcomer is the kind of songwriter's songwriter whose work is as deeply emotional as it is beautifully crafted.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
02-17-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
George Porter on the Meters, Galactic and the Voice of the Wetlandsnew
James Brown may have invented funk, but the Meters perfected it. The group laid down a mix of buoyant melodies and sophisticated syncopation that has yet to be surpassed.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
02-17-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Workload Is Getting Worse for Colorado Springs Copsnew
After years of slow growth, Colorado Springs' police department is staring down a budget cut. The chief says police, already struggling to keep up, are cutting corners, skipping investigation of lesser crimes, and using volunteers to do real police work.
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
02-17-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Fort Carson's Top Commander Talks About Mental-Health Care, Classrooms and Morenew
Maj. Gen. Mark Graham has led a Colorado Army installation through some difficult times since 2007.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Anthony Lane |
02-17-2009 |
War
Shit Jobs: We Look Back at the Work That Made Us What We Are Todaynew
Even if political regime change does bring about real-world change, the shit job will still be with us in all its glory. In this spirit, we present our editors and writers' nearly repressed memories of their absolutely worst jobs.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Staff |
02-17-2009 |
Culture
Tags: journalism, work
The Old Catholic Church Ordains Four, Including Three Openly Gay Mennew
“We walked away from the papacy in 1870,” explains Michael Seneco, the Archbishop of the North American Old Catholic Church. He and his colleagues believe it isn’t accepting papal infallibility that makes someone Catholic or not.
New Haven Advocate |
Vivian Nereim |
02-17-2009 |
Religion
A Conversation of Surprises at New Haven Gallerynew
Artists reinvent time. There is, of course, the new before and after of the work itself. The world is altered by each new making. But the best art can also render time as if it were powerless.
New Haven Advocate |
Stephen Vincent Kobasa |
02-17-2009 |
Art
Connecticut Gov.'s State Budget Is a Real Tear-Jerker, Especially for the Sick and Poornew
There is a fatal flaw in Gov. Jodi Rell's state budget proposal: She promises cuts that'll make you cry but didn't budget any extra for tissues.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
02-17-2009 |
Economy
Men in Prison, and the Women Who Love to Date Themnew
Women find true love writing letters to prisoners, dating and sometimes marrying them, too.
New Haven Advocate |
Brianna Snyder |
02-17-2009 |
Culture
Tags: prisoners, relationships
A Journalist Travels Into the Kinky and the Perversenew
In his new book, Daniel Bergner delves into five lives that few would be able to call less than extreme erotically, and in the most extreme of these, criminally disturbing.
Metro Times |
W. Kim Heron |
02-17-2009 |
Nonfiction
Ferndale School Fight Spills Over Into Local Businessesnew
A civil rights group protesting what it calls "Jim Crow-style segregation" has taken its campaign to local merchants during the last several weeks. But when merchants didn't want to post literature, the group started picketing and advocating boycotts against them.
Metro Times |
Metro Times Staff |
02-17-2009 |
Education
'Nine Lives' is a Tapestry of Improbable Stories About New Orleansnew
Journalist Dan Baum uses the experiences of a diverse cast of New Orleanians to tell his Hurricane Katrina story.
Gambit |
Kevin Allman |
02-17-2009 |
Nonfiction
Can 'Trouble the Water' Wrangle an Oscar from 'Man on Wire'?new
Regardless of who takes the gold on Sunday, Carl Deal feels his film's influence on the discussion about Katrina -- specifically, its first-person commentary on how governments prioritize and interact with the people they are supposed to serve -- is victory enough.
The Return of the Mardi Gras Baby Dollsnew
Separated by a generation -- and 2,000 miles -- friends Antoinette K-Doe and Miriam Batiste Reed have joined teamed up to bring the Baby Doll tradition back to New Orleans Mardi Gras.
Gambit |
Noah Bonaparte Pais |
02-17-2009 |
Recreation
Bobby Jindal's Ethics Reform: The Governor's New Clothesnew
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal ran for office on ethics reform, but three months ago he began concentrating on other priorities -- like not running for president.
Gambit |
Jeremy Alford |
02-17-2009 |
Commentary
