Author: Jen Mulson
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Art, history collide at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
A numinous hush cloaks the Duff Gallery in “Gathering Place,” the new semi-permanent four-gallery exhibit at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. Church almost feels in session as you enter the “Sacred Expressions Across Culture” exhibit, and walk inside the large, newly constructed cedar enclosure in the center of the space. Various santos…
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Filipino film gets a Colorado Springs premiere
The Colorado Springs Filipino community rarely gets to see itself represented in a film screened at a local theater. A screening of “How to Get Away From My Toxic Family” will be the first time a Filipino movie has had a premiere in the Springs, says event organizer Jonah “JChelle” Macaspac. It’s timed to Filipino…
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Faith-based Colorado Springs theater program to stage ‘Annie’ in new venue
The sun’ll come out tomorrow. Bam, bam bam goes the hammer. Bet your bottom dollar. Bzzzz goes the drill. The cast of Christian Youth Theater’s “Annie” is a resilient bunch. As students in the faith-based youth theater program rehearse the Tony Award-winning musical, the stage and venue are being built and renovated around them. “It’s…
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Colorado Springs tattoo festival features hundreds of artists from around the world
Americans love their tattoos. They might love them more than anyone else in the world. “Our cultural heroes, from sports to entertainment, all have heavy tattoos,” said Troy Timpel, a Philadelphia tattoo artist and promoter for the Villain Arts Tattoo Arts Festival. “Culturally, it’s a very significant American thing to have tattoos. Europe is kind…
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Pikes Pick: Sunday night scary movies
Instead of the Sunday scaries, which is the dread of going back to work on Monday, try Sunday Night Frights at Manitou Springs Heritage Museum, 517 Manitou Ave. The museum offers free old-school scary movies on Sundays through October, including the 1946 “Bedlam,” starring Boris Karloff. Special features are at 5:45 p.m. and the film’s…
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Colorado Springs musician memorializes WWII veteran grandfather through music
What little Sean Schafer Hennessy knew about his grandfather, a WWII veteran, was gleaned from his old sketchbook and weapons, and his father’s limited memories. He always yearned for more. “I never met him. He was of the silent generation,” said Hennessy, an accomplished Colorado Springs trumpet player and composer. “When he came back from…
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Colorado Springs graduate releases new comedy series ‘Hot Kitchen’
Bobby Rice moved to Los Angeles and found out he was funny. And he now has a Tubi and Apple TV+ comedy series to prove it. The Coronado High School graduate’s new eight-episode parody, “Hot Kitchen,” is a spoof on reality kitchen competition shows like “Top Chef.” In Rice’s version, eight over-the-top characters compete in…
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Colorado Springs company brings Golden Age classic ‘Brigadoon’ to stage
The Golden Age of Broadway in the 1940s brought us musicals like “Camelot,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Guys and Dolls” and “The Music Man.” It also introduced us to “Brigadoon,” Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s pre-“My Fair Lady” dreamy, fantastical confection that debuted on Broadway in 1947, and implanted in our American songbooks and…
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Review: Loved ‘The Warriors’? You might be into ‘The El’
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By Cory OldweilerThe Minnesota Star Tribune Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.’s “The El” follows several members of a Chicago street gang as they traverse the city via the elevated train system that gives the novel its name. But while the story is loosely inspired by 1979’s “The Warriors,” a cult classic film set in New…
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Review: Loved ‘The Warriors’? You might be into ‘The El’
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By Cory OldweilerThe Minnesota Star Tribune Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.’s “The El” follows several members of a Chicago street gang as they traverse the city via the elevated train system that gives the novel its name. But while the story is loosely inspired by 1979’s “The Warriors,” a cult classic film set in New…