Author: Jen Mulson
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New show features oil paintings of seascapes, landscapes from around world by longtime Colorado Springs artist
If you want oil paintings of aspen trees or cityscapes, Sparky Lebold is not your guy. But if you want traditional, richly textured landscapes of the sea, open spaces, rundown buildings, figures and still-lifes of fruit and vegetables, LeBold is the artist of your dreams. One recent painting was inspired by a visit to Quail…
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New Year’s Eve events in Colorado Springs: Fireworks, dancing, comedy and more
Doesn’t it feel like just yesterday we watched the fireworks shoot off from Pikes Peak on the cusp of a fresh new year? Get ready for another round and another year. If getting sparkly and going out is more your thing, there’s plenty of that to go around, too. Closing Out 2025 Sound Bath: Release,…
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New exhibit pairs photos, poetry by Colorado Springs nonprofit to highlight neighbors in need
Something happens when John Goddard trains his lens on a Westside CARES neighbor. Neighbor is how the nonprofit describes those who use its services, typically unhoused people and those experiencing poverty who might need help with food, clothing and other services, including some health care and a place where they can receive mail. “All of…
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Live Well: Try on these one-size-fits-all New Year’s resolutions
We’ve rocked around the Christmas tree, lit the menorah, and drank the eggnog (yuck). We have one more holiday before life reverts to its regular flavor. Some of us are more than ready to leave the year behind, shedding it like a snake periodically discards its scaly costume, or like the adorable hermit crab, who…
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Pikes Pick: Claire Danes stunning in ‘Beast in Me’ on Netflix
Watching Claire Danes chew up the scenery and spit it out is the highlight of Netflix’s new crime thriller “The Beast in Me.” She stars as an accomplished writer whose life is suddenly thrown into disarray by the arrival of a new neighbor, played by Matthew Rhys, who may or may not have murdered his…
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New Year’s Eve shows feature life-sized bubbles, aerials in Colorado Springs
Bubble wrap takes on a whole new meaning when Jim Jackson gets his hands on some soapy water. For two decades, Jackson, a longtime clown known as Art Guffaw, has ensconced kids in bubbles on New Year’s Eve. It’s not a punishment or a way to finally get some peace and quiet; it’s for pure…
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Pikes Pick: Go on an owl prowl at Fountain Creek Nature Center
Kick 2026 off properly – with owls. Fountain Creek Nature Center will offer an Owl Prowl from 6-7:30 p.m. Jan. 2. Stories, folklore, an owl video, and owl pellet dissection are all to prepare you for a short night walk to find the elusive predators. Advance prepaid registration is required, $5-$6, 320 Pepper Grass Lane,…
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Colorado Springs high school students flourish in film program
Budding Nora Ephrons, Steven Spielbergs and Greta Gerwigs tumble out of the Air Academy High School hallways and into the courtyard. As students and teachers toil away in their classrooms, the Film as Literature class sinks into the creative flow of filmmaking. Today’s shoot: “Famous For Nothing,” a 10 to 11-minute romcom hastily written by…
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Irish Tenors inspired growth of similar groups, will perform in Colorado Springs
The Irish Tenors are fresh off a flight to Boston and slap-happy from exhaustion. Gathered in a hotel room, where the trio is grateful for a night off after three shows in a row, the old guard, Anthony Kearns and Ronan Tynan, are teasing the newbie, Patrick Hyland, the newest member of the group. It’s…
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John Denver tribute artist brings holiday show to Colorado Springs
Rick Schuler didn’t choose John Denver. Denver chose him. In a manner of speaking, as the popular country and folk singer-songwriter died in an airplane crash almost three decades ago. Fate came a-knocking the day a 13-year-old Schuler donned his new round glasses. Almost immediately, people began telling him how much he looked like Denver,…