Author: Jennifer Mulson
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New Colorado Springs play filled with literal, metaphorical ghosts
Your theatrical mission, should you choose to forgo leaving a performance with everything tied up in a cheery bow, is to attend August Strindberg’s 1907 play, “The Ghost Sonata,” with an open mind. The new production, by students in the University of Colorado Colorado Springs Department of Visual and Performing Arts, opens Thursday at Ent…
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Live Well: In pursuit of a well-flavored life
What makes a life sweet? I pondered this recently. And then I considered the five basic flavors as a whole: sweet, sour, salty, bitter and savory (umami). What if we lived our lives with these five flavors in mind? The more you incorporate the five tastes into your diet, the more nutritionally balanced and satisfying…
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Pikes Pick: Get ready to cry, marvel at ‘The Correspondent’ novel
I’ve read the most brilliant book: “The Correspondent” by Virginia Evans. Caveat: Don’t read if you don’t like or want to cry, because you will likely find a few teardrops crinkling the pages or dripping onto your e-reader. In Evans’ 2025 epistolary novel, we meet Sybil Van Antwerp, who emails and writes letters to everyone…
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Colorado Springs Philharmonic announces its 100th season
Ordering up one extra-large birthday cake and candles. The Colorado Springs Philharmonic will celebrate its 100th anniversary this fall when the 2026-27 season kicks off Sept. 26-27. Highlights of the centennial season include renowned violinist Joshua Bell; several live cinema events, including “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. The season…
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Colorado Springs festival celebrates electronic music, electronic musical instruments, performers, composers
Next time you eat a mushroom risotto, just know those fungi were making music before sliding down your gullet. It turns out mushrooms have an electromagnetic field that makes music, and you can hear their songs at the third annual Electrowave: The Rocky Mountain Electronic Music Festival. The mostly free event is Friday through Sunday…
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Colorado Springs festival celebrates electronic music
Next time you eat a mushroom risotto, know those fungi were making music before sliding down your gullet. It turns out mushrooms have an electromagnetic field that makes music, and you can hear their songs at the third annual Electrowave: The Rocky Mountain Electronic Music Festival. The mostly free event is Friday through Sunday at…
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World’s only film festival celebrating mushrooms comes to Colorado Springs
Ben Kinsley is a man who likes to dress up as a mushroom. For the past several years, he and his creative team of Riitta Ikonen and Jessica Langley have attended the Telluride Mushroom Festival, which is famous for its costume parade and costume contest. And each year, they’ve managed to crack the code and…
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Chamber Orchestra of the Springs announces new season in Colorado Springs
Poetry and literature are the inspiration behind the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs’ 43rd season. The 2026-27 season also honors Maestro Thomas Wilson’s 30th anniversary as music director. To celebrate, Wilson will feature musicians from the orchestra as soloists throughout the year, as well as showcase American composers as a tribute to the 250th anniversary…
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New Colorado Springs exhibit features yard art by more than 30 artists
Art exhibits don’t only inhabit fancy galleries. They can also sprout up in the most innocuous of spaces – a front yard. The new exhibit “Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard” at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, 30 W. Dale St., explores the role of yards in shaping contemporary…
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Retrospective of Colorado Springs artists Eric Bransby, Mary Ann Bransby, film installation, First Friday openings this weekend
“Bransby Retrospective”: Eric Bransby, who died in 2020, has 30-plus murals in prominent buildings across the U.S. His wife, Mary Ann Bransby, who died in 2011, was a longtime painter who founded Pikes Peak Watercolor Society. A collection of their works is up through March 13 at Pikes Peak State College Gallery at Studio West.…