Author: Jennifer Mulson
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Colorado Springs chorus celebrates six decades with concert
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As a child in the mid-1960s, Donna Tyree remembers her mother and the enclave of women singing a cappella barbershop tunes in her parents’ house. The women would bring their kids, park them in a room off to the side, and then sing their hearts…
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Colorado native, award-winning jeweler returns to Springs for trunk show
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save If the rock hounding goes well on this August day, Adam Neeley will leave the Telluride area with pockets full of rhodonite and green fluorite. And if he’s particularly lucky, some quartz crystals with rhodochrosite also will find their way into the award-winning jeweler’s possession.…
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Early music ensemble opens season with Regency Ball in Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save If you can walk, you can dance Jane Austen-style. Set aside the TikTok dance challenges and the line dancing for an afternoon, and try on English country dancing, the style popular in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Parrish House Baroque, a Colorado Springs quartet…
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Your fate may rest at the bottom of a cup of Earl Grey | Live Well
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Humans have turned to many sources of divination through the centuries. We read tarot cards, the I Ching, runes, the swing of a pendulum, flowers, numbers and coins. And given civilization’s long obsession with tea, it only makes sense we’d also search for our fates…
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Colorado Springs flower festival offers music, cut flowers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Marigolds, cosmos, black-eyed Susans, sunflowers, zinnias, amaranth and dill. The flower beds at Gather Mountain Blooms before the Rocky Mountain Flower Festival are packed with blooms the colors of Crayolas. Post-festival the beds are decimated, stripped of their vibrant frocks, left to mend and heal.…
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Colorado Springs mini-con to feature TikTok star
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’ll either be the more comfortable Jedi outfit or the uncomfortable but striking Iron Man costume. Those are TikTok influencer Gino DePolo’s probable choices for Natso Mini-Con, where the Colorado Springs cosplayer and creator will take his seat as the event’s celebrity. He plans to…
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Pikes Pick: Hennessy 6 to end one Colorado Springs summer concert series
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The outdoor summer concert season is wrapping up. Get yourself to one of my favorite series before the leaves turn and music heads back indoors. Local jazz group Hennessy 6, led by trumpet player Sean…
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Pikes Pick: New memoir, ‘The Tell,’ is one woman’s story of uncovering buried trauma
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Amy Griffin spent much of her life compelled to run and didn’t know why. Turns out she was running away from trauma and long-buried memories. Her New York Times bestselling memoir, “The Tell,” chronicles what…
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New exhibit at Manitou castle features historic photos of American Indians
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Very few people were taking photos of Indigenous people at the turn of the 20th century. For photographer Roland Reed, it was a passion project — he spent the bulk of his life documenting the lives of a dozen Indigenous American tribes. His work lives…
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Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum to host opera singers from around the world
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A location inspired the show. Last summer, when Elizabeth Bond visited the newly renovated historic 1903 El Paso County Courthouse, inside the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, all she could hear were the sounds of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s comedic operetta “Trial by Jury.” This…