Author: Jennifer Mulson
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When finding purpose of life grows tiresome | Live Well
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I feel ambivalent about my life’s purpose these days. How does that strike you? How do you feel about yours? Are you thinking “same?” Or are you stunned, curious, critical? Once upon a time, many years and parallel universes ago, I thought I’d landed on…
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Suspect arrested in Colorado Springs vape store burglaries, auto theft
A 19-year-old was arrested on New Year’s Eve in connection with a pattern of vape store burglaries. Ryan Vigil was apprehended after investigators learned information about his whereabouts and did surveillance on his home in the 5000 block of El Camino Drive. After he left the home and walked to a stolen vehicle in a…
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Colorado Springs native to debut world premiere of his Santa musical
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The world can always use a joyful, funny musical, especially when Santa’s involved. A couple of years ago, Broadway star and Icons co-owner Joshua Franklin-Wolfe set out to write a musical specifically for Colorado Springs that could be done annually and would bring together arts…
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Colorado Springs theater company to mount ‘Sense and Sensibility’ for holiday season
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s a timeless question: Is it best to follow our hearts or our heads? Many have tried to answer the unanswerable question, including Jane Austen, whose 1811 novel, “Sense and Sensibility,” explores its nuances. The story follows the three Dashwood sisters and their widowed mother…
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Pikes Pick: Netflix’s ‘Nobody Wants This’ is light, funny, cozy romance
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Kristen Bell and Adam Brody are entertaining the heck out of me in Netflix’s new romantic comedy series, “Nobody Wants This.” She plays a loud, opinionated, agnostic podcast host, while he’s a charming rabbi. With…
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Colorado Springs holiday shows feature music, dance, acrobatics, aerials
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One good way to un-Grinch any holiday naysayers in your life this season is getting them out to a holiday show. The season offers a multitude of festive events wrapped in holiday song, dance and acrobatics. • “Cirque Musica Holiday Wonderland”: If you see the…
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Colorado’s zoos offer holiday lights along with animals this Christmas season
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Make it a holiday to remember by pairing thousands of twinkling lights with dozens of live animals at the three largest zoos along the Front Range. From Pueblo to Denver, the fun begins in November and continues through the first weekend of January. Here is…
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Ford Amphitheater goes Grammy as 2025 concert season begins to take shape
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Next year’s concert season at Ford Amphitheater is already filling in with some Grammy Award winners. Soul and R&B singer-songwriter Leon Bridges will bring his “The Leon Tour” to the new open-air venue on Colorado Springs’ far north side May 22. Tickets start at $56…
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‘I feel an obligation’: Monument painter finds purpose in capturing roadside Americana
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Vacant motels, deserted gas stations and vintage marquee signs dot the highways and byways of America. Proof that entropy is always lurking, waiting to claim what humans have left behind. While most of us speed on by those rusty, leftover, forgotten buildings, antique cars and…
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Puppets, humans star in ‘Little Mermaid’ musical by Colorado Springs theater company
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Something was missing from the pre-Broadway version of “The Little Mermaid,” and Cory Moosman knew exactly what it was. Puppets. Around that time puppets were becoming stars in such shows as the uber-popular, Tony Award-winning musicals “The Lion King” and “Avenue Q.” So after watching…