Author: Jennifer Mulson
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Colorado Springs professional dance company celebrates 35 years
Maintaining a successful arts organization is no small feat, particularly a professional dance company. But Ormao Dance Company proves it can be done and done well. The nonprofit, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary, is the only professional dance company in the Pikes Peak region to pay its dancers for rehearsals and performances. “It took…
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Colorado Springs First Friday offers dozens of new exhibits, opening receptions
“Shapes of Rhythm,” works by Jennie Harvey, and “Entropy”: Harvey’s abstract paintings feature dreamy imagery inspired by the natural world, while the juried show, “Entropy,” invited artists to find joy in the disintegration of order, opening reception 5-8 p.m. Friday, through April 25, Cottonwood Center for the Arts, 427 E. Colorado Ave., free; cottonwoodcenterforthearts.com. “Next Generation”:…
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Colorado Springs artist covers gallery walls with encaustic works in new show
At first, Colorado Springs artist Shannon Mello wanted to create 50 organically-shaped encaustic pieces made from plywood. When those were finished, she thought, “This will not do,” and increased the number to 100. And then it became 150, and finally 200. All 200 pieces of her 18-month-long project will cover four walls of Auric Gallery…
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Live Well: Go prank-free on April Fool’s Day
One April, oh so long ago, a former co-worker informed me that Denver Broncos wide receiver Ed McCaffrey was in The Gazette lobby, along with some other players, for unknown reasons, but maybe related to our sports department. Knowing full well of my innocent little crush on the tall, lanky guy who seemed to pluck…
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Theatreworks’ new season in Colorado Springs includes Tony Award-winning ‘Sweeney Todd’
A barber who goes to ghastly ends to enact revenge kicks off Theatreworks’ 2026-2027 season. The new five-show season at Ent Center for the Arts begins Sept. 10 with Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” It also includes the popular Noël Coward play, “Private Lives”; “Sweat,” by the Pulitzer Prize-winning…
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Pikes Pick: Colorado Springs film society to screen Hitchcock’s first thriller
Step away from the Netflix and get yourself to a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 “The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog,” presented by the Independent Film Society of Colorado. The 90-minute, silent, black and white film, based on Marie Belloc Lowndes’ bestselling novel “The Lodger,” was Hitchcock’s first thriller and first critical and…
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Pikes Pick: Podcast details actress Allison Mack’s descent into cult
Cults will never not fascinate me, including Keith Raniere’s NXIVM, the global self-help organization that housed a secret sex cult. Raniere’s in jail for life for sex trafficking, racketeering and other crimes, but one of his high-ranking lackeys, “Smallville” actress Allison Mack, who also did time for racketeering and racketeering conspiracy, was released in 2023…
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Colorado Springs children’s book illustrator has done 85 books, including two with Netflix star
Not so far away, in an unassuming suburban home on Colorado Springs’ northwest side, is a secret portal that can instantly whoosh Luke Flowers back to his childhood. It’s the multitude of Kermit the Frogs that first catch your eye upon entering his Creative Cave, what the New York Times bestselling children’s book illustrator likes…
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Bird Call: Bye-bye social media, hello eBird
I’ve recently embarked on Operation: Regrow My Attention Span. My protocol includes eschewing all Meta-owned social media for an undetermined length of time. Fare thee well, book of face and the other one where we once scrolled through pretty photos, but now only see the filtered faces of influencers hawking Amazon junk. Exit social media,…
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International medieval boy band chants classical, pop songs at Colorado Springs show
We’re all familiar with R&B boy bands, teen dream boy bands and K-pop boy bands. But what about a medieval boy band? While taking a meditative stroll through the royal monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial in Spain in 1989, Frank Peterson listened to modern-day music on his Walkman. Inspiration hit as he took…