Author: Mary Murphy
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Nine-day home and garden show with hundreds of vendors coming to Colorado
The Colorado Garden and Home Show is coming to the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, a nine-day event with more than 650 vendors, making it the largest show in the region. Starting Saturday, learn about energy conservation; get indoor and outdoor home improvement techniques; and talk to the region’s best gardening gurus. This year’s show…
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Colorado Springs’ Ent Center to welcome Ailey II Dance Company
Returning to Colorado Springs for the first time since 1998, the Ailey II Dance Company will continue late choreographer Alvin Ailey’s modern dance legacy during a Tuesday performance at the Ent Center for the Arts. “We presented the company in ’94, ’96 and ’98,” said Beth Carlson, president of the Colorado Springs Dance Theatre’s board.…
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Tony Award-winning ‘Kinky Boots’ hits stage at Pikes Peak Center this week
The Pikes Peak Center gets one of its rare Broadway plays this week with the Tony Award-winning “Kinky Boots,” which won Best Score for Cyndi Lauper’s music and lyrics and more Tonys than “Grease,” “West Side Story,” “Mary Poppins” or “Maltilda.” “Kinky Boots” wasn’t an instant success on Broadway, but it went on to win…
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Thousands expected to attend Olympic celebration in downtown Colorado Springs
PYEONGCHANG OLYMPIC DOWNTOWN CELEBRATION DETAILS A citywide celebration of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games opening ceremony, 5-10 p.m. Friday, downtown Colorado Springs, Tejon Street and Pikes Peak Avenue, free; 634-7333, coloradospringssports.org. — Olympic speed skater Eric Heiden will be lighting the Olympic City USA Cauldron for Friday’s Olympic celebration in downtown Colorado Springs. Heiden competed at…
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Pair of immersive Japanese exhibitions set to debut at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
A tiny pine seed and a 10-foot-wide panoramic video seem incongruous, but both are from immersive Japanese exhibitions at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center that create new worlds to explore. The earthquake and tsunami that racked Japan in 2011, killing nearly 16,000 people, inspired a huge video by Chiho Aoshima, “Takaamanohara” (“The Plain of…
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Figure skater Peggy Fleming helps celebrate Broadmoor’s 100th anniversary
Olympic figure-skating gold medalist Peggy Fleming, perhaps the most glamorous skating champion to train at The Broadmoor Ice Palace, this Saturday will kick off a yearlong celebration of the 100th anniversary of The Broadmoor hotel’s opening in 1918. Fleming will return as guest of honor at The Legacy of Ice event celebrating The Broadmoor’s storied…
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Seminar series in Colorado Springs to examine multigenerational workforce
For the second year, the Better Business Bureau of Southern Colorado and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs College of Business are teaming up to host a seminar series to address the human resources and marketing needs of small-business owners and professionals. The four-part, interactive, professional development seminar series, titled “Multi-Generational Professional Series,” begins…
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Colorado Springs notable deaths of 2017 include long time ‘Santa’, legendary hockey coach and Tuskegee Airman
While 2017 may be remembered as a year for losing entertainment legends from Jerry Lewis to Tom Petty, Don Rickles to Mary Tyler Moore, many Colorado Springs residents will remember it as the year they lost several beloved local figures and notable newsmakers.Among those who died this year were a former El Paso County commissioner,…
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Colorado Springs-based Payroll City targets small businesses
Payroll City wants to get bigger by staying small. The payroll software provider targets small- and mid-sized businesses as its niche in a market dominated by ADP and Paychex. The Colorado Springs-based company has redesigned its software – called Sparta 2.0 and launched earlier this month – specifically for small-business professionals. Payroll City has grown…
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Fort Collins buyers invest $57.8 million to purchase Colorado Springs-area apartments
A Fort Collins group has paid $57.8 million for the Vistas at Jackson Creek apartment complex in northern El Paso County, another sign that skyrocketing rents and a strong multifamily-housing market are attracting out-of-town investors in the Pikes Peak region. Vistas at Jackson Creek LLC, managed by Kevin Hearne of Hearne Construction of Fort Collins,…