Author: STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazettedev.gazette.com
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Weed or wildflower? It’s enough to confuse, and inspire, a lazy Colorado Springs gardener
O thou weed, Who art so lovely fair and smell’st so sweet That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne’er been born! – William Shakespeare There’s an urban legend that goes something like this: An American couple returning from an exotic vacation manages to smuggle home an adorable puppy retrieved from the jungle.…
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FYI 2016: Cripple Creek (including Victor and Florissant)
After drawing an estimated 100,000 fortune seekers to the area in the years before the Colorado Territory was created in 1861, the region’s famous gold rush was deep into its wane as the turn of the 20th century approached. A hoax that led to a minor boom at Cottonwood Creek on the west side of…
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FYI 2016: Manitou Springs
The city of Manitou Springs was founded in 1872 by Gen. William Jackson Palmer and Dr. William Abraham Bell, a Cambridge-educated English physician who partnered with Palmer to explore and reap the wealth of new corporate and tourism ventures made possible by the expanding Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. Snugged at the base of Pikes…
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FYI 2016: Powers Corridor (including Stetson Hills, Springs Ranch, Cimarron Hills, Claremont Ranch)
As recently as a few decades ago, much of this commercial thoroughfare and main north-south highway on Colorado Springs’ east side was an empty horizon that harkened to quieter times. Named for the family of former State Sen. Ray Powers, whose parents, Cora and Guy Powers, once ran a massive dairy operation on 720 acres…
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Axe and the Oak Distillery opens tasting room at Ivywild School in Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs whiskey distiller Axe and the Oak will unveil its Ivywild School tasting room at a grand opening Saturday inside remodeled space at the mixed-use development, a former elementary school south of downtown. Located on the ground floor and opening onto a south-facing patio, the Whiskey House features a limited food menu and full…
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Colorado Springs tasting room returns to the days of the speak-easy
Imagine a world of Cocktail TV, with entire networks devoted to shows about aperitifs and fancy liquor drinks, where celebrity mixologists umbrella in to whip shoddy spirits-slingers into shape and then rush off to open for the Rolling Stones. If not for the Volstead Act. “Before Prohibition, being a barman was a career. It was…
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Cerberus Brewing Co. set to open on Colorado Springs’ west side
Craft beer fans didn’t need a mystical oracle to predict the Colorado Springs brewery count was about to rise in late spring 2015, when the sign for Cerberus Brewing Co. went up outside a former veterinary hospital on Colorado Avenue. What they would need is a little Persephone-style patience. “It was very hard for three…
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In ‘Maestro Satriano,’ Monument author weaves untold story of famous ancestor
What LeAnna DeAngelo learned as a child about her family’s musical roots represented only a few notes of a mostly forgotten melody. She knew her great-great-uncle, Pietro Satriano, had been a famous turn-of-the-century Denver bandleader who, in 1906, led the opening day performance at what would come to be known as Red Rocks Amphitheatre. On…
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Cripple Creek’s Thin Air Theatre Company celebrates 10th anniversary with ‘The Foreigner’
7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 1 p.m. Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, through 24, The Butte Theater, 139 Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek. Tickets: $12/$15/$18, buttetheater.com or 689-3247 —- Theater has a long and dramatic history dating back to the turn of the 20th century in Teller County, where stage and orchestra performances once drew crowds to…
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Colorado Springs resident tapped for national Parkinson’s disease advisory council
A Colorado Springs health worker, caregiver and advocate for those living with Parkinson’s disease has been selected to serve on a national advisory council of the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation. Leslie Peters is a veteran health care coordinator who studied early childhood education at Penn State University and works with South Denver Cardiology. She serves as…