Author: STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazettedev.gazette.com
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Colorado Springs church classes address domestic, spiritual life beyond sanctuary
JoLynn Garlow always had maintained good credit and carried little debt, but things changed when her Colorado Springs boutique went under. “The market went to the crash point and business dropped off. A bunch of stuff happened all at one time, I ended up quickly running out of money and it was over,” Garlow said.…
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Pikes Pub: 4 Colorado-winning beers for your Super Bowl party
In beer terms, we already know the winner of Super Bowl 50: us. When the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers take the field for football’s biggest game Feb. 7, we’ll be rooting with the fruits of the home state. Because we’re loyal like that. Whether your beer tastes skew old school or toward more creative…
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For better, worse, sickness and health … but not the playoffs for Monument couple
Benn Farrell and his wife, Heather, are devoted football fans. He’s from New England and loves the Patriots. She’s a Colorado Springs native who loves the Broncos. When the couple wed in the offseason of 2012, team allegiance was included in their vows. He promised to root for the Broncos – and she for the…
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On modern walls, plaster can be a high-end blast from the past
If your home was built before 1950, odds are it’s got something in common with the Great Pyramid of Giza and the palaces of Henry VIII. For millennia, plaster was the go-to wall-covering for both interior and exterior walls in public and domestic constructions. Though components vary regionally, and such additives as horsehair and manure…
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Austin’s Whiskey Shivers brings ‘trashgrass’ stylings to Stargazers
8 p.m. Friday, Stargazers Theatre, 10 S. Parkside Drive; free; stargazers theatre.com or 476-2200 Fed by reeling banjo, fiery fiddle and smokin’ washboard, Whiskey Shivers’ high-octane hootenanny can be hard to contain once things get stompin’. “We’re just going to have a good time and make sure everybody in the room has a good time,”…
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Philharmonic gives symphonic treatment to country classics in ‘Legends’
7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Pikes Peak Center, 190 S. Cascade Ave.; $21 and up; csphilharmonic.org or 575-9632 Ryan Adams did it with Taylor Swift, Dylan with Sinatra, and now the Colorado Springs Philharmonic turns its hand to that other sincerest form of flattery, artistic reinterpretation. “Country Legends” celebrates the genre with symphonic renditions of…
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Anonymous $1 million gift lets zoo rebuild critical critter conservation center
Torrential rains in the spring of 2015 led to a slow-moving landslide that destroyed an exterior wall of the breeding center at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, forcing animal evacuations and dealing a major blow to conservation and reintroduction programs at the mountaintop facility. Thanks to a $1 million gift, the zoo is moving forward with building…
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Teacher nurtures “artist-self” in youths at Colorado Springs studio
She’s Mrs. Conn-Parent at Steele Elementary School, but to her students at Studio 101 she’s always been Miss Rhonda. “I think in traditional studio art teaching, a lot comes from the teacher,” said Conn-Parent, a part-time Colorado Springs School District 11 art teacher who for 16 years has offered after-school classes, summer workshops and other…
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Keeping up with Colorado craft breweries a non-stop job for ‘Drinker’s Guide’ publishers
Keeping tabs on the new breweries in the nation’s No. 3 craft beer state can seem like a Sisyphean task, in an industry that’s growing like a hydra. For every craft destination that opens, it seems, another two announce they’re on the way. “It’s a lot of fun, but it is nonstop. Our challenge is…
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Monument mom honors daughter and lifesaving cause at 2016 Rose Parade
Mark and Gail Gallagher’s 26-year-old daughter, Kate, was on the transplant list awaiting a donor liver when she suffered the cerebral hemorrhage that ended her life in March 2012. Despite the fact that Kate had liver disease and was on the waiting list herself, she saved three lives through the donation of both kidneys and…