Author: STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazettedev.gazette.com
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New craft brewery in the works for northeast Colorado Springs
Kristin and Jeff Lockhart spent untold hours cruising Colorado Springs in search of the perfect location for their startup craft brewery, in arguably imperfect craft brewing times. The spot they ultimately settled on for Armillary Brewing Co., in the end cap of a three-unit shopping plaza off Austin Bluffs Parkway, felt like it was located…
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VA cemetery director and avid outdoorsman leaves legacy of impact, compassion in Colorado Springs
Skyler Holmes never served in the military, but he devoted much of his life to honoring and memorializing those who had. The longtime director of Pikes Peak National Cemetery in Colorado Springs — husband, father of three, and avid outdoorsman — died suddenly July 19, at age 43. Holmes is thought to have suffered a fatal heart…
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Colorado Springs Christian bookstore sues state over ‘gender expression’ protections
A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday on behalf of a Christian bookstore in Colorado Springs is pushing back against recent legislation that expanded protections for LGBTQ+ people in the state. Signed into law in May by Gov. Jared Polis, the Kelly Loving Act made the intentional, public misgendering or “deadnaming” of a transgender person a violation…
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Sublime meets quirky in Colorado Springs, for one-day Ivywild garden art tour
Art and nature have long been partners in sublime. Painter Claude Monet, who spent half his life transforming Giverny into the inspiration for great works such as “Water Lilies,” famously said the gardens outside Paris were his “most beautiful masterpiece.” Colorado Springs is lush with seriously beautiful art and seriously beautiful gardens, as well as…
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Sublime meets quirky in Colorado Springs, for one-day Ivywild garden art tour
Art and nature have long been partners in sublime. Painter Claude Monet, who spent half his life transforming Giverny into the inspiration for great works such as “Water Lilies,” famously said the gardens outside Paris were his “most beautiful masterpiece.” Colorado Springs is lush with seriously beautiful art and seriously beautiful gardens, as well as…
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‘Nothing fazes me’: Wackadoo Brewing celebrates 1,000 consecutive days of being open
“Full-time job,” for most small brewpub owners, leaves your 40-hour workweek in the dust. The owners of Cerberus and Cogstone Brewing companies both cited the forever vigilance required to maintain a successful business, with only two people running the show, as one reason behind the decisions to put their respective, almost decade-old Colorado Springs operations…
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A room with a view
I’d been on the road for three days, sardined in a Honda Civic with two cats and half the bare essentials of a fresh start. The eternity of seamless skyline had been broken only by occasional billboards and fence-pinned plastic bags, flapping like birds in a harsh wind. I was starved for a change of…
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Tariffs turmoil: Uncertainty, higher prices, the new norm across Colorado outdoor industries
After more than a decade as a successful entrepreneur, Steve Kaczmarek had a sense for the kinetics of commerce — that invisible web of diplomacy, dollars and demand behind just about every transaction on the planet. Call it gut GPS. He listened, in 2013, when his instincts told him to take his garage-born hobby — Borealis…
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Two well-known craft brewpubs up for sale in Colorado Springs
On the heels of Metric Brewing Co.’s closure June 13, and Brass Brewing’s sale to Gunslinger Brewing (with final hurrah on Monday), more sad news about good local beer floated to the top of the pint glass. Brace yourself for more possible goodbyes in the Colorado Springs craft beer scene: Two of the city’s well-established…
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A ‘victory garden’ for Dad: Former judge and attorney plants a legacy for the community
With his 90th birthday almost at hand and a pandemic at his back, Bill Carew easily could have taken the windfall, sold his vacant lots a block from the new Weidner Field to developers, and called it a win. But that’s not how the longtime Colorado Springs attorney was raised. That’s not how he and…