Author: Warren Epstein
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Boys team up to raise the roof in song
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Thousands of adoring, screaming Japanese girls can do wonders for your self-esteem.Boys in The Summit Ensemble discovered that in August when they sang in Colorado Springs’ sister city, Fujiyoshida.“One of the boys said afterward, ‘Now…
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No time goes by for ‘Casablanca’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Ilsa walked into Rick’s, and Americans’ ideals about romance haven’t been the same since. Even as time goes by (71 years, to…
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Studio Bee is a showcase for local, original bands
Wind up the musical Jack in the box known as the Showcase at Studio Bee and you never know what will pop out. Could be head-banging reggae punk. Could be bluesy rock. Or could be alt-country Americana. As a matter of fact, during Thursday night’s showcase, you’ll encounter all three. That diversity and flair for…
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CC Arts Week addresses the serious with seriously funny
America seems more politically divided than ever. Fear and loathing have become popular pastimes. Our airports continue to go through alerts in scary colors.And Colorado College thinks these are laughing matters?You betcha, because the organizers of CC’s Cornerstone Arts Week believe that humor may take us places that dry lectures can’t. The theme of this…
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‘Happiness’ is found in unlikely places in the MAT’s new one-woman show
She didn’t want to tell this story. Heather Harpham’s one-woman play “Happiness,” which opens Thursday and runs through Jan. 27 at the Millibo Art Theatre, dances, muses and slices into the most painful time of her family’s life. Her daughter had been born with the inability to create red blood cells. When the girl was…
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‘Happiness’ is found in unlikely places in one-woman show
She didn’t want to tell this story. Heather Harpham’s one-woman play “Happiness,” which opens Thursday and runs through Jan. 27 at the Millibo Art Theatre, dances, muses and slices into the most painful time of her family’s life. Her daughter had been born with the inability to create red blood cells. When the girl was…
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‘Happiness’ is found in unlikely places in the MAT’s new one-woman show
She didn’t want to tell this story. Heather Harpham’s one-woman play “Happiness,” which opens Thursday and runs through Jan. 27 at the Millibo Art Theatre, dances, muses and slices into the most painful time of her family’s life. Her daughter had been born with the inability to create red blood cells. When the girl was…
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Train ride is perfect way to welcome a new year
I hate New Year’s. It’s that whole heightened expectation thing. I blame Dick Clark. And “When Harry Met Sally.” It’s supposed to be this magical thing. But even if you’re as lucky as I am and get to kiss somebody you love every New Year’s Eve, it always feels like a manufactured moment. Because it…
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Generous, family-man Chaney was drawn to entertaining early on
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Leonidas F. Chaney was born in 1883 on April Fool’s Day to parents who were profoundly deaf. He not only became fluent in sign language, he also became a master at pantomime. It was a…
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Hollywood’s frightening face/ Silent-film legend Lon Chaney called Colorado Springs home
Colorado Springs knew “The Man of a Thousand Faces” without his makeup. Lon Chaney would be the hideous phantom in the silent screen’s “Phantom of the Opera” and the wild, fat-cheeked Quasimodo in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” But growing up in Colorado Springs, he was just that uppitty Chaney kid, the one with the…