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Water World adds largest development in 40 years
Water World is planning to give you the ride of your summer. Summit Canyon, the Denver-area park’s largest development since 1986, is on track to open in June. “It’s called Summit Canyon to reflect this outdoorsy state park/national park theme,” said Kellie Flowers, Water World’s community relations manager. “It’s celebrating Colorado’s great outdoors.” To make…
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Friendship between sanitation workers at heart of new comedic play in Colorado Springs
The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) is the world’s largest municipal waste services organization, serving more than 8.5 million residents across five boroughs. And in playwright Lindsay Joelle’s “The Garbologists,” we meet two of its sanitation workers: Danny, male, White, blue-collar, native New Yorker, nine-year veteran of DSNY; and Marlowe, female, Black, Ivy…
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Bluegrass, Bob Seger tribute, Texas blues stack stages in Colorado Springs
• Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center’s 10th anniversary concert featuring Walker Wilson: The Nashville recording artist, known for his modern Southern rock and soul country sound, competed on NBC’s “The Voice” in 2023. The concert will help benefit Mt. Carmel’s military and veteran community, 7 p.m. Thursday, Cowboys, 25 N. Tejon St., $10; veteranscenter.org. •…
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Getting tanked: Paintball fights with a mini-tank twist in the Colorado Springs area
It’s WWII all over again on the plains east of Colorado Springs. Only this time, opposing forces are kitted out with mini-tanks and paintballs. Rocky Mountain Tanks is one of only two locations in the U.S., and the only one in Colorado, where people can drive a tiny tank and blast paint through a barrel.…
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Live Well: Memory of death still fresh two decades later
Five tiny tales and reflections float to the surface of my mind when I wander back in time to an experience we will all share at some point. 1. So many of our days go by with nary a memory made. The movie “Groundhog Day” is a cult classic for a reason. And then there…
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‘Celestia:’ Immersive light, sound installation takes over historic Denver church
Episcopal church by day. Light-filled, multi-sensory arts experience by night. For almost three months this summer, Saint John’s Cathedral in Denver will be home to “Celestia,” a seated, immersive installation that uses projection mapping and an original orchestral score to transform the historic 1911 church into a 360-degree, 3D living canvas Thursdays through Sundays. On…
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Film festival will screen 150 Colorado-connected movies to celebrate state anniversary
Robert Redford, Samuel L. Jackson, Jane Fonda, Kevin Bacon, Jim Carrey and Christie Brinkley all have at least one thing in common: They have graced the streets, mountains and plains of Colorado while filming movies. To celebrate the state’s 150th anniversary and the nation’s 250th anniversary, the CO150 Film Festival this year will feature 150…
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Colorado Springs woman finds healing through llamas
A soothing, buzzy, atonal vibration fills a well-kept stable off 30th Street near Glen Eyrie. Nothing is short-circuiting. It’s just the sound of a contented llama. A humming llama is a happy llama, and today that happy gal is 10-year-old Chloe, who shuffles around the pen with her three buddies: Zorro, Pedro and Issey. After…
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New public art decorates downtown Colorado Springs in annual exhibit
A herd of tiny horses will live downtown for the next year. They arrived last month, packed into the bed of Denver artist Michael Brohman’s truck, as he pulled up to the sidewalk in front of Urban Egg, near the corner of Tejon Street and Colorado Avenue. The elegant equines, teeny enough to stuff in…
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Classical music stars shine during annual Colorado College Summer Music Festival
A composer never knows exactly who will wind up playing their music. But sometimes it’s a legend. Sam Wu will experience a composer’s dream this summer at the 42nd annual Colorado College Summer Music Festival when world-renowned conductor and violinist Scott Yoo will perform the Colorado premiere of Wu’s 2022 piece, “Mass Transit,” along with…