Tag: jennifer mulson
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Ice, ice baby: Class teaches how to operate an ice resurfacing machine
Shelley Johnson looks like the panicked face emoji. Eyes as round as a full moon, sclera visible. Eyebrows aiming to introduce themselves to her hairline. A mouth as open as an ill-fated opera singer. All while she navigates the massive blue ice resurfacing machine during her inaugural run on the rink at Big Bear Ice…
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Pianists from all over the world will converge at Colorado Springs festival
The ivories shall be tickled this weekend at Ent Center for the Arts. During the two-day, mostly free UCCS Piano Festival, you can hear a multitude of professional and student pianists, including Aristo Sham, the newest gold medalist in the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Sham, a native of Hong Kong and the son…
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‘American Idol’ winner, country music star Scotty McCreery to perform in Colorado Springs
Country music star Scotty McCreery is fresh off a songwriting retreat with his buddies. It’s his favorite thing to do these days. “The songwriting is paramount in country music,” said the baritone from home in North Carolina. “There’s nothing crazy in country — not a lot of pyrotechnics or production, just real people telling real…
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Robyn Hitchcock, tributes to Springsteen and Pink Floyd plus Van Cliburn winner on tap for Colorado Springs this weekend
ROBYN HITCHCOCK: The English singer-songwriter got his start in the late 1970s fronting the psychedelic band the Soft Boys, which released two albums, including the 1980 album “Underwater Moonlight.” After the band broke up, Hitchcock went on to a solo career, dropping more than 30 alternative rock albums that include popular songs such as “Balloon…
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Live Well: Slaying a lifelong phobia
There I was, curled up like a shrimp on the cold floor of the Masonic Center of Colorado Springs. Not for an afternoon siesta, but because someone had dared siphon my blood for lab work. It wasn’t the first time I’d passed out during a blood draw, and it wouldn’t be the last, like the…
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Colorado Springs theater company mounts dystopian play that asks hard questions
Notes from playwright Lucy Kirkwood set a pleasant scene for her 2017 gentle dystopian play “The Children.” But don’t let the unassuming setting fool you. “A small cottage on the East Coast. A summer’s evening. The sound of the sea through the open door. The room is at a slight tilt. The land beneath it…
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Colorado car enthusiasts unite over love of old Colorado-designed and built 1950s Meteor
Car nuts could be strangers from opposite sides of the globe, but give them a shiny vehicle to ogle, and they bond like rubber and road. It might not even matter what kind of car it is, as long as it has wheels and an engine. And sometimes it doesn’t even need to have that.…
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Pikes Pick: Lying, scheming reality competition ‘Traitors’ is back
My favorite backstabbing, lying and conniving group of reality TV game players is back. A new season of “The Traitors,” hosted by the comedic fashionista Alan Cumming, is now streaming every week on Peacock. Once again, the cast features reality show participants and public figures, including Donna Kelce, Colton Underwood, Michael Rappaport, Lisa Rinna and…
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Colorado Springs fashion show features local designers, models
Astronomer Carl Sagan once told us we are made of star-stuff. That the dust and gases that make up the cosmos are the same that make up our bones and bodies. For the upcoming fashion show, “House of GOCA: Stardust,” designers were tasked with creating individual collections that reflected on the cosmos, and also the…
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Ice, snow carving, skijoring, competitions at winter festivals around Colorado
Time to bundle yourself up like the little brother in “A Christmas Story,” or, depending on Mother Nature, find a straw hat and Hawaiian shirt, and immerse yourself in the wilds of winter. Treasure whatever snow you can find in this, the winter of our perpetual summer. – Thursday through Sunday: Ouray Ice(less) Fest —…