Tag: jennifer mulson
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Colorado Springs high school students flourish in film program
Budding Nora Ephrons, Steven Spielbergs and Greta Gerwigs tumble out of the Air Academy High School hallways and into the courtyard. As students and teachers toil away in their classrooms, the Film as Literature class sinks into the creative flow of filmmaking. Today’s shoot: “Famous For Nothing,” a 10 to 11-minute romcom hastily written by…
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John Denver tribute artist brings holiday show to Colorado Springs
Rick Schuler didn’t choose John Denver. Denver chose him. In a manner of speaking, as the popular country and folk singer-songwriter died in an airplane crash almost three decades ago. Fate came a-knocking the day a 13-year-old Schuler donned his new round glasses. Almost immediately, people began telling him how much he looked like Denver,…
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Colorado Springs man becomes first to do 4,000 F45 classes
Vince Provencio is a one-man cheerleading squad. The sun is just starting to warm the pavement outside F45 Training at University Village in Colorado Springs, where the global workout chain offers 45-minute functional exercise classes. Inside the large, mirrored room, more than two dozen exercisers are doing knee circles and hamstring stretches, as they prep…
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New branch of Colorado Springs Philharmonic seeks to develop new audiences through community, school programs
All eyes are locked onto the dark-haired French woman seated at the podium in the Coronado High School auditorium. It’s not every day high school students get trained under the baton of an award-winning, world-class conductor, who happens to be Chloe Dufresne, the newest music director of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic. “I started playing viola…
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Holiday event to highlight Down syndrome, special needs community in Colorado Springs
Almost 150 performers in the Pikes Peak region have been in the holiday spirit since September. Included among them are 60 people with Down syndrome, who will sing, dance and perform during “Christmas This Year: Holiday Spectacular,” an annual family-friendly variety show by Friends of Club 21, a non-profit that celebrates the Down syndrome community.…
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New Christkindlmarket to open in Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs will soon add a bit more German culture to its repertoire. The inaugural Old Colorado City Christkindlmarket, created by the Colorado chapter of the German American Chamber of Commerce (GACC), will open Thursday and run over two weekends through Dec. 23 in Bancroft Park. “There’s so much German heritage and a lot of…
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Colorado Springs students to stage ‘Anastasia’ this weekend
Broadway has a knack for bringing even the most sensationalized tales to life via song and dance. “Anastasia” is one such musical. Based on the 1997 animated film of the same name, the 2017 Broadway show adapts the legend of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, who was rumored to have escaped the execution…
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Live Well: The art of getting lost
It never fails. Put me behind the wheel and I will get lost. I get lost going home from work. OK, that’s an embellishment. However, I did get lost recently driving back from Denver, a drive I’ve made countless times. One moment I’m heading back to Colorado Springs, and the next I’m headed toward Limon.…
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Popular Colorado Springs chuckwagon, Western stage show returns for annual Christmas event
Smoked Angus strip steak? Check. Five-piece cowboy band and 13-piece orchestra? Check. Holiday songs and clean, comic banter? Check. Flying W Ranch, known for its chuckwagon suppers and Western stage show, decided to scale up its Christmas Chuckwagon Supper Show – A Cowboy Christmas Jubilee a few years ago by adding the Marian L. Wolfe…
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Pikes Pick: Tony Award-winning musical comes to big screen
I often lament never having seen a Broadway musical on Broadway. But one of the next best things is seeing the filmed version of such a production. Much like the 2021 film version of “Hamilton,” we can now watch last year’s Tony Award-winning “Merrily We Roll Along” on the big screen. The musical chronicles how…