Tag: jennifer mulson
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‘Nutcrackers’ galore, plus Oscar Wilde on Colorado Springs stages
You have one seasonal requirement: See, eat or taste something, or listen to something with the word nutcracker in it. Lucky for you, this holiday weekend can help you scratch that off your Christmas to-do list. And for those who prefer to be naughty and break the rules, Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”…
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Holidays at Miramont Castle trip back in time
At Miramont Castle, it’s a pickle in a Christmas tree, not a partridge in a pear tree. The 130-year-old castle is all gussied up for the holidays, and that includes the Victorian tradition of hiding a pickle in a tree for the kids. “And whichever child found it would get a special present,” said castle…
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy at Colorado Springs hospital used to treat multiple conditions
After landing in Nashville, Tenn., for a weekend adventure, Vanessa Lopez attributed the slight pain in her right ear to the pressurized environment of an airplane. Her hearing was fine, though, and the pain eventually went away. She gave it no more thought after returning home on a Sunday, thinking everything was normal. It wasn’t.…
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Popular free Colorado Springs holiday concert moves locations
A popular holiday staple will have a new home beginning this year. For the first time in almost seven decades, the Holly & Ivy Holiday Concert by the U.S. Air Force Academy Band will be performed at its home base instead of the Pikes Peak Center. Free performances are Dec. 3-4 and 9 at Arnold…
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Pikes Pick: ‘Unexplained’ podcast features eerie, paranormal, mystery stories
Host and creator Richard MacLean Smith’s “Unexplained” podcast has kept me company on many a hike lately. His tales run the gamut, from alleged time slips, mysterious vanishings, UFOs, the occult, and simply good yarns, like the one about the three men who escaped from Alcatraz in the 1960s, never to be heard from again.…
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New exhibit sheds light on U.S. explorer, historical castle near Colorado Springs
Miramont Castle in Manitou Springs is one of the Pikes Peak region’s great unsolved mysteries. Nobody is really sure how or why its founder, the French Roman Catholic priest Father Jean Baptiste Francolon, came to Manitou, built the building in 1958 for him and his mother, and then left town without explanation only five years…
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Colorado Springs vintage market offers 100 vendors, Christmas-themed gifts, decor
Handcrafted Nutcracker dolls, hand-poured candles, vintage sleds and ice skates. Vintage Market Days can help attendees accomplish a few things: finding holiday gifts and holiday energy, both of which can sometimes be elusive. But wandering around Norris Penrose Event Center, investigating the wares of 100 vendors, while listening to live music, grabbing a nosh from…
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Military-themed opera, ‘Mary Poppins,’ ‘Nutcracker’ adaptations fill Colorado Springs stages
– “The Knock,” by Opera Theatre of the Rockies, Chamber Orchestra of the Springs and Art Song Colorado, 3 p.m. Sunday, Lewis Palmer High School, 1300 Higby Road, Monument, $11.25-$36.25, free for active-duty military, veterans and their families, limited number of free tickets; chamberorchestraofthesprings.org/the-knock Nobody wants to hear the knock. This is the particular knock…
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Longtime Colorado Springs square dance club shakes the rafters on Friday nights
Friday night and the lights are low. Looking out for a place to go. Search no further: The dancing queens (and kings) have been found. The parking lot at the International Dance Club on the Colorado Springs’ west side is lined with cars on a Friday night in November. Inside, a group of young and…
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Pikes Pick: Downtown Skate in the Park open for season
Let this be the year you create your own Hallmark Christmas movie. Skate in the Park is open for business in Acacia Park, 115 E. Platte Ave., through Jan. 31. A two-hour public skating session runs $15 and includes skates. Two dollars off for active duty military and first responders, and free for 4 and…