Tag: jennifer mulson
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Bird Call: Colorado bird, nature group to host award-winning, humorous bird cartoonist
A is for adorbler. One can detect the presence of an adorbler by noticing when fellow birdwatchers coo, “Oh, hello, little buddy,” and “Well, look at you,” or emit soft squeals of delight. A is also for American robin, defined as a device that converts worms into100-decibel songs outside your bedroom at 4 a.m. Those are…
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Renowned violinist Ariel Horowitz to perform in Colorado Springs
Violinist and composer Ariel Horowitz only has family lore to help her tell the beginning story of her lifelong love affair with music. She was barely out of the womb, about 2 or 3, when her mother’s friend brought over a VHS tape of Baby Mozart, a series of videos for kids, said to be…
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Classic ‘Doll’s House’ returns to Colorado Springs stage for first time in 25 years
There is never a time when Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 play “A Doll’s House” isn’t relevant, with its illuminating exploration of gender roles and societal expectations of women. And it’s a show that’s not been done in Colorado Springs for at least a quarter of a decade. “This one begs to reopen the conversation, with a…
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Colorado Springs gym owner runs 500 miles, trains others in non-mainstream fare
Weight racks, punching bags, kettle balls, weight plates. All the typical gym accoutrements line the walls at The Den Somatics. But the health-hungry men and women in this morning’s primal movement class don’t lay one hand on any of it in the gym near Manitou Springs. Instead, they’re crawling, shuffling and slinking across the mats…
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The storied career of one Colorado Springs pianist, teacher
Jo Ellen Hubert’s home is alive with the sound of music. Near the front door of her quiet suburban house, morning glories climb a treble clef made out of wrought iron. Just inside the front door, music paraphernalia rests on each stair leading up to the second floor, where stacks and stacks of binders stuffed…
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Science fiction, Shakespeare take over Colorado Springs stages
• “R.U.R.,” by Springs Ensemble Theatre, opens 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and Nov. 17, 2 p.m. Nov. 16 and 23, through Nov. 23, 2409 W. Colorado Ave., inside The Fifty-Niner, $10-$25; 719-440-2966, springsensembletheatre.org In some ways, we’ve all become robotic. We get up, go to work, come home and repeat, ad infinitum. Czech…
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Colorado Springs graduate returns for exhibit exploring our fear of unknown
Fear of the unknown is a great human truth. Artist Nina Elder wonders what would happen if we didn’t panic and turn away from the mystery. In her new exhibit, she’ll explore the idea of absence and how we can be with that absence through works that are predominantly black and made of trash. “I…
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Pikes Pick: How one Broadway star made it to top
My new Broadway crush is Tony Award-winning Sutton Foster, who’s living the life I once dreamed of. She’s starred in so many big musicals, including the recent “The Music Man,” won two Tonys, starred in the TV show “Younger,” and is dripping with talent. So I’m excited to read her 2021 memoir, “Hooked: How Crafting…
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Live Well: It’s dark, cold, but no moping allowed
I suspect most of us agreed to fall backward this past weekend. Some happily, some begrudgingly. I fall into the latter category, even though who doesn’t love a faux extra hour in their day? But here we are, and there’s little point in holding a grumpy grudge about it. We must accept the cold months…
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New graphic novel set near Colorado Springs inspired by flying reindeer, NORAD
Every Christmas Eve, when Bobby Podesta was a kid, his mom would turn on the radio so they could listen to NORAD’s Santa tracker, keeping tabs on the jolly elf as he circumnavigated the globe, growing ever closer to shimmying down their chimney. Podesta, who lives in Oakland, Calif., knew about the Santa tracker thanks…