Tag: jennifer mulson
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Colorado Springs tattoo festival features hundreds of artists from around the world
Americans love their tattoos. They might love them more than anyone else in the world. “Our cultural heroes, from sports to entertainment, all have heavy tattoos,” said Troy Timpel, a Philadelphia tattoo artist and promoter for the Villain Arts Tattoo Arts Festival. “Culturally, it’s a very significant American thing to have tattoos. Europe is kind…
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Pikes Pick: Sunday night scary movies
Instead of the Sunday scaries, which is the dread of going back to work on Monday, try Sunday Night Frights at Manitou Springs Heritage Museum, 517 Manitou Ave. The museum offers free old-school scary movies on Sundays through October, including the 1946 “Bedlam,” starring Boris Karloff. Special features are at 5:45 p.m. and the film’s…
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Colorado Springs musician memorializes WWII veteran grandfather through music
What little Sean Schafer Hennessy knew about his grandfather, a WWII veteran, was gleaned from his old sketchbook and weapons, and his father’s limited memories. He always yearned for more. “I never met him. He was of the silent generation,” said Hennessy, an accomplished Colorado Springs trumpet player and composer. “When he came back from…
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Colorado Springs graduate releases new comedy series ‘Hot Kitchen’
Bobby Rice moved to Los Angeles and found out he was funny. And he now has a Tubi and Apple TV+ comedy series to prove it. The Coronado High School graduate’s new eight-episode parody, “Hot Kitchen,” is a spoof on reality kitchen competition shows like “Top Chef.” In Rice’s version, eight over-the-top characters compete in…
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Colorado Springs company brings Golden Age classic ‘Brigadoon’ to stage
The Golden Age of Broadway in the 1940s brought us musicals like “Camelot,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Guys and Dolls” and “The Music Man.” It also introduced us to “Brigadoon,” Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s pre-“My Fair Lady” dreamy, fantastical confection that debuted on Broadway in 1947, and implanted in our American songbooks and…
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Longest-running women’s film festival in country to screen 40 films in Colorado Springs
Five hundred women who were either pregnant or had just given birth disappeared in Argentina after dictator General Jorge Rafael Videla rose to power in 1976. They were part of 30,000 Argentines who disagreed with the government and were kidnapped and murdered by security forces, known as Los Desaparacidos (“The Disappeared”). “What the regime would…
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Live Well: Colorado Springs woman forms grief group for widows, widowers
Sandra Martinez’s husband went to the hospital for a general routine procedure and never came home. Unbeknownst to the couple, he had an underlying condition that landed him in the ICU for five days before he died in 2015. He was 45. Martinez was 43. It was devastating for Martinez, who met her husband while…
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New downtown Colorado Springs bar pays homage to ’90s
It’s a quiet afternoon at the new downtown bar and music venue Thrashers, where a giant, 12-foot skeleton perches on the roof. No, it’s not because co-owners, husband and wife Connor and Dania O’Neal have a Halloween obsession. It just looks cool and was inspired by one of Connor’s favorite venues, a brewery in Harrisburg,…
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Simulation center helps prepare Colorado Springs nursing students
The simulation is fake. but the tears are real. The grief is palpable in the faux hospital room at the Johnson Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences Simulation Learning Center at University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Two nursing students comfort Jacob Hacker, a local actor playing the role of Eric, and his mother, Sophia,…
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Colorado Springs rescue caters to rat lovers
Torro is living his best life. The former lab rat, a snowy white albino with red eyes, is blossoming in the hands of self-proclaimed rat lover Nicole Ochart. She holds the healthy-looking, active guy, whose pink-colored leg bears a tattoo that once identified him. “I think I need to have him,” she tells Florence Hicks-Moore,…