Tag: jennifer mulson
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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,…
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Colorado Springs artist’s new exhibit is immersive journey of self-exploration
A little over a week before opening, Colorado Springs artist Kai Gaynor and members of her team are prepping the Meanwhile Block for her ambitious, immersive exhibit, “Transcendent Femme.” Upon entering the downtown warehouse near Weidner Field, visitors will pass through a front desk and gift shop area, off which is the Childhood Blues room,…
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Chicago jazz dance company brings its original technique to Colorado Springs
A whole lot of soul is the goal every time Giordano Dance Chicago commands the stage. The award-winning, Chicago-based jazz dance company even has its own technique: the Giordano Technique, which is credited with promoting jazz dance technique around the world. It was developed by Gus Giordano after founding the company in 1963. The company…
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Pikes Pick: Cumbres & Toltec offering Dark Sky Train into San Luis Valley
Dark skies, stars and a train ride. It’s giving perfect autumn vibes. Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad is offering a Dark Sky Train on Saturday and Oct. 3. Passengers will travel along the Colorado and New Mexico border and into the San Luis Valley, where they’ll stop at Big Horn Wye, a location unreachable by…
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Colorado Springs play reimagines Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson as women in season opener
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s spring of 2021 in London, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth and sidekick are about to meet. But this time they’re women. In playwright Kate Hamill’s “Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson, Apt. 2B,” Dr. Joan Watson, a recent divorcee, absconds to London after…
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Robert Redford remembered for film shot in Colorado Springs, time in Boulder
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Robert Redford has departed the earthly plane, but he leaves a lasting mark on the Pikes Peak region. In 2016 Robert Redford and his longtime friend and acting partner Jane Fonda alighted in Colorado Springs to film the 2017 Netflix film, “Our Souls at Night,”…
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Colorado Springs company helps people organize messes of all kinds
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Lauren Klayton once found two toes in the same week while at work. Yes, human toes. And no, she doesn’t work crime scenes. The appendages, which she calls “sentimental toes,” are part of the gig when you’re a professional organizer. You never know what you…
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One of the first homes in Ute Pass for sale for $1.5 million
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One home can tell a hundred stories. How many pairs of boots have tromped the floors of The Wellington House, built in 1888? Impossible to say, thanks to the countless miners, diners, farmers and gamblers who have all passed through the historic home’s doors. On…
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Colorado Springs theater company announces new leader
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The new leadership model at Theatreworks is complete. After a national search the professional regional theater company announced Matt Giles will fill the role of general director, a new position the organization announced in April,…
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New video installation in Colorado Springs chronicles Puerto Rican snow stunt
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save There are no snow days in Puerto Rico. But for a few years in the 1950s, around Christmas, snow did make its way to the tropical island. Children rode sleds and had snowball fights for the first time. The moisture didn’t come at the hands…