Tag: jennifer mulson
-
Colorado Springs flower festival offers music, cut flowers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Marigolds, cosmos, black-eyed Susans, sunflowers, zinnias, amaranth and dill. The flower beds at Gather Mountain Blooms before the Rocky Mountain Flower Festival are packed with blooms the colors of Crayolas. Post-festival the beds are decimated, stripped of their vibrant frocks, left to mend and heal.…
-
Colorado Springs mini-con to feature TikTok star
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’ll either be the more comfortable Jedi outfit or the uncomfortable but striking Iron Man costume. Those are TikTok influencer Gino DePolo’s probable choices for Natso Mini-Con, where the Colorado Springs cosplayer and creator will take his seat as the event’s celebrity. He plans to…
-
Pikes Pick: Hennessy 6 to end one Colorado Springs summer concert series
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The outdoor summer concert season is wrapping up. Get yourself to one of my favorite series before the leaves turn and music heads back indoors. Local jazz group Hennessy 6, led by trumpet player Sean…
-
Pikes Pick: New memoir, ‘The Tell,’ is one woman’s story of uncovering buried trauma
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Amy Griffin spent much of her life compelled to run and didn’t know why. Turns out she was running away from trauma and long-buried memories. Her New York Times bestselling memoir, “The Tell,” chronicles what…
-
New exhibit at Manitou castle features historic photos of American Indians
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Very few people were taking photos of Indigenous people at the turn of the 20th century. For photographer Roland Reed, it was a passion project — he spent the bulk of his life documenting the lives of a dozen Indigenous American tribes. His work lives…
-
Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum to host opera singers from around the world
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A location inspired the show. Last summer, when Elizabeth Bond visited the newly renovated historic 1903 El Paso County Courthouse, inside the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, all she could hear were the sounds of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s comedic operetta “Trial by Jury.” This…
-
Two Colorado Springs artists turn healing into art in new exhibit
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When life blew up in his face, Chris Alvarez relied on his old passion and a new passion to heal. The stressful events were piling up — divorce, children leaving home — and to cope, the longtime artist leaned into his new love for playing…
-
Outdoor Shakespeare returns thanks to Colorado Springs theater company
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A beloved summer staple is back in the Pikes Peak region. When Star Bar Players opens “Love’s Labour’s Lost” at Onaledge Historic Lodge at Smokebrush Farm in Manitou Springs, it will be the first full summer outdoor production of a Shakespeare play in three years.…
-
Colorado Springs theater company wins prestigious theater award
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Springs Ensemble Theatre was the sole Colorado Springs winner of an illustrious Henry Award during Monday night’s ceremony at Lone Tree Arts Center. SET member Kitty Robbins scored a win for sound design for SET’s…
-
Colorado Springs Philharmonic announces new music director
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After more than two years, more than 250 applicants from around the world, 80 interviews and 16 guest conductors, Colorado Springs Philharmonic has its new music director and conductor. French-born Chloé Dufresne, who lives in…