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Pikes Pick: Colorado Springs improv group hosts classes, workshops
I’m jonesing to get a little funnier and quicker on my feet and The Stick Horses in Pants is here to help. The longtime improv group has its own theater, Peak Improv Theater, where members do shows and also provide workshops, classes and camps on all things humor-related. The roster includes a kids improv workshop…
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Tile-based game mah jongg popular in Colorado Springs
The ladies are talking smack early on a Friday morning at Kelly O’Brians Sports Bar. What has fueled such competitiveness? Mah jongg, the tile-based game developed in China around the mid-1800s that most resembles gin rummy, if one was forced to make a comparison. “Don’t play to their hand,” one woman says. “Unless you feel…
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Take my advice, please | Live Well
When in doubt, don’t. This is a piece of advice I carry from childhood, bestowed upon me by my mother. It crosses my mind regularly when I make a decision, like buying another sweater that looks suspiciously like one I already have, or painting my house Fabulous Grape, which I did do. And yes, it…
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Pikes Pick: Pikes Peak Writers offers monthly free events to help support your work in progress
My fellow writers, do you also need some motivation and encouragement to get your words on the page? Pikes Peak Writers could be a good way to threat the angst. The group meets a few times every month for different free events, including the upcoming Drop In Writing night from 6-8 p.m. Feb. 3 at…
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Dinner Detective shows offer dining, murder mystery experience in Colorado Springs
Believe no one. Doubt everything. We all lie. That’s the advice given to attendees of The Dinner Detective True Crime Mystery Dinner Show. That, and enjoy your wedge salad, dinner rolls, chicken breast Provençal or cauliflower potato cake and a dessert based on the whim of the chef. “It’s immersive theater, it’s social, there are…
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Colorado Springs Philharmonic to perform works by Brahms, Dvořák, Clarice Assad
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Chances are neither the audience nor the Colorado Springs Philharmonic will be familiar with Brazilian-born composer Clarice Assad’s “Baião N’ Blues.” And that’s why award-winning guest conductor John Devlin helped program the piece for this weekend’s “Brahms 4” concerts at Pikes Peak Center. Also on…
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New PopUp Choir in Colorado Springs offers all skill levels chance to sing
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save We all hunger after life’s magical moments. For Katy Crumpton, a longtime voice teacher and choir director, those moments often come through singing. And now she wants to help provide them for others through PopUp Choir, one-night events where strangers come together and sing a…
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New PopUp Choir in Colorado Springs offers all skill levels chance to sing
We all hunger after life’s magical moments. For Katy Crumpton, a longtime voice teacher and choir director, those moments often come through singing. And now she wants to help provide them for others through PopUp Choir, one-night events where strangers come together and sing a pre-selected piece of music. It’s inspired by Gaia Music Collective…
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Pikes Pick: Season three of ‘White Lotus’ travels to Thailand
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save There’s a creepy undertone to “The White Lotus” that really sends a prickle through your insides. The first two seasons of the HBO Max show were set in Hawaii and Sicily, respectively, and the third,…
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Pikes Pick: Season three of ‘White Lotus’ travels to Thailand
There’s a creepy undertone to “The White Lotus” that really sends a prickle through your insides. The first two seasons of the HBO Max show were set in Hawaii and Sicily, respectively, and the third, which debuts Feb. 16, will commence in Thailand. A whole new cast, including Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger and Michelle Monaghan,…