Tag: jennifer mulson
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Want a ‘Star Trek’ wedding? This Colorado Springs-area man can officiate
Long-haul truck driver Anthony Perdue loves a good wedding. Particularly one where he can don a Jedi or “Star Trek” costume and officiate. A couple of years ago, the Fountain resident decided to marry his two passions: podcasting and cosplay. He had already been ordained so it was easy to hang a shingle, Fantasy Weddings,…
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‘I feel an obligation’: Monument painter finds purpose in capturing roadside Americana
Vacant motels, deserted gas stations and vintage marquee signs dot the highways and byways of America. Proof that entropy is always lurking, waiting to claim what humans have left behind. While most of us speed on by those rusty, leftover, forgotten buildings, antique cars and dilapidated eateries without a second thought, they still sparkle for…
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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to talk movies, science in Colorado Springs
While theatergoers bawled in their seats over the tragic ending of “Titanic,” Neil deGrasse Tyson fumed. As Rose lay on her plank in the freezing ocean, with Jack treading water next to her, she looked up at a dark canopy of inaccuracy. “We know the time, date, longitude and latitude of where and when it…
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Pikes Pick: Take advantage of free days at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
When a museum offers free days, you take them up on it. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center has two free days every month: second Saturdays and third Fridays. Worth checking out this month is the exhibit “Alhamdu | Muslim Futurism” by MIPSTERZ, an arts and culture collective for Muslim, Muslim-adjacent and creative allies. The national…
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Colorado farm offers free visits to those on healing journey
There might be no better companion on a healing journey than an alpaca with a fluffy mullet or a fuzzy mini Highland cow mix. At least, that’s how Tara Wells feels. She and her husband, Bryan Wells, own Bella Terra Farms, a therapeutic farm 5 miles east of Monument, where a bevy of gifted, rescued…
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Colorado Springs man cooked, valeted for multiple U.S. presidents, vice-president
William Althoff has sliced and diced, basted and broiled for some of the most powerful people in the U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore have partaken of his gastronomic talents, as have King Hussein and Queen Noor of Jordan. It was the Navy that brought Althoff…
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Thanksgiving play opens on Colorado Springs stages
“The Thanksgiving Play,” by Springs Ensemble Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Nov. 17 and 24, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 18, through Nov. 24, The Fifty-Niner Speakeasy, 2409 W. Colorado Ave., $15-$25; 719-357-3080, springsensembletheatre.org. The first Thanksgiving didn’t look the way it’s portrayed in history books. Native American playwright Larissa Fasthorse delves into the lore and…
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Coins, birds, snakes, divine signs come in different shapes | Live Well
I need as much good luck as the next person. But I’ll walk right on by a penny on the sidewalk. Sure, I’ll glance down to assess the monetary value of a spilled coin, but if Abraham Lincoln’s blinking up at me, I’ll say see you later, ol’ Abe, next time make it worth my…
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Prairie dogs provide life lessons in Colorado Springs theater company’s Latinx, bilingual show
What’s an antsy prairie dog to do when her life on the plains is humdrum? Move to the bright lights, big city, of course. That’s the premise of playwright Diana Grisanti’s “The City Dog and the Prairie Dog,” an hourlong show that features singing, dancing and audience participation. The Fine Arts Center Theatre Company will…
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Colorado wind phones symbolic way to speak with lost loved ones, work through grief
Russ Young has a standing weekly telephone date with his wife, who died this year. He calls Patricia Young every Sunday from a wind phone — an old, disconnected device that hangs on a pole in the memory garden at Columbine United Church in Littleton. It’s nothing fancy: a white handset and dangling cord mounted…