Tag: jennifer mulson
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Colorado Springs cookie artist competes on Food Network’s ‘Holiday Wars’
Cookies are the way to Jennifer Choi’s heart. And also to the Food Network. For the second time, the Colorado Springs baker is competing on one of the network’s baking competitions. Last holiday season she took home first place and $10,000 on one episode of “Christmas Cookie Challenge,” thanks to her chocolate orange cookie, cookie…
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Pikes Pick: ‘Other World’ podcast offers supernatural tales worth savoring
I love a good weird story, even post-Halloween, and I’ve found a bunch of spooky offerings on the “Other World” podcast. Host Jack Wagner receives eerie tales from listeners and does his due diligence in interviewing the people involved in the story, which makes for a well-rounded tale. Try out episode 99: “The Pump House,”…
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Retired Colorado Springs police officer’s new book details history of department
Dwight Haverkorn’s new book detailing the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department started with bloody murder. It was 1998 and the now retired Colorado Springs police investigator was having breakfast with friends. One of them told Haverkorn a story about a downtown house her mother once owned before being converted into apartments. After stopping…
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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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Bird Call: Colorado bird photographer’s finch photo nabs gold in contest
Somewhere around Homer, Alaska, lives a gray-crowned rosy-finch who’s blissfully unaware it’s an award winner. Evergreen photographer Alan Murphy managed to capture its frosty visage one winter’s day a couple of years ago and dubbed it “Winter Pink.” For his efforts, he won gold in the best portrait category of the annual Bird Photographer of…
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Longtime Colorado Springs theater company announces departure of artistic director
After more than six years leading Theatreworks, Caitlin Lowans is leaving to head up another theater company. Lowans, only the second artistic director in the 49-year history of the professional regional theater company, will depart for Ten Thousand Things Theater in Minneapolis, Minn., where she’ll take over as artistic director in February. She’ll direct Theatreworks’…
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WATCH: Mama bear, two cubs still haunting downtown Colorado Springs
One Colorado Springs bear took her two cubs out early for tricks and treats. Presumably the same trio of bears spotted earlier this month near downtown were back at it again Tuesday night on Corona Street, a couple of blocks from downtown. A resident heard her trash can fall over at 9:30 p.m. and decided…
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New Denver exhibit showcases work of famous children’s book author Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak is best known as a children’s book author and illustrator, but his timeless works speak to adults, too. He’s the famous artist behind the classic 1963 children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are,” with its little boy in his onesie with the tail and crown who gallantly cavorts with a conga line of…
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Pikes Pick: Celebrate Día De Muertos with free Colorado Springs celebrations
Celebrate those who are no longer walking the earthly plane during the ancient two-day Mexican holiday Día De Muertos. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College will offer free celebrations from 4-8 p.m. Friday and Saturday that include ofrendas, or altars, on which to place objects honoring your dead, music, performances and more, 30 W.…
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Faith-based Colorado Springs theater company to stage ‘Newsies’ musical
“Newsies” is the “Law and Order” of Broadway musicals. Based on the 1992 musical film of the same name, the Tony Award winner is ripped from historical headlines and inspired by the true-life newsboys’ strike of 1899, when newsboys Kid Blink and David Simons led a band of orphan and runaway kids on a two-week…