Tag: jennifer mulson
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Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado to offer free astronomy festival
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The night skies are a canvas of mystery and ours to explore every night. Rocky Mountain National Park will host a free Astronomy Festival with speakers, telescope viewing and more Friday and Saturday. “It’s a great opportunity for anyone who wants to learn more about…
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Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado to offer free astronomy festival
The night skies are a canvas of mystery and ours to explore every night. Rocky Mountain National Park will host a free Astronomy Festival with speakers, telescope viewing and more Friday and Saturday. “It’s a great opportunity for anyone who wants to learn more about the sun, the moon and our solar system to ask…
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Colorado Springs bagpipe, drums band headed to world championships in Scotland
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Pikes Peak Highlanders are set to compete for the first time at the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, after years of preparation and fundraising. { “@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “VideoObject”, “name”: “Colorado Springs band headed to world championships in Scotland”, “description”: “The Pikes…
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Colorado Springs bagpipe, drums band headed to world championships in Scotland
The pipes, the pipes are calling from a parking lot. But soon they’ll be calling all the way from Glasgow, Scotland, where 20 pipers and 10 drummers from the Pikes Peak Highlanders Pipes and Drums will compete for the first time at the annual World Pipe Band Championships on Aug. 17. They’ll also compete Aug.…
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Pikes Pick: Tony Award-winning ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ musical coming to Denver
I’m a big fan of the soundtrack to Broadway’s darling, the Tony Award-winning musical “Kimberly Akimbo.” And lucky for us, the touring production is coming to Denver Center for the Performing Arts Sept. 22-Oct. 5. The funny, fraught show follows Kimberly Lavaco, a teen who has a rare condition that causes her body to age…
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Colorado Springs Olympic museum will celebrate start of Paris Games with free Downtown Summer Fest Saturday
Watching the Summer Olympics in Paris will be bittersweet for Samantha Schultz. The Colorado Springs Olympian competed in the women’s pentathlon during the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, which were postponed to 2021 due to the pandemic. She didn’t win a medal, but it was still a special season of life. “Sometimes it doesn’t seem…
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Urban flower farm near Colorado Springs offers festival with flower picking, music
Fields of tiny terminators are waiting to be plucked south of town. Snapdragons, sunflowers, zinnias, cosmos, marigolds — they share one commonality with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s classic anti-hero movie character: They keep popping up even when you think they’re down for the count. And thank goodness, because by the end of the Rocky Mountain Flower Fest…
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New Colorado Springs vintage market offers thousands of items
Digging for buried treasure has never been so easy. Vintage and Vinyl Co. will offer treasure hunters a new sustainable market with racks, tables and piles of Y2K vintage clothing, upcycled clothing, vintage vessel candles that can be reused, handmade jewelry, pin-ups, records and more at its new weekly pop-up event inside CO.A.T.I., a downtown…
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New Colorado Springs exhibit inspired by late sculptor Starr Kempf
The spirit of Starr Kempf will live on in a new exhibit. Kempf, the late Colorado Springs artist celebrated for his monumental steel, kinetic sculptures, three of which dot the landscape outside Ent Center for the Arts, is the inspiration for “We Are the Sky,” a new show at Galleries of Contemporary Art at Ent…
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Old gold mining town west of Colorado Springs celebrates incorporation with Gold Rush Days
The word around the gold mine is that Victor was named by the luck of the draw. Back in the late 1890s, while visions of gold sparkled in miners’ eyes and donkeys left behind by miners roamed the land, a bunch of men gathered in a bar one night and decided it was time to…