Tag: jennifer mulson
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Live Well: Colorado Springs instructor offers new twist on classical yoga
Yoga looks different here in this bright and cheery space on the west side. On a Friday morning at Westside Community Center, more than a dozen students unfurl their mats on the hardwood floors of Modern Yoga Colorado’s second-floor studio that looks out on Pikes Peak. They’re here for instructor Brooke Sakharia, who has changed…
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Classical crossover group Il Divo to make stop in Colorado Springs
While the pandemic left a scar on the careers of many musicians and performers, it snuffed the life of one Il Divo member. The classical crossover male quartet lost one of its original members, baritone Carlos Marín, to COVID-19 in 2021, and the remaining three singers were left bereft and unsure if the group could…
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El Paso County Fair opened this weekend with music, carnival rides, a sensory day and more
This year’s El Paso County Fair offers more music and rodeo, increased discount days and more attention to those who struggle with sensory overload. More people than ever attended last year’s fair: 34,000 versus 26,000 in 2022. And fair officials are catering to the expressed desires of previous attendees by doubling up on concerts, offering…
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New Colorado Springs dog day care provides Montessori-style environment
Montessori education isn’t just for kids. The five furry students at Pinecone Pups have a full schedule ahead of them on a gloomy June day. There’s time to run around with their buddies, human and canine, work on manners, sits, stays, touch and recall, nap, sniff and just plain be a dog. Newt, an 8-month-old…
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Pikes Pick: New Netflix series follows women vying to be Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
I might not have been born with the cheerleader gene, but that doesn’t mean I wasn’t enraptured by the new Netflix documentary series, “America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.” Travel the long, arduous road with the wannabe newbies and the veterans, who still must audition every year for the team, as they hope and pray they…
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El Paso County Fair offers more music, events, Sensory Day
This year’s El Paso County Fair offers more music and rodeo, increased discount days and more attention to those who struggle with sensory overload. More people than ever attended last year’s fair: 34,000 versus 26,000 in 2022. And fair officials are catering to the expressed desires of previous attendees by doubling up on concerts, offering…
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Colorado Springs faith-based performing arts company to stage ‘SpongeBob Musical’
SpongeBob Squarepants will forever hold bittersweet memories for Carter Black. Starring as the square yellow sponge, who lives with his pet snail, Gary, in the town of Bikini Bottom on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, will be his last role with Christian Youth Theater. He’s aging out of the Colorado Springs theater arts training…
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Colorado Springs reading program selects book inspired by destruction of small Colorado town
This year’s All Pikes Peak Reads selection offers more than just good fiction. It also provides a Colorado history lesson. “Go As a River,” by Shelley Read, is the featured book in Pikes Peak Library District’s annual community reading program. “We haven’t done a fiction book in years,” said PPLD Senior Librarian Heidi Buljung. “It’s…
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Colorado Springs family refutes new Max documentary ‘Six Schizophrenic Brothers’
Horror sells seats. That’s what producers told Lindsay Mary Galvin Rauch when she expressed her family’s disappointment about how they were portrayed in “Six Schizophrenic Brothers,” a new documentary that’s going gangbusters on HBO Max and social media. The four-part series chronicles the psychosis, murder, suicide and incest that interlaced the lives of the Galvins,…
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Colorado Springs workers wash home exteriors while wearing kilts
Everyone loves a kilt. And everyone also loves to ask the eternal kilt question: Whatcha got underneath? “Socks and boots, duh,” is Jerry Powell’s first answer. It’s just a joke, though, says the owner of the only Men in Kilts franchise in Colorado Springs. The Canada-based company takes care of exterior house cleaning needs: window…