Tag: jennifer mulson
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Live Well: Teaching yoga at height of pandemic ripe for comedy in new Colorado Springs solo show
Wellness culture was a tricky place to exist during the pandemic. And how better to explore that gray area than through the lens of a middle-aged, struggling yoga teacher named Jillian. In “Yoga with Jillian,” playwright Lia Romeo’s one-woman show, the titular character is a corporate lawyer who finds her true passion — yoga —…
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New experimental space for art, theater, more to open in downtown Colorado Springs
Theater and art will merge in a downtown laboratory of sorts. BOUCHER art + stage, an experimental arts space set to open during February’s First Friday event, will offer a space for artists to experiment and also partner with Counterweight Theatre Lab, which will use the venue as its home base. The first exhibit, “Two…
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MeadowGrass announces music lineup for Memorial Day weekend festival
Only a few more months remain until Memorial Day weekend and the return of MeadowGrass Music Festival. The three-day celebration of folk, Americana, bluegrass, rock, country and more is back for its 15th year. Headliners are The Steel Wheels, an Americana, roots, folk and rock band from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia; longtime Portland,…
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Pikes Pick: Watch ‘Sopranos,’ celebrate mob wife winter
Right now it’s all about a mob wife winter aesthetic, according to the internet’s latest trend. That means big makeup and hair, animal prints and all gold jewelry. And what better way to adhere than a rewatch of the six seasons of “The Sopranos,” which is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Watch the shenanigans of Tony…
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Feisty, sunbathing diggers: Meet the meerkats at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Meet the meerkats at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. It doesn’t take much to make a mob of meerkats happy. Give the little scamps some cockroaches, a mound of dirt, a heat lamp and call it good. That’s the order of a frigid January day that finds brothers Havoc, Pandemonium and Nugget and their paterfamilias, Kamikaze, scampering…
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International dancer Mythili Prakash brings South Indian classical dance to Colorado Springs in new work
Bharatanatyam dancer Mythili Prakash doesn’t just dance to dance; she dances to explore the questions that consume her. In her latest piece, “Mythili Prakash — She’s Auspicious,” the second-generation American and Indian performer examines the irony in her Indian culture between the worship of the goddess as a symbol of femininity and auspiciousness and the…
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Fruitcakes to fly again this weekend in Manitou Springs
Editor’s note: This is a reprint of a column that was published in 2018. Google “fruitcake ingredients,” and up pops deliciousness. Dried cranberries and currants, candied green cherries, pecans, walnuts, dark rum, butter, brown sugar. Ingredients that are individually scrumptious, but smashed together create a magical loaf of dense, rich, chewy heaven. Slather a thick…
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Colorado Springs nonprofit RAWtools features art made from guns in new exhibit
The guns hanging on these gallery walls no longer pose a threat to any sentient creature. The hunting rifles, handguns, assault-style weapons and soft gun cases are now the stuff of dreamcatchers, sculptures, musical instruments and other works of art. They were surrendered to the nonprofit RAWtools for a variety of reasons — the owners…
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Popular downtown Colorado Springs movie theater still vacant, but that could change in a few months
A year after Kimball Bayles’ death, his Kimball’s Peak Three Theater remains vacant. Property owners Murphy Constructors has received multiple proposals over the last dozen months from different parties interested in leasing the 9,500 square feet of space at 115 E. Pikes Peak Ave., but none have come to fruition. There’s no debt on the building…
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Annual pottery sale near Colorado Springs to feature hundreds of pieces at half price
Mystical things happen when Deborah Hager sits down in the morning to throw a lump of clay on her pottery wheel. Not only does she transform a shapeless mass into something beautiful and functional, she also moves into a flow state where her previous night’s dreams begin to unravel. “The allure of pottery is sometimes…