Tag: jennifer mulson
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Monument blacksmith captures attention with feminine, soft sculptures
Your image of a blacksmith is likely antiquated. It probably involves a man pounding a red-hot piece of iron on an anvil. But if you conjured up a statuesque blonde completing the same task, welcome to the 21st century and the studio of Jodie Bliss, Monument blacksmith and metal fabricator extraordinaire. A tour of Bliss…
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New Colorado Springs online theater company to support actors, theater companies patrons
Craig and Kitty are having a rough go. The couple has to quarantine from each other, but they keep messing up by accidentally going places where people aren’t wearing masks and other such COVID-19 dilemmas. Elizabeth Kahn-Lanning’s new hour-long, two-person play, “In the Zoom,” will touch on many of the frustrations people might have felt…
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Discover this year’s winners at Best of Springs virtual party
The best of everything around the Pikes Peak region is about to be unveiled. The Gazette’s 27th annual Best of the Springs magazine will land on your doorstep Sunday. Inside you’ll find more than 300 winners determined by more than 50,000 voters in six categories: arts and entertainment, dining, city life, family, shopping and services…
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2 Hollywood icons find love in Colorado Springs amid pandemic
Great love can blossom out of less than great circumstances. As people across the country sequestered themselves in their homes amidst a global pandemic, two Hollywood stars in their golden years were busy falling in love. And one of them lives in our own backyard. Colorado Springs resident Linda Purl, 65, a singer also known…
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New Denver Art Museum exhibit features high fashion wardrobe of Hollywood, Paris fashionista Véronique Peck
Theirs was a love story that meshed the cinematic glamour of Hollywood with the high couture of Paris. Actor Gregory Peck first met his future wife, Véronique, during an interview for France-Soir, the French newspaper she worked for in Paris. Peck was in Italy at the time, filming “Roman Holiday” with Audrey Hepburn. He was…
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Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center to build outdoor venue for new summer program
Warm summer nights and twinkling constellations will serve as the backdrop for the city’s newest stage. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College will present “City as a Venue,” a new program that will bring theater, dance, music and more to the new FAC outdoor stage, as well as other outdoor locations around the…
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New class in Colorado Springs designed to help heal your ailing houseplant
Stocking up on houseplants apparently made a lot of us feel better over the past year. The houseplant industry is booming, according to Daniel Dalton, founder and director of Dalton Conservatory, an up-and-coming nonprofit that hopes to build a modern conservatory in Colorado Springs by 2030. “A lot of people caught the bug,” the former high…
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Live Well: One way to celebrate birthday – throw out your back, ruin your weekend
It finally happened. I’ve gone and joined the club nobody wants to join: the I’ve Thrown My Back Out Club. Price of admission? Extreme pain. Lifelong membership? Not if I can help it. Throughout the years, whenever I’ve heard people say they threw out their back, I’ve been perplexed. Whatever can this mean? And can…
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Pikes Pick: ‘Belonging’ by Toko-pa Turner uses myths, stories, dreams to find greater sense of belonging
Not only is Toko-pa Turnera magnificent writer and teacher who can land a phrase that invites you to read it over and over, but she also has her own dream school, where she helps people understand the symbols in their nightly travels. And she’s simply a light of encouragement on a dark day. In her…
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Behind the scenes at downtown nonprofit arts complex in Colorado Springs
Cottonwood Center for the Arts was a different animal when Jon Khoury arrived in Colorado Springs from New York City in 2012. There were 14 artists renting studios in the large building east of downtown. The parking lot was always empty. The buildings around it were vacant. There was no activity. But then Cottonwood blossomed.…