Tag: new york times
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Colorado Springs reading program selects 4 titles themed around nature
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Destructive seagulls, migrating elephants and an insatiably hungry black bear. In her 2021 nonfiction book, “Fuzz,” New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach explores the many ways we’ve tried to handle animals that might harm…
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Victor Gold Rush Days celebrate history with burro races, mining games, vintage baseball game
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Victor was once so big the town scored a New York Times headline in 1899. Unfortunately, it was to report bad news: “Fire in a Colorado Town: Business Section of Victor, Near Cripple Creek, Destroyed — The Loss Estimated at $2,000,000.” As it turns out,…
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Pikes Pick: ‘Swan Song’ is Elin Hilderbrand’s last novel, or is it?
Allegedly, “Swan Song” is New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand’s last novel. I sort of doubt it, but wish her well if so. The recently released whodunnit swirls with characters from her over 30 books, many of which are set in and around Nantucket in Massachusetts, but you don’t need to have read any…
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New online literary arts magazine to feature Colorado books, authors
Books and authors still matter in this age of digital technology and AI. And one lover of words, former Colorado Springs journalist Kathryn Eastburn, wants to make sure Colorado’s booming literary scene is well supported. Her new Rocky Mountain Reader is a free, online literary arts magazine devoted to promoting Colorado’s literary landscape and the…
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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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Live Well: SWF seeks fun
There once was a puzzle of cardinals, blue jays and chickadees spread out across a table in my back bedroom. It lived there half done for 18 months. I didn’t touch it for more than a year. Nearby hung an old bag filled with an assortment of stencils and colored pencils for all the crafts…
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UCCS student to direct all-female cast of ‘Men on Boats’ comedy in Colorado Springs
You might furrow your brow when the cast of “Men on Boats” arrives on stage. Because they’re all women. The casting decision for the show, set in 1869, is on purpose, of course, and meant to satirize the machismo of intrepid male explorers of yore who set out across our great country to discover land…
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Pikes Pick: Nature essays to feed the soul by bestselling author
Ribbon eel, narwhal, octopus, corpse flower. These are a few of Mother Nature’s great creations and essay topics in Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s New York Times bestselling book, “World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments.” Reading the sweet and soulful 2020 book feels like a nutritious treat, particularly her ode to her…
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Pikes Pick: Funny, steamy ‘Seven Days in June’ good choice for cold nights
In Tia Williams’ new humorous, yet steamy, New York Times bestseller, “Seven Days in June,” single mom Eva is a popular erotica writer who runs into her teenage love, the now award-winning, standoffish novelist, Shane. Eva still hasn’t forgiven him for their last fraught encounter 15 years ago, but that doesn’t mean the passion has…
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Pikes Pick: Deborah Copaken’s new memoir ‘Ladyparts’ hard to put down
Pick up “Ladyparts: A Memoir,” by New York Times best-selling author Deborah Copaken, and you won’t put it down. The former Emmy Award-winning news producer and photojournalist will hook you from page one, as she details a harrowing near-death experience. She goes on to chronicle her divorce, raising children with her now ex-husband, who was…