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If you ever imagined your life as art, here’s a chance to prove it: The City of Colorado Springs is offering the public an opportunity to share their own “Then & Now” photographs in celebration of this year’s 150th anniversary. The invitation is open to residents, visitors, businesses and organizations. The purpose is to share…

If you are interested in learning how to photograph the Milky Way, one local photographer offers instruction — but you may lose a little sleep over it. An overnight Night Sky/Milky Way Photography workshop will be held from 9 p.m., Saturday, May 15 to 7 a.m., Sunday, May 16 at Paint Mines Interpretive Park, 29950…

A noted Celtic theologian will examine the reasons people leave or are exiled from their religious traditions in “Yearning From Home: The Cry of the Earth,” a virtual event. John Philip Newell will host the May 8 livestream event, in which he will, “explore the longing for a spirituality that deeply reconnects us to the…

American Furniture Warehouse, one of Colorado’s largest furniture retailers, has revived a decade-old plan to add a second store on Colorado Springs’ fast-growing northeast side. The suburban Denver-based chain intends to construct a 355,000-square-foot showroom and warehouse on 25 acres southeast of Powers Boulevard and Woodmen Road, just west of Tutt Boulevard and Templeton Gap…

While most of the music world has been quiet, the new School of Rock in Colorado Springs has been quietly growing. Well, not exactly quietly. Since opening in October, the school has become a buzzing spot for learning and playing music. “Students were attracted to School of Rock because they were looking forward to trying…

If forest bathing sounds like a way to “become one with nature,” that’s because it is. Forest bathing and forest therapy, or shinrin-yoku, means taking in all of one’s senses through a forest atmosphere. More than a walk in the woods, it is a conscious and contemplative practice of being immersed in the scents, sights…

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…

If you have a regular family dentist, you probably also have a family dental hygienist. But if you live in Colorado, dental hygienists also have the opportunity to open their own practices. According to the American Dental Hygienists’ Association, with the passage of a statute in 1987, Colorado became the first state to allow licensed,…

During a recent city of Colorado Springs parks meeting, the mention of horse poop led to a brief, surprised silence. “I know people think it’s just dogs, because that’s the majority of animal use,” said Scott Abbott, regional parks manager. But those bulky, grainy piles left by the hoofed steeds must also be collected, he…

Last Friday evening, Darrin Reay left his home in southwest Colorado to meet friends at a remote camping spot he loved surrounded by sandstone cliffs in the desert beyond Moab, Utah. When he arrived, he was alarmed to hear the suggestion of climbing a bolted route. Reay knew of no drilling on this certain slab,…