Author: Mark Arnest
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Performer has faith in supply of local talent
By day, Lynne Hastings works for Premiere Global Services, a teleconferencing company where she’s worked since 1996 and where she’s a team leader for an audio production unit. By night, she’s one of the region’s best actresses – her scene with Leah Chandler-Mills in TheatreWorks’ fall production of “Doubt” may have been the theater season’s…
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5 themes characterize Picasso’s last years
Few people ever had a more productive old age than Pablo Picasso. And few people ever hated growing old more. “He’s full of energy, but he also knows death is around the corner,” said Tariana Navas-Nieves, who curated an exhibit of Picasso etchings that opens today at the Fine Arts Center. “He has fears…
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STATE OF THE ARTS: City’s classical music scene
The Gazette’s second State of the Arts section is a look at how music, dance, theater and the visual arts are faring in the Pikes Peak region. This year’s theme – “On the Move” – reflects movement, both figurative and literal, in the local arts scene. Cottonwood Artists’ School is moving its huge collection of…
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STATE OF THE ARTS: City’s visual arts scene
The Gazette’s second State of the Arts section is a look at how music, dance, theater and the visual arts are faring in the Pikes Peak region. This year’s theme – “On the Move” – reflects movement, both figurative and literal, in the local arts scene. Cottonwood Artists’ School is moving its huge collection of…
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Arts events covered for many media
Craig Richardson seems completely at home at McCabe’s Tavern, one of downtown’s more casual bars. But Richardson seems at home nearly anywhere in town. As one half of Colorado Culture Cast, he’s given video coverage to some 170 arts events since February 2007 – and like McCabe’s, a 21st century bar that seems older than…
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Curator is leaving UCCS art gallery
One of the more irreverent recent additions to the local art community, Christopher Lynn, is leaving the Gallery of Contemporary Art. After two years as curator of the gallery at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, the 33-year-old Lynn and his family are planning a move to Cleveland, where he’ll become executive director…
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Kit allows most fuel-injected cars to run on E85
With the average price of gasoline topping $4 a gallon nationally for the first time ever, you may find yourself looking longingly at the E85 pump: In Colorado, the mixture of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline currently runs about a dollar less per gallon than gasoline.No problem if you have a newer FFV…
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Art on the Streets
Building on the momentum it generated in 2007, “Art on the Streets” pushes out in new directions this year.The program, sponsored by U.S. Bank, Nor’wood Development Group and G.E. Johnson, is sponsoring its first commission – a permanent piece to greet visitors to downtown as they exit the Bijou Bridge. That’s “38, 104 Helios,” by…
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Local artist moving to Ariz., keeping ties in the Springs
Colorado Springs is losing one of its most beloved artists – sort of.Mary Helsaple, the wildlife watercolorist best known for “In the Heart of the Rainforest,” the 1994 Fine Arts Center exhibit that set attendance records, and for her contribution to the Emmy-winning documentary of the same year, “Spirits of the Rainforest,” is moving to…
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Preview of summer arts extravaganza
The Colorado College Summer Music Festival will enter new territory Sunday and Monday when soprano Measha Brueggergosman, a quartet of vocal soloists, the Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble and the festival’s student orchestra conducted by Scott Yoo christen the Cornerstone Arts Theater with performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Barber’s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915.”Locally, the…