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Look out Colorado Springs, El Perro Loco, Nasty Boy, Rat Racer and Tuff E Nuff are in town. And cuddly (we’ll see about that) little Monster Bear, too. The monster engines of the “Monster X Tour” are revving and those hunking big tires (66 inches high, 43 inches wide) are ready to run right over everything in sight…

Matters of the heart should hardly be a matter of legislation. Still, Springs Ensemble Theatre’s newest production, “8,” takes a love story into the courtroom in two performances Saturday. Written by Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black (“Milk,” 2008), the play pulls together transcripts, records and interviews from the 2009 trial of Perry vs. Schwarzenegger.…

“I knew you were going to call,” taunts Marc Salem’s voicemail message.Fortunately, he can back up his claim. Salem isn’t a psychic, though. Don’t call him a magician, either. He calls himself a mentalist, but what it really boils down to is a man who has people watching down to a science. “Marc Salem: Mind…

Earlier this year Flying W Ranch started making big plans to celebrate its 60th anniversary as one of the area’s premier attractions and family-centered destinations. The headliners: legendary singing group The Sons of the Pioneers. Then, on June 26, the Waldo Canyon wildfire struck, destroying the ranch and much of the neighborhood around it. It didn’t destroy…

You might want to ready your standing-o face for another round of “Theatregasm.” Now in its sixth year, “Theatregasm = 6,” is a festival featuring short plays written by local artists and produced by local directors and actors. It opens at 8 p.m. Friday at Theatre ‘d Art’s downtown theater. The festival showcases 11 works…

For pianist Norman Krieger, it’s been a Beethoven kind of summer. Concerts in North Carolina, Virginia and his native Los Angeles, have seen him perform concertos and chamber music by the great German composer. Due in Colorado Springs this weekend as the featured guest for Amateur Pianists International’s 12th “Celebration of the Amateur Pianist,” his personal…