Tag: arts
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Pikes Pick: Comedian Amy Poehler chats up celebrities on her award-winning podcast
All I ever wanted was a good, good hang. The theme song to comedian Amy Poehler’s popular, award-winning podcast, “Good Hang With Amy Poehler,” is spot on. She’s so affable, funny and great at asking questions. If you want a few laughs, listen to her chat with Will Ferrell and Tom Holland. Matt Damon gives…
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Colorado Springs community reading program chooses books in line with Colorado, U.S. anniversaries
Fireworks, festivals and now books. This year, inspired by America’s 250th and Colorado’s 150th birthdays, the four new titles in Pikes Peak Library District’s 2026 All Pikes Peak Reads, a community reading program, all focus on our shared history. The books are: “Before I Lived Here,” a picture book by former Colorado Springs author Stacey…
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College dance company to bring two dozen new pieces to Colorado Springs
There is a message for the youth in every kick ball change, Charleston and box step choreography in this dance performance. “You are OK, and you can do this,” said Ashley Storm, BYU-Idaho Dance Alliance’s artistic director. “You have potential.” In other words, limitless. That’s the theme knitting together the two dozen, three- to five-minute…
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Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs offers summer theater intensive for youth, full-length show
For more than a quarter of a century, young adults from around the Pikes Peak region have spent five intense 40-hour weeks every summer preparing to become Tony Award winners. And the rest of us have enjoyed the fruits of their labor. Almost 50 high school students, who auditioned and were accepted into the Youth…
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Colorado festivals feature lavender, jazz, Celtic entertainment this weekend
Lavender Festival: The fragrant purple herb has many uses, and you’ll be a new person after visiting the more than 2,000 plants at this festival, with its guided tours, and food and drinks made with lavender, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Denver Botanic Gardens, Chatfield Farms location, 8500 W. Deer Creek Canyon Road, Littleton,…
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Pikes Pick: Favorite films are back on big screen thanks to CO150
A great film in a cool, dark space is an ideal escape in the summer months. Pair that with the 150th anniversary of our gorgeous state and you’ve got CO150, a film festival featuring more than 150 of the best Colorado films. Lulu’s will host several screenings, including “Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade” at…
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Gardens bedazzled with art focus of Colorado Springs tour
Gardens are works of art unto themselves. Add interesting pieces of visual art, and maybe the Louvre Museum will begin to consider adding yards to its esteemed collection. The fifth annual Ivywild Garden Art Toure, by the Ivywild Improvement Society, features seven gardens that display not only lush plants but visual art among the annuals…
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Woodland Park festival features Aaron Watson, red dirt country musicians
Red dirt country music will echo throughout the mountains of Woodland Park this weekend. For the second year in a row, America’s Mountain Festival will bring a slew of red dirt musicians to the tiny town, including headliner Aaron Watson; Walker Montgomery, the son of John Michael Montgomery and nephew of Eddie Montgomery; TikTok star…
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BoDeans, 2010s dance party, 1980s nostalgia on roster this week in Colorado Springs
Electric Avenue – The 80’s MTV Experience: Relive your 1980s youth or experience it for the first time at this concert, where, if you close your eyes, you can pretend you’re sitting in the front row for Duran Duran, David Bowie or Madonna concert in 1985,.7:30 p.m. Thursday, Pikes Peak Center, 190 S. Cascade Ave.,…
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Live Well: Life lessons via improv
I needed a fix. When life feels a little stale, you often hear the advice to revisit what you loved as a kid. I loved reading, animals, writing, horror movies, playing dress up in my mom’s old clothes from the 1960s and ’70s, and performing. Most of those still ring true, minus the horror movies…