Tag: jennifer mulson
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New Colorado Springs exhibit commemorates state’s 150th anniversary, asks what’s next
You’ve heard the story of Colorado Springs founder Gen. William J. Palmer, but have you heard the story of Joyce Gilmer, the city’s first Black female real estate broker who opened her own company in the mid-1970s? You also likely haven’t heard about Charles Banks, a Buffalo Soldier who mobilized civil rights action in the…
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Parade of Homes showcases more than 30 homes around Colorado Springs
Step away from the Architectural Digest home tour videos and into actual homes during the Parade of Homes. This year’s 72nd annual event, which is one of the longest, continuously run home parades in the country, opens Friday and runs through Sept. 27. It runs daily except Mondays and Tuesdays. The 17-day event showcases 33…
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Parade of Homes showcases more than 30 homes around Colorado Springs
Step away from the Architectural Digest home tour videos and into actual homes during the Parade of Homes. This year’s 72nd annual event, which is one of the longest, continuously run home parades in the country, opened last Friday and runs through Sept. 27. It runs daily except Mondays and Tuesdays. The 17-day event showcases…
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Commonwheel Art Festival, First Friday openings bring new exhibits to Manitou Springs, Colorado Springs
– Commonwheel Art Festival by Commonwheel Artists Co-Op: Instead of forest bathing, why not art bathing? Walk the outdoor aisles of the annual Labor Day weekend festival and allow it to nourish you with hundreds of pieces of fine art and contemporary crafts by dozens of artists in all mediums, including pottery, painting, photography, glass…
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Inaugural Dot Days festival honors Colorado Springs arts advocate
Dorothy “Dot” Heller was a connoisseur of the arts and humanities. Married to the acclaimed Colorado Springs artist Larry Heller, Dot also led a noteworthy life, becoming the city’s fifth social investigator, and essentially an officer, with the Colorado Springs Police Department in 1914. The couple lived in a white adobe ranch house east of…
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New Colorado Springs exhibit features multimedia works by Barbadian artist Annalee Davis
We can’t help but be shaped by the places we live and frequent. For artist Annalee Davis, that’s Barbados, a southern Caribbean nation first colonized by the British in 1627 and used as its first sugarcane plantation experiment. The small island was transformed into a monocrop worked by imported indentured and enslaved labor to create…
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Live Well: Return to your love of singing with Bristol Beer Choir
It’s low-stakes singing that comes with a high reward. Every Sunday night for 90 minutes, Wes Sparkes directs a mishmash of singers from behind a piano at Ivywild School. Sometimes rehearsals are inside Bristol Brewing Co.; sometimes they’re in the barrel room. Other times, like this summer, they need a larger space, like the Ivywild…
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Denver-area auto museum stands as a shrine on wheels
ARVADA — Novelist Clive Cussler’s fictional character Dirk Pitt was a swashbuckling, car-loving, shipwreck-seeking sort of hero. Pretty much like the man who created him. Cussler, the New York Times best-selling author who died in 2020 at 88, left behind an impressive legacy. Not only did he write around 80 thrillers by the time of…
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Pikes Pick: Free Saturday night movies at Ivywild School in Colorado Springs
While we might not have a drive-in movie theater in the Pikes Peak region, we do have Movies Under the Stars by Bristol Brewing Co. The brewery is holding free Saturday night movies in September and October in the Bristol Schoolyard at the Ivywild School, 1604 S. Cascade Ave. September flicks start at 7:30 p.m.,…
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10 things not to miss at Colorado State Fair in Pueblo
It’s a fair to remember. As a way to honor the country’s 250th anniversary and Colorado’s 150th anniversary, the Colorado State Fair is calling its 11-day event a “Fairitage.” Fun fact: The fair is four years older than the state. And it attracts between 400,000 and 500,000 visitors from around the state and the country.…