Tag: life
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Celebrating Vance Kirkland, Colorado artists, decorative art at Denver’s Kirkland Museum
The celebrated Colorado artist Vance Kirkland was a man of many dots. And the Denver museum The Kirkland celebrates each one of them, as well as its robust collection of international decorative art and a wealth of artists affiliated with Colorado, including Artus Van Briggle, Chuck Parson, Collin Parson, Emilio Lobato, Sushe Felix and Tracy…
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Flying W Ranch: A western tradition triumphs over tragedy in Colorado Springs
The crowd has moved through the line, filling trays with chicken, brisket, potatoes, beans, biscuits and applesauce made just the way an adoring mother made it more than 70 years ago. Now the people are back at their seats, back at the picnic tables lining this dining hall at a historic ranch in Colorado Springs,…
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How Vail became the biggest name in skiing
Before the sun rose over Colorado’s Gore Range on March 19, 1957, two men in an Army surplus Jeep pulled off a logging road “and prepared to climb a mountain that had no name.” Pete Seibert went on to write about he and Earl Eaton breaking trail through deep snow and dense woods and over…
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Crested Butte worth a visit next summer for abundant wealth of wildflowers
Countless seasons ago, Mother Nature found herself in an antsy state on a particularly frigid winter day. Warmth was but a fuzzy memory, and she idled with a serious case of spring fever. Throwing open the doors of her Colorado cabin, she burst into the gloom with fistfuls of seeds — lupine, tall chiming bells,…
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Q&A with Ali Siddiq: Bringing his award-winning stories to Colorado Springs
There are some comedians who just tell jokes. Then there’s Ali Siddiq, who might spend 20 minutes telling you about one thing that happened 20 years ago and, somehow, you’re completely invested in how it ends. Siddiq has made a career out of storytelling, turning family drama, fatherhood, childhood memories and some of life’s most…
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Oddity & Fear Fest brings all things strange and spooky to Colorado Springs
Skulls, taxidermy and tarot cards — oh my! Colorado Springs’ Oddity & Fear Fest is bringing a little bit of everything strange and spooky to town this weekend. Returning to the Colorado Springs Event Center at 3960 Palmer Park Blvd., the festival will bring together artists, vendors and performers specializing in all things unusual and…
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Disco fever, rap music and a silent concert hit the Springs this week
DISCO REVUE: Dust off the bell-bottoms and get ready to boogie when seven-piece live band Disco Revue brings the glitter, groove and Studio 54 energy to Stargazers Theatre & Event Center. Expect powerhouse vocals, iconic ’70s hits and enough sequins to make you feel like you’ve stepped straight onto the dance floor at the height…
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Vegetable Justice: A tradition like no other at Colorado Renaissance Festival
LARKSPUR — Beside a giant rocking horse and maze, and not far from the jousting arena and unicorn, a crowd gathers to see a man take tomatoes to the face. At least this is the goal for participants of Vegetable Justice: to hurl tomatoes at the face poking through the hole in the wall. This…
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Apples, fritters and 25-cent coffee
Owners Sam and Cooper Banning and incoming General Manager Amy Dawn Bourlon-Hilterbran have some big menu plans in store for the Penrose Apple Shed at 708 Fremont Street in Fremont County when it is fully reopened. Bourlon-Hilterbran, who is leading the resurrection of the historic shed, which has been closed for more than 20 years,…
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Things heat up in Pueblo: The 32nd annual Chile & Frijoles Festival returns
The smell comes first; smoky, sharp and familiar. Before you see the crowds, hear the music or spot the rows of vendors lining Pueblo’s Union Avenue, there’s a good chance your nose will reveal the star of the weekend: chiles. Roasting over an open flame, their skins blister and pop as its unmistakable scent drifts…