Tag: local
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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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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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Northern El Paso County has now-extinct early towns most people have never known about
There are hundreds of little ghost towns throughout Colorado, hidden away in or near the former gold rush mining camps or settlements or near the railroads. They’re easy to spot and pass by on the way to popular ski areas. But there are others that are extinct with names that have never been on highway…
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Dozens of aircraft on display, perform at Pikes Peak Regional Airshow in Colorado Springs
Twenty-two performer aircraft, 17 exhibitor aircraft and eight vehicles. Pikes Peak Regional Airshow, the state’s largest airshow, returns with an assortment of rare warbirds, airshow performers, static aircraft displays and the popular interactive kids zone. The event, hosted by the National Museum of WWII Aviation and the Colorado Springs Sports Corporation, is Saturday and Sunday…
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Colorado Springs powwow attracts more than 100 Native American dancers
Fancy dance, jingle dress dance, prairie chicken dance. More than 100 Native American dancers from Colorado and surrounding states will participate in about half a dozen dances at the annual Garden of the Gods Rock Ledge Ranch Powwow. The event is 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, with grand entry at noon, at Rock Ledge Ranch Historic…
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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,…