‘I had a[n art] show in Salida,” says Audrey Gray, “and this woman said, ‘Hey, I have this really cool stuff. I don’t know what it is. It’s coming up in my backyard. Do you want to come check it out?’”
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I remember getting off a nearly hour-long phone chat this past July with OCC Brewing head brewer Taylor Donner and laughing to myself, thinking, “man, that guy really has beef with milkshake IPAs.”
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This past year, many people decided to give up their normal jobs and pursue their dreams. That is most certainly the case with Nick Pryor and Christian Gutierrez and their company, Pryor Custom Craft. Pryor Custom Craft creates artfully constructed wooden guitar cabinets, studio cases, micro…
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The historic Murphy’s Tavern reopened Nov. 18 after having gone dark early in the pandemic. It’s under the new ownership of majority investor Lance Martinez, who’s also the main stakeholder in Patty Jewett Bar & Grill and the operator of an engineering company, with a real estate develop…
The shopping center at the corner of Delmonico Drive and Rockrimmon Boulevard has a broad selection of quality restaurants, with pizza, Mexican, Jamaican food and a deli.
The original Trivelli’s Hoagies was long-standing on North Nevada Avenue, opened in the late 1970s. Today, the East Coast-style sandwich joint has a location on Space Village Avenue and this Austin Bluffs Parkway spot.
From the Who’s Tommy and Quadrophenia to Green Day’s American Idiot and Beyonce’s Lemonade, the pop music world has produced more than its fair share of rock operas and concept albums. But unless you count Muddy Waters’ Electric Mud — a psychedelic blues project that producer Marshall Chess…
Robert Plant has been so fixated on avoiding nostalgia, it’s extended beyond a reluctance to reunite Led Zeppelin, to include a return engagement with bluegrass star Alison Krauss. Recording executives talked for years of reprising 2007’s Raising Sand album by the duo, but it took prodding b…
When Chvrches released their 2013 debut album The Bones of What You Believe, they were immediately labeled a synth-pop band, which is what happens when you have three musicians who play synthesizers and dress nicely.
Once upon a time there was a young(er) Westsider whose early days of red-card holding mostly saw him hanging his hat at the shops on that side of town. Years later, this seasoned smoker regularly searches for the green kings and queens of southern Colorado’s cannabis scene.
Over the past couple weeks, I've featured the improved and rerouted Daniels Pass Trail and the new Sweetwater Canyon Trail, both parts of Colorado Springs' Daniels Pass project in North Cheyenne Cañon Park. This week, I'll wrap up the project with the new Bruin Trail and a new section of the…
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On Wednesday, Nov. 24, Stargazers will host a thoughtful fundraiser for Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado. What’s being billed as a Holiday Kickoff Party features the driving bluegrass of local supergroup Red Mountain Boys — including Alan Begley on flat-top guitar, Lewis Mock a…
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Doug Pua and Ailene Ting opened the first Shangri-La Restaurant in Briargate in 2003, offering upscale Chinese cuisine with Mandarin and Szechuan specialties.
‘If you Google the show ... it’s kind of marketed as a comedy about depression, which I forcefully reject,” says director Marisa Hébert.
Megan Fuller started a gluten-free restaurant and bakery to meet her own needs as much as anyone else’s. The place she opened, Homemade to go — right in the middle of town, a short walk from Palmer Park — is some miles away from established gluten-free spots in the Old Colorado City, Downtow…
Bird Tree Cafe just released a fully overhauled menu, moving away from all-day offerings to a separate breakfast menu till noon and a shared lunch/dinner menu (which launches at 11 a.m. for an hour of overlap). Choice Restaurant Concepts’ Corporate Executive Chef Noah Siebenaller, who also r…
This past May, Lori Morrissey launched this colorful food truck (with cool cow logo artwork contributed by her 14-year-old daughter and a slick banner wrap) to share her cookies and baked goods with the world, with an assist from Blue Bell ice creams as well as Monument local Lolley’s Ice Cr…
Palmer Lake’s former Depot spot has morphed into many things over the years; currently there’s signage on the complex for a salon, a Wild Bill’s Buffalo Wings location, the Ugly Mug Saloon, and this 8-month-old java stop.
Manitou Art Center has been around since 1988, and it’s still going strong.
According to Jon Khoury, the executive director of Cottonwood Center for the Arts, “relevance” is the most important obligation artists (and arts organizations) have to their community. So instead of planning shows years in advance, Cottonwood leaves room to adjust and adapt, making sure the…
Much like Alt-J’s Joe Newman, Palms vocalist Ben Rothbard’s singing is an acquired taste. In the case of Newman, not everyone acquired it — the “People Also Ask” questions that turn up in an Alt-J Google search include “what is the band everyone hates?” and “why does Alt-J sound like that? —…
‘Not sure if you’ve heard the news, but things are a little crazy in the world of supply and demand out there.” So begins the latest news update on Record Store Day’s website.
It’s hard to say precisely what makes The Dodos’ new album Grizzly Peak (Polyvinyl) superior to the San Francisco duo’s previous seven studio releases. When The Dodos played Colorado Springs’ short-lived Side Door venue in 2019, the signature precise percussion and angular guitar licks alrea…
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It’s that time of year again when one should be thankful and giving, so I was daydreaming about what I was thankful for this year. I’m appreciative that I found a new job in Pueblo and I also give thanks to the universe for my wife.
This hike starts at the Powell parking lot, at the intersection of Gold Camp Road, High Drive and North Cheyenne Cañon Road. Go past the gate and follow Gold Camp Road up and over closed Tunnel #3. You're not going to St. Mary's Falls, so you bear left at the sign pointing towards the falls,…
The "original" Daniels Pass Trail in North Cheyenne Cañon Park is known for its difficulty. It's unreasonably steep and often covered with ground-up Pikes Peak granite that makes climbing difficult — and makes going down dangerous. Add to that some heavy erosion, unmarked trailheads and havi…
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Editor’s note: Some last names have been omitted to protect the privacy of sources.
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Sometimes bands can get caught up in the little things, so it’s important to take a step back and realize why musicians (like myself) perform in the first place — to have fun. And step back is exactly what One of These Nights did. David Gashaw and Daniel Oglesby played together in local indi…
Growing up in suburban Philadelphia, Whitney Peyton led a musically sheltered life, oblivious to horrorcore acts like Insane Clown Posse, Twiztid and Tech N9ne.
Making sure you have your props, your makeup brushes, all your costume components. It’s what Alexandre Valentino Skye calls the pre-show “drag panic.”
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Cinephiles will appreciate the rich history of the Alexander Film Company, unknown to most Springs residents today. Back in the early 1950s, the local production house on North Nevada Avenue employed hundreds of industry workers, making advertisements shown during movie intermissions.
Fly fishers who hit the Deckers/Cheesman Canyon area know about this roadside gem around 20 minutes north (and an hour southwest of metro Denver). But so do plenty of other outdoor enthusiasts who’ve enjoyed its constantly changing menu over the past 15 years since Kurt and Karen Blackwell t…
Since Lindsey Jordan recorded her 2018 debut album as Snail Mail when she was 18, even a three-year hiatus means she’s still only 22 for her second release, Valentine (Matador).
The Stuft Food Emporium opens Nov. 20 in a former Denny’s location. The business originally launched as a festival-focused food truck in Orlando, Florida in 2018, moving to Colorado in 2019. It parked regularly outside the Snooty Foxx for the past year and a half, and plans to stay on the road.
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There are many paths to success, but one of the more unusual ones was traveled by the Guyanese American singer/rapper SAINt JHN. For three years, his achingly infectious “Roses” single had gone relatively unnoticed, until a 19-year old amateur deejay named Imanbek Zeikenov — who at the time …
Seafood and steak spot Bonny & Read’s expansion into sushi has happened with the deliberate decor typical of a Joseph Campana project, complete with an atmospheric purple light and white-blossomed cherry trees in a dedicated second dining room with its own bar.
The text on the street-facing side of Gorditas y Burritos Juanita sits stark black atop white paneling, just big enough that it’s easy to read from the stoplight at the intersection of Platte Avenue and Murray Boulevard.
My newest bud-motivated mission to find that next fat sack brought me to a local mom-and-pop shop I hadn’t noticed before. Tucked away in a small shopping center off Fillmore Street just east of Interstate 25, Levity Wellness is their name, and growing that fine, green fire is most certainly…
