It’s Friday, January 24, 2025, and my editor, Ben Trollinger, and I are walking through a muddy field full of angry prairie dogs across the street from Camping World, an RV dealership just off I-25 in ...
Editor’s note: This is the latest installment of a column from John Harner, professor of geography at University of Colorado Colorado Springs and the author of “Profiting from the Peak: Landscape and ...
On one wall, surrealist painter Salvador Dalí winks at me, every crease on his forehead and suit so exquisitely realistic that I want to iron them out of the canvas. His right eyebrow is raised in ...
I first met Eva Zhang on a Friday afternoon. Despite the ice-coated freeways, dozens had come for lunch at China Town Restaurant in downtown Colorado Springs. Zhang scuttled about the restaurant like ...
Editor’s note: This is the latest installment of a column from John Harner, professor of geography at University of Colorado Colorado Springs and the author of “Profiting from the Peak: Landscape and ...
Blessing Yemi Mobolade made history and sent political shockwaves across the state after being elected mayor of Colorado Springs last year. The independent political newcomer survived a mayoral race ...
It’s all over but the shouting — that’s the idiom that’s been kicking around in my head since it was announced back in October that the Rockrimmon Library would close at the end of last month. In one ...
November 20, 2013. It was a brisk afternoon on the sculpture garden lawn at the Fine Arts Center (FAC) in Colorado Springs. The FAC was just coming off a banner year. The Floyd Tunson retrospective ...
The Ford E-350 was equal parts engineering marvel and beautiful art object. The truck was decked out with speakers, a fold-out stage and shelves in the interior so, like some sort of creative ...
Samantha Kelly was teaching a private class at her Pilates studio in downtown Colorado Springs one morning last April when she noticed a man with a blanket draped over his head staring in through her ...
Before Ford Amphitheater had even opened its doors, JW Roth, CEO of Venu (and co-owner of Pikes Peak Media Co., the parent company of The Colorado Springs Independent), had begun planning four ...
Steve Wood was all over the place. Wearing a fedora, T-shirt and paint-splattered hiking pants, he bounced around with the elasticity of a rubber ball as he came up to the mic. Standing in a wide ...