‘International Women’s Day marks a time to celebrate all of the things that women have accomplished,” says Cindi Zenkert-Strange. “It’s a time for women to be inspired. And it’s also a time to look at remaining challenges, because we’re not done.”
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With vaccine drives ramping up and schools phasing back to full-time learning, hope is on the horizon for the return of a longstanding tradition for many kids in the Pikes Peak region: summer camp. While last summer’s rolling shutdowns, pandemic protocols and quarantines struck a blow to cam…
With daycares and schools closing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, parents have taken on more responsibility for children’s learning and development. For many, this has been a major source of stress. The pandemic and the challenges of learning from home have definitely taken a toll on parents a…
To encourage social distancing during the spread of COVID-19, we are altering our regular “Event Horizon” section for the foreseeable future. While many local events are on hold, we will clue you into at least one local experience — this week: A preview of Lil' Miss Story Hour's Black Histor…
Explore history captured on film with Pueblo Library’s new online exhibit, “Natural Framing: The Life and Work of Frank D. Muramoto.” The exhibit is a fascinating look at the Japanese-American experience here in southern Colorado, as well as a unique display of Colorado history.
Lil’ Miss Story Hour, a local, literacy-based entertainment program led by educator Vanessa Little, is celebrating Black History Month with a special hybrid event on Saturday, Feb. 20. The second annual Black History Month Story Time will offer special guests, music, poetry and crafts along …
To encourage social distancing during the spread of COVID-19, we are altering our regular “Event Horizon” section for the foreseeable future. While many local events are on hold, we will clue you into at least one local experience — this week: A preview of Lil' Miss Story Hour's Black Histor…
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While they’re facing the pandemic pains just like everyone, the team behind local dating podcast Single in the Springs is looking to be a saving grace in the age of loneliness, unhealthy hours of screen time and hopeless-romantic playlists.
Whether you’re swiping left and right on Tinder looking for the one, or you’re already in a committed relationship with a partner or partners, dating these days is tough. Where do you go for a first date when you don’t feel comfortable eating in restaurants or when movie theaters are closed?…
Lea Peterson was vulnerable. She’d lost her husband, an Army soldier, a few years before to cancer. But she thought she might be ready to date again.
To encourage social distancing during the spread of COVID-19, we are altering our regular “Event Horizon” section for the foreseeable future. While many local events are on hold, we will clue you into at least one local experience — this week: We talked to local author Felicia Chavez about h…
Award-winning educator Felicia Chavez has long been an advocate for disruption of the status quo in the creative classroom, namely, changing the traditionalist, white-centered default that stifles student creativity and further marginalizes who already struggle to be heard and seen in every …
While actor Cheech Marin is largely associated with his acting career and his pop culture persona as half of the sassy stoner duo Cheech & Chong, he has also established himself as a devoted patron of the Chicano arts. Over several decades, Marin has amassed an extensive, impressive coll…
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Winter is taking hold and we’re all stuck inside about as often as we’ve ever been, and probably less pleased about it than we’ve ever been. The world outside is scary, and difficult, and the problems of 2020 have followed us into the new year. So we need a safe haven, right? That’s why this…
With a friendship that has spanned decades and a mutual love of books, Annie Robbins of Colorado Springs and Stacy Schubloom of Woodland Park are channeling their passion for reading into a new entrepreneurial endeavor — a podcast that explores books from emerging authors. Launched in Octobe…
To encourage social distancing during the spread of COVID-19, we are altering our regular “Event Horizon” section for the foreseeable future. While many local events are on hold, we will clue you into at least one local experience — this week: the nuWriters podcast, hosted by two local women…
In November, community advocate Juelz Ramirez launched a documentary series called Daily Dose 719, focusing on Southeast Colorado Springs. Each episode tackles a unique aspect of life and health equity — which the World Health Organization defines as “the absence of unfair and avoidable or r…
To encourage social distancing during the spread of COVID-19, we are altering our regular “Event Horizon” section for the foreseeable future. While many local events are on hold, we will clue you into at least one local experience — this week: Daily Dose 719, a new docuseries exploring healt…
The act of creation comes with a caveat: It can get pretty expensive. For 32 years, the Manitou Art Center (MAC) in Manitou Springs has endeavored to make creating as a career more affordable by providing access to tools and studio and exhibition space at significantly reduced costs.
To encourage social distancing during the spread of COVID-19, we are altering our regular “Event Horizon” section for the foreseeable future. While many local events are on hold, we will clue you into at least one local experience — this week: The Gopher King, a novel by Colorado author Goja…
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic upended life in these United States, Americans often found themselves battling another scourge: gun violence. As the novel coronavirus continues to spread, confinement and isolation have not slowed the prevalence of gun-related deaths.
Part of creating a better future includes cultivating an understanding of the world beyond our domestic and international borders. Technology has closed the gap in our ability to communicate with one another across oceans and continents, but there is still work to be done to bring us closer …
Suffering from PTSD, survivor’s guilt and grief over the loss of his wife, Vietnam veteran Stan Przewalski is tethered to the world by a single fraying thread — one he has tried to sever completely on more than one occasion. As his war flashbacks accelerate and his grip on reality deteriorat…
While the stage has remained dark for most of the Pikes Peak Philharmonic’s 2020 season, the spirit and drive of the popular community orchestra have remained strong as its musicians await the day they can perform for live audiences once more. In the meantime, the nonprofit organization is w…
When Sue DiNapoli was battling ovarian cancer, she and her family were distressed to learn that there were no services or support for people with gynecologic cancers similar to the help that was available for breast cancer patients.
Mental health is especially important right now. As COVID-19 ravages the world, one effect of the pandemic that often goes overlooked — due to the more noticeable damage of physical illness and death — is the toll it takes on our psychological well-being.
The Springs Ensemble Theatre is offering audiences beleaguered by excessive holiday cheer a dark and terrifying respite with a powerful digital performance of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous tale of a doctor whose cruel and violent alter ego wreaks havoc on a hapless…
To encourage social distancing during the spread of COVID-19, we are altering our regular “Event Horizon” section for the foreseeable future. While many local events are on hold, we will clue you into at least one local experience — this week: Springs Ensemble Theatre's innovative virtual pe…
When a person receives an end-of-life diagnosis, it creates numerous challenges for the loved ones they will leave behind. Not only must their family come to terms with the knowledge that they will lose someone dear to them, they must simultaneously contend with managing that person’s affair…
The problem of bedlessness might not be well-known in Colorado Springs, but that’s something that Denny Butts, president of the Colorado Springs chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace, intends to change. According to Butts, 2 to 3 percent of children in El Paso County go to sleep at night withou…
There’s good news for fans of Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble’s popular Wintersong performance. While the annual show may not be held live in Shove Chapel as it has been for the last two decades, ensemble members have created an innovative virtual program that will premiere on Facebook and YouT…
To encourage social distancing during the spread of COVID-19, we are altering our regular “Event Horizon” section for the foreseeable future. While many local events are on hold, we will clue you into at least one local experience — this week: Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble's virtual presentat…
As Americans prepared for the first Thanksgiving in the time of the coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a stark warning a week before the big day: Don’t travel.
In the words of board president Jim Lockhart, Wild Connections’ work is “a 25-year project, and ongoing.” This long-standing nonprofit organization, which Lockhart joined just a year after its inception, is at its core a conservation effort, though one that’s entirely unique in its part of t…
This week we celebrated GivingTuesday, a global movement meant to unleash the power of people and organizations in order to transform their communities and the world.
I’ve never seen a show like Zoo Motel. Not sure anyone has except those who have already tuned in for this brand new, interactive online performance. Hosted and promoted by the Millibo Art Theatre, but performed entirely in a single room in Colombia where actor/playwright Thaddeus Phillips i…
Patricia Cameron moved to Southeast Colorado Springs in 1994. She says she could always see the mountains, but her family never had the financial means to actually take part in outdoor recreation. Her story is similar to that of many people of color who have an interest in the outdoors — not…
To encourage social distancing during the spread of COVID-19, we are altering our regular “Event Horizon” section for the foreseeable future. While many local events are on hold, we will clue you into at least one local experience — this week: a live, virtual, interactive theater experience …
Each year, the activist-inspired Wild & Scenic Film Festival hits the road with a condensed mini-festival that gives people all over the country a sample of their larger event, which typically spans five days and includes more than 100 films. Thanks to the efforts of the Fountain Creek W…
When Tyler Warrick came home from serving in the Iraq war, he suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.
