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Kala Roquemore as Calliope, a woman with writer’s block. Herkimer the Beetle can be spotted in the background. | Courtesy: ...

Theater kids, you’re eating good this month, too. In fact, you can devour 10 plays in one day during The Play Crawl on Oct. 12. Funky Little Theater Company has enlisted 10 playwrights to write ...

I’ve always been of the opinion that September is the best month to be in Colorado. The days are still fairly long, the weather is still warm, the monsoons are behind us, there are still ...

Mountain Metropolitan Transit will begin new service changes at the end of the month. The changes include adjusting the scheduled time of Route 24 at South Carefree Cir. and Tutt Blvd. to allow ...

Colorado Springs Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services was awarded a grant from the National Recreation and Park Association as part of the Million Coaches Challenge. Thanks to the grant, the ...

I am not a religious man. In fact, I am hardly even spiritual. Aside from a brief manic episode (bipolar 1, remember?) — when ...

Pikes Peak Media Company announced today that Fran Zankowski is once again returning as publisher for both the Colorado Springs Independent and Colorado Springs Business Journal. His first day ...

Toe beans and espresso beans combined on Sept. 6 during the grand opening of Comfort & Joy Cat Cafe, Colorado Springs’ latest bizarre cafe experience. In a world where your biggest competitors ...

The road to success runs through Colorado Springs – and it’s a road with fewer potholes, more police officers ensuring public safety, fewer unhoused people, and, oddly, more than a thousand ...

Pueblo Mountain Park, nestled into the Buelah Valley, about 20 miles west of Pueblo offers a treasure trove of hiking experiences. First established in the early 1900’s, it has the distinction ...

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 ...