If ever there were to be a “Manitou- concept” restaurant, new kids on the block Vibes, serving 100 percent plant-based plates, just might be the model. Actually, it’s more of a high-vibe socia…
Colorado Springs Art and Music Festival runs 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday at America the Beautiful Park. Admission is free. The event is part of a summer festival series h…
Eventually, 719 Day was bound to fall on a day of the week so meh even a beerfest would be hard-pressed to redeem it.
Pie baker contest alert: The Good Ole Summertime Ice Cream Social and Pie Baking Contest is 5:30 to 8 p.m. Monday in Soda Springs Park, Manitou Springs. Fill out an application at manitousprin…
Dance dance dance. Move and groove your way through Lunch Beat. If this is your first one, top rule is you have to dance. No work talk, just dance. Presented by Inside/Out Youth Services at 22…
Friday through July 7, Green Mountain Falls, most events are free, some require pre-registration, go online for full schedule; greenboxarts.org
FOURTH OF JULY CALENDAR
By Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, opens Friday, 8:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through July 21, CSFAC at CC, 30 W. Dale St., $18 FAC members, $20; 634-5581, csfinearts…
Case in point: fried Spam hot dogs and tripe served at Saturday’s American Express trade luncheon at Herron Park. The buffet was prepared by chef Ravi Kapur, from San Francisco’s Liholiho Yacht Club.
Colorado Music Festival, Chautauqua Auditorium, Boulder Classical music lovers might want to plan an extended vacation to Boulder for the Colorado Music Festival at Chautauqua Auditorium. Perf…
The long-awaited project to build Pikes Peak's new Summit House complex is finally ready to begin. A groundbreaking ceremony will be held Monday at 9 a.m. on the summit of the mountain. The ev…
A look at the history of the Pikes Peak Cog Railway. Late 1880s: Zalmon Simmons, inventor and founder of Simmons Beautyrest Mattress Co., rides to the summit of Pikes Peak on a mule but though…
After more than a century as one of the area's premier tourist attractions, the Pikes Peak Cog Railway's future is in doubt . The railway, which has shuttled generations of visitors on breatht…
Your favorite Colorado mountains? It's a tough question, especially when asked of someone who's topped all of those most prominent points. But Gerry Roach obliged. He has spent his life peak-b…
Frontier Airlines will launch nonstop seasonal flights three days a week on April 8 to Atlanta, but at the same time will end service to Los Angeles and San Jose, Calif., as the Denver-based, …
The Broadmoor, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, is marking another milestone: AAA has named it a five-diamond winner for the 42nd consecutive year in the travel organization's…
Mayor John Suthers was in Pittsburgh a few months ago at a municipal officials conference when attendees saw his "Colorado Springs" name tag and volunteered to him that they had booked visits …
When John Johnstone was wooed by The Broadmoor to take the position of vice president of food and beverage, it was a win for him. But for dining groupies here, it was like winning the sweepsta…
Hippies have become kind of hard to define. Once upon a time they were the flower-power counterculture that dropped acid, drove inexplicably operative VW buses, and protested the bejeezus out …