The red Ford F-250 rocked back and forth like a ship on dangerous waters as it made its way up the steep slope. “You’re not afraid of heights, are you?” asked Jerry Schnabel. “I forget to ask people ...

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 ...

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 ...

In its characteristically quiet manner, an era came to an end earlier this month. The Western Jubilee Warehouse Theater hosted what will likely stand as its final show, a celebration of the life of ...

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 ...

The Colorado Office of Economic Development introduced the Community Business Preservation Program at the end of 2023 to strengthen the operations of locally owned businesses facing possible ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is the second 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For me, the comedian John Mulaney perfectly summed up life in the 21st century when he said, “You spend most of your day telling a robot that you’re not a robot.” We’re all just potential replicants ...