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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the morning of March 24, 1973, just a few months after Republican William L. Armstrong became the first person to represent Colorado’s newly created Congressional House District 5, a wrecking ball ...

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 ...

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 ...

This past Christmas Eve, Kristy Milligan was getting ready to leave work. She runs Westside Cares, a nonprofit in Old Colorado City that provides food, health care, clothing and financial assistance ...

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 ...

Porta-potties were set up on the roof of San Francisco City Hall in 1998. A group of five overall-clad workers from the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades rubbed 24k gold squares into ...

Before Dave Philipps won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for “Other Than Honorable” — a series of articles in the Colorado Springs Gazette that shed light on the way wounded soldiers, many with post-traumatic ...

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 ...