About a year ago, Vicki Gramm and her husband stopped by the Kmart on Nevada Avenue to buy office supplies to donate to a nonprofit animal rescue group. On her way into the store, Gramm noticed a man and two large-breed dogs hunkered down in the bitter cold. "You could tell he was...

Wayne Kwan's life advice to his son, Brian, was simple: Never do drugs or become a lawyer. Travel, if that's what you want. Find your bliss. "I think for a lot of parents, the temptation is to live vicariously through their children. My dad just wanted to see me happy," said Brian...

Beer is to blame for many a tiff, but usually only after it’s been consumed in great quantities. Something of a (sober) beer brawl broke out on social media Wednesday after Focus on the Beer published the results of its 2014 Best of Beer contest. Awhile back, the Colorado Springs...

7 p.m. Friday, The Black Sheep, 2106 E. Platte Ave., $20-22; 227-7625, blacksheeprocks.com When veteran L.A. rapper Murs joined Miami hip-hop group ¡Mayday! for a track on the band's 2012 album, "Take Me to Your Leader," the musical chemistry was undeniable - for the artists and for...

It is perhaps fitting that Theatre 'd Art's first performance in its new space at Cottonwood Center for the Arts is Eugene Ionesco's play, "Rhinoceros," a tale about transformation - and pachyderms. "It deals with the nature of conformity and what it means to change into something...

To travel is better than to arrive, as the old saw goes. True, perhaps, except when you're heading home for the holidays - by plane. Like many people, I do most of my traveling this time of year - have for the past two decades. Though my itinerant lifestyle as a reporter has carried...

"You look like you need this," says a nice man in a yellow volunteer T-shirt, noticing that my face has melted into a briney puddle on the table. "That obvious?" I ask, through a veil of capsaicin-induced tears, as the man refills my tiny beer. The slight exhale required for speech...

Before she met Dr. Ken Gasper, there were times Deanna Smiley didn't feel up to her surname. "There was too much in my mouth for my mouth to handle a nice smile," said Smiley, of Colorado Springs. "I was to a point where I didn't want to smile because of my teeth." She'd had her...

We've come a long way since decorating with lights meant fastening lit candles to a Christmas tree and holding your breath. This holiday season, when you drive through Lite-
Brite neighborhoods, past yards with working trains and glowing Santas that wave and say "Ho, ho, ho,"...

The child, the child, sleeping in the night He will bring us goodness and light... Lelia Guilbert was a newlywed in her early 20s, living on a tight budget in California, when she bought her first nativity set in 1965. "We weren't going to be home that Christmas. I'd been a...