When we lived in New York City, there were certain Broadway shows my wife had to drag me to. Often they were musicals. I simply wasn't as interested in the musical extravaganzas as the more epic, "serious" plays. Ironically enough, it was usually the...
"Will It Blend? - iPhone3G" Go to gazette.com/yourtube There's just something irresistible about a mad man with a blender trying to get ahold of an iPhone. It's also inexplicably satisfying to watch such a coveted device get turned to powder in slow motion....
Colorado Springs has plenty of nightclubs where you can dance.But, to Fred Richardson, it hasn't had a real dance club.OK, maybe he's a big city snob. He used to be a rock concert sound tech in Chicago and Minneapolis before moving here to manage T.G.I....
Colorado's king of live music, Chuck Morris, has spent nearly 40 years drawing the biggest names to the Denver area. As a small-club manager in Boulder in the 1970s, he booked The Eagles and ZZ Top, managed Lyle Lovett and Leftover Salmon in the 1980s,...
Few people ever had a more productive old age than Pablo Picasso. And few people ever hated growing old more. "He's full of energy, but he also knows death is around the corner," said Tariana Navas-Nieves, who curated an exhibit...
The sharks won't be back this year. But there be plenty of other cool critters at the El Paso County Fair, which starts Saturday and runs through July 26 in Calhan. Among the unusual furry visitors will be animals from down under: kangaroos, wallabies,...
Either I'm becoming a softie, or Colorado Springs is turning into a great place to eat.During winter and spring, I stumbled through one lame restaurant after another. I became so practiced in culinary insults that one reader wrote: "Maybe your bitterness...
The Peak to Plains Alliance is having its first Locavore Roundup. What's a locavore (aka localvore)? It's a person who eats only food from a small radius of where they live, say 50 miles. The idea is to support local ranchers and farmers....
"LEGEND AND LEGACY" - Historical outdoor theater, 7 p.m. tonight, July 24 and July 31, Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site, off 30th Street across from Garden of the Gods, free....
"The Dark Knight" premiere in New York on Monday got a thumbs-up and a "very good" from the father of the late actor Heath Ledger, according to People. Kim Ledger and wife Ines, Heath's stepmother, slipped into the...