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A Father’s Day remembrance: My dad loved a great deal | Stephanie Earls

Updated 2 years ago

On an afternoon in late June 2022, as I sat by my dad’s hospital bed in Colorado Springs, trying to read a book and forget...

Prep notebook: Cheyenne Mountain Stampede features several local, top finishers

Updated 3 years ago

The Cheyenne Mountain Stampede, in many ways, is a preview of cross country’s state field. Norris Penrose Events Center hosted the event last Friday, just...

Pikes Pub: Fountain’s ‘Field of Drinks’ helps ring in a new era of beer fests in Colorado

Updated 3 years ago

If you’ve ever attended a brewfest in Colorado, whatever you paid to enjoy that panoply of samples didn’t go to the businesses that brewed, brought...

Pikes Pub: Check out these new(ish) Colorado Springs craft watering holes

Updated 3 years ago

Covering the craft beat in Colorado Springs is a sweet, but demanding, gig. Blink for too long, and you’ve missed another grand opening, another reason...

Pikes Pub: Beer makers turn off the tap in Russia

Updated 3 years ago

Pikes Pub: Love is in the air, and things are warming up

Updated 4 years ago

Pikes Pub: Gourds and glugs

Updated 4 years ago

For 10 years, an indoor ice skating rink was one of Colorado Springs’ most popular attractions | Did You Ever Wonder?

Updated 4 years ago

Rocking the walls: How I made peace with Colorado dirt

Updated 4 years ago

21 All-American movies to enjoy on the Fourth of July

Updated 4 years ago

For 10 years, an indoor ice skating rink was one of Colorado Springs’ most popular attractions | Did You Ever Wonder?

Updated 4 years ago

Pikes Pub: Biden and Bud probably won’t be buying us a round; Feast of St. Arnold has a date

Updated 4 years ago

Return to ‘new normal’ calls for patience, and perhaps your resume | Pikes Pub

Updated 4 years ago

‘Top Chef’ judge Tom Colicchio on how he’d do as a contestant, the show’s ‘summer camp’ vibe and his favorite dish

Updated 4 years ago

Flagship gone funky? Call the ‘beer detectives’

Updated 5 years ago

When Biff Morehead, of Smiling Toad Brewery, suddenly began encountering a persistent issue with one of his flagship beers not turning out right, he bought...

Pikes Pub: If ever there was a year that needed a beer (poured over its head)

Updated 5 years ago

In honor of the year of horrible “Hold my beer” moments that is, and thankfully almost was, 2020: This Thanksgiving, I am eternally grateful for...

How to grow a Fossil in a pandemic | Pikes Pub

Updated 5 years ago

Spatial math is king in the world of building codes (and pandemic safety), and the rules of the realm can get tricky. Less may equal...

Pikes Pub: A moment of clarity, maybe?

Updated 5 years ago

My dearest Hazy, I am both surprised and heartsick to be writing these words, but I must come clean, something I find impossible to do...

Two Springs breweries medal at Denver’s (virtual) 2020 Great American Beer Festival

Updated 5 years ago

Early crop of pumpkin beers means something different this year | Pikes Pub

Updated 5 years ago

Hamm’s is looking for the owner of the 30-year-old secret beer stash

Updated 5 years ago

Blast from the past: Library makes a surprising find

Updated 5 years ago

An SNL alum proves nice guys don’t always finish last in “Ted Lasso” | TV Review

Updated 5 years ago

Pandemic opening was fait accompli for new brewpub in Colorado Springs | Pikes Pub

Updated 5 years ago

There’s an art to shotgunning a beer | Pikes Pub

Updated 5 years ago

Winding up for a baseball beer season like no other | Pikes Pub

Updated 5 years ago

Crafts & Drafts returns with a new model and redoubled mission | Pikes Pub

Updated 5 years ago

Award-winning Colorado Springs brewery sold, ending ‘unbelievable 13 years’

Updated 5 years ago

The Colorado Springs School hires new leader

Updated 5 years ago

Tambi Tyler, the new head of school at The Colorado Springs School, says she enjoys working around children so much that it doesn’t feel like...

12 Pikes Peak region students among Sachs Foundation scholarship winners

Updated 5 years ago

Colorado Springs-based Sachs Foundation, a nonprofit that provides college scholarships to black students statewide, has awarded scholarships to 39 graduating high school seniors and eight...

Colorado Strong Ale, a benefit beer for pandemic times, hits local taps | Pikes Pub

Updated 5 years ago

Don’t you love it when anxiety gives way to anticipation? OK, we’re not quite there yet. But there’s a chance we could be sipping fresh-from-the-tap...