Meet Julia Wright, organizer of the Commonwheel Art Festival
Manitou Springs is full of larger-than-life personas – think of civic legends like former Mayor and Colorado state representative Marcy…
Manitou Springs is full of larger-than-life personas – think of civic legends like former Mayor and Colorado state representative Marcy…
Last week I wrote about my parents’ glittering 1926 wedding in the then-new Grace Episcopal Church, the first couple to…
The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum recently debuted an interesting exhibit titled “50% of the Story: Women Expressing Creativity.” It’s an…
The proposed Old Colorado City Downtown Development Authority has a beguiling name. We Westsiders love OCC, want it to flourish…
Welcome to the presidential race! On November 5th, the septuagenarian Donald Trump will face off against the octogenarian Joe Biden.…
Idon’t know whether to laugh, cry or be thankful – but the nasty little black slab that I carry in…
Might as well admit it – I’m addicted to historic preservation. Born in 1940, I grew up in a house…
One of the attractions of Old Colorado City and the historic Westside is the absence of defined and exclusionary boundaries.…
As the first issue of the new Colorado Springs Independent hit the streets, I was reminded of the little rag…
Remember a few years ago when serial entrepreneur Perry Sanders announced his plans for a 115-story downtown building? It didn’t…