Family Adventure Day 1:45pm Lazy Sunday mornings quickly turn into cabin-fevered afternoons, so the Pilgers throw on their shoes and coats to head out for a Family Adventure Day…. Story February 7
Hold Fast Coffee Company A blast of hot air conveys through an open doorway bringing along aromas of earthy warmth and anticipation. Burlap bags full of coffee beans in their green state lay stacked on pallets, almost waiting their turn, almost eager. Roasted beans make a skittering sound as they pour into bags to be distributed all over this […] Eat & Drink October 11
Passport to Colorado Springs It’s a perfect 78 degrees, an affable breeze offers its cooling gift, and the sun settles low against the mountains: a summer evening in Colorado Springs. While the scene is familiar and welcome, its happening in a city that is changing. One of the best, most welcome developments is on the food and drink scene, […] Story June 15
Free to Be Family Today was supposed to be down time. It’s the first day of summer break, the kids should sleep in, and Sarah could sink into the sweet sound of nothing. She imagined it: sleeping family, french-pressed coffee, some summer reading, her favorite chair in her favorite corner in a quiet house, free to be herself, and […] Story June 7
First Friday Art Walks The skies were gray, unusual for Colorado Springs, but tonight would be full of color and imagination and culture. A light early Spring mist had fallen in the day, but it lifted, leaving the city with a glittery glint fitting for the occasion. On the First Friday of every month, April through December, Colorado Springs […] Story May 17
La Baguette Café and Upstairs Wine Bar Two doors sit quietly on the odd-numbered side of the street up against the brick-paved walk on Colorado Avenue. One door is mostly glass and the other mostly wood, one brass-handled and the other oiled bronze, one opening up to baked goods, the other to libations abounding. Each an entrance to its own distinguished world, […] Eat & Drink April 20
The Universe Conspires A handful of little rocks, delicately arranged like stones on a necklace, wait in patient single file on the stump of a decades-old tree. The ground of this urban barnyard is covered in fresh mulch, pliant under foot and scattered with stacks of paving stones and concrete blocks, signs of care and creative hope. A […] Explore March 29
Bar Louie The first surprise: the glass front doors open on a staircase where a towering column meticulously covered in tiny tile spires upward. The restaurant is on the second floor, raising your expectations of the place, lifting you above the ordinariness of your day. High-raftered ceilings construct a feeling of volume and room, and the rich […] Eat & Drink March 23
Wobbly Olive A kitschy glowing-blue placard reading “Cocktail Lounge” hangs at knee height by the door, both a Lite-Brite® invitation to take yourself less seriously and a sign of the spirit of the establishment. Named from the combination of two public houses in some forgotten town in England, the Wobbly Olive, a Colorado Springs bar and restaurant […] Eat & Drink March 15
Welcome Fellow Cars, buses and bicycles hurry by on any weekday morning, bearing their passengers to this or that office in Downtown. Hidden in plain sight at Tejon and Willamette is Welcome Fellow, a Colorado Springs coworking space that is anything but this-and-that. A cinder-block bench sits outside the front door, partly as a rest for walkers-by, […] Explore March 8
