Author: By Jennifer Mulson [email protected]

During his first deployment at Al Dhafra Air Base in United Arab Emirates, Army Sgt. Anthony Castillo made his mark. Between March and September, the mobility specialist assigned to the Bravo Battery 3-157th Field Artillery Regiment and Colorado National Guard painted 10 murals around the military base 20 miles south of Abu Dhabi. “I’m trying…

This Colorado Santa is making a special trip from Monument to Ukraine in December. For the last two-dozen Novembers and Decembers, Max Hatfield has moseyed down the street to his Christmas tree lot off Lake Woodmoor Drive. Beginning the day after Thanksgiving, Hatfield will sell six species of trees in the lot that sprawls in…

A decade ago, Joanna Fix didn’t think twice about her morning routine. She’d wake up, take her dog for a walk, make breakfast, get ready for work and drive to the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., where she was a psychology professor. In her free time she did psychological testing for local law…

Many have tried and all have succumbed to Mary Smith’s mighty tailwind. Even from a distance, Smith cuts an impressive image as she stands on the Rampart High School track. With her snow-white pixie haircut, black shirt, black Spandex shorts, white-rimmed sunglasses and teal blue and gray spiked Saucony Ballista MD running shoes, you might…

Under Don Barnhart’s tutelage, a night at the comedy club might double as a free therapy session. There’s often a queue of people hoping to be part of one of the comedic hypnotist’s shows. Some are even what Barnhart calls “hypno-junkies” — his repeat customers. “People need an excuse to let loose,” Barnhart said from…

The very characters we created to make us smile are now the stuff of our nightmares. Clowns. The creative forces behind the 13th annual Aftermath Haunted House in Cañon City make sure to keep a fully stocked horde of the bumbling, stumbling, rouged evildoers on hand every year. 12 weekend things to do around Colorado…

Native American artist and activist Gregg Deal’s recipe is equal parts street art, graphic styles and performance art, with generous dollops of punk music, comic books and superhero fiction. He does it with one prevailing purpose. “I’m trying to challenge the Western perception,” he said, “and create something that helps move the needle forward of…

Alexandre Renoir grew up hearing the stories his family told about his great-grandfather. He appreciated them, sure, but he was a little kid. It wasn’t until his early teens that he realized the enormity of his relative’s contribution: Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the founding fathers of impressionism, the 19th-century art movement that also starred…

An enormous, vital ecosystem exists to the north, likely to the surprise of most. The prairie wetlands, which span more than 300,000 square miles from western Canada to South Dakota, are home to millions of birds and other species. But the habitat is slowly being decimated. Research published by the journal Science in 2019 revealed…