I stood in Lindsay Hand’s downtown art studio, feeling the creaks of the wooden floor beneath my feet and hearing the large building, filled with several art studios and offices, breathe and shift slightly around me. I held a coffee I’d just purchased from the Starbucks down the street and smiled at Lindsay. Her short […]
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The people in the picture above come from a leper colony I brought aid to while living in India. They are Untouchables, some of the most abused people in the world. They live in constant physical pain and dire conditions because their society deems them unworthy of anything else. From birth, members of the Untouchable
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The Keystone XL Pipeline is a proposed project that runs from the Canadian sand fields to Steel City, Nebraska. From there it goes further south until it reaches Houston and Port Arthur, Texas. It would improve upon the current Keystone Pipeline by cutting the distance between Hardesty, Canada and Steel City, Nebraska nearly in half.
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The movie, Loving, will open at Kimball’s Theater in downtown Colorado Springs on November 23, 2016. The film follows the courtship and marriage of Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man. They are arrested and sentenced to prison in Virginia in 1958 because their interracial marriage violates the state’s anti-miscegenation laws. Exiled
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It’s not healthy to go outside, nor is it safe. The sunshine hides. Morning rains no longer carry a refreshing scent. Breathing was never meant to bring fear yet now, anxiety has become a byproduct of this natural function. The city’s means of transportation have birthed smog beams so thick they could be slit with
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Venetucci Farm is one of Colorado Springs’ beloved local assets. It has come a long way over the years. The Venetucci family began plowing the fields off the dirt roads outside the city in the 1930s. Growing up, Nick Venetucci watched his father work long, hard hours in a coal mine. He wanted to earn
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