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Artist Rex Ray: Native Son

On November 12, 2012 By

Here’s another hand-to-the-forehead discovery about a native of Colorado Springs who went on to become an amazing artist: Rex Ray (neé Michael Patterson) was born in 1956 and grew up in Colorado Springs. Like so many before and since, he left in his teens and moved straight to San Francisco, spent his [...]

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Figure Heads: Corie Cole’s 3-D Political Cartoons

On November 5, 2012 By

One doesn’t often mention international foreign policy and ceramics in the same breath. Artist Corie Cole took the absurdity of such a proposition to its (il)logical conclusion in what she calls her 3-D political cartoons. As America prepares to cast its ballots in the presidential election on Tuesday, Cole takes us on a first-hand [...]

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Photos from Tuesday’s Big Something Exhibition Opening

On November 1, 2012 By

Thanks to all who came out for The Big Something Exhibition opening reception this past Tuesday evening. If you missed it, Coburn Gallery in the Worner Center on the Colorado College campus is open Monday – Saturday, 1 – 7 p.m. and it’ll be up through November 10.

(Music in this post is a [...]

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Tonight! The Big Something Exhibit at the Coburn Gallery

On October 30, 2012 By

Today, from 4:30 – 7 p.m. at the Coburn Gallery on the Colorado College Campus (at the NW corner of Cache la Poudre and Cascade), The Big Something will jump out of the internet and into Coburn Gallery for our first ever Big Something Exhibition. Featuring the mischievous posters of Roy Linton, [...]

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Floyd D. Tunson: Son of Pop

On October 25, 2012 By

Of all the hidden treasures we try to bring you on The Big Something, few rate as highly as the reclusive local artist Floyd Tunson. A long-time art teacher at Palmer High School, Tunson has been “retired” for over a decade during which time he has devoted himself full-time to his first love. Now [...]

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Save the Date: Big Something Exhibition

On October 16, 2012 By

On Tuesday, October 30 from 4:30 – 7 p.m. at the Coburn Gallery on the Colorado College Campus (at the NW corner of Cache la Poudre and Cascade), The Big Something will jump out of the internet and into Coburn Gallery for our first ever Big Something Exhibition. Featuring the mischievous posters [...]

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WWII Internment Camp Exhibit at UCCS

On October 15, 2012 By

The World War II Amache Japanese Internment Camp in southeastern Colorado is the subject of an exhibit at The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs opening today.

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A Lovely Short Film About Photographer Bill Starr

On October 2, 2012 By

Half As Common from mimi cave on Vimeo.

We’ve been planning for some time to feature the work of local photographer Bill Starr on the Big Something, but have been daunted, admittedly, by the sheer volume of Starr’s work. We’d just finally screwed up the courage to spend some time [...]

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The Confluence of the Arts and Politics

On September 25, 2012 By

As I was watching the Emmy Awards the other night and saw Giancarlo Esposito and Kerry Washington presenting awards, it reminded me of the time I interviewed the two of them and many more members of the Creative Coalition at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. In the 2008 election cycle, it seemed that [...]

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Poets Jessy Randall and Idris Goodwin In-Studio at KRCC

On September 20, 2012 By

Poets Jessy Randall and Idris Goodwin In-Studio at KRCC

Tonight Visiting Writer’s Series event in Gates Common Room (in Palmer Hall) on the Colorado College campus at 7 p.m. will feature CC’s own Jessy Randall, Tutt Special Collections Librarian, and author of the new collection of poems Injecting Dreams Into Cows (Red [...]

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Through the Mario Valdes Looking Glass

On September 17, 2012 By

When cultural institutions have been around as long as KRCC, it can be easy to forget that it hasn’t always been here and that it remains a fluid organization created, molded and sustained by groups of individuals and their visions. One of the most influential individuals in the station’s history is, undoubtedly, Mario Valdes. [...]

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Get Thee to the FAC: 4 Shows to See Now

On September 11, 2012 By

There’s a lot to look forward to at the Fine Arts Center this fall, not the least of which is the Floyd Tunson Retrospective Son of Pop, which opens on October 27. But we also want to implore you to see, if you haven’t already, the spectacular current batch of exhibitions, a startling [...]

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Western Skies: September 2012, “Arts”

On September 2, 2012 By

This month we’re bringing a special fall arts show to the airwaves, highlighting all kinds of creativity in the region.

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The Kings of Space: A Southern Colorado Creative Collective

On August 30, 2012 By

In the midst of putting together a segment focused on the music scene of Colorado Springs we became aware of a collective of musicians and artists who call themselves The Kings of Space. The group is made up of musicians from Southern Colorado bands Briffaut, The Grant Sabin Band, We Are Not a [...]

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The Rebel’s in the Details

On August 21, 2012 By

While we don’t like to indulge in puns as often as newspapers, we couldn’t help ourselves any more than we could when we indulged in the eye candy that was this past weekend’s annual Good Times Car Show in Old Colorado City. From Dodge to Delorean, the cars on display represent the best designs [...]

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Save the,… er, Remember the Barn!

On August 16, 2012 By

Interview with Chuck Snow about the Taylor Barn

If you’ve ever driven through the intersection at Templeton Gap and Fillmore in Colorado Springs, then you probably remember the inspirational murals and mules that lived at the Taylor Barn. Today on the Big Something Radio Program, Noel Black interviews local musician and self-described curmudgeon [...]

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Love’s Labor’s Lost at Rock Ledge Ranch

On August 8, 2012 By

THEATREWORKS returns to the bucolic and enchanted Rock Ledge Ranch for its annual Shakespeare offering. This year, it’s Love’s Labor’s Lost, which director Murray Ross describes as a comedy with a really sad ending. We spoke with Ross and actors Kevin Landis and Amy Brooks about the play.

Love’s Labor’s Lost runs through August [...]

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Bright Young Things at GOCA

On August 7, 2012 By

A tip of the hat to UCCS Gallery of Contemporary Art Curator Daisy McConnell for the lovely and thought-provoking new Bright Young Things exhibition that opened this past friday at GOCA 121 downtown. It’s rare for a major arts institution in Colorado Springs to feature an exhibiton of artists with local ties under [...]

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Round-Up: Funeral services for CSPD officer; Gov. and wife separate; Christo delays “Over the River”

On July 31, 2012 By

Colorado Springs Police Chief Pete Carey says his department is still numb after the death of one of his officers…Governor John Hickenlooper is separating from his wife of ten years, Helen Thorpe…and, the artist Christo is once again delaying the timeline for his Over the River project amid legal challenges against agencies that have given approvals for it.

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Ren Fest Fashion Show

On July 31, 2012 By

We can’t help it. Every year we giddily don costumes and head to the Renaissance Festival in Larkspur, Colorado to sweat turkey grease in 100 degree heat with thousands of other dust-covered nerds in bespoke costumes for what we can only describe as the world’s largest celebration of the anachronism (see last year’s slide [...]

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It’s Blues Time

On July 19, 2012 By

Every year at about this time we like to remind Big Something readers and KRCC listeners what a sleepy little music town this used to be and how if you ever wanted to see a national or international music act you invariably had to drive to Denver. And while we’d like to think [...]

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Local Book On The Man Who Helped Popularize Tattooing

On June 18, 2012 By

Local tattoo enthusiasts Kayla Gronseth and Scott Boyer recently published a spectacularly well-researched and well-designed book about an object of their mutual curiosity: Milton H. Zeis, a one-time circus carney who helped popularize tattooing through clever and well-designed advertising and equipment that promised much and delivered, well… it delivered a great deal of iconic [...]

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Wright Ingraham Preview #2: Solaz

On June 14, 2012 By

If you enjoyed the images of “La Casa,” the home overlooking the Pueblo Reservoir designed by Elizabeth Wright Ingraham, granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, here’s another preview of “Solaz,” the home of artist Dawn Wilde. Coincidentally, both homes recently came on the market and “Solaz” is still without a buyer. Stay tuned for [...]

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News

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Immigration Bill Chugs Along, But Some See Deal-Breakers
May 18, 2013 | NPR · The bipartisan immigration overhaul proposed by the Senate’s Gang of Eight has been the target of scores of amendments. So far, the bill has largely held its own, but its prospects for getting through Congress are uncertain.
 

MCT/Landov
Afghan Mineral Treasures Stay Buried, Hostages To Uncertainty
May 18, 2013 | NPR · Afghanistan is believed to be home to world-class mineral deposits, valued at up to $3 trillion and offering hope for the country’s economic future. But in the current environment of uncertainty, investors are nervous and it could be many years before Afghanistan strikes pay dirt.
 

Turning Up The Heat On Civil Rights-Era Cold Cases
May 18, 2013 | NPR · With the death of a possible suspect in one notorious case, activists are weighing the FBI’s efforts to tackle cases from the 1950s and ’60s. Some are calling for a congressional hearing to see whether the FBI has done enough investigating.
 

Arts & Life

Courtesy Alice Cooper
Not My Job: Three Headless Chicken Questions For Alice Cooper
May 18, 2013 | NPR · We’ve invited the heavy metal rocker to answer three questions about Mike, a chicken in the 1940s who lost his head and still went on to achieve fame and fortune.
 

‘That’s That’: A Memoir Of Loving And Leaving Northern Ireland
May 18, 2013 | NPR · Colin Broderick’s new memoir, That’s That, chronicles his childhood in Northern Ireland during the modern-day “Troubles.” Broderick says growing up in what was essentially a war zone seemed normal to him at the time.
 

AP
Working Women On Television: A Mixed Bag At Best
May 18, 2013 | NPR · Research shows that prime-time television isn’t a bad place to find portrayals of working women. Working moms and working women over 40 are another story.
 

Music

Courtesy of the artist
Ana Popovic Shreds The Belgrade Blues
May 18, 2013 | NPR · The Serbian guitarist fell in love with American blues music as a kid — well before she could understand the words.
 

Courtesy of the artist
Audra McDonald, A Broadway Star Gone Roaming, Comes Home
May 18, 2013 | NPR · After extended jaunts in TV and on the road, McDonald’s first new album in seven years marks a return to her roots in musical theater.
 

Mountain Stage
Steve Forbert On Mountain Stage
May 17, 2013 | NPR · The singer-songwriter performs intense, poetic Americana songs with a rock-tinged twist. Hear five songs from Steve Forbert, recorded live on the campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown.
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