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Wish We Were Here

Wish We Were Here, Episode 8: CSPD Black — The True Story of COS’ First African American Detective

On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you the story of Ron Stallworth.
By Noel Black and Jake Brownell
Arts

The Big Something Radio Programme, Episode 3 — Extended

In this episode of The Big Something we talk to a Greg Lutze, a Manitou Springs native who co-founded a digital photography company that aspires to be the Kodak of […]
By Jake Brownell and Noel Black
Arts

Letters to the World: The Correspondence of Helen Hunt Jackson and Emily Dickinson

Born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, Emily Dickinson and Helen Hunt Jackson attended the same primary school, and received similar educational instruction in Philosophy, History, Botany and Latin.
By Jake Brownell and Noel Black
Arts

Curator Daisy McGowan on GOCA’s Bright Young Things

Daisy McGowan is the Director and Curator at the UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art in Colorado Springs.
By Jake Brownell and Noel Black
Arts

Susan Davies and “Hiking” Bob Falcone on the State of Trails and Open Spaces

On any summer weekend, a visit to one of the Pikes Peak region’s many open spaces proves just how popular and valuable Colorado Springs’ natural recourses are.
By Jake Brownell and Noel Black
Arts

The Big Something Radio Programme, Episode 6

On Episode #6 of The Big Something, Susan Davies and Bob Falcone and open space coalition discuss trails and open space in Colorado Springs; Poet Robin Izer tells us about […]
By Noel Black and Jake Brownell
Arts

Rev. Dr. Stephany Rose and Dr. Heidi Lewis Discuss Race and Racism in America

On the evening of June 17th, a young white man opened fire on a group of black churchgoers after bible study at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in […]
By Noel Black and Jake Brownell
Arts

A Portrait of the Artist, Charles Rockey

In this segment from last week’s episode of the Big Something, Noel Black brings you a profile of beloved Manitou artist Charles Rockey.
By Jake Brownell and Noel Black
Arts

The Big Something Radio Progamme, Episode 5: Charles Rockey, Pinon Canyon, StoryCorps & More

On this episode of The Big Something Radio Programme, news director Andrea Chalfin speaks with the authors of a paper about the conflict between the military and ranchers in Piñon […]
By Jake Brownell and Noel Black
Wish We Were Here

Wish We Were Here, Episode 7: Bishop Castle

PODCAST   In 1959, at the age of 15, Jim Bishop bought a plot of land in the Wet Mountains, west of Pueblo, Colorado.
By Jake Brownell and Noel Black
Arts

The Big Something Radio Programme, Episode 4: Myron Wood, StoryCorps & More

Segment 1: Myron Wood The late Myron Wood was one of the most prolific  photographers of the Pikes Peak Region and Southwest during the 20th Century.
By Noel Black and Jake Brownell
Arts

The Big Something Episode 3: Poet Gary Snyder, VSCO’s Greg Lutze, and Stoner’s Laundry

On this month’s episode of The Big Something we talk to a Greg Lutze, a Manitou Springs native who co-founded a digital photography company that aspires to be the Kodak […]
By Noel Black and Jake Brownell
Wish We Were Here

Wish We Were Here, Episode 6: Anchor Dreams — The Passion of Scoop Nemeth

(Many poems in the slideshow NSFW or young eyes.) In this episode of Wish We Were Here, we tell the story of Colorado Springs native Brian “Scoop” Nemeth, a man with […]
By Noel Black and Jake Brownell
Arts

The Big Something Radio Programme, Episode 2: Kathryn Eastburn, Geoffrey Keating, and Cory Doctorow

On this month’s episode of The Big Something Radio Programme: Noel Black speaks with author and journalist Kathryn Eastburn about the end of her KRCC column, The Middle Distance, and […]
By Noel Black
Arts

The State of Surveillance: An Interview with Author and Blogger Cory Doctorow

Activist, author, co-editor of the influential blog BoingBoing.net, contributor to The Guardian, The New York Times, and many other publications, Cory Doctorow is one of the essential voices of the […]
By Noel Black
Wish We Were Here

Wish We Were Here, Episode 5: The Gods Must Be Bewildered

In 2002, retired FBI and CIA investigator Charlie Hess began writing letters Robert Charles Browne, a convicted murderer who claimed to have killed dozens of other people around the country.
By Noel Black and Jake Brownell

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