Noel Black

The most memorable exchange in the movie Sling Blade is between Karl, a mentally challenged man just released from the state mental hospital, and Frank, a young boy who’s his […]

It’s not unusual out here in the Middle Distance to begin wondering what we will leave behind when we’re gone.

When we were kids, the long, slow crawl of baseball colored our summer afternoons. Red clay dirt. Freshly drawn baselines of powdered white chalk.

If aging is letting go of adulthood and entering a whole new phase of life, a visit from an adult child can bring that reality into focus.

Why is this day unlike any other?   I get up, as usual, brew one strong cup of coffee, grab a bucket and scissors and walk through the half-lighted dawn, down […]

Colorado Springs native, and Marketplace Education Correspondent Amy Scott is in the process of finishing her first documentary called Oyler.  The Big Something’s Noel Black spoke with her about the […]

The 4th International Journal of Motorcycle Studies Conference will take place beginning tomorrow, July 17 through Saturday.

Local poetry slam team from Hear, Here! will head to the national slam competition from August 5th.

Congratulations to the following artists whose work was selected for the 36 Views of Pikes Peak Post Card Exhibition (and keep in mind that Hokusai actually produced 46 images).

Once upon a June Saturday there was a yard sale, a very big neighborhood yard sale with over 100 households selling the things they didn’t want or need any more.

Ashes, ashes, we all fall down! God, how we loved falling down when we were short and close to the ground.

The Colorado Springs Conservatory is celebrating its 20th Anniversary in the Colorado Springs Community.

I wasn’t a tea party kind of girl, back before the term was appropriated by right-wing politicos.

Colorado Springs-based artist, educator and activist Senga Nengudi hasn’t had much in the way of local recognition despite the fact she’s been collected by The Museum of Modern Art in […]

This Saturday at The Greenwood Cemetery in Canon City at 11 a.m., a memorial service will be held for Joe Arridy , a developmentally disabled man who was executed for […]