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Seasonings' greetings from the Colorado Springs In

Seasonings' greetings from the Colorado Springs Indy team! Our office will be closed Thursday and Friday as well as Dec. 25 - Jan. 3, so our staff can enjoy time with their family. We wish everyone a happy holidays and ask you please celebrate safely! Also #shoplocal if getting takeout and/or buying gifts!!! Our neighbors i.e local business owners need our support!!! #csindy #happyholidays #timeoff

Thai Lily owner/chef Sakeo Williams caught our Foo

Thai Lily owner/chef Sakeo Williams caught our Food and Drink Editor @matthewschniper's attention with alluring social media photos of her new mochi donuts ($2 each; minimum order six, 12 for $22). Due to COVID’s impact on her business (closed to on-site dining), she recently expanded desserts to make up for losses.
We order one of each donut available that night, adding a bowl of Tom Kha shrimp soup. It’s an excellent rendition, with tail-on prawns and button mushrooms swimming in a delightfully scorching lemongrass-coconut milk broth, rich with fish sauce and citrus sourness. She makes the donuts with glutinous rice flour (confusingly gluten-free), which gift a distinct chewier texture, like fried boba we imagine. Read more at csindy.com. #donuts #glutenfree #csindy

Where are you finding the best gifts locally this

Where are you finding the best gifts locally this holiday shopping season? Give your favorite local businesses some love by tagging them in the comment section below so others can check them out!!! #listentothepenguin #shoplocal #coloradosprings #pikespeakregion #supportthesprings #csindy

With new COVID measures in effect and cold winter

With new COVID measures in effect and cold winter days making the great outdoors a far less palatable escape than it was during the spring restrictions, you’re probably wondering just how you’re going to get through the next few months without succumbing to total apathy. After all, there are only so many Netflix binges and Animal Crossing tasks you can complete each day. However, while it is safer to stay home, there is no need to consign your mind to the house as well. With the days ahead uncertain, it just might be the perfect time for a digital renaissance, and you can launch yours at @pikespeaklibrarydistrict. Read more at csindy.com. #pikespeakregion #csindy #digitalrenaissance

Public art has provided accessible avenues of exp

Public art has provided accessible avenues of expression during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering ways to create, exhibit and consume artwork in a safe and socially distant fashion. But public art can do much more. It can make a place feel more vibrant, alive. While the annual Art on the Streets program has ensured a walkable gallery of art has been established in downtown Colorado Springs, colorful public art is reaching other parts of the city as well. And this year, much of that color blossomed in Southeast Colorado Springs. For instance, OnebodyEnt/K-Land Community Cares, Relevant Word Ministries, Hillside Connection, and the Dunlap family unveiled a mural in John Adams Park honoring the late mentor and youth advocate Sam Dunlap Jr., painted by Paes 164 of the Knobhill Urban Arts District. Community advocate Juelz Ramirez worked with Claire Swinford, director of urban engagement with the Downtown Partnership, to install “get out the vote” murals at the Mission Trace Shopping Center and the Hillside Community Center before the November election. Soon, the utility boxes around Pikes Peak Park will sport a variety of designs and colors. Read more about community members bringing art to the Southeast at csindy.com. #art #community #southeastcoloradosprings #csindy

A fire started around noon Thursday near Bear Cree

A fire started around noon Thursday near Bear Creek Park and Electra Drive in Colorado Springs. The surrounding Skyway neighborhood is under a mandatory evacuation, according to a post on the city's Facebook page. "Additionally, North Cheyenne Cañon, Red Rock Canyon Open Space and the Section 16 trail are currently being evacuated, and Gold camp road and High drive are closed," it says. "Cheyenne Mountain High School is the meeting point for evacuees." The city asked people avoid the area so residents can evacuate and emergency responders can battle the fire.

Skate in the Park, an outdoor skating rink in Acac

Skate in the Park, an outdoor skating rink in Acacia Park downtown, opened for the season Nov. 13, with restrictions in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. It will be open until Jan. 31, 2021. Tickets are available online only, two weeks in advance. Private rink rentals are also available. See more details at downtowncs.com/skate. #skateinthepark #downtowncos #csindy

@solsagefoodtruck co-owner and chef Nick Yatsko an

@solsagefoodtruck co-owner and chef Nick Yatsko and co-owner Bria Naylor focus on homemade sausages and all-pork burgers with only one detour to hit Polish-style pierogies — a nod to their roots and the Polish communities found around Greensburg, Pennsylvania. There’s sweet or spicy sausage options, otherwise plated the same way, and two burgers that head different directions, even with separate bun styles. Fries are $2 and kids can get a beef hot dog. That’s it. Read more from our review of the food truck at csindy.com. #foodreview #coloradosprings #csindy

Patrice Ravenscroft, who serves as associate direc

Patrice Ravenscroft, who serves as associate director of philanthropic engagement at UCCS, walks through the new public sculpture “The Windmill Project” by artist Patrick Marold located behind the Ent Center for the Arts. From @uccs: Marold is a Colorado-based artist who explores the intersection between natural phenomena, energy and perception through art that includes renewable energy as its primary component. “The Windmill Project” is comprised of 2,000 8-feet tall posts with wind-activated components which turn small generators powering LED downlights. When installed outdoors, the site-responsive sculpture illuminates the wind’s movement across the landscape and visualizes “a living body of light”. The sculpture will be up until Oct. 1, 2021.

It’s fall, and while pumpkin beers continue to l

It’s fall, and while pumpkin beers continue to land under the “love it or hate it” umbrella, the folks at Metric Brewing have put their best squash-and-spice brew on tap. Though we’re not interested in calling something the best pumpkin beer, this one has the best name for a pumpkin beer: Blood of Our Enemies, which makes us wish for a skull to pour this crowler into, because that’s metal as hell. Names aside, the color’s spot on for an autumn seasonal, a perfect dark, ruddy amber. Read more at csindy.com. #pumpkinbeer #craftbeer #coloradosprings #csindy

Happy almost Friday to all of our wonderful Indy f

Happy almost Friday to all of our wonderful Indy followers! Here are a few of our favorite Photos of the Day we've received for our new Indy Now email blast you can sign up for at csindy.com. Also, don't forget to submit your best or dare we say favorite mermaid-inspired photos to be featured at csindy.com/photos. #csindy #photooftheday📷 #indynow

Community group Be the Change 719 held a fall fe

Community group Be the Change 719 held a fall festival at Van Diest Park in Southeast Colorado Springs Oct. 31. The event had free candy for kids, free books provided by the Black Educators Network, and free pumpkins. “We just want to provide a safe environment for children and parents; instead of taking them door-to-door, they can take them to the park,” said organizer Latrina Ollie.

These jack-o-lantern faces are one in a melon! Our

These jack-o-lantern faces are one in a melon! Our advertising director's kiddos couldn't find any pumpkins to carve at the store so they improvised and bought watermelons. We think they turned out great! Happy Halloween! 🎃👻🎃👻 Stay safe tonight Indy readers! #happyhalloween #csindy

A herd of about 500 cashmere goats eats brush and

A herd of about 500 cashmere goats eats brush and weeds at Bear Creek Regional Park Oct. 23. They organically control weed growth on 20 acres of the park surrounding the Charmaine Nymann Community Garden. #weedcontrol #goatstyle #coloradosprings #csindy

Welcome back to the Indy’s annual Best Of award

Welcome back to the Indy’s annual Best Of awards! Last week, we brought you our reader-chosen winners in local food, drink and nightlife. This week, we’re highlighting the Best Of Colorado Springs in community, shopping, services, health and wellness, and cannabis. Phew! While the food and drink industry has been especially hard hit by the pandemic, there isn’t a single sector of our city that has remained untouched by health concerns or stay-at-home restrictions over the past eight months. Think about it. October is Arts Month, usually packed full of new, in-person cultural experiences. As our artists and creatives work tirelessly to present their work in safe and socially distant formats, or on a digital platform, they could use a hell of a boost. Meanwhile, local retail outlets have struggled to offer the same products and services they provided pre-pandemic, all while trying to keep the mom-and-pop shop feeling, even when folks are buying online more than ever. And nonprofits, many of which pivoted services to address needs specific to the pandemic, are in a bind. Though lots of people have less to donate these days, the need has never been greater. Then, of course, there are our health care workers, who have stuck it out on the front lines of a global health crisis, risking themselves to keep us and our families safe. All of these industries and more have faced hardships, but the people who keep the cogs turning have been amazing in the face of it all. Inspiring. And it is our honor to award them for their hard work on behalf of our community. So, congrats to our winners, profiled in the following issue. We wouldn’t be Colorado Springs without you! Pick up this week's Indy out on racks today or read the digital edition online at csindy.com. >>>> Don't forget to get your virtual or in-person tickets to the Indy's Best Of 2020 Colorado Springs party postponed until June 3, 2021 at csindy.com/events. Cover design by Elena Trapp. #indybestof #coloradosprings #partylikeitsnot2020

Our staff has been busy out delivering #IndyBestOf

Our staff has been busy out delivering #IndyBestOf awards for the food, drink and nightlife life categories! Don't forgot to pick up tomorrow's edition of the Indy for Vol. 2 or check out the digital flipbook online at csindy.com to see who won in the community, shopping, services, health and wellness and cannabis categories! #csindy #coloradosprings

There’s the kind of weird that a “keep whoever

There’s the kind of weird that a “keep whoever weird” town sells to tourists, and then there’s genuine weird that’s harder to market and so much more interesting. The vibe at @lulusdownstairs falls in the latter category. Elements of the Tiki decor from the upstairs area’s Castaways days remain, adding to the liminal vibe of drinking on a porch overlooking east Manitou and the parking lot of an Econo Lodge. A clear case by the bar that looks like it once housed uber-kitschy tourist glasses now holds a commendable array of craft beer cans, which is nice, because we’re reviewing the drinks, not the vibe. The signature Mezcal Antigua lands satisfying if somewhat imperceptible, as it’s a batch-made drink our bartender can’t break down for us. Read more at csindy.com. #manitousprings #csindy

Congratulations to @blackhatdistillery for being v

Congratulations to @blackhatdistillery for being voted Silver for Best New Bar AND for being home to the Gold and Silver Bartender/Mixologists Ashlee Choi and Montana Horsfall. Keep an eye out as we highlight other #IndyBestOf winners over the next few weeks! #coloradosprings #blackhatdistillery #csindy

On Oct. 13, Colorado Springs City Council unanimo

On Oct. 13, Colorado Springs City Council unanimously voted to pass a resolution that will establish Indigenous People’s Day as a permanent holiday, occurring annually on the second Monday in October.

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Today is the first day that the Colorado Springs Indy "Best Of" Winners will be announced! Keep your eyes peeled for these tri-layered wall plaques as they start to pop up all around Colorado Springs. We are honored to have been chosen to create these awards for our community for another year! Go find your copy of the Independent to see who won!

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