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Free concert series starts tomorrow

The free Gettin’ Down Downtown Summer Concert Series will kickoff tomorrow at America the Beautiful Park
This will be the series’ seventh season, and performances will be from 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesdays during June, July and August.
America the Beautiful Park is at 126 Cimino Drive, east of […]

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Gen Y not down with dressing up for work

The generation gap between executives and those entering the workforce might be evident on casual Fridays.
Ninety-three percent of executives surveyed by OfficeTeam said that a person’s style of dress at work influences his or her chances of earning a promotion.
However, only 4 percent of Generation Y, commonly classified as those born between 1977 and 1994 […]

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Springs makes community arts, culture planning list

Colorado Springs is one of eight Colorado cities chosen for the Collaborative Community Planning Program, a project designed to help cities integrate arts and culture into community planning.
The Springs joins Aurora, Cortez, Englewood, Glenwood Springs, Lakewood, Monte Vista and Steamboat Springs in the program, which is sponsored by Colorado Citizens for […]

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Springs on fittest list – but not smartest list

Colorado Springs may have topped Men’s Fitness magazine’s fittest cities in America list, but it didn’t even make it onto Forbes 25 smartest cities in America list, released this week.
Nope, not even Denver or Pubelo made Forbes’ list, but Boulder, however, was No. 1 for the second consecutive year.
The ratings are based […]

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Starbucks to offer some free wireless service

The Associated Press
SEATTLE _ Starbucks Corp. is teaming up with AT&T Inc. and will start offering a mix of free and paid wireless Internet service in many of its U.S. coffee shops, beginning this spring.
The world’s largest specialty coffee retailer’s move ends a six-year partnership T-Mobile, which did not include […]

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COPPeR, Experience Springs win state grant

Two Colorado Springs organizations that promote tourism earned a matching grant of $15,000 from the Colorado Tourism Office.
Experience Colorado Springs at Pikes Peak, the convention and visitors’ bureau, and the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region, or COPPeR, will use the shared grant money to enhance PeakRadar.com, a cultural activities […]

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Mash still trumps Super Bowl

The Associated Press
NEW YORK _ The 97.5 million viewers who saw the New York Giants’ last-minute win over the New England Patriots made it the most-watched Super Bowl ever and second biggest event in American television history.
Only the “MASH” series finale in 1983, with 106 million viewers, was seen by […]

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Super Bowl might be most watched program ever

The Associated Press
NEW YORK_Very preliminary findings from 49 of the nation’s biggest markets showed that ratings for this year’s Super Bowl, with the New York Giants’ thrilling win over the New England Patriots, were up 6 percent over last year’s big game, according to Nielsen Media Research on Monday.
Experts say those […]

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City receiving $120,000 for destination skate park

The City of Colorado Springs Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services will receive a $120,000 grant from the Phil Long Community Fund and Denver Broncos Charities to help build its destination skate park in Memorial Park.
The new facility, which will be just north of the Sertich Ice Center, will be designed to accommodate […]

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CU won’t flush away $25k

Boulder venture capitalist Brad Feld has donated $25,000 to the University of Colorado for naming rights and a plaque on the second-floor men’s bathroom in the campus’ newly constructed technology hub.
It’s an offer that was flushed away by Feld’s alma mater, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but C.U. officials took […]

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