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Readers’ choice: Bear Creek Park love is an invaluable resource for peo- c Whether you’re looking for a place ple who like to eat. Filkin is a one-man to walk your dog off leash at the dog operation, keeping 389 restaurant park, play tennis or just go for a stroll menus updated on his interactive Web along a creek, this wonderful park is site, organized by area and type of cui- the place to go. It’s part urban retreat, sine. Looking for Italian food? Let’spart back-country adventure. At West Eat-Out will give you 18 options in Col- 21st and West 26th streets. orado Springs alone with hours of opROCK FORMATION eration, phone number, directions and GO! choice: Dome Rock a menu with prices. www.lets-eat-out. c If you like your rock formations accom/msie.htm
a classy guy serving classy drinks in a classy environment. GO! choice: Michael Shanks at 15C c Michael Shanks pours a mean — and always ice-cold — martini. And his knowledge is thorough of gin, vodka or your intoxicant of choice, as well as the cigars filling the 15C humidor. What cigar goes best with Pine Knob whiskey, Mike? Try him sometime. Shanks is also easy to chat with when cigars and liquor aren’t the topic. It makes a difference when one of the establishment’s owners is also the guy behind the bar.
you’re not exactly seeing much yourself. 1005 S. Hancock Ave.
PLACE TO FORGET THE DROUGHT GO! choice: Fountain Creek Nature Center c Meander the path through the nature center, stopping to peer quietly at the Nature Center Pond for bullfrog or turtle sightings. The center is designated as a wetland, specifically the Cattail Marsh Wildlife Area, and is home to more than 255 species of birds and 40 other animal species. 320 Peppergrass Lane, Fountain.
city and theirs are in the middle of a mural exchange program. Manitou artist Steve Wood and other volunteers just returned from Nueva after having created a mural on the main government building there. In July, folks from Nueva will return the favor and paint a mural for us.
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GO! choice: Super Target and Super Walmart c These two massive centers east BLOW-UP DOLL along Powers Boulevard are superGO! choice: Twinkie the Kid duper. Spicy tuna roll? Check. Clairol c The giant inflatable Twinkie donning Natural Instincts hair color in shade REASON SISTER CITY a cowboy hat that sways atop the Won“Hawaiian Sunrise”? Check check. FOR ANTICIPATION GO! choice: Nuevo Casas Grandes, der Bread convenience store at Platte Shaggy orange toilet lid cover? Triple GO! choice: Shops at Briargate Mexico Avenue and Institute Street is just check, and we are outta there. Super c Get out your black turtlenecks: Colo- c Gotta love a town called New Big goofy and annoying enough to have rado Springs is gettin’ city-fied. Some Houses. But our sister city in Mexico is Walmart, 1575 Space Center Drive. major kitsch value. Super Target, 3810 Bloomington St. would argue we’ve been a city for more than just a nifty name. Artists, CORPORATE RETREAT quite some time — 500,000 folks in kids and community volunteers in our SEE CITY x PAGE 14 GO! choice: The Challenger Learning the metro community can’t be wrong Center — but with several popular, high-end c You want team-building? Nothing retailers and restaurants scheduled to gets that teamwork thing going like a open at Shops at Briargate (think Potday at Challenger, solving problems tery Barn, The Sharper Image, P.F. cessible by car, Dome is the one for that simulate those astronauts face. Chang’s, California Pizza Kitchen), you. Just head west on U.S. Highway This isn’t just for space cadets. 10215 Springs urbanites have less reason to 24 and turn left on Teller County Road Lexington Drive, Suite 110. 1. Watch for Dome on your way to Crip- drive to Denver. PLACE FOR SMOKERS CELEBRITY ple Creek. You can’t miss it — it looks Readers’ choice: Outside remarkably like a dome, perhaps craft- GO! choice: Spencer, the old English sheepdog ed by a kindergartner with lots of c No hostility there. modeling clay. c Spencer, whose real name is ChampiGO! choice: Jack’s Attic at Jack WORLD CLASS DINING AT THE BROADMOOR on Bugaboo’s Talk’n Out Loud, took RESTORATION Quinn’s best-in-breed in February’s WestminGO! choice: The Broadmoor c You can smoke at will without getc Folks at The Broadmoor call Broad- ster Kennel Club Dog Show. Spencer ofNowhere else will you find so ting any nasty looks. 21 S. Tejon St. ficially belongs to Doug and moor Main the Grande Dame. But, many extraordinary restauPLACE after 80 years of service, the lady was Michaelanne Johnson of Colorado FOR NONSMOKERS rants. showing a little age. So they shut her Springs and Bridgette Callahan of WyoReaders’ choice: Boulder The contemporary charm of down — not for a little face-lift but for ming, but after his big win, he really c The enlightened burg to the north belongs to the world. Charles Court. The savory, a multi-organ transplant. During the is on the cutting edge again, this time wood-grilled fare of The $36 million renovation, workers inCATERER outlawing smoking from all restaustalled 45,850 square feet of Spanish Tavern. Magnificent brunchGO! choice: The Food Designers rants. If you want to drive 90 minutes, marble, 160,000 square feet of carpet, c Whether you’re looking at having es at the Lake Terrace Dining it’s a nonsmokers paradise of clean 47,000 pounds of ductwork and 111 Room. the boss and few friends over for dinair and deep breaths. Watch out for miles of new wiring. Guest rooms ner or your daughter’s wedding guest the Denver smog though. Award-winning fine wines were modernized and the public list includes 500 of her dearest GO! choice: eCity and distinctive charm at The rooms were returned to their original friends, you’ll want to select a caterer c This restaurant and bar on the Penrose Room. Traditional glory. 1 Lake Ave. with the experience to create the city’s northwest side is pulling in good favorites and fun of Café PARKING GARAGE “wow” factor. In Colorado Springs that regional blues, jazz and R&B talent. Julie, The Golden Bee, GO! choice: The Cascade Garage would be The Food Designers. It is a For those who want food, drinks and and more. c This new city garage on the north- full-service catering company, which, music without the cloud of cigarette west side of downtown is actually pret- with the creative direction of owner Join us in the tradition of smoke, it’s the perfect place. (Don’t ty. The green awnings. The brick faHelen Maxson, has been working out world-class excellence. worry, though, smokers in the group cade. The nice arched sign. Gee, you’d party details for 18 years. To get a have a nice deck with a mountain think you were in Aspen. On Cascade glimpse of its capabilities, visit fooddeview where they can light up.) 4659 Avenue at Bijou Street. signers.com. 115 S. 25th St. or call Centennial Blvd. 632-5414. BARTENDER PLACE Readers’ choice: Dan Kinney at MacKCEMETERY TO GET TRIBAL enzie’s Chop House GO! choice: Evergreen Cemetery GO! choice: The Organic Earth Café c Meet Dan Kinney, the marquis barc The burial roster reads like a who’s c You don’t wanna work. You wanna tender in the Concept Restaurants em- who for Springs movers and shakers: bang on the drum all day. Amid the pire since The Ritz’s Johnny Nolan be- William Jackson Palmer himself is burCall Dining Reservations lava lamps in the vegan cafe’s Cosmic atThe Broadmoor came a big-shot owner at Southside ied here (but not his horse, as far as Earth Room, you can bang until the 719-577-5733 Johnny’s. Along with the sizzling we know), Winfield Scott Stratton . . . cows come home — or at least from 9 steaks and fat cigars at MacKenzie’s, you name it, they’re planted here. It’s www.broadmoor.com p.m. to midnight on Mondays. 1124 Manthere are plenty of drinks coming the place to be to be seen — even if itou Ave. across the wide wooden bar. Kinney is
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