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@thebeerspa's online calendar is booked out steady

@thebeerspa's online calendar is booked out steady into the future. And though this is a first-of-its-kind operation in these parts, it’s actually inspired by a place in Poland that founders Jessica French and Damien Zouaoui discovered on their travels through 25 countries, as they sought inspiration for an “innovative” business to launch together. It’s worth reading the story on their web page that details this adventure and what they learned about the long history of bathing culture dating to the Romans, Egyptians and beyond. Anyway, their journey took them from New York to trendy, beer-friendly Denver, where they personalized their beer spa concept with a self-serve taproom and other cool touches they borrowed from places of travel inspiration, including Hungary and South Korea. Each month, a different Colorado brewery does a six-handle tap takeover. (June hosts Arvada’s Spice Trade Brewing.) The other four in the 10-tap system are devoted to a rotating gluten-free beer, a cider, and one red and one white Infinite Monkey Theorem wine. Read more at csindy.com. #summerfun #beerspa #colorado #csindy

For most of us, this time last year marked the be

For most of us, this time last year marked the beginning of the Summer That Time Forgot. Nearly everywhere was locked down, there was little to do with our hard-earned money except stuff it under a mattress and everyone was avoiding each other like, well… the plague. One year later and the excitement is palpable. Businesses are reopening, there are places to go, things to see, people to touch (or something) and mattress money to burn. That’s where we come in. Our hope is, as you peruse the pages of this special edition of the Indy, that you find idea after idea for exciting, affordable and adventurous things to do this summer — whether that’s camping, fishing, hiking, sightseeing or bathing in beer, we’re pretty sure there’s something here for everyone. So what are you waiting for, Indy reader? Summer adventure awaits! Available at racks today and online at csindy.com!!! #summeradventure #colorado #csindy #alwaysfree

Kick the lockdown blues with the sounds of summer

Kick the lockdown blues with the sounds of summer at the first-ever Music at the Indy! Miss those backyard barbecues that filled the air with music, laughter and the smell of good food? So did we! That’s why we created a new FREE event kicking off this summer, Music at the Indy! Join us every third Wednesday of each month from June to October, from 6 to 8 p.m for an outdoor concert in the Indy’s parking lot. Great music, food trucks and fun are all on the schedule for Music at the Indy! Opening June 16 is Cari Dell Trio!! Check out csindy.com/events for more information! #musicattheindy #freeconcert #livemusic #coloradosprings #csindy

It’s a bustling morning at El Super Taco with a

It’s a bustling morning at El Super Taco with an almost full dining room and a steady line of patrons to the door for breakfast burritos. From six options, we try the two beef variants: steak and Machaca, both rolled with egg and cheese in a toasted flour tortilla: $6.60 and $5.90 respectively. The chewy, straightforward steak comes in cubed hunks, while the more dynamic Machaca (traditionally carne seca, dried beef, owing its origins to northern Mexico cowboys and ranchers as a preservation method) is shredded beef, more seasoned with spices and bearing some tomato bits. Both are substantial and great with included, mildly spicy and deeply earthy chile rojo and verde sauces. Read more at csindy.com. #breakfastburritos #coloradosprings #foodreview #csindy

Are you ready for an EPIC week celebrating small b

Are you ready for an EPIC week celebrating small businesses?! Then register today for the Small Business Week Pikes Peak Region events and workshops! This year we will offer both in person and online attendance options so you can participate in the way that is best for you! In person tickets are limited so be sure to register today: https://linktr.ee/SmallBusinessWeek
#smallbusinessweek #supportlocal #shopsmall #smallbusiness #pikespeakregion

We’re busy over at @sunshine.studios.live gettin

We’re busy over at @sunshine.studios.live getting ready for tonight’s Indy Best Of Colorado Springs party! It’s not too late to get your tickets at csindy.com/events! Tickets are now buy one get one half off by using the promo code: BOGOdecadence21. We invite you to celebrate your favorite decade, whether it’s the Roaring 20s, Disco-Dancing 70s or Gloomy Grunge 90s!!!
#letspartylikeitsnot2020 #livemusic #dancing #food #drinks #dontmissout

BUY ONE GET ONE 50% OFF SALE ALERT!!! We’re le

BUY ONE GET ONE 50% OFF SALE ALERT!!!
We’re less than a week away from our delayed 2020 Indy Best Of Colorado Springs party: A Decade of Decadence on June 3! Tickets are now buy one get one half off by using the promo code: BOGOdecadence21 at csindy.com/events. We invite you to celebrate your favorite decade, whether it’s the Roaring 20s, Disco-Dancing 70s or Gloomy Grunge 90s!!!
#letspartylikeitsnot2020 #livemusic #dancing #food #drinks #dontmissout

What an awesome shout-out from Urban Classic! Use

What an awesome shout-out from Urban Classic!

Use promo code BOGOdecadence21 for a buy one, get one half off deal!!

Please join us for the delayed 2020 Indy Best Of Colorado Springs party: A Decade of Decadence. We invite you to celebrate your favorite decade, whether it's the Roaring 20s, Disco-Dancing 70s or Gloomy Grunge 90s.

Find tickets here!
https://csindy.boldtypetickets.com/events/108510040/best-of-colorado-springs-a-decade-of-decadence

BUY ONE GET ONE 50% OFF SALE ALERT!!! We’re le

BUY ONE GET ONE 50% OFF SALE ALERT!!!
We’re less than a week away from our delayed 2020 Indy Best Of Colorado Springs party: A Decade of Decadence on June 3! Tickets are now buy one get one half off by using the promo code: BOGOdecadence21 at csindy.com/events. We invite you to celebrate your favorite decade, whether it’s the Roaring 20s, Disco-Dancing 70s or Gloomy Grunge 90s!!!
#letspartylikeitsnot2020 #livemusic #dancing #food #drinks #dontmissout

@franklycoffee.co opened May 1 in a former barbers

Thank you @tejonstreetcornerthieves for the Best O

Thank you @tejonstreetcornerthieves for the Best Of shout-out! The toothpick corner-mouth-dangle really brought it all together, we must say.
Please join us for the delayed Indy Best Of Colorado Springs party: A Decade of Decadence. Your in-person tickets include yummy food and tasty beverages, including drink tastings and an epic swag bag full of goodies from some of your favorite local businesses.
Don't forget to buy your tickets for the June 3 Best Of Colorado Springs party at csindy.com/events!

Just about everyone’s heard the 1971 megahit “American Pie,” by Don McLean, who famously sings a line about “the day the music died.” While actually an oblique reference to a 1959 plane crash that killed rock legends Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson, listeners who don’t know the backstory to that tragic refrain tend to hear a song about a sudden stop to all music, which is what’s happened during the pandemic on virtually every stage, big and small, throughout the world. Fortunately for music lovers, that’s about to change. The venues that went dark over the past year and a half and managed to make it into the spring of 2021 with enough cash to stay in business are beginning to reopen. And they’re finding artists anxious to get back onstage and a public eager to enjoy live performances again. Read more at csindy.com. #livemusic #pikespeakregion #csindy

As Nelson Rufran’s Manitou Springs-based pizzeri

As Nelson Rufran’s Manitou Springs-based pizzeria @ruffranoshellskitchenpizza expands across the greater Springs metropolitan area, we can’t help but recall 2010s upstarts Borriello Brothers’ rise and fall. Fortunately, with location No. 4 open, Ruffrano’s shows no signs of dropping quality for quantity. We pick up two lunch specials, consisting of a slice, garlic knots and side salad. The four-cheese white pizza has ultra creamy, faintly sweet blobs of ricotta atop provolone, mozzarella and Parmesan, all melted over olive oil and garlic, gooey and lovely atop a crisp, bubbly, thicker-than-expected crust. Read more at csindy.com. #foodreview #pizza #csindy

Small Business Week for the Pikes Peak Region is J

Small Business Week for the Pikes Peak Region is June 6-10, 2021. Each day includes workshops and events designed to educate, celebrate champion small businesses in the Pikes Peak Region. From the small business awards ceremony, to multiple educational events for small businesses, you will not want to miss the 9-year anniversary of the biggest small business celebration in town!
This year we will offer both in person and online attendance options so you can participate in the way that is best for you! In person tickets are limited so be sure to register today: https://linktr.ee/SmallBusinessWeek
#smallbusinessweek #supportlocal #shopsmall #smallbusiness #pikespeakregion

Restaurant owners whose businesses survived the fi

Restaurant owners whose businesses survived the first year of the pandemic are finally beginning to see their customers come back, but now there’s a new problem this already battered industry has to solve: finding enough workers to be able to serve them. “We definitely are seeing a shortage in restaurant workers in the community,” says Joe Campana, a Colorado Springs entrepreneur who owns several area restaurants and bars, including Bonny and Read and Shame & Regret. “We’ve been OK, but I’ve heard it all over town. I’ve had a number of different owners call me in the last few weeks asking me to forward applications over to them, anything we’ve got.” Campana is one of the lucky ones, but finding additional bodies to operate four new locations he hopes to open later this year might present him with the same challenge many other restaurateurs in Colorado Springs and across the United States are already contending with. Read more at csindy.com. #restaurants #coloradosprings #csindy

@redswingbrewhouse has a higher bar to clear to be

@redswingbrewhouse has a higher bar to clear to be really special — especially sitting across the street from a more established joint like Pikes Peak Brewing Company’s Lager House. But after we pick up two crowlers and sample them, we’re not at all worried for their future; the beer’s great. Brut Force, a brut pale ale, hits the basic style expectations: It’s drier than wildfire season, fizzy, clean, crisp-finishing and just bitter enough that it’s unmistakable. Read more at csindy.com. #drinkreview #coloradosprings #csindy

Newly elected members of Colorado Springs City Co

Newly elected members of Colorado Springs City Council took the oath of office on April 20 at the Pioneers Museum. Members later elected new leadership. Tom Strand will serve as Council president, and Richard Skorman as president pro tem. Wayne Williams was elected to chair the Colorado Springs Utilities Board, and Mike O’Malley will serve as vice chair. #citycouncil #coloradosprings #csindy

From Indy Food and Drink Editor Matthew Schniper:

From Indy Food and Drink Editor Matthew Schniper: I love that @eat.birdcall opened directly across the street from a Chick-fil-A in northeast Colorado Springs. It’s a “cluck you” throwing down of the gauntlet: We’re coming for your market share, even if just in this one neighborhood, for now. (Oh, and our food tastes better.) Realistically, Chick-fil-A will be just fine, much as they weathered backlash from the LGBTQ community for past donation practices. But symbolically, Birdcall can at least achieve better-than status and find its niche of patrons willing to spend a few more bucks for superior products in an elevated fast-food setting. And tangibly, the growing chain can show the way forward as a social-impact business for new generations of eaters who do give many shits about what’s in their food and what impacts that has on their health and the planet. Read more at csindy.com. #foodreview #coloradosprings #csindy

Great news!!! We've extended nominations for our n

Great news!!! We've extended nominations for our new Mental Health and Wellness awards ceremony through Sunday!!! We're looking for companies and organizations who are helping improve their employees’ quality of life through increased awareness around health and wellness. We will host three days of virtual panels about Health and Wellness topics in late May. Nominate companies who invest in their employee's physical and mental health or businesses with health as their mission at csbj.com/nominate. There will be a celebration for winning companies Thursday, May 27, at 3Es Comedy Club in downtown Colorado Springs.

The signature taco burgers @felipes109 catch our

The signature taco burgers @felipes109 catch our eye too late; we’ve already aimed our taste buds at an order of Garbage Nachos with green chile queso and a Sombrero Burger combo. While a 20-plus minute trip between Felipe’s and home will put some serious strain on any chips, the nachos’ thick, sturdy tortilla chips here have less sog than store-bought. That’s great, because that flavorful queso has some downright fiery spice, a proper “hot” heat level, and we don’t want to lose a drop, though we do sop up what’s left with gusto using the excellent french fries. They’re at a near-perfect intersection of soft, hot and golden brown delicious, and we’re damn happy. Still, it’s that Sombrero Burger that wins our love. Read more at csindy.com. #foodreview #coloradosprings #csindy

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