Jennifer Mulson

Since 2001, First Congregational Church has offered Our Whole Lives, a secular national sex education program developed by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ. OWL, as it's commonly called, is sometimes used in faith-based settings that align with the curriculum's core values: self-worth, sexual health, responsibility and justice and inclusivity.

Fever, a live entertainment company that takes classical music events around the world, will bring "Candlelight: A Tribute to Taylor Swift" to First United Methodist Church on Saturday. The 60-minute

I recently had a nice meal at a fancy restaurant, which is a rare occurrence. The Pepper Tree Restaurant, at 888 W. Moreno Ave., offers lots of tableside preparation, including a roaring rendition of bananas foster. Their specialties are meat and seafood, but I had a tasty ratatouille. And the view looking down over downtown is equally scrumptious;

The cheery woman and her husband overtook my lackadaisical pace at the top of Section 16 in Bear Creek Park.

For hot air balloonists and those who love their enormous, colorful, engine-free contraptions, Labor Day weekend in Colorado Springs is a matter of will they or won't they fly? Those who attend Colorado Springs Labor Day Lift Off in Memorial Park remain hopeful Mother Nature will be on her best behavior — cool, calm and collected — so the 70 or so balloons from around the world can rise in peace and float off into the ether.

An odd tone in a sound or voice is one of Mark “KidWok” Britten's favorite things.

Colorado Springs voiceover artist and comedian Mark "KidWok" Britten learned to do celebrity impressions in third grade. It helped him develop a career as a comedian more than 35 years ago and landed him a job doing seven voices on the popular anime series, "Dragon Ball Z," in the late '90s and early aughts. He'll perform Friday and Saturday at Loonees Comedy Corner.

Devan Bentley makes memories out of drumheads. Over the last 15 years, Bentley's life as a drummer in various bands has taken him around the world.

Kash Kling has perched upon the backs of about 400 bulls. And he's only 15. The teen from Kersey, about 8 miles east of Greeley, has a way with the magnificent beasts.

The bird love is real, and it can hit you like Cupid's arrow — when you least expect it. Many times it comes in the form of a spark bird — that bird that makes you take notice of this whole other kingdom that surrounds us, that's been there all along just waiting for you to unlock the gate and walk through.