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Its a repeat performance for The Broadmoor and a handful of other Colorado Springs properties in AAAs annual ratings of hotels and restaurants.

In step with the 150th anniversary of the founding of Colorado Springs, a new documentary dives into some of the citys buildings and what they can teach us.

A night view of the Burns Theater, decorated with lights and bunting. The buildings on both sides are decorated with strings of lights. A lit sign “Have you read The Gazette” is on top of the building at the right. The Burns Theater opened May 8, 1912. The theater, west of Pikes Peak Avenue and Tejon Street, represented everything grand about Colorado Springs. Jimmy Burns, a plumber-turned-gold-miner, financed its construction. On opening night, a Russian symphony played to an audience of 1...

Chancey Bush/The Gazette Thomas Dawson plays music on the keyboards in his studio at his home in Colorado Springs. “He’s an unbelievably talented and modest person, and his level of talent is almost otherworldly,” Perry Sanders Jr., a local attorney, says of Dawson. Sanders, who is also a musician, adds of Dawson: “He’s my favorite person to do music with.” Chancey Bush/The Gazette

Thomas Dawson sits at one of four studios inside his home in Colorado Springs. Dawson is the musical director for the legendary Commodores. He also is the entertainment director at Springs Orleans restaurant in downtown Colorado Springs, where he regularly played piano for the last eight years until the pandemic struck. “I miss the interaction of playing for people at restaurants,” he says. Chancey Bush/The Gazette

The Commodores keyboardist and musical director, Thomas Dawson, has lived in Colorado Springs for a decade. He composes music for sound healing, works in his recording studio on big-name projects

The Commodores keyboardist and musical director, Thomas Dawson, has lived in Colorado Springs for a decade. He composes music for sound healing, works in his recording studio on big-name projects

Did you know that Wyndham is the largest hotel group in the U.S. based on number of properties? If not, now you do — and the company keeps growing its portfolio. Wyndham acquired La Quinta in 2018 and integrated it a year later, and it has continued to expand its upscale brands like Wyndham Grand, TRYP and Trademark. This continued expansion lends even greater credence to the notion that there really is a Wyndham hotel for everyone, no matter where you are in the world. But don’t take our w...

FEC United local leader Charity McPike, second from left, and her fellow members who didnt want to be named host a toy drop point on Austin Bluffs Parkway Dec. 22. Pam Zubeck CORRECTION: Perry Sanders and Joseph OKeefe say FEC United spokesperson Charity McPike is incorrect about FEC paying filing fees for a lawsuit seeking a halt to restrictions on small businesses and restaurants due to COVID-19, as she told the Indy on Tuesday, Dec. 22. "They have zero to do ...

Construction continues on the Hyatt Place hotel across the street from City Hall last week. The hotel is going to opening early next Fall, after the vaccine has had time to distribute and hopefully tourism will be back to normal. (Photo by Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette) JERILEE BENNETT, The Gazette JERILEE BENNETT JERILEE BENNETT