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It's a repeat performance for The Broadmoor and a handful of other Colorado Springs properties in AAA's 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 city's 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 1,500. Patrons sat in seats upholstered in olive-green velvet, and sweeping balconies floated across ...

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