The Independent’s sound forecast gave the September 25 concert at the Ford Amphitheater its highest rating, a band in which past nights have drawn a median of twenty-four reports to the resident-run noise map. The map logged five, three of them the following day. The forecast has now misjudged three shows in a row, twice […]
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Posted inEvents News
Oktoberfest at the Mining Museum Runs Through Sunday
The Colorado Springs Oktoberfest opened on Friday evening on the grounds of the Western Museum of Mining and Industry, off Interstate 25 at North Gate Boulevard, and runs through Sunday afternoon. Admission is free and parking costs $15. The weekend’s fixtures are a dachshund race on both days, a German baking contest on Sunday and […]
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The Wind Blew the Other Way, and the Complaints Came Anyway
Saturday’s Lynyrd Skynyrd concert at the Ford Amphitheater was the most strongly upwind evening in three years of records, and it drew the largest response the resident-run noise map has ever logged on a night the wind was blowing the other way. It was also the second show running that the Independent’s own sound forecast […]
Posted inGovernment
Colorado Springs Will Decide Project Taurus a Week After Its Election
Colorado Springs postponed Project Taurus to April 13, 2027, a week after its election. The approval rests on which of two old approvals counts as the original.
Posted inLocal News
Sound Reached Six Miles on a Nearly Windless Night
Nineteen households reported Saturday’s Brantley Gilbert show at the Ford Amphitheater, and a fifth sat four miles or more out. The Independent’s own forecast had ranked the night low.
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At the Ford Amphitheater, Six Shows and Higher Rent
VENU’s second-quarter filing shows the Ford Amphitheater playing six shows instead of eleven, its revenue down 37 percent, and its ground rent up $1 million a year to a company co-owned by the chief executive.
Posted inLocal News
At the Ford Amphitheater, the Complaints Track the Wind
Three seasons of complaint reports joined to hour-by-hour weather show submissions running nearly six times higher on downwind nights — and no detectable change after roughly $2 million of mitigation.
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The Independent Builds a Sound Forecast for the Ford Amphitheater
A new tool forecasts which upcoming Ford Amphitheater concerts are most likely to be heard in the neighborhoods to the north, from wind direction and the low-frequency content of each act.
Posted inBusiness Spotlight
The Bet at Exit 156
White Lotus Café and Bakery brings northern Thai breakfast, a three-day croissant and an all-day menu to Northgate — a few miles south of Monument.
Posted inSchools
School Spotlight: The Classical Academy, the Charter You Have to Wait For
School Spotlight is a Monument Independent series profiling the schools that serve Tri-Lakes families — every D38 school, plus The Classical Academy, the D20 charter that many Monument students call home. We’ve done Lewis-Palmer, Palmer Ridge, and Monument Academy. Here is the one that isn’t even in our district: The Classical Academy, the highest-ranked high […]