Review: ‘Alpha’ is a boy-meets-wolf love story
Kodi Smit-McPhee, right, plays an young Ice Age man who befriends a wolf in “Alpha.”Alan Markfield/Sony Pictures Entertainment But calling it “Alpha” will also do the trick. That simple, almost…
Kodi Smit-McPhee, right, plays an young Ice Age man who befriends a wolf in “Alpha.”Alan Markfield/Sony Pictures Entertainment But calling it “Alpha” will also do the trick. That simple, almost…
Melissa McCarthy stars in “The Happytime Murders.”Hopper Stone/STX Entertainment via AP (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) NTLive: Macbeth (1 p.m. Sunday only.) Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying tragedy explores…
Madonna presents a tribute to Aretha Franklin at the MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall on Monday in New York.Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP It started as Madonna arrived on…
Aretha Franklin sings during a dedication ceremony at The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 16, 2011.Ricky Carioti/Washington Post file When she was performing, she didn’t…
The word “bolo” is derived from boleadora, an Argentine lariat or rope used to lasso, although the neckwear’s actual origin is a mystery. Victor Cedarstaff claims he is the creator:…
Durango High School and Brown University graduate centers her work on messages of gender violence and decolonization
‘America’s Favorite Cowboys’ to play two nights at Bar D Chuckwagon
From left, Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding and Constance Wu star in “Crazy Rich Asians.”Sanja Bucko/Warner Bros. Pictures On the surface, there are no permutations to speak of in a story…
At the time, the nation’s top literary award was controversial but not because of subject matter. The award generally went to serious new plays, not a Broadway musical. Eight years…
Adam Driver, left, and John David Washington star in Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman.”David Lee/Focus Features via AP The introductory sequence to “BlacKkKlansman” is just as audacious, breathtaking and useful as Lee’s…
Franklin played Mother Nature in ‘Snow Monsters’
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Project backed by $5,000 city grant
Singer Aretha Franklin performs during the inauguration ceremony for U.S. President Barack Obama at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20, 2009.Dennis Brack/Bloomberg Her representative Gwendolyn Quinn confirmed the…
The rock band announced Wednesday that “Aerosmith: Deuces are Wild” would kick off April 6, 2019, at the Park Theater, where Lady Gaga will launch her residency in December. Aerosmith…
The jump-scare ad was over in an instant, but it’s apparently so startling to many who’ve seen it that their complaints reached YouTube, which decided to take it down. Myriad…
Constance Wu, left, and Awkwafina star in the film “Crazy Rich Asians,” which is opening this week in Durango.Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Yerma…
Aretha Franklin sings for the crowd at the National Portrait Gallery gala on Nov. 15, 2015, in Washington.Katherine Frey/Washington Post file The Queen of Soul, now gravely ill, took the…
Debby Ryan stars in Netflix’s “Insatiable.”Tina Rowden/Netflix Yet here we are, having to say something, mostly because 100,000-plus people were moved, after seeing a trailer for the series earlier this…
Although structured by screenwriters Elissa Matsueda and Erica Oyama like the now-classic rom-com anthology “Love Actually,” “Dog Days” lacks the polish and originality of that 2003 film, failing to dodge…
British artist Ben Taylor created “The Host” after he realized that a parasitic worm had been living in one of his eyes.Courtesy of Ben Taylor Taylor gave up on the…
Both films center on superlatives: the world’s tallest skyscraper; the world’s biggest shark. (In this case, it’s a living specimen of a prehistoric Megalodon, long thought to be extinct.) Both…
10-year-old player wants to grow the card game locally
Show times are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 24 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 25. The show will feature more than 100 quilts, which will be judged…
restarts music series as fire threat declines
Preschool story time, 10:30 a.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave., 375-3380. Kids Summer Reading Program: Caregiver Cafe, 11 a.m., Pine River Library, 395 Bayfield Center Drive, Bayfield, 884-2222.…
The Oscars are adding a new category to honor popular films and promising a brisk 3-hour ceremony on a much earlier air date of Feb. 9, 2020.Matt Sayles/Invision/AP file John…
Thomas brings together music and photography to commemorate firefighters
‘Parallel Intersections’ opens at Studio & Gallery