Performing Arts
In 1600s Salem, no one’s safe
Durango High School Troupe 1096 staging Miller’s ‘The Crucible’
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Student juried art exhibition to open Wednesday
The opening reception is free and open to all, and student work will be on display for public viewing through March 26. Patti Singer, a local mixed-media, assemblage and installation…
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Poetry slam semifinals to be held Saturday
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call or email Anthony Nocella at (315) 657-2911 or [email protected]
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Fort Lewis College choirs to perform
FLC choir director Charissa Chiaravalloti will lead a performance that will be featured during a May tour of Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. Tickets are $5 for adults and…
Film
Movies playing in Durango Feb. 23-March 2
From left, Jason Bateman, Kyle Chandler and Lamorne Morris find trouble when things go a little too far in “Game Night.”Hopper Stone/Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP (128 E. College Drive,…
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Arts Calendar
Caregiver Cafe, 10 a.m., Pine River Library, 395 Bayfield Center Drive, Bayfield, 884-2222. Preschool story time, 10:30 a.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave. STEAM Lab, 3:30 p.m., Durango…
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Chamber Singers looking for altos
Rehearsals are held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Mondays at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 910 East Third Ave. Second alto range is preferred. Candidates should have choral experience and be…
Film
Review: Black Panther
Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o), left, and Shuri (Letitia Wright) star in “Black Panther,” which follows conventions of action movies but also enlarges and revitalizes them.Matt Kennedy/Marvel Studios-Walt Disney Chadwick Boseman, until…
Performing Arts
‘The Vagina Monologues’ hits the stage
“The Vagina Monologues” will be performed tonight and Saturday at the Durango Arts Center.Courtesy “I think it’s really important for women (to celebrate) women,” said “Monologues” co-director Michelle Olson. “The…
Music
FLC showcases student performers at an honors recital on Feb. 25
“This is my favorite student event of the year,” Marc Reed, chairman of the FLC Music Department, said this week. “We have tremendously talented students, and it is very rare…
Visual Arts
Who is artist behind Obama’s official portrait?
Larger-than-life paintings Kehinde Wiley’s trademark
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Artist Rosemary Meza-DesPlas takes over Durango Arts Center
show features mixed-media drawings, wall installation
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Durango Arts Center to host Picasso, vino party
The event will offer a fun, creative experience, with painting, wine, and time with friends, co-workers and family. Cost is $25, plus a $13 materials fee for the instructor when…
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Durango Arts Center to offer free lecture
Judith Reynolds and Katherine Burgess will give a presentation about art and ideas related to the sacred and profane. The event, part of the fifth annual free winter art history…
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Durango Arts Center to hold theater auditions
The theater production, directed by Theresa A. Carson, is about a fragmented family grappling with crisis and loss. Actors, ages 16 to 25 and 30 to 60, who can sing…
Music
Olympic figure skating unveils new, modern soundtrack
The folk tune is light and airy and fits neatly within the confines of traditional figure skating. Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres went in another direction. Yes, the French pairs…
Film
Movies playing in Durango Feb. 16-22
The wait is over: “Black Panther” will open in Durango this week.Matt Kennedy/Marvel Studios-Disney via AP (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) NTLive’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (11 a.m.…
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Southwest Civic Winds to perform Bernstein
Bernstein selections will include Simple Song from Mass, Four Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Overture to Candide and others. For more information, visit www.southwestcivicwinds.org.
Music
San Juan Symphony Orchestra packages musical box of chocolates
At the center of this extravaganza is Franklin Cohen, former principal clarinetist in the Cleveland Orchestra. Cohen’s professional career began when Leopold Stokowski chose him as principal clarinet for the…
Visual Arts
LA art museum unveils wide-ranging tribute to Jasper Johns
Allon Schoener from The Cosmopolitan Observer joins journalists during a media preview of an exhibition by artist Jasper Johns on Wednesday at The Broad in Los Angeles.Richard Vogel/Associated Press Seizing…
Books
Native American poet, writer, musician to discuss memoir at Fort Lewis College
Joy Harjo’s memoir Crazy Brave is being read by the college’s freshmen. Harjo, a writer, poet, musician and professor, is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. “We all felt that…
Performing Arts
Durango, Cortez students have stories to tell
High School teens team up with Southwest Open School students for Talon Tales
Film
The growing Quentin Tarantino controversy, explained
Director of the film “Kill Bill: Volume 1,” Quentin Tarantino, left, and actress Uma Thurman arrive at the premiere of the film in Los Angeles in 2003. Tarantino has expressed…
Film
Movies playing in Durango Feb. 9-15
Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan are back in the third installment of the “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy.Courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)(For shows and times,…
Visual Arts
Claude Steelman offers photos on variety of formats
Wildshots, 842 Main Ave., offers photographs by Claude Steelman and bronze sculptures by Veryl Goodnight.Courtesy of Claude Steelman Herald Arts & Entertainment editor Wildshots, photographer Claude Steelman’s gallery, is a…
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DAC launches free winter lecture series
Reynolds and Burgess team up for ‘Art and Ideas’
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WindSync to perform in Cortez
Southwest Colorado Concert Association will sponsor the event. For more information, call Jason Witt at 570-9051.
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Student artwork up for auction at library
Work will be displayed on the first floor and will be up for silent auction through Feb. 17. From 10 a.m. to noon Feb. 17, the highest bidders will be…
Performing Arts
Snowdown Follies’ old-timers show the upstarts how it’s done
Veterans and newcomers spin silliness into another Follies