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Photo: Joy to art!
Ned Harper examines the bounty of gift options at the Durango Arts Center’s Artisans Market on Wednesday. The annual market features 45 artists from the Four Corners selling everything from…
Music
2017 Grammy Awards: A list of the nominees in top categories
Album of the year: “25,” Adele; “Lemonade,” Beyoncé; “Purpose,” Justin Bieber; “Views,” Drake; “A Sailor’s Guide to Earth,” Sturgill Simpson.Record of the year: “Hello,” Adele; “Formation,” Beyoncé; “7 Years,” Lukas…
Performing Arts
Merely Players brings ‘A Christmas Carol’ to the stage
Theater, dance and music come together for a unique telling of traditional tale
Arts and Entertainment
President meets Nobel Prize winners, but what about Bob?
Obama used the Oval Office meeting to send a reminder that America is unique in its ability to attract talent from all around the world to study at its universities.…
Arts and Entertainment
Noel Night entertainment
The Durango Barbershop Chorus entertained a small crowd at Toh-Atin Gallery for Noel Night in 2012. Check out the Barbershoopers as they perform along Main Avenue starting at 5:30 tonight…
Film
Movies playing in Durango Dec. 2-8
(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)(For schedule, visit www.animascitytheatre.com) Gaslight Theatre (102 Fifth St. Next to the railroad depot, 247-8133, www.allentheatresinc.com) Ali and Nino (102 Fifth St. Next to the…
Film
Netflix unveils download feature for offline binge-watching
Courtesy Many fans have requested to watch Netflix content without an internet connection, especially those in emerging markets with limited internet access. The world’s largest online TV network will roll…
Film
New Star Wars ‘Rogue One’ trailer reflects everything we know so far, as tickets go on sale
From the new “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” trailer.Courtesy of Disney-Lucasfilm The new trailer opens with a sand-swept nod to the Jedi arts – an aspect that had been…
Film
‘The Dressmaker’ a well-crafted dark comedy revenge thriller
Kate Winslet as Tilly Dunnage in “The Dressmaker.”Ben King/Broad Green Pictures-Amazon Studios Director Jocelyn Moorhouse has essentially made two movies in one. In the first, Tilly Dunnage (Winslet) returns to…
Arts and Entertainment
Ron Glass, co-star of TV’s ‘Barney Miller’ dead at 71
Actor Ron Glass, the handsome, prolific character actor best known for his role as Ron Harris, the gregarious, sometimes sardonic detective in the long-running police comedy “Barney Miller,” has died…
Film
In Florence Henderson’s Carol Brady, a reassuring (and vanishing) sense of adulthood
Florence Henderson, the wholesome actress who went from Broadway star to television icon when she became Carol Brady, the ever-cheerful matriarch of “The Brady Bunch,” has died, her manager and…
Arts and Entertainment
Buy tickets for Dec. 9 ‘Nutcracker’ performance
Courtesy of Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College This year, the ballet will once again feature a live orchestra, as the San Juan Symphony is set to perform.
Books
Celebrate Indies First Day on Saturday at Maria’s
Courtesy Local authors and literary personages who will work as booksellers throughout the day include: Chuck Greaves, Mandy Mikulencak, Herald Arts & Entertainment Editor Katie Chicklinski-Cahill, DGO Editor David Holub…
Arts and Entertainment
Sorrel Sky Gallery to open new show
‘Little Windows with a Big View’ starts Dec. 2
Music
2 nights of music on tap at ACT
We had a chance to talk with Mike Tallman, who plays guitar and sings in Eufórquestra. Q: It seems like you guys tour a lot. A: We do, absolutely. We…
Film
‘Moana’ a breath of fresh air
Moana (voice of Auli’i Cravalho) recruits a demigod named Maui (voice of Dwayne Johnson) to help her become a master wayfinder and sail out on a daring mission to save…
Books
Magazine prints never-before-published H.G. Wells ghost story
Author H. G. Wells is photographed in 1937. Wells’ “The Haunted Ceiling” will appear in The Strand Magazine, a literary quarterly that has unearthed obscure works by F. Scott Fitzgerald…
Arts and Entertainment
Directors, stars reveal what they’d buy for a film buff
Damien Chazelle: The “Whiplash” and “La La Land” director reached back to his own filmmaking roots and recommended a Bolex camera, like the kind he used to make movies on.…
Film
Movies playing in Durango Nov. 18-24
Marion Cotillard stars in “Allied.”Daniel Smith/Paramount Pictures via AP (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Deadpool (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)Based on Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, “Deadpool” tells…
Local News
Rotary Club of Durango meets Tuesday
Frautschydu1-i-syn After providing a DAC overview, she will talk about DAC’s visual education programs provided throughout the community for children as well as programs for seniors and individuals with developmental…
Music
Bruno Mars opens AMAs; Drake, twenty one pilots win awards
The song is Mars’ latest smash single after the success of last year’s “Uptown Funk.” He, like many of the artists set to perform on Sunday, is promoting a new…
Film
Fake Donald Trump returns to ‘SNL,’ and the real one is not happy
President-Elect Donald Trump is not too thrilled by Alec Baldwin’s portrayal of him on “Saturday Night Live.”Courtesy The cold open didn’t feature a bombastic Trump, but one slowly coming to…
Music
Kanye West goes on epic rant, storms out of Sacramento concert after 30 minutes
Kanye West, seen here in August, abruptly ended his Sacramento show Saturday night after letting loose a stream-of-consciousness rant.Chris Pizzello/Invision/Associated Press file West started the show 90 minutes late and…
Music
Big-voiced Dap-Kings soul singer Sharon Jones dies at 60
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings perform at the SPIN Party at Stubb’s during the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas in 2010. Jones, a big-voiced soul singer who…