Arts & Entertainment

Durango’s Cannondolls releasing new album
Music

Durango’s Cannondolls releasing new album

August 18, 2016

Photo courtesy of The Cannondolls/Illustration by Cliff Vancura, Durango Herald By Katie Chicklinski-Cahill Herald Arts & Entertainment editor One thing that strikes you when you first meet the four members…

Southern Ute Museum is a space in transition
Arts and Entertainment

Southern Ute Museum is a space in transition

August 18, 2016

Jed Smith and Cheyenne Caraway concentrate on installing a pair of men’s gauntlets into a Permanent Gallery display case at the Southern Ute Museum.Courtesy of Daniel Rohde From delivery to…

Broadway’s best to light up Coney Island at Elsie Fest
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Broadway’s best to light up Coney Island at Elsie Fest

August 16, 2016

Darren Criss will participate in the second annual Elsie Fest, a one-day outdoor music festival celebrating theater stars Sept. 5 at the 5,000-seat Ford Amphitheater.Associated Press file The second annual…

Arts & Entertainment Briefs
Arts and Entertainment

Arts & Entertainment Briefs

August 11, 2016

The Durango Chamber Singers are currently auditioning for tenors and basses for their 2016/2017 season beginning Aug. 22. Rehearsals are 5:30 to 7 p.m. Mondays at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church.…

Santa Fe Opera celebrates a 60th anniversary
Music

Santa Fe Opera celebrates a 60th anniversary

August 11, 2016

The specter of death literally hangs over “Don Giovanni.”Courtesy of Ken Howard/Santa Fe Opera The company has mounted an extraordinary season to celebrate its 60th anniversary. Continuing through August, four…

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 12-18
Film

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 12-18

August 11, 2016

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Captain Fantastic (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen) is raising his six children off the grid in rural Washington. They live…

‘Little Prince’ builds on a classic story
Film

‘Little Prince’ builds on a classic story

August 10, 2016

The story The Little Prince has been reimagined for 2016.Courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes This new “The Little Prince” is told through three interconnected episodes, and in a unique take on…

Offer to purchase Arc might hit a steel wall
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Offer to purchase Arc might hit a steel wall

August 7, 2016

The Arc of History at the intersection of U.S. highways 550 and 160 in Durango will be decommissioned after it was vandalized, but acquiring it from the city is complicated…

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 5-11
Film

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 5-11

August 4, 2016

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Life, Animated (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)The inspirational story of Owen Suskind, a young man who was unable to speak as a child…

Gold King Mine spill’s effect on artists
Visual Arts

Gold King Mine spill’s effect on artists

August 4, 2016

On the one-year anniversary of the Gold King Mine spill, we take a look back at what some of them created: Karyn Gabaldon The spill “affected me to the core,”…

‘Cats’: now and forever (again)
Arts and Entertainment

‘Cats’: now and forever (again)

August 2, 2016

Kim Faure as Demeter, left, and Christine Cornish Smith as Bombalurina perform in “Cats.”Matthew Murphy/The O and M Company via AP “No, dad, that’s Mr. Mistoffellees!” she’d correct me impatiently,…