Film
Review: Our Brand is Crisis
Granted, her outfits are a disaster, her hair is usually disheveled (albeit in a $200 salon job kind of way), and she moans about how lousy she feels – but…
Arts & Entertainment
Film
Review: Burnt
Adam is the kind of guy who punishes himself by taking up a seemingly impossible task: shucking a million oysters. Once he has met his goal, years later, he bails…
Performing Arts
‘Tannhäuser’ is an accessible, Grimm-inspired opera
MET stages struggle between the sacred and profane
Visual Arts
Slavery as unavoidable subject matter
Durango artist Mike Brieger’s new show draws on an uncomfortable theme
Books
1920s drama inspires author
Greaves masterfully blends fact, fiction to create compelling characters
Arts and Entertainment
A&E Briefs
The Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., will present “Mammoths in Durango: A Multi-media Adventure Into the Ice Age,” a two-part event, with author Craig Childs and filmmaker Larry…
Arts and Entertainment
The radical promise of TV’s mentally ill women
Rachel Bloom, left, plays Rebecca Bunch and Santino Fontana plays Greg Serrano, in a scene from the pilot for “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.”Eddy Chen/The CW The anti-hero revolution in television was defined…
Film
Movies playing in Durango Oct. 23-29
(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Young Frankenstein (Thursday only) Dr. Frankenstein’s grandson, after years of living down the family reputation, inherits granddad’s castle and repeats the experiments. Rated PG.…
Film
Review: Steve Jobs
Michael Fassbender stars as Steve Jobs in “Steve Jobs.”Universal Pictures via AP It’s an eccentric storytelling choice on the part of the blazingly talented screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and the equally…
Film
Review: Irrational Man
In the dark, wickedly funny and sometimes flat-out wiggy little number titled “Irrational Man,” Allen returns to an idea he has explored in films ranging from “Crimes and Misdemeanors” to…
Film
Review: Rock the Kasbah
Also, Bruce Willis recently appeared on “Today” and said “Rock the Kasbah” is Bill Murray’s “best movie.” That would be true only if you discount pretty much all the other…
Film
Review: The Last Witch Hunter
“The Last Witch Hunter” does not work as campy escapism or as a guilty pleasure or as one of those movies so unintentionally funny you have to admit you were…
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Briefs
Noel Night organizers are seeking volunteer entertainers for this year’s event, scheduled for Dec. 4. Performances will take place at various locations along Main Avenue and will come with a…
Arts and Entertainment
A&E Calendar
Dr. John Pennington performs percussion recital, 7 p.m., Roshong Recital Hall, Fort Lewis College. Karaoke, 8 p.m., 8th Avenue Tavern, 509 East Eighth Ave., 259-8801. DJ Kaztro, 9 p.m., Moe’s,…
Arts and Entertainment
Next week: Not to Miss
With October being National Co-op month, co-ops from around the country are celebrating by telling the obscure and little-known story of food co-ops in America. Durango Natural Foods Co-op is…
Music
Lawn Chair Kings: ‘Sometimes … sustained feedback might occur’
Alt-country band discusses 15-year evolution
Visual Arts
Repurposed children’s toys explore the dark sides of childhood
Singer’s sculptures using repurposed children’s toys explore under-examined and uncomfortable aspects of childhood
Film
How ‘Star Wars, Episode VII’ explains all the great cultural debates of our time
And while I may well do some modified version of this (suggestions are flying fast and furious on Twitter), I wanted to spend at least one column putting the new…
Film
Aaron Sorkin doesn’t want people calling the Steve Jobs biopic a biopic
Michael Fassbender stars as Steve Jobs in a scene from the film, “Steve Jobs.”Universal Pictures “Maybe they should have called it ‘iLied,’” Kyle Smith of the New York Post mocked.…
Film
Eddie Murphy briefly returns to stand-up at Twain Prize ceremony
Eddie Murphy presents the award for best original screenplay at the Oscars in February. Murphy received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center in Washington Sunday.Associated…
Music
Adele is playing the long game, and it’s working brilliantly
Four years after her last album, the singer Adele appears to have teased British television viewers with a snippet of new music, broadcast during an ad break on prime-time TV.…
Arts and Entertainment
Looking to promote your event? Listen up!
The Durango Herald has introduced Southwest Scene (www.swscene.com), a local events website, to create the most complete and robust event listings around. To further this, The Durango Herald has introduced…
Arts and Entertainment
A&E Calendar
Black Velvet duo, 5-9 p.m., Rubio’s Fine Mexican Dining, 116 S. Main Ave., Aztec, (505) 334-0599. Opening reception: “Secretive Beauty,” photographs by Roman Loranc, 5-8 p.m., Open Shutter Gallery, 735…
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Briefs
Snowdown event coordinators must submit their Snowdown, Back to the Eighties, event forms postmarked by Oct. 31. Event forms are available at www.snowdown.org. Completed forms may be mailed to PO…