Visual Arts
Oh, the kitsch these days!
Rachael Anderson and Minna Jain explore practical art at Studio &.
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Durango Arts Center will present “Courageous Carnivores and Compromised Conservationists,” a lecture by Michael Soulé, environmentalist, conservation biologist and author, on Thursday.Courtesy of Durango Arts Center Children and teenagers are…
Film
Review: No Escape
“No Escape” is an outlandish, sometimes brutally violent, exploitative, fast-paced white-knuckler featuring your classic American everyman who suddenly develops action-hero skills when his family is placed in danger. When I…
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A&E Calendar
Lacey Black, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. Jeff Solon Jazz Group featuring vocalist Alison Dance, 6-9 p.m., The Cyprus Cafe, 725 East Second Ave., 385-6884. Open…
Film
Review: We Are Your Friends
Much of “We Are Your Friends” plays like an electronic dance music update of a very good John Travolta movie – “Saturday Night Fever” – with a liberal sprinkling of…
Film
Movies playing in Durango Aug. 28-Sept. 3
(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Amy Despite just two albums to her name, Amy Winehouse is one of the biggest music icons in British history. With a voice oft…
Music
Billboard poll asks executives whether they believe allegations against Kesha or Dr. Luke
Last year, Kesha filed a lawsuit against Dr. Luke, whose real name is Lukasz Gottwald, in which she alleged that she suffered horrifying abuse at his hands.Charles Sykes/Invision That’s what…
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Tig Notaro, Queen Latifah and the power of the unadorned female body
In her recent comedy special, “Boyish Girl Interrupted,”Tig Notaro set up an interesting experiment: How would an audience react to her if she performed in a state of undress typically…
Music
No matter what comes next, One Direction has cemented a place in music history
Members of One Direction, from left, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Niall Horan, wave during an event to promote their film “One Direction: This Is US,”…
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Meal, webcam form odd recipe for fame
Kim Sung-jin, 14, broadcasts himself eating delivery Chinese food in his room at home in Bucheon, south of Seoul, South Korea. Every evening, he gorges on food as he chats…
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A pioneer of loudmouth TV
film examines raucous, raw, belligerent and derisive Downey Jr.
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‘Breaking Bad’ star on Donald Trump’s ‘refreshing’ campaign
Bryan Cranston isn’t a Donald Trump fan. In fact, he thinks Trump would be a “horrible president.”John Salangsang/Associated Press Yet, in a recent podcast interview, the actor said he found…
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Arts Briefs
Open Shutter Gallery, 735 Main Ave., will present “Writing the Wild: A Day of One’s Own,” a poetry workshop with poets and editors Pam Uschuk and Bill Root, from 1…
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A&E Calendar
Four Corners Arts Forum, 9 a.m., KDUR 91.9/93.9 FM, www.kdur.org. Happy-hour yoga, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Ska Brewing Co., 225 Girard St., yoga and a pint of beer for $10, www.skabrewing.com. Terry…
Visual Arts
Trash and treasure: The art of the dumpster
woman’s quest to bring art to unexpected places and people, one dumpster at a time
Film
Movies playing in Durango Aug. 21-27
(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Blazing Saddles (Wednesday only) Vulgar, crude and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features…
Film
Review: Hitman: Agent 47
Rupert Friend is half-man half-machine in “Hitman: Agent 47.”Reiner Bajo/Twentieth Century Fox via Associated Press Not for a second does any of this feel like anything that could take place…
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Review: American Ultra
Jesse Eisenberg, left, and Kristen Stewart star in “American Ultra.”Alan Markfield/Lionsgate via Associated Press So it’s one of the small pleasures of “American Ultra” to see him play, against type,…
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A&E Calendar
Boys Art Camp wrap-up celebration, 2-3 p.m., Durango Arts Center Education Studio, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606, ext. 15. Jeff Solon Jazz Trio, 5-9 p.m., Animas River Cafe at the…
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Are there signs of Kardashian fatigue? Ask John Brown
Kim Kardashian, waving, and sister Khloe Kardashian walk in Victory Park while filming in Yerevan, Armenia. The Kardashian and Jenner families have such a heavy media, Internet and social presence,…
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Chuck D of Public Enemy talks N.W.A., the Black Lives Matter movement and Bill Cosby
Chuck D, center, and members of the group Public Enemy attend the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in 2013.Jordan Strauss/Invision The “Straight Outta Compton,” “Fear of a…
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‘Sesame Street’ goes to HBO and makes it clear why we should fund the arts
Muppets Bert, left, and Ernie, from the children’s program “Sesame Street,” are shown in New York. Under a new partnership by Sesame Workshop and HBO, the premium cable channel will…
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Arts Briefs
The Durango Arts Center will celebrate the Boys Art Camp wrap-up from 2 to 3 p.m. Friday in the center’s Education Studio, 802 East Second Ave. The celebration will share…
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Dark, intense, beautiful: Santa Fe Opera’s ‘Cold Mountain’ adds depth to colorful summer
“The Red that Colored the World” is a huge exhibition at the Museum of International Folk Art. “Turquoise, Water, Sky: The Stone and Its Meaning” is smaller and more compact…
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
‘Straight Outta Compton’: An enlightening portrait of N.W.A.
Longtime admirers of the Los Angeles ensemble, who helped create West Coast gangsta rap with their confrontational lyrics and defiant, physically aggressive performance, will surely flock to this long-awaited chronicle…
Film
Review: The Stanford Prison Experiment
In the chilling and conversation-provoking “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” Crudup delivers his usual excellent work, this time dramatizing the real-life Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who conducted one of the most famous…
Film
Review: The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Like the “Mission: Impossible” film franchise, “The Man From U.N.C.L.E” is based on a Cold War-era television series created in the 1960s – but whereas the Tom Cruise movies are…