Arts & Entertainment

Arts and Entertainment

Fort Lewis College showcases student musicians at honors recital

Professors select a limited number of pupils to represent the department in this singular program

February 26, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

Durango Blues Train announces 2026 artist lineup

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday

February 25, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

Nurturing the next generation of theater professionals

Student intern and assistant stage manager Zoe Corbine-Daniels, left, goes over rehearsal notes at the 2025 Durango PlayFest with stage…

February 25, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

Movie review: In ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,’ a man from the future fights an AI apocalypse

Sam Rockwell stars in “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.” (Rotten Tomatoes) In Gore Verbinski’s absurdist AI sci-fi satire “Good…

February 25, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

DHS Troupe 1096 to stage ‘The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later’

Production opens Feb. 27 at Durango High School

February 19, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

Merely Players illuminates ‘Silent Sky’

Life-changing decisions ripple through this true story set at the turn of the last century

February 19, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

Joe Pickett returns in ‘The Crossroads’

C.J. Box’s Wyoming game warden back in 26th novel

February 19, 2026

Community

Cortez students help turn dumpsters into public art as city unveils truck name

programs aim to strengthen safety, youth engagement and community pride

February 18, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

All aboard: Bluegrass Train announces lineup for inaugural season

Tickets go on sale Thursday morning for new moving music venue

February 18, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

The Mozart Effect: San Juan Symphony explores musical connections

Performances will be staged in Durango and Farmington

February 15, 2026

Religion

Emerging artists making rap, Afrobeats and R&B music push Christian genre boundaries

Christian rapper and influencer Lecrae Devaughn Moore photographed in Atlanta on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. (Ben Gray/Associated Press)cca Often boosted…

February 13, 2026

Local News

Fort Lewis College students kick off Valentine’s Day with annual drag show

‘I think drag can show you that love looks different. ... Love looks like anything,’ host Aria Pettyone says

February 13, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

Review: Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ is a bold but shallow take on Brontë’s classic

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi star in “Wuthering Heights.” (Warner Bros. via AP) It’s hardly a surprise that filmmaker Emerald…

February 13, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

Local photographer chronicles the people of Durango, Bayfield and beyond

Lindley: ‘Every moment is precious and passing, and so are people. ... It’s only by chance that we cross paths’

February 12, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

Outside the box: Groundbreaking performances and boundary-breaking artists

Global strings return for a thrilling evening of virtuosity and collaboration with International Guitar Night XXVI: World on a String…

February 11, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘The American Way of Killing’ to be released in September

Writer Malcolm Gladwell attends the screening of “Faces of America With Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.” in New York on…

February 7, 2026

Community

DAC presents Warhol and Wine class

The Durango Arts Center presents a Warhol and Wine Class 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the DAC, 802 East…

February 6, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

‘Encounters and reflections’ at Durango Public Library

Photography shows by local artists dazzle in community space

February 5, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

How Super Bowl halftime moments became flashpoints from the ‘wardrobe malfunction’ to caged kids

FILE – Janet Jackson, left, covers her breast after a wardrobe malfunction during the halftime performance with Justin Timberlake at…

February 5, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

Review: Jason Statham sticks close to the formula as a lethal former spy in ‘Shelter’

Bill Nighy, left, and Jason Statham star in “Shelter.” (Daniel Smith/Black Bear via AP) Jason Statham lives in a Scottish…

February 4, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

The longest shortest month filled with creativity

Beth Lamberson Warren February has always felt like the longest, shortest month of the year. With only 28 days, it…

February 4, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

Twinkle twinkle little star: Merely Players stages ‘Silent Sky’

Jenny Mason For 30 years, Henrietta Swan Leavitt flooded notebooks with meticulous data nested inside hand-drawn tables. She and her…

February 1, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

Durango PlayFest enlists local reviewers to help with play selection

Former Durango PlayFest Board Chair Debbie Pfeifer (left) interviewed the 2024 festival playwrights at a free event at Blue Rain…

January 31, 2026

Travel

A historic house in Serbia’s capital hangs on with intimate theatrical productions

Sofija Ristic, right, an amateur theater director and actor, gets makeup applied in an old villa used for theater performances…

January 30, 2026

Southwest Life

Crisosto Apache named Colorado’s newest poet laureate

Crisosto Apache is Colorado's new poet laureate. (Ryan Warner/CPR News)cca Apache, who lives in Lakewood, is a member of the…

January 30, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

New bluegrass train pulling into Durango

Tickets go on sale Feb. 19 for moving music venue

January 29, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

New novel takes readers into the world of wolves

‘Colorado Wolf Stories’ follows adventures of fictional pack

January 29, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

Review: FLC’s Center Southwest Studies mounts major exhibition

‘Constellations of Place’ warrants more than one visit

January 28, 2026

Arts and Entertainment

Snowdown calendar of events, Wednesday through Thursday

Act I in the 2026 Snowdown Follies included the skit “Poor Unfortunate Souls” played by Chris Lile, Jessica Sugar Wolf…

January 27, 2026

Local News

Latest edition of the ‘Sneer’ mocks Flock, pickleball, post office

available at Durango Welcome Center, Magpies Newsstand

January 24, 2026