Arts & Entertainment
Arts and Entertainment
Gray Mountain won’t disappoint Grisham fans
John Grisham has written one of his best legal dramas in years with Gray Mountain.Associated Press photo/Doubleday John Grisham has been writing legal thrillers and dramas that resonate with readers…
Arts and Entertainment
A musical avant-gardist is back where she belongs
Nika Roza Danilova – the musical avant-gardist who performs under the moniker Zola Jesus – is so intertwined with art and spectacle that her planned performance last year at Washington’s…
Visual Arts
Exhibition probes the mystery of Sherlock Holmes
Curator Timothy Long is silhouetted as he poses for photographers with a Sherlock Holmes style pipe and deerstalker hat beside an internal window forming part of the exhibition “Sherlock Holmes:…
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Briefs
The Fort Lewis College Environmental Center will present its 13th annual REEL Environmental Film Experience on Thursday at the Smiley Auditorium with a screening of “DamNation.” Doors open at 5…
Film
For Rogen, Hilarity charity is serious business
Actor/writer Seth Rogen and his wife Lauren Miller Rogen lead Hilarity for Charity, a movement established with the Alzheimer’s Association to raise awareness of Alzheimer’s Disease.Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP “It’s…
Books
TV pioneer and sitcom king Norman Lear pens a book
Associated Press photo/Penguin Press<br><br>Even THIS I Get to Experience is a new a memoir by Norman Lear. Lear’s father Herman – by turns flamboyant, loutish, charming and downright criminal, and…
Film
Review: The Book of Life
Bookended by amusing contemporary segments in which a sassy museum tour guide (Christina Applegate) hosts a group of skeptical school kids, the story concerns the romantic triangle among the free-spirited…
Film
Review: Fury
Ayer, a veteran of the Navy and L.A. crime films like “Training Day” and “End of Watch,” wants to make it clear from the start that he’s making a film…
Film
Movies playing in Durango Oct. 17-23
(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Once Chance The remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by…
Performing Arts
Funnier than Congress?
The Capitol Steps, the only comedy troupe in America that attempts to be funnier than the United States Congress, will return to Durango for a show at 7:30 p.m. Saturday…
Downtown Lowdown
The only thing in D.C. funnier than Congress
Its foibles, faults and blunders are at the least frustrating and the most infuriating, yet they remain commonplace in the decisions made by mostly white men that should be guiding…
Arts and Entertainment
Arts briefs
The Fort Lewis College concert band and jazz ensemble will present the fall band concert, “Geographies” at 7 p.m. Monday at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, 1000…
Arts and Entertainment
A&E Happenings Oct. 17-23
Employee Arts Showcase, 4:30-6 p.m., Pine River Valley Bank, Bayfield branch, 301 Commerce Drive, 884-9583. Cannondolls, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. Greg Ryder, 6 p.m., 6512’…
Arts and Entertainment
Cracks in facade of the American Dream
presents Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons’
Music
Afroman releases pro-legalization remix of ‘Because I Got High’
Associated Press photo/Shawn Baldwin<br><br>Rapper Joseph Foreman, aka Afroman, has rejuvenated his weed anthem “Because I got High” to raise awareness for marijuana legalization efforts. In the case of Afroman, the…
Music
Cuba violinmakers battle instrument shortage
Andres Martinez repairs a viola at the Luthier Workshop of Havana, a state-run workshop where craftsmen make and repair violas, cellos and violins in Havana, Cuba.Associated Press photo/Ramon Espinosa Here…
Books
Review: Book looks at costs of pork production
“The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food,” by Ted Genoways, looks at pork production in the American Widwest.Associated Press photo/Harper When the recession took hold six years…
Arts and Entertainment
HBO Go-ing away from cable, will stand on its own
Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen in a scene from “Game of Thrones.” HBO plans to offer a stand-alone version of its popular video-streaming service, CEO Richard Plepler said Wednesday.Associated Press…
Books
Robinson, Chast among book award finalists
Author Marilynne Robinson is among this year’s finalists for the National Book Awards. Robinson was cited for Lila, the third of an Iowa-based trilogy that began with her Pulitzer Prize-winning…
Books
Leonard Cohen at 80: Still on top of his game
“Popular Problems” is the latest release by Leonard Cohen.Associated Press photo/Columbia Records There’s no reason, of course, why an artist should slow down at 80. If the mind is still…
Visual Arts
Nashville’s folk rock era is topic of new exhibit
In this Jan. 1, 1972 file photo, Bob Dylan performs at the Academy of Music in New York. Dylan was one of the rock musicians to create a seminal country-influenced…
Books
Panel zeroes in on restorative justice
The dialogue part of the program will kick into high gear Wednesday at Fort Lewis College with a panel on Restorative Justice – a theory of justice that emphasizes repairing…
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Briefs
Hip-hop group Solillaquists of Sound will perform a show at 9 p.m. today at the Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Drive. Emcee Swamburger and producer Divinci will appear on…
Performing Arts
A bold new work
New York-based actor Craig MacArthur stars in Thingamajig Theatre Co.’s production of “Misterman,” a new Irish drama by Enda Walsh, in Pagosa Springs. The play’s opening this weekend was the…
Film
Answering the ‘Birdman’ signal, Keaton soars again
Michael Keaton is seen here at the closing night gala presentation of “Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance” during the 52nd annual New York Film Festival on Saturday.Photo by…