Arts & Entertainment
Books
Some inspiration to keep age from getting you down
author offers glimpses into lives of older athletes
Music
Keith Richards’ has a new collaborator: his own daughter
Discovering guitar is central theme of children’s book
Visual Arts
‘Cross Currents’
The Fort Lewis College Art Gallery’s first show of the school year, “Cross Currents,” will open today with a reception from 4:30-6 p.m. The show features the work of nine…
Arts and Entertainment
Art Briefs
“Dear Governor Hickenlooper,” a crowd-sourced documentary about hydraulic fracturing in Colorado, will play at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Fort Lewis College, Chemistry Hall, Room 130 Auditorium, 1000 Rim Drive.…
Arts and Entertainment
A&E Happenings Sept. 5-11
Jeff Solon Jazz Trio, 5-9 p.m., Animas River Cafe at DoubleTree Hotel, 501 Camino del Rio, 259-6580 Art Takes Flight opening reception, 5-7 p.m., Mancos Town Gallery, 103 E. Bauer…
Film
Movies playing in Durango Sept. 5-11
(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Boyhood Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood” is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes…
Film
‘Gone Girl,’ ‘Unbroken’ lead fall lineup
Jim Carrey, left, and Jeff Daniels perform in a scene from “Dumb and Dumber To.” The comedy, a sequel to “Dumb and Dumber,” will be released Nov. 14.Hopper Stone/Universal Pictures…
Music
3 bands, 30 breweries and a Ska celebration
Legendary Jamaican band The Skatalites stop in town during 50th anniversary tour
Arts and Entertainment
Adventures in food and farming
Prairie bonnets, souped-up rototillers, crazy goat ladies and feed-store humor. It’s all there in “Growing: Adventures in Food and Farming,” a one-act play written by and starring Mancos farmer/actor Sarah…
Arts and Entertainment
Art Briefs
Award-winning journalist Beth Baker will be signing copies of her book, With a Little Help from Our Friends: Creating Community as we Grow Older, during an author event at 4…
Arts and Entertainment
No commercial hits, but success just the same
Walter Salas-Humara is a perfect example of a musician whose many years of low-profile work are respected in the world of independent music. He’ll be opening for rock band GrooveSession…
Music
Maya Angelou’s work mixed with hip-hop for album
Associated Press Photo/Charles Dharapak<br><br>President Barack Obama kisses author and poet Maya Angelou after awarding her the 2010 Medal of Freedom during. Angelou’s words will be blended with hip-hop beats for…
Books
Book offers a chorus of women on women’s clothing
Women in Clothes,” by authors Sheila, Heti Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton, is an exhaustive compilation of women’s thoughts on clothes, fashion and self-image.Associated Press/Blue Rider Press In 1995 an…
Performing Arts
Michael Cera, actor, venturing into Broadway, music
Michael Cera is performing in Kenneth Lonergan’s Broadway production of “This Is Our Youth,” which opens this month in New York.Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/Associated Press The 26-year-old star of “Juno”…
Music
‘She Blinded Me With Science’ musician becomes teacher
Musician Thomas Dolby speaks with students in his class, “Sound on Film,” at Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute music conservatory in Baltimore.Associated Press photo/Patrick Semansky Not bad for a guy…
Books
Review: Summer of the Dead has powerful plot
Associated Prss photo/Minotaur Books<br><br>Julia Keller’s Summer of the Dead delivers a compelling tale of small town secrets. Small towns – where everyone knows your name and keeping secrets seems unfathomable…
Film
‘Guardians’ tops Labor Day, summer box office
Chris Pratt stars in “Guardians Of The Galaxy.” The movie has topped the box office this summer.Associated Press photo/Disney Marvel’s cosmic romp topped the Labor Day box office with a…
Arts and Entertainment
Study: Action-packed TV might make you snack more
THE SKINNY: Cornell University researchers randomly assigned almost 100 undergraduates to watch one of three 20-minute sessions featuring: “The Island,” a 2005 sci-fi thriller starring Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor;…
Performing Arts
‘Can we all get along?’ Well, maybe
Nuances, joys and complexities of relationships probed in play
Performing Arts
Trickster on the loose on Creede theater’s stage
French farce is well worth drive out of town
Arts and Entertainment
Art Briefs
An opening reception for Bayfield artist Peter Ladd Berriman’s new exhibit will take place from 3:30-5 p.m. Thursday at Pine River Valley Bank, 1701 Main Ave. The show opened on…
Film
Barnes, Heigl in tune in romance ‘Jackie and Ryan’
Director Ami Canaan Mann is at the Venice Film Fest with her new movie “Jackie & Ryan.”Associated Press photo/David Azia That sounds like the Great Depression, but it’s set in…
Performing Arts
Dustin Diamond returns again to his inner Screech
Dustin Diamond, center, stars in the off-Broadway show “Bayside! The Musical!” with Adriana Spencer as Jessie Spano, Katie Mebane as Kelly Kapowski and Shamira Clark as Lisa Turtle, at Theatre…
Music
Kanye, Juanes enliven LA’s Made in America fest
Juanes performs at the Made In America Festival at Grand Park in Las Angeles on Sunday.Photo by Paul A. Hebert/Invision/Associated Press “This whole place is full of good, loving people,”…
Film
Owen Wilson in Venice with ‘She’s Funny That Way’
Owen Wilson, who stars in Peter Bogdanovich’s new comedy, “She’s Funny That Way,” is seen here at the Venice Film Festival, where the film is premiering Friday.Associated Press photo/Andrew Medichini…