Arts & Entertainment

Review: ‘Draft Day’

When I first heard about a TV show in which secondary celebrities would team up with professional instructors for a…

April 10, 2014

Now Playing

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Ernest & Celestine Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in winding tunnels, lives…

April 10, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

Stephen Colbert to replace David Letterman

Colbertdu1-i-syn Colbert, 49, has been hosting “The Colbert Report” at 11:30 p.m. ET since 2005, in character as a fictional…

April 10, 2014

Music

Erratic B.B. King performance makes fans blue

B.B King performs at the Peabody Opera House on Friday in St. Louis, Mo. Some St. Louis music fans are…

April 7, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

Peaches Geldof dies unexpectedly at age 25

Bob Geldof, with his daughters Pixie, left, and Peaches appeared at the NME Awards 2006 in London. Peaches Geldof, the…

April 7, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

The Web’s grumpiest cat has hit her terrible twos

Grumpy Catdu1-i-syn The top dog in Internet cat stardom, known for her downward smile and bugged-out baby blues, spent her…

April 7, 2014

Performing Arts

‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ to tour North America

Singer Michelle Williams participates in the “Jesus Christ Superstar” arena spectacular press conference and press performance to announce a North…

April 7, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

Media vies to reach Latino viewers

‘For every success story, there is a flop’

April 7, 2014

Visual Arts

Look up

artists’ work hidden in plain view

April 7, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

Iconic Hollywood actor Mickey Rooney dies at 93

Entertainer Mickey Rooney is shown in this May 1987 file photo. Rooney, a Hollywood legend whose career spanned more than…

April 7, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

The Weekender

You’re not that special The Fort Lewis College Theatre Department will stage “Avenue Q,” winner of the Tony “Triple Crown”…

April 3, 2014

Visual Arts

Stolen Gauguin on Sicily kitchen wall for years

Italian police say this Paul Gauguin still life, stolen from a private collection in Britain in 1970, hung on a…

April 3, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

Arts Briefs

Ed Bolster will teach a beginning drawing class from 9 to 11 a.m. Tuesdays from April 15 to May 13…

April 3, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

Kurt Cobain remembered, 20 years after death

Kurt Cobain and his band Nirvana perform Dec. 13, 1993 in Seattle, Wash. Twenty years ago Cobain killed himself. His…

April 3, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

Letterman announces plans to retire in 2015

David Letterman says he plans to retire next year as host of “Late Show.” During a taping of his show…

April 3, 2014

Local News

Exploring our Hispanic heritage

American scholars descend on Durango for international conference

April 3, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

A&E Happenings April 4-10

53rd Annual Student Juried Exhibition, reception 4:30-6 p.m., show through April 14, Fort Lewis College Art Gallery. Gary Watkins, 5:30…

April 3, 2014

Film

At the movies

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Particle Fever. Outside of the average film fanatic, documentaries that aren’t music- or movie-related…

April 3, 2014

Music

Pharrell Williams, Zimmer create ‘Spidey’ opera

Pharrell, left, and Hans Zimmerdu1-i-syn The hope was that everyone working together would spark creativity, but Zimmer had no idea…

April 3, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

Discovery says Wallenda’s next walk is in Chicago

Nik Wallenda walks across the Grand Canyon for Discovery Channel’s “Skywire Live With Nik Wallenda” at Grand Canyon National Park…

April 3, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

Nigella Lawson stopped from boarding plane to U.S.

The embassy did not disclose the reason for refusing Lawson entry into the United States. Embassy spokeswoman Lynne Platt said…

April 3, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

Welles’ camera up for auction

The 1950s-era, 16-millimeter film camera used by Orson Welles to shoot a 1962 documentary and home movies is one of…

March 31, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

La Bohème: Love-starved in Paris

MET stages Puccini’s great tragic opera

March 31, 2014

Film

The other activist

Chavez biopic, Rosario Dawson wants a movie about feminist Dolores Huerta

March 31, 2014

Visual Arts

Germany returns looted Guardi painting to Poland

“Palace Stairs” painting was taken from Poland’s National Museum in 1939, and after World War II, it passed into the…

March 31, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

A&E Happenings for April 1-4

Terry Rickard, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 375-7150. Cribbage, open play/all levels welcome, 6 p.m., Lost Dog…

March 31, 2014

Film

At the Movies

Russell Crowe, as Noah, races to beat the rain in a scene from “Noah.”Niko Tavernise/Paramount/Associated Press (Both playing at Durango…

March 27, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

A&E Happenings for March 28 – April 3

Madigan Again<br><br>Called “one of America’s funniest female comics” by Jay Leno, stand-up comedienne Kathleen Madigan returns to the Community Concert…

March 27, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

Comic George Wallace testifies in casino lawsuit

Wallace, 61, left his trademark beret on the defense table as he took the witness stand to say he’s been…

March 27, 2014

Visual Arts

Lost for decades, Renoir piece returns to Baltimore museum

Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s painting “On the Shore of the Seine” hangs at the Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore on Thursday,…

March 27, 2014