Arts & Entertainment
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 80 years, has died. He was 93. Los Angeles Police…
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” for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book. Written by…
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 kitchen wall in a retired Sicilian autoworker’s home for 40…
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 at Durango Arts Center. This course, designed for the novice,…
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 influence still ripples across the surface of pop music and…
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 Thursday, Letterman said he has informed his CBS bosses that…
Local News
Exploring our Hispanic heritage
American scholars descend on Durango for international conference
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 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 375-7150. Salsa Night,…
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 are hard-pressed to find popularity in general audiences. Of course,…
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 how far that creativity would go until Williams took a…
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 in Arizona on June 23, 2013.Associated Press file photo The…
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 Thursday that Lawson was stopped from traveling Sunday and had…
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 the items consigned by his daughter Beatrice Welles to be…
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 collection of the State Gallery of Baden-Wüerttemberg. It was given…
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 Bar & Lounge, 1150 Main Ave., 749-0080. Dustin Burley, 6…
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 Stadium 9) Noah. Russell Crowe stars as Noah, a man…
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 Hall at Fort Lewis College with her one-woman show “Madigan…
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 permanently affected by an Achilles tendon injury he suffered when…
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, more than 60 years after it was stolen from the…
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Briefs for March 28
Merely Players has launched a “Pave the Yellow Brick Road” campaign to assist in the theatrical troupe’s continued ability to keep quality theatre in Durango. The financial assistance will help…
Film
No guarantees for child stars
In film history, there are the successes: Elizabeth Taylor, Roddy McDowall, Natalie Wood, Drew Barrymore, Christian Bale, Kirsten Dunst and Jason Bateman, to name a few. But then there are…
Film
‘Noah’ an epic of biblical proportion
Emma Watson as Ila and Douglas Booth as Shem prepare to board the Ark in a scene from “Noah.”Niko Tavernise/Paramount/Associated Press It is, of course, a biblical blockbuster, a 21st-century…
Film
Russell Crowe calls ‘Noah’ criticism ‘irrational’
Crowe spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday night at the New York premiere of the biblical epic, directed by Darren Aronofsky and featuring Emma Watson and Jennifer Connelly, who…
Music
First Stratocaster sells for $250K
George Gruhn poses with the first production model Fender Stratocaster guitar on Tuesday in Nashville, Tenn. The sunburst-finish Strat bears the serial number 0100. Although some Strats have lower numbers…
Film
Nielsen poll: Film reviews still influential
The Nielsen company announced Monday that their annual American Moviegoing report revealed that 80 percent of moviegoers refer to movie reviews at least some of the time when deciding what…
Music
GWAR frontman Brockie found dead in Virginia home
Officers were called to Brockie’s home Sunday evening and found the singer dead inside the home, Richmond police spokeswoman Dionne Waugh said Monday. Detectives don’t suspect foul play at this…