Arts & Entertainment

At the Movies

“RoboCop,” starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, left, and Joel Kinnaman, is one of three Hollywood remakes opening this weekend in Durango.Kerry Hayes/Columbia…

February 13, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

A&E Happenings for Feb. 20-23

Laura Garza Hovel debuts as one of “Las Marthas,” Wednesday’s feature in the Durango Community Cinema/PBS Independent Lens series at…

February 13, 2014

Music

Oscar Concert to honor composers

The film academy announced Thursday it plans to present a live Oscar Concert celebrating the year’s nominated composers, including John…

February 13, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

Arts Briefs for Feb. 14

Durango Public Library will host Andrew Gulliford from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday for his presentation “Journeys and Wagons West:…

February 13, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

Which celebrity is bagged?

Chances are that you’ve seen him in something

February 13, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

Mega TV deal may hit home for you

Comcast buying rival Time Warner, stirring controversy

February 13, 2014

Film

Love is easy – on screen, anyway

Hollywood gets romantic for Valentine’s Day

February 13, 2014

Music

Top 20 Concert Tours from Pollstar

1. (1) Beyonce; $1,798,401; $126.05. 2. (2) Justin Timberlake; $1,624,445; $114.53. 3. (3) Pink; $1,420,674; $86.06. 4. (4) Kanye West;…

February 13, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

New Hemingway artifacts from Cuba at JFK Library

The 2,500 digitally scanned materials were housed at Hemingway’s former Cuban estate, called the Finca Vigía, where he lived for…

February 12, 2014

Performing Arts

Hugh Jackman will host the Tony Awards again

Producers of the annual telecast celebrating the best of Broadway said Tuesday that Jackman will once again take up hosting…

February 12, 2014

Film

Shirley Temple, iconic child star, dies at 85

Temple, known in private life as Shirley Temple Black, died Monday night at her home near San Francisco. She was…

February 11, 2014

Books

U.S. Best-selling books for Feb. 11

Fiction 1. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown and Co.) 2. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd…

February 10, 2014

Visual Arts

Self-serve

Sky Gallery uncorks private wine labels for Valentine’s Day

February 10, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

Professor offers short course in art history

The Great Sphinx of Giza was built during the Old Kingdom in Egypt between 2520 and 2494 BCE. Judith Reynolds…

February 10, 2014

Performing Arts

‘Book of Mormon’ breaks record

South Park creators scripted the comedy, “The Book of Mormon.”Joan Marcus/Boneau/Bryan-Brown/Associated Press The musical took in $2,802,606 over eight shows…

February 10, 2014

Books

‘Cold Storage’ is not too far from Durango

Cold Storage, Alaska by John Straley, Soho Crime publishing, 304 pages hardcover, $26.95.Soho Crime Since Straley is from Sitka, Alaska,…

February 10, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

A&E Happenings for Feb. 13

The Durango Arts Center Valentine’s Artist Market is open from 4-7 p.m. Thursday and Friday..JENNAYE DERGE/Durango Herald Valentines Artist Market,…

February 6, 2014

Downtown Lowdown

David Testroet has a winning formula for comedy success

David Testroet will headline Saturday’s Comedy Night at the Henry Strater Theatre. Denver comedian Eric Henderson will open the show.Courtesy…

February 6, 2014

Performing Arts

Getting to know you

Students devise bold theater with ‘GUTS’

February 6, 2014

Film

‘Llewyn Davis’ shouldn’t be overlooked

Oscar Isaac and Justin Timberlake are aspiring folk singers in the Coen brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Davis.”CBS Films “Rust and Bone”…

February 6, 2014

Visual Arts

A lasting reminder of a brother, son, friend

will raise funds for Peter Carver Memorial Forest

February 6, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

Arts Briefs for Feb. 7

Physicist Laura Peticolas of the University of California-Berkeley’s Space Physics Laboratory will be the guest speaker for tonight’s Pub Science…

February 6, 2014

Visual Arts

Smithsonian explores ‘cool’ from Whitman to Jay-Z

Lester Young, the lead saxophonist in Count Basie’s orchestra and soul mate to Billie Holiday, was giving voice to what…

February 6, 2014

Film

A look back at the allegations against Woody Allen

Woody Allen and his wife Soon-Yi Previn attend the June 2012 premiere after party for his film “To Rome with…

February 4, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

Jay Leno’s top targets on ‘Tonight’

1. Bill Clinton – 4,607 jokes. 2. George W. Bush – 3,239 jokes. 3. Al Gore – 1,026 jokes. 4.…

February 4, 2014

Performing Arts

Hey, you! You just might learn something

Quinn’s ‘Unconstitutional’ is part history, part hysterical

February 3, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

Ratings: another record for Super Bowl

The game also set standards for the most-streamed sports event online and, with 24.9 million tweets, the biggest U.S. live…

February 3, 2014

Film

Officials: Hoffman found with likely heroin packs

A passer-by stops at a makeshift memorial outside the home of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman on Monday in New York.…

February 3, 2014

Visual Arts

Graffiti art highlighted in NYC exhibition

That 1978 work helped propel the illicit graffiti art movement out of the subway and into the mainstream. So it’s…

February 3, 2014

Books

U.S. Best-selling books for Feb. 4

Fiction 1. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown and Co.) 2. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd…

February 3, 2014