Ken Burns making documentary on country music
Country fans have a wait ahead of them, though. PBS said Monday that Burns’ country music project isn’t set to air until 2018. The noted documentarian has several other projects…
Country fans have a wait ahead of them, though. PBS said Monday that Burns’ country music project isn’t set to air until 2018. The noted documentarian has several other projects…
artist’s divorce sets him free to pursue his dreams –carving art that’s winning in national shows
Terry Rickard, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 375-7150. Dustin Burley, 6 p.m., Derailed Pour House, 725 Main Ave., 247-5440, www.derailedpourhouse.com. Cribbage, open play/all levels welcome, 6 p.m.,…
The Durango Arts Center will offer its inaugural Artist-in-Residency Program for contemporary and performing art with two one-week residencies offered in the spring and fall. The residency program is part…
FIRST-TIMERS: It’s never too late for an Academy Award nomination. Just ask June Squibb, who is a first-time Oscar nominee for her supporting role in “Nebraska” at 84 years old.…
1. Best Picture: “American Hustle,” “Captain Phillips,” “Dallas Buyers Club,” “Gravity,” “Her,” “Nebraska,” “Philomena,” “12 Years a Slave,” “The Wolf of Wall Street.” 2. Actor: Christian Bale, “American Hustle”; Bruce…
“American Hustle,” Sony, $103,565,129, 10 nominations, H (Durango Stadium 9). “Captain Phillips,” Sony, $105,010,295, six nominations. “Dallas Buyers Club,” Focus, $16,769,169, six nominations, H (begins Jan. 24 at the Animas…
ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” said Thursday it will air five shows in March from Austin. The Texas city hosts the international showcase for music, film and interactive projects that’s in…
Based on interviews conducted earlier this month, the study released Thursday shows 50 percent of respondents saying they have a tablet or stand-alone device such as Amazon.com’s Kindle. That’s up…
Clockwise from foreground left, Alyson Hannigan, Neal Patrick Harris, Cobie Smulders and Josh Radnor in a scene from “How I Met Your Mother.” Producers filmed the climactic scene of the…
The silly comedy sequel about four childhood friends led the Razzie lineup Tuesday with eight nominations, including worst picture, sequel, ensemble, screenplay and lead actor for Adam Sandler. Sandler is…
Documentary recounts deadly 1985 Philadelphia standoff, burning of neighborhood
A tour group admires “A Painter at Work” by Paul Cézanne on Friday in the “Passport to Paris” exhibition at the Denver Art Museum. The painting is one of 22…
Bradley Cooper got a Golden Globe nomination as Richie Dimaso and Amy Adams won Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical for her role as Sydney Prosser in “American Hustle.”…
Kevin Reilly has taken a step in that direction by doing away with pilot season – the frantic period in the spring when broadcast networks make test episodes of dozens…
Viewers of “Portlandia” or other quirky comedies had probably figured that out by now. But the network’s general manager, Jennifer Caserta, said Thursday that the corporate paperwork has been signed…
Fiction 1. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown and Co.) 2. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Little, Brown and Co.) 3. Dog Songs by Mary Oliver (Penguin Press HC)…
2013 was a tale of two cinemas. Blockbusters like “The Lone Ranger” and “After Earth” flopped spectacularly while many in the industry (including Steven Spielberg) bemoaned the increasingly commercial trajectory…
But at the end of a madcap Golden Globes (Fey toasted it as “the beautiful mess we hoped it would be”), the major honors soberly ended up with the favorites.…
Taylor Kitsch, left, as Michael Murphy and Mark Wahlberg as Marcus Luttrell in a scene from the fact-based film “Lone Survivor.”Gregory R. Peters/Universal/Associated Press Lone Survivor (Playing at the Durango…
Souper Thursday with Robby Overfield & The Breaks, 5 p.m., Ska Brewing Co., 225 Girard St., 247-5792, www.skabrewing.com. Susan Wise, mixed media acrylic paintings, opening reception 5-7 p.m., ENO, 723…
Merely Players will hold auditions for the spring musical, “The Wizard of Oz,” on Tuesday and Wednesday. Auditions are open to adults and students in grades 4 to 12 who…
Documentary took major awards at Utah film festival
Jon Neufeld performs with Martha Scanlan on the video for “The Meadow.” Scanlan will play tonight at Durango Arts Center.Courtesy of Martha Scanlan Bottle up her songs and bury them…
Following last year’s release of Microsoft’s Xbox One and Sony’s PlayStation 4, many games scheduled to debut this year will harness the power of those next-generation systems in hopes of…
Woody AllenAndrew Medichini/Associated Press Little had been known about Allen’s next film before Thursday when Sony Pictures Classics announced it will distribute “Magic in the Moonlight.” It stars Colin Firth,…