Arts & Entertainment
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Briefs for Nov. 15
The Durango Public Library will host a screening and discussion of “Durango and Abu Dhabi: A Cross-cultural Exchange” at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday. The film by Kim Martin is about modern…
Music
Maura O’Connell’s voice is in demand
An Irish upbringing followed by an immersion in the Nashville music scene forged a unique singing style for O’Connell. She and her special guest, guitarist John Mock, will play tonight…
Local News
Ex-Open Shutter manager possibly in legal hot water
Questions asked in connection with famous photographer
Film
Study: PG-13 gun violence rivals that in R movies
Liam Neeson brandishes his gun in a scene from “Taken 2.” Gun violence in PG-13 rated movies has increased to the point that it sometimes exceeds gun violence in even…
Nation & World
Germany starts ID’ing Munich art found online
Prosecution shows Otto Griebel’s ‘Kind am Tisch’ (Child at a table) that was among the more than 1,400 art works seized by German authorities in an apartment in Munich in…
Film
At the Movies
Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is in his element when engaged in close combat in “Thor: The Dark World.”Jay Maidment/Walt Disney Studios/Marvel/Associated Press About Time (Playing at the Gaslight Cinema) Of all…
Arts and Entertainment
A&E Happenings for Nov. 14
Copper & Congress, rock, 5 p.m., Ska Brewing Co., 225 Girard St., 247-5792, www.skabrewing.com. Trivia Night, 5:30 p.m., Durango Discovery Museum, 1333 Camino del Rio, 259-9234, www.durangodiscovery.org. Robin Davis, 5:30…
Performing Arts
Young actors are in a ‘Pickle’
Durango author adapts children’s book for DAC theater production
Visual Arts
The Out-of-Towners
Fitz Sargent used every ball in the rack to create “Tree No.3: Sphaerae sinae decussissexis.” Sargent may be best known in Durango for creating the enormous bicycle that is on…
Visual Arts
Documents raise questions about Munich art hoard
In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, the American military seized 20 boxes of art from German dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt in Aschbach in December 1945, according to documents located…
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Briefs for Nov. 8
The Southwest Civic Winds, with the Durango High School Music Department and Durango Post 4031 of the VFW, will present a pre-Veterans Day concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at the…
Film
Filming Kennedy’s last moments sobering for Lowe
Immediately, the intensity and the reality of what they were about to depict in the film hit home. “Seeing her in that beautiful pink Chanel with bloodstains on it was…
Arts and Entertainment
Chess, rubber duck inducted into Toy Hall of Fame
The pair beat out 10 other finalists: bubbles, the board game Clue, Fisher-Price Little People, little green Army men, the Magic 8 Ball, My Little Pony, Nerf toys, the Pac-Man…
Film
Stars align for telethon to aid U.S. veterans
The trio will host the Homeward Bound telethon to benefit victims of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. The four-hour event, airing at 7 p.m. Sunday on the Military…
Music
Eminem re-explores Marshall Mathers
Aftermath/Associated Press Don’t be fooled: Eminem’s latest, “The Marshall Mathers LP 2,” is not a sequel to his gloriously unhinged 2000 rap masterpiece, “The Marshall Mathers LP,” as the title…
Music
From the ‘Prairie’ to the mountains
Radio’s Robin and Linda Williams to return to Durango for concert
Arts and Entertainment
No fall break for music on Fort Lewis campus
The Fort Lewis College Music Department has some exciting education events during November. On Nov. 14, it will host the Fort Lewis College 17th annual Honor Choir. This event will…
Visual Arts
Record prices expected at NYC fall art auctions
Among the blue-chip offerings is Andy Warhol’s “Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster),” a provocative double-panel painting that Sotheby’s estimates could bring as much as $80 million at its Nov. 13…
Visual Arts
Wagner to be remembered on 1st Thursday
Navajo artist R.C. Gorman commissioned the late Rory Wagner to paint his “Aunt Mary.”Courtesy of Sorrel Sky Gallery The event will feature the remaining original works by Wagner, including one…
Books
U.S. Best-selling Books for Nov. 5
Fiction 1. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown and Co.) 2. Sycamore Row by John Grisham (Doubleday) 3. Dog Songs by Mary Oliver (Penguin Press HC) 4. The Circle…
Arts and Entertainment
A&E Happenings for Nov. 6-7
Robin and Linda Williams, frequent guests on Garrison Keillor’s “Prairie Home Companion,” will play Thursday night at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College.Courtesy of Fort Lewis College Greg…
Music
Bob Dylan’s guitar from Newport to be auctioned in N.Y.
The Fender Stratocaster a young Bob Dylan played at the historic 1965 Newport Folk Festival could bring as much as half a million dollars when it comes up for auction…
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Briefs for Nov. 1
The Animas Museum’s annual Old Fashioned Christmas Bazaar will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Dec. 6 and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 7. Vendor space is…
Film
Bryan Cranston narrates ‘Big History’ exploration
Cranstondu1-i-syn But there’s another reason Cranston is a fine choice for this new docuseries, which pledges to reveal “one grand unified theory” for how every event in history (13.7 billion…