Arts & Entertainment

20th Century Fox to make musicals from films

The studio said Thursday it has joined up with Tony Award-winner producer Kevin McCollum, film producer John Davis and entertainment…

Bringing U.S. Sherlock to London

Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu film a season two episode of “Elementary” on the banks of the Thames River…

NY judge: Apple conspired to raise e-book prices

U.S. District Judge Denise Cote said Apple knew that no publisher could risk acting alone to try to eliminate Amazon.com’s…

Summer theater has East Coast bias

Durango Arts Center’s season of Neil Simon is underway

U.S. Best-selling books for July 9

Fiction 1. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Hardcover) 2. Inferno by Dan Brown (Doubleday) 3. The Ocean…

That’s no doggie in the window

Author writes of and through river’s obstacles

of epic Grand Canyon run is bumpy – and so is sharing it

A&E Happenings for July 11

Early Bird Karaoke, 3-7 p.m.; also 8 p.m.-close, 8th Avenue Tavern, 509 East Eighth Ave., 259-8801. Mythical Creatures: An Exploration…

Director probed for ruse in Taiwan

Niu Chen-zer has apologized for his “negligence” in not paying attention to the law barring mainland Chinese from entering sensitive…

Paula Deen cuts ties with her agent

Sears Holdings Corp. has announced it is cutting ties with Southern celebrity chef Deen, adding to the list of companies…

Twister relief show draws scalpers

Country stars to play concert at Okla. school

Arts Briefs for July 5

Joan Iversen Goswell’s exhibit “Politics & Other Diversions” is open in the Art Library at Durango Arts Center. The exhibit…

Doors survivors to honor Ray Manzarek

Keyboardist died of cancer in May

Ex-O.J. prosecutor takes her readers to trial

Prosecutor Marcia Clark looks toward the jury during the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial in 1995.Sam Mircovich/Associated Press Clark tells us…

Durango Herald editor is getting in on the act

The kind of theater where your friends, neighbors or co-workers get cast into random roles, whether they have years of…

What does your outfit say?

Exhibit tells Southwest history through textiles

Visual effects

Multimedia ‘Crossroads’ to open music festival

U.S. Best-selling books for July 2

Fiction 1. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (William Morrow & Company) 2. And the…

Black Belt Salsa class creates lethal dancers

Black Belt Salsa instructor Erin Sinberg shows Sebastian Gast some new moves during a class at Cocktails & Creations on…

Judge tosses 3 ‘Elmo’ lawsuits

Three lawsuits against Kevin Clash, the voice of Elmo on “Sesame Street” for 28 years, have been dropped. Three men…

Cirque ‘devastated’ by Vegas acrobat’s death

Woman, 31, fell about 50 feet from show’s stage

Hit ‘Antiques Roadshow’ keeps on trucking for PBS

Ted Trotta of Trotta-Bono, Ltd., looks at Lisa as she reacts about information about her Spontoon Tomahawk Pipe during a…

Court: No class-action status in Google book case

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it was too early for authors to be considered as a group…

A&E Happenings for July 4

Desert Thunder Band, 3 p.m., Doc’s Marina at Vallecito Lake. Early Bird Karaoke, 3-7 p.m.; also 8 p.m.-close, 8th Avenue…

There are no losers, but winners? Yes

Arts Briefs for June 28

The Durango Arts Center’s “A Neil Simon Summer” opened Thursday and will continue through Aug. 31. The musical “They’re Playing…

Two new leads are tapped for Broadway’s ‘Annie’

Taylor Richardson and Sadie Sink, both natural redheads, will share the role of the stage’s most famous redhead beginning July…

Photographer who shot ’62 Marilyn Monroe portraits dies

Stern died Wednesday at his Manhattan home, said Shannah Laumeister, 43, a filmmaker who said the two were secretly married…

Mormon church-owned Utah NBC affiliate to air SNL

The decision is part of the station’s plan to make the lineup stronger and improve its relationship with NBC, said…

Fire benefit show braves the flames

Durango singer Dave Mensch to host concert Saturday in South Fork