Arts & Entertainment

U.S. Best-selling books for July 23
Books

U.S. Best-selling books for July 23

July 22, 2013

Fiction 1. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead) 2. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (William Morrow & Co.) 3. Inferno by Dan…

Spike Lee begins fundraiser on Kickstarter for new film
Film

Spike Lee begins fundraiser on Kickstarter for new film

July 22, 2013

Spike Lee has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund his next feature film.Charles Sykes/Invision/Associated Press Following in the footsteps of “Veronica Mars” and Zach Braff, Lee has launched an…

Music by the people, for the people
Music

Music by the people, for the people

July 22, 2013

The Southwest Civic Winds gave a free concert to a large but dispersed crowd Sunday in Rotary Park. The all-volunteer band of community members from throughout the Four Corners get…

A&E Happenings for July 25
Arts and Entertainment

A&E Happenings for July 25

July 18, 2013

Storyteller, songwriter, guitarist and “voice-stramentalist” Lawrence “Lipbone” Redding will be in Ignacio today performing and offering music workshops for kids to benefit Dancing Spirit Community Arts Center and Stillwater Foundation’s…

Nominations overlook shows, stars
Arts and Entertainment

Nominations overlook shows, stars

July 18, 2013

It was a question raised by Emmy’s latest round of snubs as this year’s nominees were announced Thursday. HBO’s magnificent “Treme”? Jilted yet again. Same for AMC’s “The Walking Dead”…

A friend in deed
Visual Arts

A friend in deed

July 18, 2013

artist donates sculpture to durango’s collection

Arts Briefs for July 19
Arts and Entertainment

Arts Briefs for July 19

July 18, 2013

The all-volunteer Southwest Civic Winds will give a free concert at 1 p.m. Sunday in the Rotary Park Gazebo. The concert band includes more than 60 musicians from the Four…

Officials seeking stolen art find paint in ashes
Visual Arts

Officials seeking stolen art find paint in ashes

July 17, 2013

An empty space remains where Henri Matisse’s painting “La Liseuse en Blanc et Jaune” was hanging next to paintings by Maurice Denis and Pierre Bonnard before an October 2012 heist…

Romania: Museum checks if paintings burned
Visual Arts

Romania: Museum checks if paintings burned

July 16, 2013

Pablo Picasso’s 1971 painting ‘Harlequin Head’ was one seven paintings stolen last year from the Netherlands. A Romanian museum is analyzing ashes found in a stove to see if they…

Shakespeare’s Globe taking ‘Hamlet’ around world
Performing Arts

Shakespeare’s Globe taking ‘Hamlet’ around world

July 16, 2013

Shakespeare’s Globe theater is about to take the Bard’s words literally — “All the world’s a stage.” The London theater says it plans to tour a production of “Hamlet” to…

U.S. Best-selling books for July 16
Books

U.S. Best-selling books for July 16

July 15, 2013

Fiction 1. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead) 2. Inferno by Dan Brown (Doubleday) 3. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (William Morrow…

Sock it to the firefighters
Music

Sock it to the firefighters

July 15, 2013

Arizona jam band Spafford is next in the Fort Lewis Community Concert Hall “Concerts in the Park” series. The band will play a free show at 5 p.m. Thursday in…

A&E Happenings for July 18
Arts and Entertainment

A&E Happenings for July 18

July 11, 2013

Early Bird Karaoke, 3-7 p.m.; also 8 p.m.-close, 8th Avenue Tavern, 509 East Eighth Ave., 259-8801. Tim Sullivan Band, 4:30 p.m., Rochester Hotel, 726 East Second Ave., 385-1920. Burger &…

Local new head of Rocky Mountain PBS
Film

Local new head of Rocky Mountain PBS

July 11, 2013

Fosterdu1-i-syn “It’s an exciting time in the media world. It’s challenging more than scary, there are all kinds of communications tools in the box that didn’t used to be,” Foster…

20th Century Fox to make musicals from films
Film

20th Century Fox to make musicals from films

July 11, 2013

The studio said Thursday it has joined up with Tony Award-winner producer Kevin McCollum, film producer John Davis and entertainment executive Tom McGrath to develop at least nine musicals based…

Bringing U.S. Sherlock to London
Film

Bringing U.S. Sherlock to London

July 11, 2013

Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu film a season two episode of “Elementary” on the banks of the Thames River in London.Joss Barratt/CBS/Associated Press “It’s a little bit surreal, to…

NY judge: Apple conspired to raise e-book prices
Books

NY judge: Apple conspired to raise e-book prices

July 10, 2013

U.S. District Judge Denise Cote said Apple knew that no publisher could risk acting alone to try to eliminate Amazon.com’s $9.99 price for the most popular e-books so it “created…