Arts & Entertainment
Books
Not surprising: J.K. Rowling’s Cuckoo’s Calling a good read
The secret identity of Robert Galbraith, author of The Cuckoo’s Calling, was quickly revealed to be a pseudonym for author J.K. Rowling.Mulholland Books I’ve read every book J.K. Rowling has…
Books
U.S. Best-selling books for July 23
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…
Film
Spike Lee begins fundraiser on Kickstarter for new film
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
Music by the people, for the people
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…
Performing Arts
Islands, seas & shipwrecks
Festival champions Peter Pan, Cole Porter and Shakespeare
Arts and Entertainment
A&E Happenings for July 25
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…
Arts and Entertainment
Nominations overlook shows, stars
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”…
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Briefs for July 19
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…
Film
Pirates vs. zombies: Comic-Con’s latest showdown
The Star of India sits at a dock next to the San Diego Convention Center during the Preview Night event on Day 1 of the 2013 Comic-Con International Convention on…
Visual Arts
Officials seeking stolen art find paint in ashes
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…
Visual Arts
Romania: Museum checks if paintings burned
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…
Music
Miss. blues guitarist, singer ‘T-Model’ Ford dies
His age was uncertain. Washington County Coroner Methel Johnson said the family told her Ford was born in 1924 and had already had his birthday this year, which would have…
Performing Arts
Shakespeare’s Globe taking ‘Hamlet’ around world
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…
Books
U.S. Best-selling books for July 16
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…
Music
Sock it to the firefighters
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…
Arts and Entertainment
‘Mountains’ orchestra shines in rain
sparse for first weekend of music festival
Arts and Entertainment
A&E Happenings for July 18
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 &…
Performing Arts
Broadway gets beastly – thanks to a dog lover
Bernadette Peters leads adoption charge
Visual Arts
Look both ways for 6-pack of artists
&, Serving Life Chiropractic to hold their annual group show
Film
Local new head of Rocky Mountain PBS
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…
Film
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 executive Tom McGrath to develop at least nine musicals based…
Film
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 in London.Joss Barratt/CBS/Associated Press “It’s a little bit surreal, to…
Books
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 $9.99 price for the most popular e-books so it “created…