Arts and Entertainment
19th annual Bach Festival shifts tracks
‘Mostly Mozart Festival’ headlines week of recitals, Bach’s Lunch
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Access, art and a little bit of ‘Cannibal!’ (It’s a Colorado thing)
Beth Lamberson Warren As a teenager, I rode my bike across town to teach swimming to children with developmental and physical disabilities. The pool was at Warren Air Force Base…
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Durango native brings feature documentary ‘ADAPTED’ to Independent Film Festival
Bikis found inspiration from caring for his mother
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Fort Lewis College showcases student musicians at honors recital
Professors select a limited number of pupils to represent the department in this singular program
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Durango Blues Train announces 2026 artist lineup
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday
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Nurturing the next generation of theater professionals
Student intern and assistant stage manager Zoe Corbine-Daniels, left, goes over rehearsal notes at the 2025 Durango PlayFest with stage manager Harper Hadley. (Courtesy) Mandy Mikulencak When Durango PlayFest was…
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Movie review: In ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,’ a man from the future fights an AI apocalypse
Sam Rockwell stars in “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.” (Rotten Tomatoes) In Gore Verbinski’s absurdist AI sci-fi satire “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,” a strange unnamed man (Sam…
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DHS Troupe 1096 to stage ‘The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later’
Production opens Feb. 27 at Durango High School
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Merely Players illuminates ‘Silent Sky’
Life-changing decisions ripple through this true story set at the turn of the last century
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Joe Pickett returns in ‘The Crossroads’
C.J. Box’s Wyoming game warden back in 26th novel
Community
Cortez students help turn dumpsters into public art as city unveils truck name
programs aim to strengthen safety, youth engagement and community pride
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All aboard: Bluegrass Train announces lineup for inaugural season
Tickets go on sale Thursday morning for new moving music venue
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The Mozart Effect: San Juan Symphony explores musical connections
Performances will be staged in Durango and Farmington
Religion
Emerging artists making rap, Afrobeats and R&B music push Christian genre boundaries
Christian rapper and influencer Lecrae Devaughn Moore photographed in Atlanta on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. (Ben Gray/Associated Press)cca Often boosted by social media, many of them got their start with…
Local News
Fort Lewis College students kick off Valentine’s Day with annual drag show
‘I think drag can show you that love looks different. ... Love looks like anything,’ host Aria Pettyone says
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Review: Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ is a bold but shallow take on Brontë’s classic
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi star in “Wuthering Heights.” (Warner Bros. via AP) It’s hardly a surprise that filmmaker Emerald Fennell, who possesses a particular interest in shocking and riling…
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Local photographer chronicles the people of Durango, Bayfield and beyond
Lindley: ‘Every moment is precious and passing, and so are people. ... It’s only by chance that we cross paths’
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Outside the box: Groundbreaking performances and boundary-breaking artists
Global strings return for a thrilling evening of virtuosity and collaboration with International Guitar Night XXVI: World on a String at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26. (Community Concert Hall at Fort…
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Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘The American Way of Killing’ to be released in September
Writer Malcolm Gladwell attends the screening of “Faces of America With Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.” in New York on Feb. 1, 2010. (Evan Agostini/AP file) NEW YORK – “The…
Community
DAC presents Warhol and Wine class
The Durango Arts Center presents a Warhol and Wine Class 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the DAC, 802 East Second Ave. All supplies and beverages are provided for the…
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‘Encounters and reflections’ at Durango Public Library
Photography shows by local artists dazzle in community space
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How Super Bowl halftime moments became flashpoints from the ‘wardrobe malfunction’ to caged kids
FILE – Janet Jackson, left, covers her breast after a wardrobe malfunction during the halftime performance with Justin Timberlake at Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston on Feb. 1, 2004. (AP…
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Review: Jason Statham sticks close to the formula as a lethal former spy in ‘Shelter’
Bill Nighy, left, and Jason Statham star in “Shelter.” (Daniel Smith/Black Bear via AP) Jason Statham lives in a Scottish lighthouse when we meet him in “Shelter” and that’s a…
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The longest shortest month filled with creativity
Beth Lamberson Warren February has always felt like the longest, shortest month of the year. With only 28 days, it somehow manages to stretch on – thanks to the post-January…
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Twinkle twinkle little star: Merely Players stages ‘Silent Sky’
Jenny Mason For 30 years, Henrietta Swan Leavitt flooded notebooks with meticulous data nested inside hand-drawn tables. She and her fellow female “Harvard computers” earned 25 cents an hour to…
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Durango PlayFest enlists local reviewers to help with play selection
Former Durango PlayFest Board Chair Debbie Pfeifer (left) interviewed the 2024 festival playwrights at a free event at Blue Rain Gallery – Kathleen Cahill, Deb Hiett, James Anthony Tyler and…
Travel
A historic house in Serbia’s capital hangs on with intimate theatrical productions
Sofija Ristic, right, an amateur theater director and actor, gets makeup applied in an old villa used for theater performances by independent production in Belgrade, Serbia, on Sunday, Jan. 18,…
Southwest Life
Crisosto Apache named Colorado’s newest poet laureate
Crisosto Apache is Colorado's new poet laureate. (Ryan Warner/CPR News)cca Apache, who lives in Lakewood, is a member of the Mescalero Apache, Chiricahua Apache and Diné (Navajo) tribes, and is…
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New bluegrass train pulling into Durango
Tickets go on sale Feb. 19 for moving music venue
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New novel takes readers into the world of wolves
‘Colorado Wolf Stories’ follows adventures of fictional pack