Arts & Entertainment

Winter music recital rescheduled

Because of the recent omicron surge, the next recital in the Unitarian Universalist Recital Series will be rescheduled to later…

January 21, 2022

Arts and Entertainment

Tickets on sale for Catherine Russell, jazz vocalist

Grammy-nominated vocalist Catherine Russell will perform in Durango on Feb. 4 and 5. (Courtesy) Grammy-nominated vocalist Catherine Russell kicks off…

January 21, 2022

Arts and Entertainment

Meat Loaf, ‘Bat Out of Hell’ rock superstar, dies at 74

Meat Loaf performs at a concert in New York’s Madison Square Garden in 2007. Meat Loaf, whose“"Bat Out Of Hell”…

January 21, 2022

Arts and Entertainment

Louie Anderson, comic, Emmy winner for ‘Baskets,’ dies at 68

Comedian Louie Anderson, whose four-decade career as a comedian and actor included his unlikely and Emmy-winning performance as mom to…

January 21, 2022

Arts and Entertainment

Durango Public Library wants to show your art

‘It’s a good way to kind of get yourself out there’

January 20, 2022

Arts and Entertainment

Pioneering fashion journalist André Leon Talley dies at 73

Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and Vogue editor at large André Leon Talley attend the presentation of the Oscar de la…

January 19, 2022

Arts and Entertainment

Bayfield artist featured at Telluride gallery

Telluride Gallery of Fine Art will feature the work of Bayfield’s Krista Harris, Jan. 26-Feb. 27. The exhibition is titled…

January 18, 2022

Arts and Entertainment

Grammy Awards move ceremony to Las Vegas site in early April

The upcoming Grammy Awards have been postponed because of what organizers called “too many risks” with the omicron variant. The…

January 18, 2022

Arts and Entertainment

Pope acknowledges he got caught at record store

Pope Francis leaves a record shop in Rome on Tuesday. He grew up listening to the opera on the radio,…

January 15, 2022

Arts and Entertainment

Spider-Man comic page sells for record $3.36M at auction

Page 25 from the 1984 Marvel comic “Secret Wars No. 8” tells the origin story of Spider-Man’s now-iconic black suit.…

January 13, 2022

Arts and Entertainment

Creatives get to work in ArtRoom

Building offers spaces for artists to create, sell, collaborate

January 13, 2022

Music

Ronnie Spector, ’60s icon who sang ‘Be My Baby,’ dies at 78

Ronnie Spector, the cat-eyed, bee-hived rock ’n’ roll siren who sang such 1960s hits as “Be My Baby,” “Baby I…

January 12, 2022

Visual Arts

Damaged O’Keeffe painting on display again after restoration

Dale Kronkright, head of conservation and preservation at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, works on restoring O’Keeffe’s painting “Spring” on Nov.…

January 11, 2022

Film

Baldwin: It’s ‘a lie’ that he’s not helping shooting probe

Alec Baldwin said Saturday that any suggestion that he’s not cooperating with a probe into last fall’s shooting on his…

January 8, 2022

Arts and Entertainment

Oscar winner and groundbreaking star Sidney Poitier dies

Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, became the first…

January 7, 2022

Arts and Entertainment

Free Fort Lewis lectures begin Jan. 20

Life-Long Learning programs resume with virtual presentations

January 6, 2022

Arts and Entertainment

Peter Bogdanovich, director of ‘Paper Moon,’ dead at 82

Peter Bogdanovich, the Oscar-nominated director of “The Last Picture Show” and “Paper Moon,“ died Thursday at his home in Los…

January 6, 2022

Arts and Entertainment

Merely Players postpones performance

With public health considerations in mind, Merely Players is rescheduling its upcoming performances of “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940”…

January 6, 2022

Film

Sundance cancels in-person film festival because of virus surge

The Sundance Film Festival is canceling its in-person festival and reverting to an entirely virtual edition because of the current…

January 5, 2022

Arts and Entertainment

Grammys postpone ceremony, citing omicron variant risks

The upcoming Grammy Awards have been postponed because of what organizers called “too many risks” with the omicron variant. The…

January 5, 2022

Arts and Entertainment

Sampson to play ‘Live @ The Smiley Cafe’

The Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College will host singer-songwriter Carter Sampson at 7 p.m. Jan. 21 at the…

January 5, 2022

Arts and Entertainment

Betty White, TV’s Golden Girl, dies at 99

Actors from the television series “The Golden Girls” take a break in taping Dec. 25, 1985, in Hollywood. From left…

December 31, 2021

Arts and Entertainment

Looking back at an artsy 2021

Despite a weird year, local arts flourished

December 30, 2021

Arts and Entertainment

Christmas songs for those who dislike Christmas songs

set your teeth on edge? Slap some ears on these yuletide tunes instead!

December 23, 2021

Arts and Entertainment

Big changes ahead for local band

Durango Tire Fire changing name to Desert Child on New Year’s Eve

December 23, 2021

Music

UTFO’s Kangol Kid dies after battle with cancer at 55

Kangol Kid attends the “Black Nativity” premiere in 2013 in New York. Kangol Kid, a member of the legendary hip-hop…

December 18, 2021

Music

Durango High School Choir needs help getting to Carnegie Hall

Group’s original trip canceled because of pandemic

December 16, 2021

Local News

Durango Creative District names interim director

Lander brings 25 years of experience working with nonprofits

December 14, 2021

Arts and Entertainment

Banksy creates T-shirt to help statue-toppling defendants

People line up outside Rough Trade in Bristol, England, on Saturday, where a T-shirt designed by street artist Banksy is…

December 11, 2021

Books

Pagosa Springs resident releases book about American Pika

Deirdre Rosenburg, a resident of Pagosa Springs, released a book about her work with the American Pika, an animal she…

December 10, 2021