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Online auction a Paws for Celebration
Parker’s Animal rescue host annual fundraiser
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Merely Players stages a farce for laughter’s sake
A murder-mystery spoof just in time
Arts and Entertainment
Art show at Smiley explores ‘Duality’
Local artist Tad Smith will kick off his latest exhibit, “Duality,” on Friday at the Smiley Café. (Courtesy of Tad Smith) Local contemporary artist Tad Smith will unveil a new…
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Unitarian Universalist Fellowship postpones recital
Because of the continuing COVID-19 surge, the third recital in the series at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship has been postponed from Feb. 11 to May 20. The recital will feature…
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Animas Valley Grange to host book talk
Animas Valley Grange will host a Zoom presentation by author Beth Hoffman about her new book, “Bet the Farm,” from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21. After years studying food…
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Artists to host Valentine bazaar
The artists’ studios in the ArtRoom at the Smiley Building, 1309 East Third Ave., will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 12 for a Valentine bazaar experience.…
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Library hosts student art show
The Pine River Library is hosting an art exhibition featuring the art of Bayfield middle and high school students in Kayleigh Weir’s and Kathleen Neal’s classrooms. The artwork will be…
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Dolly Parton, Eminem, Lionel Richie among Rock Hall nominees
Dolly Parton is among this year’s first-time nominees for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. (Wade Payne/Invision/AP, file)Wade Payne NEW YORK – Dolly Parton, Eminem, Lionel Richie,…
Local News
Photo: Tutus for 2-2-22
In honor of Feb. 2, 2022, or 2-2-22, the “Endurance” sculpture cyclists on Florida Road were dressed in tutus on Tuesday. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)Jerry McBride
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ABC suspends Whoopi Goldberg over Holocaust race remarks
Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended for two weeks as co-host of “The View” because of what the head of ABC News called her “wrong and hurtful comments” about Jews and…
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Joni Mitchell joining Neil Young in protest over Spotify
Joni Mitchell said Friday she seeks to remove all of her music on Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young, who ignited a protest against the streaming service for airing a…
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Farmington artist awarded grant
Farmington artist Rosemary Meza-DesPlas was awarded a $9,100 516 ARTS’ Fulcrum Fund grant for her upcoming performance artwork titled “Miss Nalgas USA 2022.” The funded performance artwork examines the mainstream…
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Fashion edition: Durango high School students get glamorous with newspapers
Garments on display in school’s commons area
Local News
Review: Snowdown Follies is the booster Durango needed this year
show is funny, topical and a great way to forget about the real world
Arts and Entertainment
The trumpet shall sound: College launches winter recital programs
Trumpeter Wiff Rudd is on his way to wintery Durango from Dallas to give the first music recital of the semester at Fort Lewis College. Wiff Rudd (Courtesy) Performing under…
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Winter music recital rescheduled
Because of the recent omicron surge, the next recital in the Unitarian Universalist Recital Series will be rescheduled to later in the spring. Percussionist John O’Neal was to perform with…
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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 her new “Send For Me” album tour with Durango Cool…
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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” album is one of the all time best-sellers, has died,…
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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 twin adult sons in the TV series “Baskets,” has died…
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Durango Public Library wants to show your art
‘It’s a good way to kind of get yourself out there’
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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 Renta fall 2007 collection, on Feb. 5, 2007, during Fashion…
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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 “No Reason, No Rhyme.” Harris has shown her work in…
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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 ceremony had been scheduled for Jan. 31 in Los Angeles…
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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, is a fan of tango and milonga and thinks Mozart…
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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. (Heritage Auctions via AP)Uncredited DALLAS – A single page of…
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Creatives get to work in ArtRoom
Building offers spaces for artists to create, sell, collaborate
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 Love You” and “Walking in the Rain” as the leader…
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. 13 in Santa Fe. (Brad Trone/Georgia O'Keeffe Museum via AP,…
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 movie set that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins is a lie.…
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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 Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead…