Arts & Entertainment

Durango Shimmy Mob to host HAFLA
Arts and Entertainment

Durango Shimmy Mob to host HAFLA

June 12, 2019

A HAFLA is a social gathering with music, dancing and food, and a Shimmy Mob is an international event that celebrates the art of belly dance while raising money and…

Powerhouse to host Raven Narratives Story Slam
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Powerhouse to host Raven Narratives Story Slam

June 12, 2019

Each story slam has a theme, and the theme for this event will be “Animals.” Story Slams feature willing storytellers from the audience who tell six to eight minute stories…

Movies playing in Durango June 14-20
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Movies playing in Durango June 14-20

June 12, 2019

Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth star in “Men in Black: International.”Giles Keyte/Sony/Columbia Pictures via AP (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Wayne’s World Originally a skit on “Saturday Night Live”…

X-Men’s probable swan song a dirge
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X-Men’s probable swan song a dirge

June 8, 2019

Rather, if a movie can be said to suffer from low-grade depression, this one certainly seems to be, shuffling in its socks and bathrobe through a not-quite-two-hour running time with…

Arts Calendar
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Arts Calendar

June 6, 2019

Louisiana-based blues/jazz guitarist Tab Benoit will take the stage Wednesday at Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Drive, as a stop in his yearlong “Whiskey Bayou Revue” tour. Doors will…

iAm Music to offer summer songwriting workshop
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iAm Music to offer summer songwriting workshop

June 6, 2019

The workshop will be a one-week, in-depth study of fundamental songwriting techniques focused on composition, rhythm, writing chord progressions and cultivating lyrical content. Students will learn to create material that…

Movies playing in Durango June 7-13
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Movies playing in Durango June 7-13

June 5, 2019

Sophie Turner and Jessica Chastain, left, star in “Dark Phoenix.”Twentieth Century Fox via AP (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Amazing Grace Concert footage from 1972 of Aretha Franklin performing…

Taron Egerton shines in an oddly dark ‘Rocketman’
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Taron Egerton shines in an oddly dark ‘Rocketman’

June 2, 2019

Taron Egerton stars as Elton John in “Rocketman.”David Appleby/Paramount Pictures Does “Rocketman” deliver the same frisson as “Bo Rhap,” which overcame scrambled chronology and genre clichés to become one of…

Pioneering psychedelic rocker Roky Erickson dies at 71
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Pioneering psychedelic rocker Roky Erickson dies at 71

June 1, 2019

Roky Erickson, the blue-eyed, dark-haired Texan who headed the Austin-based 13th Floor Elevators, a pioneering psychedelic rock band in the 1960s that scored with “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” died Friday.…